[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none" last="no" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all"][fusion_text]Presented by: Mark Adkins, Founder/President, Smart Hammer Innovation For those companies operating in mature markets, the challenge of rapid growth comes down to a numbers game. When your core markets are growing at 1% to 3% per year, how do you grow at a higher rate that attracts outstanding employees and satisfies your shareholders? In recent years, a new organizational concept has shown how breakthrough innovation can be achieved. During this webcast, Mark discusses the emerging organizational concept Hybrid R&D that shows how breakthrough innovation can be achieved by building an organization based on:[/fusion_text][fusion_checklist icon="chevron-sign-right" iconcolor="#599bbb" circle="no"]
- A mission to create entirely new product categories
- Restructuring a traditional R&D group to include the role of commercial managers
- A Stage Zero process which is critical to filter and promote breakthrough ideas
- An idea-to-launch process that is so refined, that breakthrough innovation ideas may not be advanced
- Typically, all available funding is committed to core products
- Breakthrough products are required to enable abundant growth in the future