Types of Innovation
- Product/Technology Innovation
- Process Innovation
- Service Innovation
Dimension of Innovation
- Incremental Innovation
enhance existing practices - Radical Innovation
fundamental changes
Stage Gate System Process
Stage 1: Scoping
Stage 2: Build Business Case
Stage 3: Development
Stage 4: Testing & Validation
Stage 5: Post Launch Review
Technology-Push Innovation Process
Basic Science -> Marketing -> Development -> Manufacturing -> Sales
Step 1: Focus on technical issues & problems
Step 2: trigger search
Step 3: develop solution
Market-Pull Innovation Process
Market need -> Development -> Manufacturing -> Sales
Step 1: external market needs trigger search
Step 2: analyse potential solution
Step 3: innovative offering
Push-Pull Innovation Process
Mixture of both processes
Product vs Service Innovation Process
Pre-Study
Concept study
Development
Final development
Industrialization
Deployment
Follow-Up
Drivers for logistics innovation
- New technology
- Knowledge
- Relationship network
- Customer needs
Barriers of Innovation
- Lack of clear definition of Innovation
- Ineffective knowledge transfer
- Lack of effective research
- Difficulty of testing concepts
- Inability to protect innovations
Classification for Innovations by LSP
Part 1: Customer related innovation
Internal Innovation
Part 2: single customer relationship
Multi customer related
Part 3: in ongoing relationship
At beginning of relationship
Part 4: proactive Innovation
Reactive Innovation
Part 5: proactive Performance
Proactive cost improvement
Logistics Innovation Process
- Setting the stage
- Customer gathering activities
- Negotiating, clarifying & activities
- Inter-Organisation learning
- Logistic Innovation
Innovation Activities
- Internal research & development
- External research & development
- Investment in infrastructure
- Acquisition of Knowledge
- Training & further education
