TDLL7353 Cross-Industry Innovation

Cross-industry innovation

refers to the strategic practice of transferring and adapting existing technologies, processes, ideas, or methods from one industry into a different industry. By leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise across sectors, cross-industry innovation enables organizations to solve complex problems, generate fresh insights, and create novel solutions that significantly enhance productivity, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

This diagram illustrates how to find solutions to problems using analogy:

Problem Source (Industry A): The field where you face the problem.

Solution Source (Industry B): Another field that might offer solutions.

Solution Space: The spectrum of all possible solutions.

Degree of Abstraction: The level of abstraction of the solution, from concrete to abstract.

Structural Similarity: How structurally similar the solution is to the problem.

Surface Similarity: How superficially similar the solution is to the problem.

Three-step Process:

1.Analogy: Find structurally similar problems in different fields.

2.Abstraction: Extract the core features of the solution.

3.Adaption: Apply the abstracted features to the original problem.

This process shows how to use knowledge from different fields to innovatively solve problems.

CII: Problem Source and Solution Source