Innovation Forms Management   Proactive and Reactive Innovation Innovation leaders and followers  Vadim Kotelnikov           Naturally, the best is to balance Yin and Yang − proactive and reactive innovations (see example). Yet, this article is not about their harmony. Here, I just wish to describe the difference between proactive and reactive innovation strategies, and use this article as basic information for other articles on innovation.     Proactive innovators create new market niches and take as much gold as they can carry. Others follow and compete for whatever is left. Vadim Kotelnikov         Proactive Innovators Proactive innovators create new market niches, stand out from the competition, grow much faster than reactive innovators, and have much greater success. Proactive innovators create the future, and do so with intent. They strategize to create what it can become and innovate through bouncing forward. Proactive innovators have a mindset and attitude to disrupt the market. They play simulation games, such as Innoball, to anticipate spin-off challenges and strengthen their team, business case, business design, strategies and business model. They understand how to nurture and harness the creative energy of their employees and help people grow by innovating. Successful proactive innovators follow a radical innovation with continuous incremental innovations and improvements. They building upon what worked well, then grow into something better.   Coaching by Example Civilizational Breakthrough 6Ws of Innompic Games Trend Setter World's #1 Solution To 7 Global Challenges Innompiology Innompirsity   Create inside-out, beta-test, and learn outside-in. Vadim Kotelnikov       Reactive Innovators Reactive innovators do not anticipate the need to change before they have to. They leave innovation to chance or treat it as something they should react to. They don’t evolve their products and service through disruptive innovations in a proactive way. Instead, they wait for the evidence of the market disrupted by someone else to tell them where they need to adapt. Consequently, they have to act under the pressure of responding to a business challenge and finding a quick ‘me-too’ fix. This is quite a common way of acting, which is doing a business more harm than good.   Value Innovation Synergy Innovation Systemic Innovation