QUALITY PLATFORMS FOR INNOVATION AND BREAKTHROUGH

HIMA GUPTA

Abstract


This paper focuses on Key issues of Innovation & Quality. Both 'quality' and 'innovation' play vital roles for businesses competitive. Quality aims for high and sustainable performance in existing business areas, while innovation intends for breakthrough Opportunity recognition is the bridge that connects a breakthrough idea to the initial innovation evaluation process-which in turn leads to the formation of a formally established commercialization effort.
This research paper has been made to know how innovation leads to quality in an organization and also to tell relationship between quality and innovation. In this paper, secondary data in the form of research papers has been used. The findings of the research are useful in today's organizations.


Keywords


Quality, Innovation, Breakthrough Innovation, Business performance.

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