Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This blog provides powerful, practical information about how to use stimulus to inspire breakthrough innovation solutions. You can immediately start using the help in this blog. As you plan for an important innovation idea generating meeting, make sure you plan for the right stimulus since it pays off in many big ideas.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

from previous blogs. You can immediately start using the help in this blog. As you plan for an important innovation idea generating meeting, make sure you plan to eliminate fear and replace it with fun so that you can bring out the highest level of creativity from the people in your idea generating session. Guaranteed.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Best of all they are a source of innovation since they can expose novel product uses. Superconsumers lower your innovation risk. We’ve got plenty of time for innovation. –Said by no corporate innovation team … ever. Innovation is messy and breakthroughs happen after repeated failure. Go talk to them.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You need the ability to adapt to change, and innovate, faster. Thus, for most businesses, the only truly lasting source of competitive advantage these days is the pace of innovation. You might then ask what that means in practice and how to accelerate your pace of innovation. Why does pace of innovation matter?

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2021

Most companies are not really aware of all of the innovation projects they are working on. This is where a tool called the Ambition Matrix is extremely useful, and it is a tool I use with clients all the time to gain clarity on what their current innovation portfolio looks like. Is this project an innovation at all?

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Innov8rs | The Alliance for Southern California Innovation (the “Alliance”) is a not for profit that brings together Southern California’s top research institutions, prominent business leaders, and world-class advisors to focus on bridging critical gaps in the SoCal innovation ecosystem.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What was an incredible innovation is now changing how we work and live. Through creativity and innovation, from the earliest origin of man, we have been creating and shaping tools - fire, sharpened sticks for tools and weapons, the wheel and thousands upon thousands of other tools and devices.

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Yet2

APRIL 24, 2024

In this journey, we’ve engaged with thousands of brilliant innovators, working on projects that inch the world closer to a more sustainable and innovative world. yet2 believes innovation is not just about the next big breakthrough; it’s about the continuous efforts of all those who dare to dream and do.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 7, 2017

The reason I am interested in the post is because this post is a living proof about the role that imagination can play in the innovation process. Let me try to share what i learnt from his approach and how we can use this to assist in our own quest for using imagination to come up with innovations of the future.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 17, 2019

I'm writing a series of blog posts to document some of the things I've learned in innovation along the way, over 15 years of leading corporate innovation work. So far I've written several blogs, the first about the importance of d efining a why and a how for innovation , the second about the importance of an idea sponsor.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 18, 2021

Any company planning on bringing a new innovative solution to market must accept the fact that not every customer will be willing to buy it immediately. The Law of Diffusions of Innovation was first popularised by communications professor Everett Rogers in his 1962 book Diffusions of Innovations. This group makes up about 2.5%

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

Is your organization centralized or decentralized when it comes to innovation? In a company where innovation is centralized, a specific department is tasked with innovating for the entire organization. However, the model can be successful if a team of innovation ambassadors and coaches are in place.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

As all of us working on innovation know, it’s quite an opaque topic that many innovators and organizations don’t talk about openly. As a result, innovation is an area that’s fraught with many common myths and misconceptions. But, without further ado, let’s get to these myths and misconceptions on innovation. The Reality.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If you’ve already reviewed our introductory training article, you may be interested in finding more resources to expand your knowledge about this framework and how to apply it to your own creative challenges and innovative problem-solving experiments. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Get it here.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sometimes, a fresh perspective from outside the industry can catalyze innovation and drive unprecedented growth. Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs. By 2012, Ford reported a $5.7

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They often don’t create the right innovation structure to implement their opportunities. Most organizations struggle with innovation. I had the chance to take a look at the new book “Built to Innovate” by INSEAD professor Ben Bensaou.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For instance: What are examples from when we delighted a customer, exceeded financial targets, introduced a breakthrough innovation, or did something remarkable? This article was originally published on Inc.com and has been syndicated for this blog.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. Undoubtedly, transformation in pursuit of innovation within established corporations is a significant challenge.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This shift was powered by the defining trait of our species, our human creativity, which is at the heart of all creative problem-solving endeavors, where innovation is the engine of growth, no matter, what the context. But for business problem solving, using GPT-4 resulted in performance that was 23% lower than that of the control group.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.” Against that backdrop, this year I’m watching innovations that explicitly humanize an environment where skills and AI will likely dominate the mainstage.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. In this blog we will share how crowdsourcing, incremental, and breakthrough innovation can be used as part of your NPD strategy throughout the FFE stage.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Thanks to my blog, and hopefully the insights I share here, I'm often asked to review books about innovation and innovators. The subtitle is: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World. Recently I was asked to review a book entitled Quirky.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 30, 2022

Reorganizing a company to solve complex problems, introduce innovation, improve business operations, and identify market opportunities requires design. Design Thinking can be used as a tool to transform or reorganize a company to identify innovative solutions to current problems. Identify the Current and Breakthrough State.

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Yet2

APRIL 9, 2024

Our aim here is to broaden the perspective on sustainability, uncovering innovative solutions that might not always steal the spotlight. From optimizing routes to reducing idle times, there’s a plethora of innovative approaches that can significantly minimize carbon footprints in this sector.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2020

Which means that controlling our perspectives by managing and shifting a breakthrough mindset during this crisis, and beyond it, to make the future happen, is everything. Controlling our perspective, by managing and shifting a breakthrough mindset, is the most powerful thing we can control in a situation that is beyond our control.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In last month’s blog , we shared how consciousness , imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. What if we, as humans, could compete with, and perhaps even complement, AI-based creativity and become successful innovators?

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. The challenge s of centralized innovation. Let’s look into why that is the case. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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Yet2

AUGUST 1, 2023

Welcome to “31 Days of Open Innovation”! Get ready for an exciting journey as we showcase a collection of incredible products that owe their existence to the power of open innovation. The post 31 Days of Open Innovation appeared first on yet2.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part. Remember new innovations replace something of the existing.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

What makes Israel so innovative? One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result of a collaboration between the state, venture capital firms, successful entrepreneurs, educational system, business system, incubators, and accelerators.

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Board of Innovation

JULY 19, 2023

Overcoming the risks of Generative AI in Healthcare Generative AI can be a game-changer for healthcare - however, as with any innovative technology, it comes with its share of risks and challenges. However, as with any innovative technology, it comes with its fair share of risks and challenges.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

Is your organization centralized or decentralized when it comes to innovation? In a company where innovation is centralized, a specific department is tasked with innovating for the entire organization. However, the model can be successful if a team of innovation ambassadors and coaches are in place.

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Idea Champions

MAY 6, 2021

For the past 11 years, I've been writing a series of articles on creativity for my Heart of Innovation blog. Then, semi-caffeinated, just a few weeks ago, it dawned on me that, hidden within my blog, not unlike the white arrow hidden in the FedEx logo -- was an entire book. One Hundred Lame Excuses for Not Innovating.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 4, 2022

They can innovate in their core businesses and build new ones at the same time.” ( Alchemy of Growth , 1999). What stands out to me is the phrase “innovate in their core,” as this is exactly the opposite of the bimodal, dual operating, ambidextrous organization mythology of innovation. About horizon planning .

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

But the ways we innovate are changing. Innovation strategies and business designs are all changing because breakthroughs in science and technology come faster and faster. Disruptive, adjacent or core innovation can happen at any time and is no longer driven solely by empathizing with your customers.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Our August blog, “Reconnect and Reset in a Chaotic World” was the first in our series of three, on the theme of reconnecting and resetting, to create, invent and innovate in an increasingly chaotic world. Rehabilitate with intention. Find out more about our work at ImagineNation. Find out more about our products and tools.

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