Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. In a large organization, there obviously are a lot of powerful forces preventing that from happening. Regardless, the gap is still huge. Unfortunately, that’s a lot easier said than done.

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100%Open

JULY 26, 2018

We have published almost 500 blog posts on the 100%Open blog over the last decade. The great thing about blog posts is that they are not meant to be perfect and they just reflects a series of thoughts at a moment in time. How to Measure Open Innovation Value – The very first 100%Open blog post when we launched 100%Open 8.5

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Idea to Value

MAY 12, 2020

So, if workshops won’t help you come up with these ideas, the question then remains, how do you actually get to one? The first, and perhaps the most important, ingredient is first principles thinking , which is basically the logical next step from having a beginner’s mindset. How are outside the box innovations born?

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Society 2045 is a community of people from around the world seeking to co-discover a vision for the year 2045. It was a hard upbringing, but Sharif was able to move through it. He then decided that he might do a lot more as a writer than as an activist. That’s what most of us say when we talk about consciousness.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. What happens when disruptors move up-market?

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, a recent controversy around Carol Dweck’s well-known growth mindset gives me hope that we can move forward with research that can better inform and support practitioners and students. Over the last couple of decades, education research has, thankfully, moved to embracing randomized control trial (RCT) when possible.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 31, 2024

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

From the recent pandemic, global political unrest, the climate crisis, to lack of equitable economic conditions in various countries, we are facing difficult times. Probably not without divine intervention, but we can try our best to do our part towards enabling a better society. Is it ever going to get better?

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 1, 2022

But do we know what happens to our shared information or how our preferences pop as ads? In this podcast recap blog post, we will discuss how websites store data, what goes on with the data that we share, and how we can have an option to control our data to have personalized experiences. Product Marketing Versus Traditional Marketing.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

As that was the mandate the person was given from above, it’s quite understandable that the person wanted to maintain close ownership of the initiative. The people we met with were very smart and knowledgeable, and I think they have what it takes to succeed in achieving that goal. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. There are kids out there, getting ready to graduate from college, who were just being born when I started doing innovation work. Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 16, 2020

I know you're not gonna do anything you don't wanna do. YOU know you're not gonna do anything you don't wanna do. We both know you're not going to read this blog post. It's too long and you have more important things to do. What follows are 100 other reasons why you won't read this blog post.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 28, 2021

Lessons from Orchestra Conductors. In a recent blog post , Sethi Godin talks about how the famous conductors (orchestra) seem to be the only person on the orchestra that don’t make any sound at all and yet are the most important person on the team. We need to have a clear intent about what we want to do in our lives.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 28, 2021

Drawing from the research behind our infographic , here are eight activities that promote creativity that you can do right now. Taking a walk, doing some yoga, going for a bike ride, all of these have been found to make you more creative. It’s especially true if it’s a type of exercise you do regularly, but why?

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For many years, in writing this blog, and in leading innovation projects for my clients, I tried to advocate for the benefits of innovation. After all, as the saying goes, sell the sizzle, not the steak. Rather than discuss the benefits from innovating, I've also written about the costs of not innovating.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

The way most companies think about staffing is: how many people do I need to employ to operate day to day, supporting existing products and services, in the most efficient way possible? None had created a new product from scratch based on a new idea and customer insights. As if there is a magic number!

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

My new book, From Reopen to Reinvent , makes a full-throated plea for more K-12 schools to adopt mastery-based learning, in which students only move on from a concept once they demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills at hand. It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 27, 2023

Today’s guest blog post comes from Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Advocate Health. Below, Todd shares his three-step process, grounded in Christensen’s theories, on how to shift innovation from a vague buzzword to a clear way to make progress. He immediately answered Intuit.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 31, 2022

Society 2045 is a community of people from around the world seeking to co-discover a vision for the year 2045. Aviv Shahar grew up in Israel on a kibbutz, where he worked in an avocado orchard and internalized a can-do idealism. . Aviv Shahar comes from critical perspectives that shaped his views, consulting, and coaching work.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The article elaborated further by saying that, in terms of magnitude, the challenge is akin to coping with the large-scale shift from agricultural work to manufacturing that occurred in the early 20th century in North America and Europe, and more recently in China.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 28, 2023

As someone who falls into the last category, I would say, “100%. In doing so, they are likely to find that a rising tide lifts all ships. I’m talking about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on working mothers, both in the years of lockdown and in the aftermath of those events. I couldn’t agree more.”

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

In this podcast recap blog post, we will discuss how innovation derived from creativity, data, and automation can lead to success. In this podcast recap blog post, we will discuss how innovation derived from creativity, data, and automation can lead to success. There are many different paths to achieving success.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the differences between working "in" the business for strategy and innovation versus working "on" the business for strategy and innovation. As described above, in the business is doing day to day work - going to meetings, completing emails, assigning projects and so on.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achieve. Peeling away and pulled away- why do we do that? It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. It is the final go-to-market that makes a real difference in wealth creation and job creation. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Or as Aristotle once said: “We are what we repeatedly do.”. When put together, this creates a powerful barrier that prevents innovation from ever getting off the ground. The question we need start with is to actually define what an innovation culture is. However, it’s actually quite a straightforward thing. Lack of support.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2022

As you know if you follow my blog, I generally write about the intersection of strategy and innovation. When larger, integrated systems like ERP entered the business world, this unlocked data from the paper ledgers and placed it in computer systems which often had reporting solutions attached.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The practice is one in which the teacher of record delivers whole-class learning virtually, and an in-person monitor—often a substitute teacher—tracks behavior and ensures students do their work. It would seem that there’s not a lot of room for improvement in that model.

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BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

What options are there when assembling a leadership team or board of directors who want to do blue sky thinking for big ideas? A nonprofit executive asked how Brainzooming would approach this request from her organization’s board. We define blue sky thinking as using structure and focus to enliven breakthrough thinking.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 22, 2024

She is featured in Thinkers360’s annual leaderboards: Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Mobility 2024 , Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Digital Transformation 2023 and 125 Podcasts from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders You Should Listen To in 2024 to name just a few.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.”

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2021

As such, innovation leaders are constantly under a lot of pressure from many different directions. By definition , it’s about doing something new that hasn’t been done before. And, because it’s all new, any data you may get from customer surveys and other similar methods likely won’t be reliable either.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Prototyping Prototyping involves creating a rough model or simulation of a proposed solution, which can then be used to gather feedback and insights from users and stakeholders. These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. It’s a human-centered approach to innovation.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A Quick Guide to Moving to the Cloud. Moving to cloud has now become more important than ever, considering the rapidly intensifying competition and evolving business needs. Needless to say, businesses, in large numbers, are making a huge rush towards cloud in order to stay agile and competitive. What is Cloud Migration?

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Brunner

JULY 26, 2023

But simply churning out random blog articles or social media posts without a clear direction in mind can lead to chaos, wasted time, and lackluster results. This is where content strategy comes into play. What is content strategy? How can content strategy affect our daily lives as marketers? It ensures consistency and coherence.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . The Do’s of Feature Prioritization. This model helps you understand what features users expect from your product and those that will delight them. .

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 12, 2018

I know you're not gonna do anything you don't wanna do. YOU know you're not gonna do anything you don't wanna do. We both know you're not going to read this blog post. It's too long and you have more important things to do. What follows are 100 other reasons why you won't read this blog post.

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