Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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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. The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Enterprise businesses are constantly on the lookout for their next ‘eureka’ moment – an innovative solution to a strategic business problem. Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable.

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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. Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. In the last piece, we shared 7 critical success factors for a three-horizon approach to innovation management.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This ability to adapt and innovate in a scrappy, resourceful way is often the fuel behind revolutionary ideas and game-changing products. AI can augment human efforts in these areas but cannot fully replace them. Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

APRIL 7, 2024

At a Glance Paul Mehraban, CEO and Founder, Mehraban Advisory Group, LLC Focus Areas : AI, Big Data, Cloud, Management. His specialties include Cloud ROI, Data Center Trends, AI Convergence, IoT, Big Data, Information Technology Maintenance and Management. Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2024

Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines. Adopting a flexible approach to project and product management allows for quick pivoting away from lower priority tasks towards high-value work.

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark your calendar; 2024 is the year when Innovation Management takes a giant leap forward with the introduction of ISO 56001. This long-anticipated standard is set to revolutionize how organizations conceive and bring innovations to market. Instead, it’s a framework designed to enhance the innovation process.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2023

a book that imparts how business management theories can help us succeed not just in our entrepreneurial endeavors, but also in our everyday lives. What will business management theories teach us for 2024? One of the theories and tools studied at the Christensen Institute is the management of strategy development.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 18, 2022

These top Jeanne Liedtka’s books are a great source of information on innovation and design thinking. Design thinking books continue to be a popular topic on our blog, as many find them a useful way to learn about innovation and how to apply these techniques to organizational or personal challenges. Find it here on Amazon.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 16, 2021

Creativity and innovation are key tools in the marketing professional’s toolbox and ones that aren’t always as accessible as we’d like. Marketing requires many types of creativity and innovation to be successful. There are some steps you can take to avoid or break through these barriers when they appear.

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whataventure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

and how yours can be successful). In our recent research on why corporate startups fail and what makes them successful, we had an insightful discussion with more than 40 decision-makers and project leaders from various corporates. The story of MOBIKO starts at Audi Business Innovation in 2017. You lack motivation in your team.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 10, 2021

Learn about this innovation framework and find training resources, articles, tips, and more. In the innovation process, this really comes down to trying to find better ways of accomplishing this JTBD, rather than focusing on the product itself. Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation. What is it?

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Applying innovation theory lenses to the trends, patterns, news bites, and field data gathered over the course of 2022, here are our education researchers’ favorite blogs that either they or their colleagues have written this year, and the reasoning behind their picks. Do you have a favorite blog or report from this year?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation .

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

I'm writing a series of blog posts about the fundamentals of innovation success. In my previous article I wrote about the importance of fundamentals in any activity , using music and practicing scales as an analogy for understanding the fundamentals of innovation. This mindset and cultural preference conflicts with innovation.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amidst the relentless waves of innovation and competition, OEMs, suppliers, and manufacturers in the automotive industry navigate a sea of challenges and opportunities. These challenges underscore the complexities inherent in managing and evolving the technological framework of automotive software.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation. Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. The use of innovation activities is one way to accomplish these goals, spur creativity, and drive business or organizational growth.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In this blog, we will explain why all organizations should be prioritizing employee engagement. We’ll also share some strategies that your company can implement to increase engagement – including one that’s effective as it is unconventional! It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Everything we should be aiming at is ‘successful execution’, it’s the last, hard five yards of all the work that went into something, which can be finally realized and come to ‘commercial life’. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part. Those lovely shiny products ready to be shipped- getting the buyer to care.

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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. You can read that previous post here to get more detail. That's because the urgent overwhelms the important.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

I'm writing a series of blogs based on questions that I regularly receive about innovation. In my last post, I wrote about the staffing plan necessary to sustain growth and innovation , basing it in part on the Pareto rule. What skills are critical to next and new innovation First, we need to define our terms.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In this blog, we will explain why all organizations should be prioritizing employee engagement. We’ll also share some strategies that your company can implement to increase engagement – including one that’s effective as it is unconventional! It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? But there are frameworks you can use to make the decision process smoother. .

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

APRIL 18, 2024

Aruna is an industry expert on SaaS marketing and enterprise technology with over 20 years of experience in building and marketing products in various markets such as IT Operations Management, Analytics, Cloud, Data Center and financial services companies. Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 1, 2023

From the iPod at Apple to the Happy Meal at McDonald’s—both digital and physical innovations in all industries have often stemmed from collaborative creativity at all levels. Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that! Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that!

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. In the last piece we shared 7 critical success factors for a three-horizons approach to innovation management.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 27, 2021

Discover another digital collaboration tool for UX, design thinking, and innovation teams. Klaxoon is another cloud-based all-in-one tool to add to our list of digital collaboration tools and resources that your team be may interested in trying for brainstorming sessions, hosting meetings, project management, and agile teamwork.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 3, 2022

These Miro and MURAL digital templates can be used in team sessions for problem identification and creative problem solving. Creative problem solving is a foundation of many of the innovation and design thinking processes. This Miro template can help you align your team and execute a new innovation project effortlessly.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 20, 2023

The Benefits and Risks of Offshore Software Development Offshore boutique firms, for example, may offer lower rates but lack a presence or entity in the client’s country, which can create issues with contracting and legal recourse in case of problems.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

I'm often asked how many people should be employed in innovation work in larger organizations. Of course, with that and a towel, you can accomplish almost anything. But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question. As if there is a magic number!

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 11, 2019

I'm going to start a series of blog posts about what 15 years of innovation consulting has taught me. I'm happy to say I've learned a lot about innovation in corporations, and also somewhat excited to say I'm still learning, because the pace and nature of innovation is changing so rapidly.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2021

Not knowing all areas of project management is a big mistake for managers. Project management must be part of the day-to-day activities in every company. Integrated planning and effective management are responsible for facilitating and organizing activities, among many other benefits. Scope management.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I've been writing a series of blog posts focused on some of the most fundamental building blocks. These fundamentals are necessary to sustain innovation in corporations, and are most often overlooked or treated as an afterthought. In many ways, innovation teams are often built this way. But these usual suspects aren't criminals.

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