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New Year’s Resolution: Catch Up on These Must-Read Innovation Blogs from 2019

IdeaScale

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation.

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6 Building Blocks for Innovation Department Success

IdeaScale

True innovation requires diverse perspectives and confidence in everyone’s ability to add value to the innovation process. Define Roles and Processes. An innovation department needs a leader with a clearly defined role. Likewise, everyone else on the innovation team should have a defined role.

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Improvement vs Innovation: Which Is Better For your Business?

Qmarkets

Innovation can happen quickly, (known as radical innovation), or it can take place over time, (incremental innovation). Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. Another approach to innovation is using internal and customer feedback. Product Innovation. Process Innovation.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

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How internal innovators win the game

Innovation Excellence

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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How internal innovators win the game

Innovation Excellence

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Online innovation has become very popular in the past few years, and for good reason. This variety of perspectives significantly enriches the innovation process. Community and shared purpose bring motivation and courage for innovation. Create Community.