Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Solution: Drive Outcomes With Portfolio Management Discipline Imagine a thriving innovation program. Leaders have established clear goals for all innovation efforts. Thousands of grassroots innovators are continuously developing ideas in line with those goals, confident in their next steps. Here’s how.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

Disruptive innovations like these have a legendary status that is richly deserved, but it is actually incremental innovations that are more likely to provide sustainable fuel to drive ROI for your innovation programs year in, year out. Examples of Incremental Innovation Incremental innovation can take a lot of forms.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 8, 2020

First, some definitions Open innovation has traditionally meant getting ideas or technologies from individuals or teams outside your company. Of course, as any experienced innovator could tell you, that is almost nonsensical, since gaining customer insight and understanding customer needs is important to innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As an innovation manager, you’re tasked with the challenging responsibility of leading the development and implementation of new ideas, products, and initiatives that will drive growth and competitiveness for your company.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here’s what they need to see and believe: An innovative corporate culture is one that supports the creation of new ideas and the implementation of those ideas. Leaders must help employees see innovation in practice as a regular part of how the company does business. See innovation as a competency.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 31, 2018

At some point in your journey to drive innovation, you’ll want to take a deep breath and ask – what happened here? I’ve seen too many innovation programs get off to a fast start only to fizzle out later. Then use this information to gain alignment for continuing the innovation initiative. Here are some ideas.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Many companies have responded to these threats by reinventing themselves—often from the inside out. When the metamorphosis includes an innovation platform, leaders are typically left to determine not only how to leverage the solution, but also how to measure its impact. Adopt a tracking mechanism to measure value.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

You will get an overview of how you can consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming for any need, at any time, in any kind of business. Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 is a highly proven innovation best practice – proven in university studies and, more importantly, in the real world for over two decades.

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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

I don’t mean the time it takes for your innovative ideas to mature into their full revenue-generating glory. I mean the time it takes employees to develop insights, generate ideas, and elaborate and test business models. But fortunately there are ways to make innovation more efficient.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. Digital technology innovation is an opportunity where most organization’s will be too late to the party.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” ” “We don’t do idea generation well.” But I digress.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

The average lifespan of S&P 500 companies is just 18 years, down from 61 years in 1958. At this churn rate, 75% of the companies will be removed from the index in another 10 years. On the other hand, companies such as GE and Procter & Gamble have been around for more than 100 years and still continue to grow.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

New Program of the Year. Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key learnings from each company. The network of champions – each is trained in the practice of crowdsourced ideation – has helped drive adoption for the company’s innovation program by being advocates in the various business units.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

New Program of the Year. Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key learnings from each company. The network of champions – each is trained in the practice of crowdsourced ideation – has helped drive adoption for the company’s innovation program by being advocates in the various business units.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2016

Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Spigit, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. Q: How do we make it easier for employees to understand how their engagement affects our innovation program? TV monitors with videos.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Each phase is designed so that you can tap into many potential sources of inspiration and insight, using varied systems and processes to develop ideas, and eventually manage the delivery of bottom-line outcomes and deliverables. Now let’s dive into each phase and explore how you can maximize your innovation ROI.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Metrics help managers make informed decisions based on objective data, which is especially valuable given the long-term nature and risk associated with some innovation projects. Maintaining and posting an “innovation dashboard” keeps innovation progress front and centre for employees and executives.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. This is an idea “Generator.”

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership 1.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Each phase is designed so that you can tap into many potential sources of inspiration and insight, using varied systems and processes to develop ideas, and eventually manage the delivery of bottom-line outcomes and deliverables. Now let’s dive into each phase and explore how you can maximize your innovation ROI.

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Strategos

JANUARY 11, 2017

We are all Innovators. Who’s doing the innovating in your company? A central innovation group? Or, is everyone expected to be an innovator ? For many companies, the Holy Grail is to have the entire company innovating; and especially the front line employees. marketing?

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space.

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KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Everyone wants an innovative company culture, and anyone seeking to build one can turn to any number of resources, from Harvard Business Review , Fast Company , and Forbes to Kindling’s blog , that offer advice on building a culture of innovation. Why does culture find itself on the backburner so often?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Because digital and technological transformation cut more deeply than a simple website or social media “paint job,” as it were, external innovators from the private sectors must be involved from the start. In the final stage, these new initiatives will be adopted into the company.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 18, 2016

The conversations go something like this: "We've told our folks we need more innovation. We've promised to reward them for their ideas. Yet here we are, four or five weeks into an innovation program, and we aren't getting any ideas. Why won't people innovate when we tell them we need it? What's going on?"

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 31, 2017

An organization’s employees are vital components in a successful corporate innovation delivery plan. Their buy-in is essential to not only ensure the successful execution of the innovation program as a whole but also towards recruiting them as long-term assets that go above and beyond the stated requirements of the innovation delivery plan.

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Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Most executives today would say that innovation is a core activity of their company. They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business.

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Planview

AUGUST 6, 2015

Driving innovation in your company isn’t an exercise that should be taken on by a small group of experts, and certainly not by the management team alone. By getting the crowd involved in both the idea generation and the ROI prediction,” Gardner writes, “Innovators are able to take a lot of the guesswork out of innovation.”.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 13, 2017

Even those organizations with existing continuous improvement and innovation programs need to amplify and expand their efforts. The innovation effort alone is complex. In order to steer their companies into a successful digital era, CEOs must address some fundamental questions.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. This company-wide desire must be sustained through hard work and intimidating obstacles. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Often innovation is focused on inventing an entirely new product or making an existing product better. When we use quantum idea generation the result is many options to accomplish both of these objectives. The challenge then becomes selecting a very few ideas for further development. Guaranteed.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This public* course is at a significant discount to on-site courses delivered directly to organizations by Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi). The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs.

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