Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Enterprises are scrambling to establish a competitive edge through the use of these glasses, goggles, and phone carriers, and pilots are rolling out globally in factories, construction.

Competition 85

Competition Technology Innovation Processes Tools 85

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. Execution and Value Delivery needs to drive the whole innovation process. This does need a real change but can we achieve it?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This alignment ensures that innovation efforts are not siloed endeavors but integral components of the organization’s core objectives, driving sustainable growth and competitive advantage. An integral part of operationalizing the framework is the establishment of clear metrics and KPIs for innovation management.

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System Innovation Management Management LEAN 59

Strategyzer Innovation

JUNE 17, 2019

During our 2019 Bootcamp last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Anton Affentranger, former CEO of Implenia, a European construction company with CHF3.8BN in revenues. Alex and Anton discussed innovation within the context of an existing organization. Innovation investments however need to be expensed through the P&L.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 24, 2016

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival establishes a foundation of 10 Key Imperatives intended to help everyone from beginners to seasoned innovators. They must re-examine how their organizations are constructed.

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Culture Culture of Innovation Innovation Entrepreneurship 104

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ideating Around Your Strategic Challenges This is perhaps the most important stage of the entire innovation ecosystem; here your external and internal audiences share their ideas on your organization’s chosen topics, derived from the previous stages of the funnel. Curious to find out how others have implemented Qmarkets’ innovation funnel?

Ideation 98

Ideation Technical Review Trends Innovation 98

mjvinnovation

MAY 26, 2021

But, in a market where everyone is looking for innovation, how can we be sure that this initiative will generate satisfactory results? processes, the answer is to create business solutions with a competitive advantage and the help of specialized professionals. Through structured (and flexible!)

How To 40

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ideating Around Your Strategic Challenges This is perhaps the most important stage of the entire innovation ecosystem; here your external and internal audiences share their ideas on your organization’s chosen topics, derived from the previous stages of the funnel. Curious to find out how others have implemented Qmarkets’ innovation funnel?

Ideation 98

Ideation Technical Review Innovation Trends 98

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That exposure to the tech world drew my interest in 2018 to look at how the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry is affected by digital automation and hardware solutions like AR/VR, which can help process vast amounts of 2D/3D data and improve project visualization capabilities.

Open Innovation 105

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 105

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Using real world examples, the book outlines five discover skills that distinguish innovative executives from ordinary managers – with advice on how to use those five skills to generate ideas, collaborate with a team, and sharpen your organization’s competitive edge through implementation. Find it here. Find it here.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A company like Yelp, led by CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman , is a great example of a robust innovation strategy to model your organization on. The company encourages transparency, constructive feedback, and constant employee recognition to showcase the value of every member of their workforce.

Strategy 98

Strategy Strategy Idea Generation Comparison 98

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A company like Yelp, led by CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman , is a great example of a robust innovation strategy to model your organization on. The company encourages transparency, constructive feedback, and constant employee recognition to showcase the value of every member of their workforce.

Strategy 98

Strategy Strategy Idea Generation Comparison 98

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That exposure to the tech world drew my interest in 2018 to look at how the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry is affected by digital automation and hardware solutions like AR/VR, which can help process vast amounts of 2D/3D data and improve project visualization capabilities.

Open Innovation 94

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Where is innovation within this? So there is this growing need to have a new cycle of innovative design.

Design 138

Design Innovation Agile System 138

IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100

System Design Innovation Handbook 100

IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100

System Design Innovation Handbook 100

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Utilizing a holistic Open Innovation tool is akin to sitting at a blackjack table with a card counting machine. Lego, the Danish producer of construction toys, is an organisation that is well aware of the value of Open Innovation. Data such as this can prove to be invaluable in competitive vertical markets. Nikel, 2013).

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Case Study Open Innovation Study Technical Review 40

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

When I write "hard" I mean that innovation activities require careful planning, deep commitment from innovation teams, building skills and doing the work necessary to really generate great, valuable ideas. There is a sense of understanding market trends and competitive actions.

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Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Innovation Exercises 100

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Utilizing a holistic Open Innovation tool is akin to sitting at a blackjack table with a card counting machine. Lego, the Danish producer of construction toys, is an organisation that is well aware of the value of Open Innovation. Data such as this can prove to be invaluable in competitive vertical markets. Nikel, 2013).

Case Study 40

Case Study Open Innovation Study Technical Review 40

The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

1st S-curve – Energizing the core business To stay competitive in their core business, legacy companies have to digitize their core processes and functions. Two years after the conception of the idea, Wastebox had already turned into the largest construction waste disposal logistics provider in Austria. Their results.

How To 52

How To Tools Innovation Technology 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

In summary, I think design thinking is undergoing a revolution, a certain maturing but it is littered with a very messy, highly competitive present. To achieve this DT cannot be a prescribed step-by-step detailed process, it simply passes through stages, loops back when needed and moves forward when it ‘seems’ right.

Design Thinking 238

Design Thinking Design Creativity Training 238

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

It is still managed mainly through a linear process of stage-gates and investigation / validation to decide to move on or not. The balance in innovation activity is changing. What needs changing is the innovation process to accommodate these changes that are occurring all around us. What can we change within this?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Technology Internet of things Innovation 100

etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On a recent client visit to a German OEM of construction machinery, the CEO and the Head of Production gave me a tour of the shop floor – where the final assembly and inspection take place. From my perspective, in terms of innovation, the CEO wasn’t getting enough bang for the buck. The Proud Leader. Congratulations!

LEAN 56

LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Project Technical Review 56

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Both cases may allow rapid improvements to be made, with the potential for high profitability and effective aftersales, to meet new competition. The solution is an innovation process that shortens the time from prototype to launch. However, this is only possible with a well thought-out process of innovation.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The company has begun construction of the world's first full-scale Passenger Hyperloop Capsule and five-mile test track in Quay Valley, California, and has signed agreements with the more than half-a-dozen governments, namely Slovakia, Abu Dhabi, India, France, South Korea, and the Czech Republic to co-develop Hyperloop. Source: Freshminds.

Radical Innovation 85

Radical Innovation Crowdsourcing Competition Innovation 85

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

In summary, I think design thinking is undergoing a revolution, a certain maturing but it is littered with a very messy, highly competitive present. The ability to connect, to manage this is the ‘art’ of the design thinker leading the facilitation process. Presently we are in the middle of this change, seeing how it evolves.

Design Thinking 185

Design Thinking Design System Creativity 185

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In many cases (especially those listed in the book, such as Computer Storage, Department Stores and Construction Equipment), the small company releases a new technology which is inferior in quality or performance to that of the large company, but makes up for it in another way, like a lower price or convenience.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 16, 2020

These are often less time and resource-intensive to sustain and provide a steady income stream, but they are hardly enough to differentiate the farmer from the competition. When considering your own innovation ‘agriculture’, you can liken the high risk/high reward crops to disruptive idea management.

Software Review 52

Software Review Ideation Innovation Disruption 52

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Product innovation processes in small firms: Combining entrepreneurial effectuation and managerial causation.

Entrepreneurship 62

Entrepreneurship Study Creativity Learning 62

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 17, 2015

This requires open collaboration and an environment seeking mutual promise from individual input, contribution and extraction, delivering an integrated set of services and solutions being constructed on the platform from a sharing of knowledge, for delivering into evolving value propositions, all benefiting from, both collectively and individually.

Innovation 100

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Industry 100