Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Today, I'm not going to write about "innovation theater" - that is, the concept of talking about innovation and moving some pieces around but failing to achieve any meaningful benefits. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture? Some methods can help with this process, methods that are made just for this. What is organizational culture?

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

A fully centralized ownership of innovation and idea management naturally makes it easier to achieve “maturity”, since that one team can manage everything in a controlled manner, often with the same exact process for every idea and innovation. That, however, is where the problem lies. Result orientation. Better decisions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 2, 2021

When building an innovation strategy, this takes the form of an innovation maturity assessment that examines your organization, your team, and your personal innovation approach. Here’s how an innovation maturity assessment works and how to use one. You’ll also need to develop goals from this feedback.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. Adaptability and innovation culture.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here. Startups build a culture of commitment and drive to make things happen. To support this, its corporate culture is dominated by process, procedures and incentives.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 18, 2017

It turns out there are seven other skills that drive innovation business results. Mistaking creativity for innovation has two consequences: When we overly glorify creativity, we minimize the importance of the other seven skills in the innovation process. These consequences put innovation at greater risk of failure.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, there are more effective ways to innovate, as you will see further down this list. Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. The challenging part of this is that culture is a very personal thing, which will vary between companies, industries and regions.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

I have gotten relatively excited about this strand of thinking and ecosystem design as it has been a reasonably extensive period of research building this out to a validation point. Ecosystem Purpose: Clearly define the shared purpose and objectives of the innovation ecosystem to align diverse participants.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. 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.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Corporate Innovation: A Victim of Remote Work? Corporate innovation will not be spared the troubles of adjusting to the “new normal.” One danger corporate innovation teams may be already facing is quite trivial: reduced R&D/innovation budgets, a measure that myopic managers routinely resort to in times of economic hardship.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Corporate Innovation: A Victim of Remote Work? Corporate innovation will not be spared the troubles of adjusting to the “new normal.” One danger corporate innovation teams may be already facing is quite trivial: reduced R&D/innovation budgets, a measure that myopic managers routinely resort to in times of economic hardship.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

It is true that having a process to make sure the organization is able to go beyond idea capture is necessary. A good innovation management system will include the templates, a communication and engagement strategy, and processes and rules to quickly launch new activities. Question 3: Where should we innovate first?

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. According to Christian Stadler and colleagues, the solution to both the strategy formulation and execution challenges is radical: Open up your strategy process. Organizing Innovation Decentrally.

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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. Adaptability and innovation culture.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

“Innovate or die” has become the catchphrase of the decade. If you don’t innovate, your company is likely to take this route: development → introduction → growth → maturity → decline. Innovation—Internal and External. Innovation entails skills, competencies, and insights that can be from inside-out or outside-in.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 13, 2015

Web site optimization, commonly known as A/B testing, has become an expected competency among many web teams, yet there are few comprehensive and unbiased books, articles, or training opportunities aimed at individuals trying to create this capability within their organization. Let’s get started! A/B vs. multivariate.

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ITONICS

JULY 30, 2018

A strategic innovation field, let’s call it “ opportunity space ”, can be found by connecting all the dots between bits of diverse information you already know and put them together in a way that breaks a pattern. So why is it so very important to take this upstream step in the innovation process? The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We’ve put together some advice on how to move past the blockers and turn on the amplifiers: The First Design Decision. Every innovation project begins with a series of design choices, but each of these choices has implications for the sort of blocks you can expect to encounter along the path. Amplifier #1: Rapid Speed to Market.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. — I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Our experts talk innovation - Qmarkets’ employees discuss their personal experiences and provide tips and best practices for the successful deployment of Innovation Management systems: Some will say that there are no bad ideas, only bad adaptation from idea into reality.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Our experts talk innovation - Qmarkets’ employees discuss their personal experiences and provide tips and best practices for the successful deployment of Innovation Management systems: Some will say that there are no bad ideas, only bad adaptation from idea into reality.

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The BMI Lab Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Basically, it is a carefully tailored program designed to inspire and enable senior managers to lead their company to break their dominant industry logics. It’s a great mix of theory and practice combined with a reflection on the innovation ability of their own company and their role. But this is what you need to engage in innovation.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? What is innovation management software (IMS)? Rampersad, G.,

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is definitely not a failure of a single product, acquisition, or bad campaign. Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Studies show firms that treat innovation as a science and manage and measure it like any other business function are more successful. Innovation advocate.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

These systems can deploy massive resources with precision, yet have the flexibility to keep innovations alive in hostile market environments defined by UPACS (Uncertainty, Paradoxes, Ambiguity, Complexity, and Speed). We will outline which structures which will be required by your unique innovation footprint. Success by Design.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

These systems can deploy massive resources with precision, yet have the flexibility to keep innovations alive in hostile market environments defined by UPACS (Uncertainty, Paradoxes, Ambiguity, Complexity, and Speed). We will outline which structures which will be required by your unique innovation footprint. Success by Design.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? What is innovation management software (IMS)? Rampersad, G.,

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. Establishing a culture that encourages innovation, and rewards intrapreneurship, is a powerful way to counteract this effect.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When it comes to initiating a structure in which these ideas can be developed, tracked, and brought to life, they are wholly inadequate. What’s more, these tools won’t enable you to gather key metrics needed to assess the ROI an innovation initiative has gained.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. Culture of experimentation (and speed). Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intinsified use of (rapid) prototyping.

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The Inovo Group

MARCH 8, 2018

There are four primary dimensions of uncertainty: Organization, Demand, Design and System (ODDS). All four need to be managed during the innovation process. Innovators need to use special tools to measure and manage it. By using the ORL uncertainty framework, organizations can better manage innovation uncertainty.

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Hutch Carpenter

AUGUST 5, 2015

In a recent PwC survey, 61% of CEOs said innovation was a key priority for their company ( pdf ). Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. Growing the culture of innovation.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Many companies are stuck with a legacy of fossilized architectures and all that entails, including the need for extensive maintenance and problems with development to keep up with changing markets. Often engineering-talented companies have invested in customized solutions, a development that is reflected for example in Industry 4.0

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Companies must focus on the future, and they are intensely interested in how the market is changing, what their customers will want, how technology is developing and what their competitors and partners are planning to do. Would that company invest in R&D?

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