Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Things will not stay the same at GE.”.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones. Find out more on our product pages.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

BCG rightly is pointing out from their research that digital innovation is just taking over everywhere. They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Employees have the knowledge, experience, and skill set to keep the engine of a business running day in and day out – so tapping into this with an employee innovation program can open a realm of possibilities. An employee innovation program is simply a process that empowers each employee to share their ideas.

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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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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. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. No clear definition of what innovation really means.

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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. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. No clear definition of what innovation really means.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Two Separate Distinctions: Innovation with a Capital I, and Innovation with a Small I Innovation with a capital I is defined by the innovation industry. That industry tries to convince companies that they need to stave off disruption that is inevitably coming for them. So they will go through those seven states.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. This approach is particularly valuable when companies face disruptive threats and contemplate transformational change. Assess whether your innovation programs create substantial value for your company.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. To learn more about how Qmarkets can help you reinvent your business: About Steve: Steve has been helping companies with innovation for the last 20 years.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

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. By dedicating resources to these horizons, organisations can future-proof their businesses and stay ahead of industry disruptions.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

That means high integration costs – and another reason to be wary of new innovation. But incumbents would be willing to make changes if a new technology proves to be truly disruptive and the long-term benefits are worth it. This suggests, this path to explorative innovation may be more appropriate for them.

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Swarmvision

AUGUST 10, 2017

In the article, the author argues that companies need to take a fresh approach to innovation talent in order to realize stronger business results from innovation programs. What Is The Legacy Approach to Innovation Talent? This matters when the organization is relying on technology or R&D to deliver innovation.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Reinvention through business model innovation. Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. We can see that experimentation comes in different flavors, depending on the innovation context.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. This approach should set the scene for employee training on mindsets and methods such as human-centered design, lean startup, and agile. The post How to Get Buy-in for Your Innovation Project appeared first on Spigit.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. This approach should set the scene for employee training on mindsets and methods such as human-centered design, lean startup, and agile. The post How to Get Buy-in for Your Innovation Project appeared first on Spigit.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 5, 2017

Scott Bowden spends a great deal of time thinking about what he terms as “historical innovation,” which is the concept that one can improve the efficacy of modern innovation programs by studying examples of how people solved problems in the past , and applying those techniques to the challenges faced by current students of innovation.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The lens through which the entrepreneurial mind sees the world is generally one of how to create something totally new and cool – sometimes something that will "unbundle", or disrupt, an existing industry – that will allow them to make history and potentially change the world. Building the Bridge.

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Legacy Innovation Group

MAY 27, 2021

These are the very far-reaching advanced innovations and R&D projects that seek to produce ‘tomorrow's foundations of value’ – breakthrough , disruptive , and transformative innovations that go well beyond the core of today's organization and pave the way for who and what the organization must be and do tomorrow.

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Stephen Shapiro

JANUARY 14, 2021

” This is an important mantra to remember when creating an innovation program. You don’t innovate the same way for every opportunity in your business. In Episode 9, I talked about why you want to innovate where you differentiate. All problems are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2015

I’ve been working with Roberto, the Chief Innovation Officer of a diversified company I’ll call Sprocket Industries. I listened as Roberto listed the obstacles to the new innovation program at Sprocket, “We’ve created innovation teams in both the business units and in corporate. Our CEO is behind the program.

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IM Insights

JANUARY 11, 2022

So, a highly risky project, for example, one that you have virtually no data from, it’s very disruptive, but it’s very new, you don’t know what the solution is, you maybe have an idea of some technology, you don’t really know what the customer is. And it’s just very, very risky. And it’s always the same.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. Karl’s innovation pipeline had hundreds of employees going through weekend hackathons. Recognizing the Roadblocks. not waiting for ones to be written.

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