Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Restaurants were the first vertical market, but the strategy at the time was staggering in scope. This wasn’t part of OpenTable’s original thinking or strategy. They didn’t realize how “sticky” their business model would get. Instead, they reeled back their vision and focused on transforming the restaurant world.

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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. Innovation needs structure.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. How do you make innovation important to an executive team?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Qmarkets

JUNE 14, 2024

By finding your place within this ecosystem and fostering robust relationships and processes, you can ensure that your innovation efforts are collaborative, integrated, and continuously driving sustainable growth. What is an Innovation Ecosystem? What Are the Benefits of Leveraging an Innovation Ecosystem?

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. Above all, it is a mentality based on several principles, such as placing the user at the center of the strategy. Design Thinking is a problem solving and idea development strategy centered on human beings.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Qmarkets

MAY 29, 2024

By finding your place within this ecosystem and fostering robust relationships and processes, you can ensure that your innovation efforts are collaborative, integrated, and continuously driving sustainable growth. What is an Innovation Ecosystem? What Are the Benefits of Leveraging an Innovation Ecosystem?

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets. Whether it’s tweaking a product to perfection or revolutionizing an industry standard, innovation comes in many flavors.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive innovation initiatives are best to be evaluated on the potential impact they would create: How it fits into your innovation strategy and long-term goals? And How much value would it potentially create for your customers?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Leaders with a deep belief that innovation is essential and who care about the value it can deliver to their customers—and perhaps to society at large—help elicit that extra spark of inspiration that innovators need. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Be inquisitive.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What and how to adjust to better and faster speak to our customers and meet their needs? During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation).

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Your organization has likely updated its innovation strategy (or at least started to). But the changes to your innovation strategy have probably been significant—that means you’ll need to invest significant effort in implementing those changes. How might innovation strategies change in response to COVID-19?

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Almost always.

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

The moment your company starts introducing innovation-driven activities, there will always be employees who question the purpose or the effectiveness of these strategies. Often, they will claim that innovation cannot really be “seen or measured” and, as a result, it’s a waste of time and money.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

Suppose you’ve been successful innovating. What new product development strategy might an Idea Magnet employ to pursue a fresh path to new ideas? That’s a question guitar innovator Rick Turner faced. This is Turner’s personal perspective on his new product development strategy. Italics are ours, indicating key concepts.).

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From setting a proper strategy and structuring and organization the function, to having clarity about who makes what type of decisions when, to understanding how to align with and involve business leaders - there's a lot of variables at play. Open Strategy. Thus, execution becomes an integral part of strategy.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In case your organization already has an established innovation process, Qmarkets’ Customer Success experts will advise and guide you on how to configure our system to support your needs, combined with our advanced capabilities in order to maximize efficiency and ROI. What are the KPI´s you use along the innovation process.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Participants learn classic pitfalls and how to avoid them using best practices and emerging advanced practices.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

In this article, I’ll draw upon two decades of hard-earned experience in pioneering the development of innovation-focused cultures in organisations worldwide to share proven principles, strategies, and techniques. In summary, fostering a climate ripe for innovation doesn’t hinge solely on traditional markers of success.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

and how to price the product. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups. What We Now Know about Corporate Innovation. We need to separate out innovation risks from execution risks.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Here are our thoughts about how to confront the Red Queen trap and adapt a government agency to infuse continuous innovation in its culture and practices.

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Inceodia

MARCH 2, 2017

How to Make Iteration Work for Your Business. Both Agile and Lean provide blueprints for organizational culture designed to innovate. It also allows management to focus on a strategy of enabling goals, rather than micro managing execution. Need help with your iterate/innovate process?

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. This bias surfaces when we are faced with ideas for new offerings, business models or strategies that the company is not used to. A set of concepts to be evaluated.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you innovate across your entire value chain? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? If you’re just focused on products you’re going to miss the boat.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is the failure to innovate that led to its “demise.”. In other words, it is because sometimes innovation strategies fail to produce products/ services that the customers want. Which brings us to the question, “Why do innovation programs fail?”. Take the following innovation management process for example.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also provides a complete framework for innovation project management, as well as a compare and contrast of the most commonly used frameworks (useful for those in framework selection mode.) The course explores longer term innovation road-mapping and links to organizational strategy and purpose. Why innovation?

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Real-time and long-term – Immediate course corrections and long-term improvements are both desirable and an innovation measurement system should provide information for both. Measurement Categories, KPI’s, Instrumentation, Data and Dashboards – In many cases, defining what and how to measure gets confused.

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