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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 17, 2020

Miro is a digital “whiteboard” platform that can make it easy to brainstorm and collaborate with members of your team or innovation program. The tool also comes with a series of pre-built templates that can inspire or serve as a starting place for your own project work. How to Use Miro. Image Courtesy of Miro.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

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.

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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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. I happen to be a fan of the big, platform basis innovation programs, where an organization sets out to build innovation capacity as a core competency.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). How to Tackle the Problem.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2019

Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. So how do you refine it? Look For Feedback. The same is true of roles.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. A light touch alternative to a hackathon is a 30 minute presentation, perhaps a lunch-time brownbag, presented by a keynote speaker on innovation.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities. Not only is continuous innovation necessary for survival, but also constant refinement and recalibration of existing business models. What are the risks and opportunities of the project?

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. A light touch alternative to a hackathon is a 30 minute presentation, perhaps a lunch-time brownbag, presented by a keynote speaker on innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2023

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. All of these need to be used at the right time, and in the right way, so that your innovation program delivers maximum value at minimum cost.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s not always easy to do, but if you want an innovative workforce with the ability to take ideas from conception through implementation, you have to ensure they receive the training they need. Here’s how to determine if your innovation training program is performing as it should. Common Pitfalls of Innovation Training.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). How to Tackle the Problem.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to Tendayi, bridging the gap between innovation theater and real growth is all about having the following three pillars in place: Portfolio of innovation projects: first, companies need to focus on having a balanced portfolio of innovations. Do leaders (and teams) get excited about the wrong innovation programs?

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 27, 2018

This year’s Project Management Conference in Dallas focused on all things innovation. Given my long-standing background with both project management and innovation, I was delighted to be on a panel that explored how project managers, their teams, and their company cultures could be more innovative.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that would reliably beam back images, collect samples, and return scientific data on the red planet.

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whataventure

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How to turn cold calls into hot sales for your corporate startup. A guideline on how to make your cold calls successful and get your first paying customers. Discover our tips and tricks on sales conversation strategy, practical phrases, and how to feel more comfortable while cold calling. It’s very effective and very affordable!

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

Creating a repeatable innovation portfolio helps you plan more efficiently, scale resources, and gain insight for the growth of your innovation program. There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. Idea Collection and Inspiration. Proposal Generation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In my practice several clients evaluate their ideas based on quantifiable metrics that help their innovation teams to measure the costs and the real value or impact of their solutions. This can include capital expenditures, one time project expenditures and foreseen operating costs. Introduction to ROI. or 425% RO

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 29, 2019

Only if an idea or potential innovation can say “Yes” to all three questions is it going to have any chance of becoming a success. If any of the criteria are missing, then the innovation program is likely to fail. The challenge most companies face is how to validate each of these ideas.

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Innov8rs

MAY 19, 2024

This will ensure enough quality ideas are generated for a successful overall innovation program. Be Clear On The Process, And Have Someone To Support It Innovation teams need a clear, shared process to follow. Be Ready To Fail Attitudes towards failure can make or break an innovation team.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Ben Yoskowitz (Founding Partner at Highline Beta) and Helene Niklasson (VP Innovation Ecosystems and Partnerships and Head of CampX at Volvo Group) joined us for our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event. Together we discussed what's next for open innovation and partnerships, as summarized below.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Very few innovation programs have the luxury of waiting multiple years before delivering quantifiable results. Measuring innovation requires partners. Demonstrating the effects of a strong innovation program typically depend on active involvement from other units and functions in the company. Projects launched.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical. The ‘innovation team’ needs to define what innovation is in the context of your company, and how to ‘get there’. It must identify the milestones and define the metrics and success criteria across the innovation transformation journey.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 30, 2017

Though they often deliver some success, organizations often struggle to take the challenge beyond the initial project, and into a complete innovation program. As a result, participants don’t stay engaged, momentum is lost, virtual ideation often fizzles out, and innovation ultimately dies on the vine.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Open innovation (OI) can be a powerful approach for organizations to find groundbreaking ideas, develop new products and solve difficult problems. I have been involved in hundreds of open innovation projects — I have seen huge successes and, of course, many failures. Don’t Do it Yourself. Don’t Work with the Wrong People.

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hackerearth

JUNE 22, 2018

According to a World Bank report, “a coherent inclusive innovation strategy would complement frontier innovation efforts by improving access to essentials and increasing the purchasing power of the resource-poor while also enhancing income-generating opportunities for BoP members.”

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 16, 2017

When people talk about machine learning they are a referring to a type of artificial intelligence that has the ability to learn without explicit programming. These programs can grow and change on their own once they know how to learn and some financial companies are beginning to use machine learning for a variety of different reasons.

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whataventure

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Feeling that spirit during the strategy and learning day right at the start of my internship helped me get to know the company and its employees very well, which eased the jump into the cold water of customer projects. Q: How does a day at work look like? My highlight during the internship was my first own project.

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Planview

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Whether it was at one of our Ignite Innovation Summits or our recent Horizons conference, a common theme connecting many of my conversations was this: While innovation programs built on ideas alone can be successful, they are typically not sustainable. But we are innovative—right? How can we change that thinking?

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Innovation itself is not necessarily a slow activity, it is often slowed by factors beyond the control of the innovation team. You'll also want to address a large gating factor - how to get new product and service ideas into a packed product development process. When can you move fast?

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 22, 2016

Before you launch your innovation campaign, you want to set up key performance indicators or KPIs for short. Key performance indicators help you keep track of your overall strategy and your individual innovation programs. On the low end, if you’re below 40, you could consider increasing innovation projects.

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Innovators Alliance

MAY 18, 2018

That said, there are a few things you can measure in order to figure out how innovative your company’s culture is–it’s the first step in figuring out how to reshape that environment and start promoting new behaviors. Percent of new innovations that come from external sources like crowdsourcing or open innovation.

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whataventure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

BONUS : Download our guide on how to successfully find your first paying customers ). In our recent research on why corporate startups fail and what makes them successful, we had an insightful discussion with more than 40 decision-makers and project leaders from various corporates. which define projects’ success.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 31, 2017

I've been pondering for several weeks, at least since the start of the new year, the state of play of innovation in large corporations. But the difference between a successful outcome, and a well managed failure is the difference between people who are truly innovative, and those that understand how to manage an efficient internal project.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2017

Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes. Ten questions for you to focus on assessing the state of your organization’s innovation program. If you think your current program is working, non-existent, or just a disaster — you will learn something by taking this quick survey. How was it pitched?

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