Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

“Crowdsourced innovation” —the process of inspiring, collecting, and accelerating ideas from the “crowd,” such as your employees, partners, and customers, at scale—has proven to be incredibly effective. From the start, program managers should be thinking about direct financial value.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. Digital technology innovation is an opportunity where most organization’s will be too late to the party.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 31, 2018

At some point in your journey to drive innovation, you’ll want to take a deep breath and ask – what happened here? I’ve seen too many innovation programs get off to a fast start only to fizzle out later. Here are some ideas. Develop a way to track and manage ideas generated from innovation workshops.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” ” “We don’t do idea generation well.” But I digress.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

In recent years the focus has been on creating highly efficient organizations that apply lean principles to both management and operations. We recognize it has become very hard for many companies to allocate time and resources to make innovation happen. But fortunately there are ways to make innovation more efficient.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We have created a unique vision of the innovation funnel which incorporates the full spectrum of innovation activity. In this blog, we’ll give you a step-by-step guide to our ‘Innovation Ecosystem’ , providing you with multiple ways to discover and manage innovations at your enterprise.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We have created a unique vision of the innovation funnel which incorporates the full spectrum of innovation activity. In this blog, we’ll give you a step-by-step guide to our ‘Innovation Ecosystem’, providing you with multiple ways to discover and manage innovations at your enterprise.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success. What can be a complementary business case to idea production during fallow seasons? Idea production telemetry uncovers how your organisation ‘thinks’ – not only what it thinks, but how. These efforts codified ephemeral activities.

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

We know from our history that while promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades.”. But for an innovation program to be efficient and successful, there are certain guidelines or best practices an organization needs to abide by. Find out How GE Healthcare crowdsourced ideas for digital healthcare solutions.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

While wild and wacky ideas might not be the winning ideas coming out of a Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Creative Session you may not get those winning ideas unless they start as wild and wacky ideas. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 from previous blogs. I request their help.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Whether looking to grow collaborations, acquire innovations or invest in internal R&D, there is no free lunch – pipelines must remain filled and robust to achieve long-term growth. This is an idea “Generator.” Remember, new ideas and methods can also be identified externally by your customers and clients.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 18, 2016

The conversations go something like this: "We've told our folks we need more innovation. We've promised to reward them for their ideas. Yet here we are, four or five weeks into an innovation program, and we aren't getting any ideas. Why won't people innovate when we tell them we need it? What's going on?"

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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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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

And as Peter Drucker once said: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Metrics are important in sending a signal you are serious about innovation and in establishing the desired innovation behaviours. Process metrics – address those variables that affect the movement of ideas through the pipeline process.

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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. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Call your shot.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2016

Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Spigit, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. Q: How do we make it easier for employees to understand how their engagement affects our innovation program? TV monitors with videos.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The world’s largest networking company has Innovation Centers around the world which are open innovation hubs to help explore and develop new technologies by “bringing together communities of customers, partners, start-ups, accelerators, governments, universities and research groups.”

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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. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Call your shot.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

The concept of ‘scaling innovation’ has become a crucial strategy for organizations looking to transform occasional successes into a consistent, organization-wide capability. Understanding Scaling Innovation Before we explore the mechanics of scaling innovation, it’s crucial to define what we mean by this term.

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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.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 31, 2017

An organization’s employees are vital components in a successful corporate innovation delivery plan. Their buy-in is essential to not only ensure the successful execution of the innovation program as a whole but also towards recruiting them as long-term assets that go above and beyond the stated requirements of the innovation delivery plan.

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Strategos

JANUARY 11, 2017

But the software platform cannot substitute for other key parts of an innovation program. Here are 5 guidelines that will help to make your front line innovation program (software based or not) more successful. Spark the innovation with new perspectives and insights. Innovation seldom happens in a vacuum.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2000, I predicted that we would see innovation as a service in the near future. The thirty individuals whose ideas are selected will receive a $10 payment while a $100 fee would be paid to those who managed to provide all of the deliverables in the task, but an opportunity like this will never be about the money.

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Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business. Step 2 – Define the scope of your innovation effort. Innovation Agenda.

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Planview

AUGUST 6, 2015

Driving innovation in your company isn’t an exercise that should be taken on by a small group of experts, and certainly not by the management team alone. By getting the crowd involved in both the idea generation and the ROI prediction,” Gardner writes, “Innovators are able to take a lot of the guesswork out of innovation.”.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? FORMALIZED INNOVATION MANAGEMENT. DEDICATED METRICS.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? FORMALIZED INNOVATION MANAGEMENT. DEDICATED METRICS.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Which brings us to the question, “Why do innovation programs fail?”. Below are 6 reasons why innovation programs can fail. Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

If you want to kick start an innovation program, get in touch, I can give you a roadmap and help you adapt it to your context. This series of Seven Innovation Fundamentals is available as a training, workshop, or as a keynote speech, from Gregg Fraley of GFi.

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Planview

JANUARY 30, 2018

One popular New Year’s Resolution is getting fit – so here at Spigit, we wanted to share with you a series about how to get “Innovation Fit” in 2018 to ensure your innovation program is set up for success. This results in more ideas generated, including diversity of ideas, and ultimately more output.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

Disruptive innovations like these have a legendary status that is richly deserved, but it is actually incremental innovations that are more likely to provide sustainable fuel to drive ROI for your innovation programs year in, year out. And so concludes our whistle-stop tour of incremental innovation!

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

You will get an overview of how you can consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming for any need, at any time, in any kind of business. Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 is a highly proven innovation best practice – proven in university studies and, more importantly, in the real world for over two decades.

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KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Management frequently sees the necessary investment as being prohibitively high, and instead invests in projects that might drive more short term results. Unfortunately for those managers, the idea that innovation requires massive investment to pay off is a complete misconception—even one good idea can have a huge impact on the bottom line.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

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