Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

While many experts have argued for this in the past, in reality the research suggests it will depend more on the needs of each company. What you want to end up with is called an ambidextrous organisation. So how can you best allocate your people to allow them to focus on their best work. Companies that survive do both.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Common pitfalls inventors face when trying to make a great idea real are the reasons why so many great inventions do not reach the world stage, get outpaced or just fail before having a chance to get utilised. Managing your business. The number one reason why startups fail is insufficient need for their product. Not starting.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Innovating as a startup No one starts a business without a great idea. The source of that idea may be frustration with the way things work today, or an insight about new products or feature, or observation of an emerging market that has new and unmet needs. But every entrepreneur has an idea.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Success in innovation management is all about exploration.?. What qualifies as successful innovation management? Coming up with an idea that others like? Innovation Management: Orienteering. If it’s your goal to cross the finish line and you come in last, you have succeeded. Will you cut costs?

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IdeaScale

JULY 2, 2019

We all know intellectually that sometimes projects fail, but that doesn’t necessarily make it easier when it’s our project that fails. If you have ever had to scrap a project, you’re in good company. If you think of startup businesses as projects, nine out of ten of them fail. Let the data help you know where to go next.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sometimes, new ideas may come across as scary and radical. While it is common for innovations to take time to diffuse through the different customer groups , it can sometimes be hard for ideas to be accepted when there are extreme views on opposite ends of the spectrum of issues. Therefore will not be accepted by society overall.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. Here are some tools to inspire and help you overcome barriers to innovation. There’s no need to send drafts back and forth or spend time on version control.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

IT professionals are expected to know more than just the technology. They need to understand how to use that technology based on their companies’ business objectives. You cannot afford to wait around for orders. Be an IT leader and you will always find an opportunity to be challenged and to succeed.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Preventing and overcoming organizational change fatigue requires employing fundamental best practices of change management. When you take a high-level view of all the changes going on in an organization, it’s easier to see how certain individuals or departments may be overwhelmed with change. Therefore, you prioritize.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2020

Whenever demands made on a person, team, or organization aren’t properly matched with the resources needed to address them, stress is the result. This principle is as true of innovation as everything else. . Innovation is a broad term: what’s innovative to a software company will differ from what governments need.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Almost every business leader will tell you that they value innovation and that it is a positive & important factor for their company. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you believe everything you hear, or read, within your corporation about innovation, you may end up a bit disappointed. These two documents I am referring to aren't necessarily about innovation, but what they say (or don't say) about innovation will tell you all you need to know.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In order to maintain integrity as part of your innovation process, you should look closely at the spoken and unspoken promises made by your innovation strategy and act on them to the fullest extent possible. Not asking your team to do anything you yourself wouldn’t do. Respect for the needs of the team and its members.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2021

Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. Standard Bank: Getting Money Where It Needs To Be. On a consumer level, that means Standard has multiple ATMs that it needs to keep filled with currency in order to maintain customer satisfaction.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Often innovation governance gets caught up in the (life-threatening) aspects of governance’s need to have reporting, metrics, reporting and accountability dominating. For me, that often the heavier structure and process needs can, over time, take over and dominate. Listening in to the conversation on Governance.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 20, 2018

“How do you teach people to be more comfortable with ambiguity?” My response was: “The first thing we need to do is give them projects to do where we can’t know what the right answer is in advance.” What are the capabilities that managers need to be effective today?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The best business strategies focus on meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations. If you don’t know what that customer problem is, then you won’t be able to build a meaningful solution. If you focus on the wrong problem, the product won’t be viable when it reaches the masses.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2019

There may have been a time – a decade or two ago – when businesses could look at innovation as optional, but everything has changed since then. At the same time, however, companies know they can’t transform in ways that leave their customer bases feeling unsettled or abandoned, or in ways that could damage the company’s reputation.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2024

Often, when trying to make progress towards an innovative challenge there are thousands of things you could be doing. Examined individually, each of these actions look like they could bring you closer to your end goal. As an example, let us imagine that you are part of a startup or small innovation team.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 1, 2023

Great ideas do not always come from the top down. As a matter of fact, some of the most transformative ideas that have gone on to change the world have been from a lower- to mid-level employee. Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that! What Are Some Company Pain Points Innovative Employees Can Solve?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Innovation management consulting has emerged as a profession as businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations have started prioritizing innovation. Innovation management consultants help organizations establish innovation programs and keep innovation on track. Trying to innovate everything at once can backfire. Idea Creation.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Do you have to get lucky to innovate successfully, or can you make your own luck? Is it always inherently risky to try to innovate, or can you manage risk by making smart decisions? So, in this article, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on how these matters affect innovation, and what you can do to improve your odds of success.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp , one of the leading PLM solution providers. I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. Some claim that they do this already but seriously they do not.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 23, 2021

You would think it is marketing, business strategy , revenue, branding, human capital, and profit – and you’re wrong! You can love your employees and those you lead without forsaking your company’s objectives. What is the most important thing when it comes to business? Yes, it is love. Why Leading With Love Matters.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

One of the most common questions I am asked is what tools I use to manage my successful online business. Considering I am constantly giving advice on the ways that companies can improve their innovativeness, and people can come up with new business models and business ideas based on their creativity. Email automation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2020

Scott Fitzgerald and those over at Cognitive Edge: “ The test of (complex adaptive) intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”. We need to constantly ask: is it clear, complicated, complex, or chaotic, or even worse, highly confusing.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 24, 2022

It’s important because we now know an enormous amount about how stress and burnout affect us, both at home and at work. What was the turning point that made you realize your workplace burnout was beyond the point of comfort? I had bought into the idea that burnout was just the price we have to pay for success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

As you probably know, the company would become an icon for what it meant to create a two-sided marketplace business model. As you probably know, the company would become an icon for what it meant to create a two-sided marketplace business model. The original idea behind “EasyEats” (aka OpenTable) was much bigger.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whereas it’s important to be responsive to your customers’ needs and concerns, Folk learned that what companies wanted beyond addressing these was a way to identify what types of needs customers weren’t talking about. You can’t fix the problems you don’t know you have. The Questions Not Asked.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What we've learned since then is that, just like everything else, competitive advantages have a life cycle. In fact, only recently we’ve started to realize that defining a strategy for innovation is not only about having great ideas; instead, it's about building a sustainable innovation process proficiency. Innov8rs |.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the big challenges to innovation is that many people think of it as a big program, like implementing the quality programs of the 1980s, or rethinking everything, like the re-engineering programs and right sizing programs of a more recent vintage. Service Excellence Let me start with the idea of service excellence.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. You make an analogy between ScaleUps and a Formula 1 racecar.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In a way, I'm kind of glad that fewer people are talking about the idea of things "getting back to normal". Here's a little insight about that strategy: it's not going to work well for you. For example, you might say that political programs don't affect me or my business.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 2, 2021

I'm back to talk about understanding the future, returning to a subject that I think needs much more examination. We need to prepare for the future that we can reasonably address, and understand the future that will unfold just beyond our product cycles. Let me give you a few examples. Really, not much. Don't believe me?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

Brainstorming sessions sound like a great idea, especially for breaking out of creative ruts, but too often brainstorming fizzles out. The main reason for this is that organizations don’t actually use any of the ideas that come out of brainstorming sessions. The key is to have the right brainstorming tools in your kit.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

What qualities do successful women managers, executives, and entrepreneurs have in common? What qualities do successful women managers, executives, and entrepreneurs have in common? I’ve polled businesswomen I know. What needs to happen now is that we need to flex and strengthen these attributes, let them shine.

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