Qmarkets

MAY 29, 2024

Key Components of an Innovation Ecosystem An innovation ecosystem involves several interconnected elements that collectively drive innovation and growth: Idea Management: Capturing, evaluating, and implementing innovative ideas from various sources.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) 03:52) Discussing Andy’s contribution to the ISO standards for innovation management . (05:31)

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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InnovationManagement

DECEMBER 4, 2017

That’s why programs like LEAN and Six Sigma continue to do so well. Even if your organization doesn’t yet have an embedded innovation program, I can guarantee that your organization cares about finding opportunities for savings. There are always new ways to improve efficiency and time saved almost always means money saved.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Don’t get hung up on whether to use Lean, or Design Thinking, or CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail , or some arcane method history has hung around your neck. Look, there are a million methods to do innoation, including those methods I espouse. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In May of this year, we had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Jill Waters, Lean Six Sigma Coordinator at Adventist Health, which is a not-for-profit healthcare organization comprised of over 20 hospitals and over 30 clinics in the U.S. This is one reason why many companies turn to Spigit’s idea management software.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

Exploring new territory can be both daunting and exhilarating – whether it’s oceanography or innovation management! As a leading supplier of idea management software, Qmarkets allows large organizations to gather, develop, evaluate, select, and implement ideas which can deliver bottom line value across the company.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential. Teams achieve breakthrough results when properly facilitated through through a rapid, flexible, but structured process at the front end of innovation. Knowing how to adapt and blend frameworks to your needs is no longer advanced practice in innovation.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Planview

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work. The skinny: Steve Blank outlines how lean innovation practices can drive 10 times the number of initiatives in a fifth of the time. Here are 10 new discoveries from this week. Who it’s from: Steve Blank. Read more >> 2.

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LEAN Crowdsourcing Innovation Programs Innovation 40

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. Frameworks fail when leaders don’t have these cultural basics squared away.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One hears the idea of someone else and gets inspired to a new idea: we call this process 'idea synthesis'. But these discussions require rules to make sure that even ideas which sound awkward at first are also considered. Two members of a group do not need to meet anymore to discuss and improve an idea.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Maybe you’ve found that your idea management participants aren’t yielding as many good ideas as in the past.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

One hears the idea of someone else and gets inspired to a new idea: we call this process 'idea synthesis'. But these discussions require rules to make sure that even ideas which sound awkward at first are also considered. Two members of a group do not need to meet anymore to discuss and improve an idea.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

One hears the idea of someone else and gets inspired to a new idea: we call this process 'idea synthesis'. But these discussions require rules to make sure that even ideas which sound awkward at first are also considered. Two members of a group do not need to meet anymore to discuss and improve an idea.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 30, 2023

How to Properly Leverage Kanban Boards GUEST POST from Dainora Jociute Whether it’s a bunch of sticky notes on an office wall or a clever digital tool with color-coded boxes, most of us are familiar with the ingenious concept of a Kanban board. Perhaps that’s not the name you use. Maybe for you and your […]

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Tools How To Idea Management Project 85

Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Maybe you’ve found that your idea management participants aren’t yielding as many good ideas as in the past.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 26, 2020

The business environment is becoming increasingly complex. Organizations have lived in a stable environment for many decades. The competitive advantage resulted from executing better than competitors. This is no longer the case.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

This often manifests itself in the host of variations in what are claimed as their ‘unique’ versions of “common innovation” where they constantly reinvent the wheel in their own approaches to processes, definitions, tools, frameworks, systems of working and idea management etc.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. Lean Innovation Management allows startup speed inside of companies.

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InnovationManagement

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

One of the greatest challenges facing innovation professionals is to find the right approach to a given innovation problem. Whether that’s instilling the innovation mojo in a large corporation or simply helping teams become more innovative, the ways to do this seem to be more of an art than a science.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

A recent article in HBR describes a study of 154 companies that use the Spigit idea management system to analyze data on new concepts as they move from initial idea to reality. The whole lean-startup, test and learn movement is directed at doing precisely this. [4] The four phases are as follows: Data from 3.5

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A fully centralized ownership of innovation and idea management naturally makes it easier to achieve “maturity”, since that one team can manage everything in a controlled manner, often with the same exact process for every idea and innovation. Organizing Innovation Decentrally.

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Wazoku

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The current trend is to focus on running a lean organisation and keep costs manageable, but this approach can also have a significant impact on progress. As a result, companies are delaying their investment plans and waiting for more concrete decisions before committing themselves to a future business strategy.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We definitely recommend involving the idea owner and co-owners along the innovation process, as well as other community members who show interest in “joining the team” It is also recommended to make sure they have a mentor to guide them through the process. This can be done by idea categorization (i.e.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The cultures need to be separated, but with some overlapping “touchpoints” where capabilities, ideas and knowledge are exchanged in order to avoid isolation and to benefit from each other. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Programme manager. Setting up a lean but motivated central team that drives various innovation programs across the organization is critical for success. According to George Krasadakis , a technology innovation leader, an ideal innovation team consists of 9 key roles: Strategist. Product expert. Technologist. IP expert, Real innovator.

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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

The cultures need to be separated, but with some overlapping “touchpoints” where capabilities, ideas and knowledge are exchanged in order to avoid isolation and to benefit from each other. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach.

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