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5 Ideation Objectives

eZassi

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. To focus on the best and “throw the bad ones away” a strategic, competent company needs an Innovation Resource Management tool. Manage & Automate Ideation. Collaboration & Ideation.

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Specific skills and toolkits are needed for cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations.

Paul Hobcraft

Project management : Effective project management skills are essential for keeping cross-sector collaborations on track. Participants should be able to manage timelines, budgets, and resources, as well as measure progress and evaluate outcomes.

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How to Manage Innovation Exploration With the Support of an Ideation Platform

Qmarkets

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. We will first elaborate on these 7 factors and then we will explain how an ideation platform such as Qmarkets can help in achieving this. Sufficient budget and resources.

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Assessing and Ranking Competing Projects and Opportunities

Wellspring

Other business units and product lines, inspired after an ideation session or hackathon, come to the innovation team with an idea to explore. This engagement and collaboration allows the innovation function to stay close to strategic initiatives and high-level, vital projects.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business.

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Zombie ideas and Vampire ideas

Idea to Value

When I was quite early on in my consulting career, I was tasked with evaluating all of the current projects which a client had. This is an example of a zombie project. Zombie projects are projects that just refuse to die. It may even start life as an innovation project or pilot. Or even worse, vampire projects.

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Taming Blue Sky Ideation: Collecting Ideas that are Both Novel and Valuable

IdeaScale

The most common pitfall when running a “general” or “blue sky ideation” campaign is to assume this means you no longer need constraints or a problem statement. Entrepreneurs testify that limited resources are actually the source of their strategic advantage. First, resist the urge to neglect the problem statement.

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