InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We live in a system where ‘innovation’ is usually only permitted from the top.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! NCARB teams learned how to proactively reach out to customers to deeply understand them and to design quick experiments for testing potential solutions before building them.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A truly innovative culture? This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Join us at Catalyst Ranch, a truly fun place to learn! Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. How do you get there?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Beyond these other nine roles, people can sense when a leader has a real personal passion for innovation. Innovation is not easy. Almost any new idea and project eventually hits major obstacles or encounters people who say it could never work.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the design thinking process? What are the key steps of the design thinking process? How can I learn design thinking? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can I learn design thinking? These can be a good starting point to learn more about design thinking and its applications.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. We can only do this via the process of discovery.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Most teams start out with a failed idea, but this high failure rate is not a bug, it’s a feature of the innovation process. Teams learn early on to not fall in love with their ideas and rigorously weed out bad ideas through evidence-based experimentation. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice. So, How Does Spark Work?

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

While most innovation management software makes it possible for teams and organizations to gather and iterate on ideas, the question you must ask is, how do you ensure the best ideas become reality? Visualize employee participation and activity, innovation value, and ROI with analytics and reporting.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

Some focus on impact, others on the process, financial output of innovation, etc. These KPIs measure the “inputs” into the innovation process, demonstrate what level of innovation activity is going on in the company and display how wide the range of innovation activities is.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. I liked the suggested digital design principles that BCG outlined in their report.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? This is not innovation as we once knew it. This is not your Dad’s innovation. It’s not even Your Innovation of five years ago?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Participants learn classic pitfalls and how to avoid them using best practices and emerging advanced practices.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. Encouraging a culture of experimentation Executive suites of companies perceived as ‘innovative’ are often filled with the spirit of the scientist.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes?

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often. labs, accelerators).

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the name implies it is inspired by the concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) popularized by Eric Ries in the book The Lean Startup. This reveal the starting point, the purpose and the direction of the innovation initiative. The teams should work hypothesis based with validated learning cycles.

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Innovation 360

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the name implies it is inspired by the concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) popularized by Eric Ries in the book The Lean Startup. This reveal the starting point, the purpose and the direction of the innovation initiative. The teams should work hypothesis based with validated learning cycles.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

One thing to keep in mind if you want to unlock the full potential of design thinking is that it should not be seen as something that only occurs during a project. Errors in the approach or technical execution of prototypes are explicitly understood as opportunities in the learning process and as the potential for innovation.

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Articles from GroundControl

DECEMBER 7, 2018

There is a ‘need’ to innovate rather than a ‘want’. It also, however, oftentimes prevents companies to dare and invest in risky and longer-term projects. Once there is an immediate need to innovate, this urge is delegated by the board to all the employees in the company. These all are excellent examples of innovation.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation. Top Model Principle.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. One of the conundrums is why does innovation take so long to happen in corporations? Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

Because good process management is directly linked to how you promote innovation in your company. Do you want to better understand the importance of process consulting in your business? Read this article to the end and learn the benefits of this type of service! What does a process consultancy do? Click here!

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Companies which want a structured system to manage a funnel of ideas and projects (e.g. Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. to test the market), instead of asking for a full project budget with a business case.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. The result will be defense innovation with speed and urgency. Lean Innovation is a Process.

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