Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. I’m going to be like a broken record in this blog post ( I wrote a similar one a year ago ): If you don’t have an Innovation Plan, you aren’t doing innovation. Now is the time to impact 2015.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Innovation in Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals, announced today that it has awarded the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award to BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX). To learn more, visit www.pdma.org.

Product Development 40

Product Development Management Conference Culture of Innovation 40

IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. It reflects a mix of culture, motivation, and misunderstanding that can weigh down innovation processes like a stone.

Innovation Processes 162

Innovation Processes Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation 162

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The Innovation Management Awards are in their fifth year and we thought it would be good chance to look back at all the past winners as we prepare to receive submissions from around the world in this year’s competition. We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year.

Innovation Management 0

Innovation Management Management Crowdsourcing Innovation 0

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

System 180

System Innovation Technology Collaboration 180

IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2019

Most of us have little difficulty listing male inventors, but rattling off a list of female innovators is harder. It’s not because women don’t innovate, but because historically they haven’t had the educational opportunities that male innovators have had. Here are five of the top female innovators of all time.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Crowdsourcing Innovation Technology 157

IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. Its an online place where innovators, particularly small entrepreneurs, can present ideas for new technologies for energy-efficient buildings to private and public sector leaders in research and development. In order to meet program objectives, ORNL launched JUMP.

Case Study 133

Case Study Crowdsourcing Innovation Study 133

Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Sustainability is increasingly seen as a driver for innovation. Many innovations however fail or did not succeed yet. In a recent article (Wicki, 2015) there is an interesting insight of a failed green innovation and the lessons that can be drawn from this example for those who want to seize business opportunities in the green economy.

Learning 40

Learning Innovation Marketing Examples 40

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

Report 130

Report Innovation Technology Policies 130

Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If this is the case, although it’s better than the alternative—no teacher at all—it’s also a missed opportunity for deeper innovation. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

Disruption 75

Disruption Groups Learning Course 75

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

Report 130

Report Innovation Technology Policies 130

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

I wrote this recently in a post entitled “ Bringing New Innovation is Stretching the Mind “ It opened with this view: “There is a profound shift taking place, relating to innovation. Each of these is a link to the post itself: Bringing New Innovation Together Is Stretching the Mind, Posted on October 25, 2016.

Innovation 120

Innovation Collaboration Disruption Marketing 120

Idea to Value

MARCH 20, 2016

2] That one particular woman is Joy Mangano, the “Queen of HSN”, who is a serial entrepreneur and innovator with more than a hundred patents to her name and is most famously known for her first invention, the Miracle Mop. More importantly, we can glean so many lessons about business acumen and innovation in business from her life story.

Learning 100

Learning Innovation Marketing Management 100

Idea to Value

AUGUST 10, 2021

It can also lead to innovation efforts that are focussed on solving one issue inadvertently causing many more issues as a result. One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. That way it could not die.

Artificial Inteligence 277

Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Meeting 277

InnovationTraining.org

JULY 12, 2022

In 2015, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Design Thinking Research Program conducted one of the most extensive global studies looking into the state of design thinking in organizations. Since 2015, design thinking has grown by 46% in IT departments and 92% in Operations & Manufacturing.

Design Thinking 52

Design Thinking Study Design Training 52

Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 30, 2015

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. 2 – Doing more of the same is not innovative and does not create value – McDonald’s.

Leadership 36

Leadership Industry Company Marketing 36

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Switzerland takes the first place in the rating of the World Intellectual Property Organization on the level of innovation development. There were 873 patent license applications per million of inhabitants in Switzerland back in the year 2015. This is the sixth time that the country has achieved the top five. Focus on green economy.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Innovation Technology Resources 138

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is one of the most critical places where innovation application is required and able to be conducted to deliver a sustaining impact in our world. Innovation solutions will provide the energy transition needed, and that is what makes it such a compelling area to focus upon. The question is, will we?

Management 214

Management Technical Review Innovation System 214

Board of Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Perhaps we’re becoming nostalgic about the past-future, or the future-past, but we dusted off our innovation predictions from 2015 to see what we could learn about tomorrow. In 2015, we put our heads together to ideate about the future. Continue reading.

Tools 73

Tools Ideation Learning Innovation 73

Christensen Institute

MAY 17, 2022

In 2015, the private equity firm purchased CHI Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturing company, for around $600 million. Much of the work we do at the Christensen Institute’s Global Prosperity practice is about learning how market-creating innovations can trigger widespread prosperity in poor countries. .

Entrepreneurship 139

Entrepreneurship Marketing Culture of Innovation Company 139

Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2015

Why Women are the Future of Business Innovation. 2015 has so far been monumental for women. This isn’t just unjust, it threatens the future of business innovation, the economy, and global competitiveness. How To Learn New Words Quickly and Efficiently. Boost Your IQ (Innovation Quotient) Must-Reads from around the web.

Conference 100

Conference Leadership Competition Technology 100

IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2017

From sea to shining sea, America’s real promise is innovation. Where does the US stand in terms of innovation? While headlines bemoan middling academics and economic struggles, it turns out that innovation, tracked by the number of patents filed between 1977 and 2015, rules the roost in America. The Constitution.

Innovation 140

Innovation System Culture Creative Thinking 140

Imaginatik

JANUARY 10, 2019

Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. Imaginatik has an incredibly talented team and product with a lot of potential.

Agile 124

Agile Innovation Management Software Innovation 124

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In today’s technologically advanced society, the Internet is a vital resource for start-ups and established businesses alike when it comes to driving innovation. From finding new ideas to testing prototypes, the Internet provides a vast multimedia platform through which companies can innovate on a global scale.

Innovation 164

Innovation Technology Data Resources 164

The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Competition Innovation Handbook 52

Board of Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Perhaps we’re becoming nostalgic about the past-future, or the future-past, but we dusted off our innovation predictions from 2015 to see what we could learn about tomorrow. In 2015, we put our heads together to ideate about the future. Continue reading.

Tools 55

Tools Ideation Learning Innovation 55

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Are we entering 2016 with an innovating mind-set? As we look to enter into 2016 what is top of mind for innovation to take hold and become the real core within our business organizations? Moving innovation from just being symbolic to essential. Moving innovation from just being symbolic to essential.

Innovation 100

Innovation Design LEAN Marketing 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I wrote twelve dedicated posts over this period, including this one, to highlight innovations place within the energy transition going on. To have any chance to reverse these temperature rises there is an increasing emphasis on innovation solutions within the technology that is required for the Worlds energy system. Super grids.

Technology 162

Technology Report Policies Innovation 162

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Innovation is evolving, and so is the role of the Chief Innovation Officer. A few decades ago, innovation was just a matter of inventing new products. To stay competitive, the entire organization needs to become more innovative and innovation can’t be delegated and/or relegated to the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) alone.

Innovation 52

Innovation Tools Competition LEAN 52

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

"Innovate (verb): To Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.” . To many people, it might seem as though the business world has become over-saturated with innovation. Just a buzzword? So which one is it? Picture Perfect?

Ideation 40

Ideation Company Learning How To 40

Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Successful companies however view sustainability as one of the biggest trends that will shape the future and use sustainability as an innovation tool. Companies can use sustainability in their process innovation, product or service innovation, market innovation, brand innovation, company innovation and strategic innovation.

Innovation 40

Innovation Social Innovation Trends Learning 40

Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration. People with special expertise from different disciplines should be open to innovative work.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Innovation Culture Groups 40

IM Insights

MAY 25, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Tendayi Viki about the power and pitfalls of storytelling in the context of innovation management. . The problem is that often in an innovation context a well told story bypasses logic and reason, selling a tall story devoid of facts. 11:00) On the leap of faith component of investing in innovation. (12:00)

LEAN 52

LEAN Innovation Data Entrepreneurship 52

Idea to Value

AUGUST 24, 2016

As discussed in the new innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation , one of the biggest reasons why the actual implementation of innovation can become such a formidable if not insurmountable process is because of people-related issues. 2] After tabulating the recently released U.S.

How To 100

How To Innovation Survey Tips 100

Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.wired.com/2015/12/product-hunt-app-podcasts-tech/. It’s becoming so much more.

Entrepreneurship 70

Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Strategy Strategy 124

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Strategy Strategy 124