IdeaScale
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
For the fifth year in a row, IdeaScale is hosting the Innovation Management Awards. Particularly if that story demonstrates innovation thought leadership when it comes to engagement strategies, innovation processes, or idea implementation. And those winners have demonstrated innovation sophistication in everything from energy & sustainability to financial technology and government services.
HYPE Innovation
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
As an innovation manager/leader you likely deal with processes (and process improvements) every day. You know, prioritizing and tweaking those actions your firm engages in to accomplish a pre-established business purpose or objective (Michel Porter is a great reference on this topic – he introduced the process view of organizations ).
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IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
The deadline of the annual Innovation Management Awards is now upon us and we are still accepting submissions. Every year, we ask our customers what topics they would most like to see discussed at IdeaScale’s Open Nation and almost every year, our customers ask to hear about new and creative strategies to engage the crowd in the ideation and innovation process. Best Innovation Process. Wildest Innovation.
HYPE Innovation
JANUARY 3, 2017
There is a lot of talk nowadays about closing the so-called innovation “gap” or the difference between what leaders say they want in terms of a new product, service, process, or business model innovation and what their organizations actually deliver. Organizations can, and often do, fail to meet their innovation goals for a number of reasons and, depending on where you get your daily fix of leadership articles, these reasons will vary. The Innovation Manager
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Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 3, 2017
Gordon Stannis, the Director of Design and Strategy at Twisthink shares their approach to developing innovative solutions for their Fortune 500 clients. Case Study Design Digital Innovation Design Thinking innovation process Product Management product managersI love hearing how companies are creating successful products that provide customers value, which is the topic of this episode.
IdeaScale
JUNE 20, 2017
However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. We can address these concerns head-on by setting and managing expectations. Transparency has the added benefit of informing the crowd how best to contribute and helps keep the whole process on track for making an impact.
Exago
AUGUST 10, 2017
From janitor to CEO, everyone should be involved in daily in your innovation process. The post Creativity, creative leadership and the value of innovation management appeared first on Exago. Blog Insights creativity innovation managementThe tool to deliver this change is creative thinking, in the hands of a leadership that believes in and embodies its principles.
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 2, 2016
So if there was ever a time to clear the existing innovation agenda and rework the entire space for innovating, it is about to become the pressing reality as we enter into 2017. We are moving from diverging into one of converging, we are at a changeover point for innovation; let me explain each of the contributing factors but firstly, a brief overview. Any renewing needs innovation to become more central but it will be different.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 7, 2017
So part two of my reflective summary: Design thinking becomes the best friend to innovation, strategically and tactically. When DT is applied to business or social issues it is by making creativity logical, you have its power of contribution, it can transform our innovative solutions. Design thinking as something far too prescribed ‘dulls’ the process. All this adds up to a creative process. Creativity is one of the key essences contributing to innovation.
ITONICS
DECEMBER 11, 2017
Once again, the Innovation Alliance successfully trained employees as Agile Innovation Managers. The participants furthermore learned all about the most recent and effective innovation tools alongside the whole innovation process. The Agile Innovation Manager training targets all beginners and experts working in the field of innovation who wish to learn or improve special skills required to successfully implement innovations.
Strategyn
JUNE 20, 2017
Product Managers are essential to a company’s success. While the role of the product manager is critical, we feel that the title “product manager” is a legacy of outdated business thinking. We therefore advocate doing away with the traditional product manager and propose a new title and responsibility. What’s wrong with product managers? The product manager role is anchored in the product–which in our opinion contributes to a myopic view of the market.
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.
IdeaScale
MAY 31, 2017
They are long-time users of IdeaScale and past winners of IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards. And although they have great engagement stories and interesting policy-level impacts as part of their programs, what sets the Department of Labor apart is that they are true masters of process. Even in their first case study with IdeaScale, the Department of Labor outlined a repeatable seven step process which they have used for numerous citizen engagement campaigns: 1.
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 12, 2017
There is a lot of change occurring in our innovation abilities. We are seeing profound shifts that technology and digital transformation are bringing us to deliver innovate differently. These changes are influencing all of our worlds, allowing a very different “connecting” innovation to come into play and provide ‘greater value’ Nothing succeeds in isolation anymore, it needs fully connecting up, to bring increased value to the market and customer needs.
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
There are many different types of innovation. Some are internal ( involving employees , incremental innovation , etc.), and some are external ( involving customers , open innovation , etc.). Another successful approach to generate and implement innovation is to search for ideas that are at a much later stage in their development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
There are many different types of innovation. Some are internal ( involving employees , incremental innovation , etc.), and some are external ( involving customers , open innovation , etc.). Another successful approach to generate and implement innovation is to search for ideas that are at a much later stage in their development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. Where is innovation within this?
Board of Innovation
AUGUST 2, 2017
The purpose of this article is to discuss several key cognitive biases and their effects on decision making within strategic innovation management as well as how to minimize their effects so that team members can contribute optimally to the fuzzy innovation process. They are essential in understanding and managing appropriately to ensure your innovation outputs are most suitable to your.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 10, 2017
In a turbulent marketplace, when complexity can add even more confusion, it is important to have a simple and straightforward innovation system. Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. The Value of an Integrated Innovation System . Select and fund the best : To understand the process for competing for approval and funding. Innovation Processes .
IdeaScale
JANUARY 10, 2017
In a turbulent marketplace, when complexity can add even more confusion, it is important to have a simple and straightforward innovation system. Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. The Value of an Integrated Innovation System . Select and fund the best : To understand the process for competing for approval and funding. Innovation Processes .
Innovation in Practice
DECEMBER 7, 2015
Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless. Many innovators take on a project without a plan to measure and revise the return on investment projection (and course-correct) as the product evolves.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 17, 2017
There are two types of innovation fitness assessments that you should perform in your organization. Organizational fitness assessments help you understand the health of your innovation strategies as well as whether or not your culture, leadership, employees, and stakeholders are set up for innovation success. Program readiness assessments help evaluate your processes, resources, and goals. Why Innovation Fitness Assessments Are Important.
IdeaScale
MARCH 7, 2017
Creating a repeatable innovation portfolio helps you plan more efficiently, scale resources, and gain insight for the growth of your innovation program. There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. When these components are in place, your innovation process becomes predictable and encourages participation across the spectrum. These questions will show you opportunities for innovation.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. A manager would work with them to develop the business case.
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 26, 2017
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the Siemens Innovation Day. Surprisingly, I felt they lacked a more holistic view of innovation; a clear innovation process, and dedicated focus on this, which is required. Innovation is certainly central to the future of Siemens but it seems to me not to have the core positioning it should have. Innovation expertise is as specialized as engineering for example. I felt innovation needed a more holistic focus.
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 5, 2017
I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. We are still in need of finding innovations that provide new products, services or business models. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 26, 2017
We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. Yet we still get caught out by no t resolving or addressing the essential building blocks of innovation (culture, environment, climate, governance, alignment. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation.
hackerearth
MAY 4, 2017
“Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management.”- Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Shouldn’t creativity and innovation be for all? Why should innovation be any different?
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 27, 2017
Build Capability collaboration Customers Innovation Management marketing People & Skills ideas innovation process new product development NPD PrototypeWhat would you do if.You had to push through your fear of being judged? If you had to break some rules to get an idea off the ground? If you had a concept that would displace your most successful product?
IdeaScale
JULY 26, 2017
ISO goes on to say “through its members, it brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges.”. And now, the ISO is taking on the challenge of organizing some standards around innovation management. This, of course, is a pretty tall order since innovation means so many different things to different people even within the same company.
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
We need to recognize that innovation is one of the hardest things to align to strategy. We keep asking a lot of innovators but consistently restrain them or starve them of essential resources, at the critical times they need them. We seem to get in the way of blocking innovation so it can’t be seen to align with the goals or vision of the organization. We keep extorting innovators to raise their game, constantly trying to shape their work so it can fit.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 2, 2017
I wrote a post “ Needing to Think Applied Innovation Services ” recently, it was extending my view that innovation needs to change. We need to think of innovation in different ways, we need to automate it and in addition augment it. I suggested in that post “we need to pull down what is needed” and design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit a specific need. We need to bring innovation and its process up to date.
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 27, 2017
Well, I also believe these apply equally as innovation frictions. So I decided to builds out of their friction analysis, building on the thoughts offered in the report, adding the innovation perspective. So here I am suggesting constraints that need tackling in reducing the innovation friction points, theirs was for blockchain. The frictions hold true for innovators to resolve. We still rely on an innovation process that is not fully connected up.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 22, 2017
Any innovation common language needs working upon. It also needs to be allowed to grow and flourish, to evolve and become the lingua franca of all our innovation work. Let’s step back just for one minute, these ‘sentiments’ are fine, yet we actually do, seriously lack a common language for innovation and we should find the ways and the means to change this. It holds innovation back significantly. We give innovation a greater chance to succeed.
ITONICS
DECEMBER 12, 2017
New ISO standard to foster innovations. When it comes to innovation management, by contrast, creative chaos still reigns in some places. ITONICS, a pioneer in innovation management, welcomes this development and briefly explains what this is all about. The ISO 50501 standard relates to the topic of innovation management and is expected to be launched in early 2018 to provide the world’s first common standard for innovation processes.
Idea Drop
JULY 6, 2017
We are beginning to see more diversity in structure across the industry and this has brought innovation into the spotlight. Recent reports which have been released reveal an awareness of the necessity to embrace innovation but a reluctance to be the first to take the corresponding steps. In this post we discuss the current state of innovation in the legal sector and how law firms can benefit from an innovation strategy supported by idea management software.
Idea Drop
JULY 7, 2017
According to Gartner, “The major benefits associated with innovation management tools are stimulating engagement and participation in user-friendly, social and mobile environments (such as through gamification techniques), and directing creativity toward business needs. They also help in structuring and managing each stage of the ideation process with clear objectives, metrics and decision-making tools. Idea Drop makes the innovation process effortless.
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the rest of what innovation needs to be built upon. We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve.
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 22, 2017
As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches. Building new innovative collaborations. The evolving innovation lab. The new innovation era. Core capabilities have upsides and downsides.
hackerearth
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Peter Drucker once said, “Above all, innovation is work rather than genius. Can innovation be managed like a business process? Does “managing” innovation limit creativity, thus stifling innovative ideas? Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, said, “We treat innovation as if it were magical, not subject to guidance or nurturing much less planning. There are times, places, and conditions under which innovation flourishes.”.
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