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Is your company just performing “Innovation Theatre”?
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Most companies say that they are investing in innovation. They will showcase large initiatives for gaining ideas and suggestions from across the organisation.
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The ‘perfect’ office layout for innovation and productivity
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Contents. Future offices need to be flexible. The death of open plan offices. What office environments make people more creative? The ‘perfect’ office environment for innovation and productivity. Conclusion and sources.
How to think of failure like a scientist
Idea to Value
JANUARY 20, 2019
Failure is a strange thing in innovation management nowadays.
The single best way to improve your brainstorming sessions
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Brainstorming doesn’t work. At least, not the way most companies do it. And that is because most brainstorming sessions are not designed to deliver results for the company , only for the facilitator.
11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation
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Learn the 11 proven strategies that you can implement quickly to get every employee innovating and contributing to the growth of your company.
Why most innovation and creativity training are NOT designed to deliver results
Idea to Value
JANUARY 11, 2019
Check out the short video above to understand why most innovation and creativity trainers don’t actually care about the results for your business. This has been something that has bothered me for all of the years I have been in this industry.
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The Tyranny of the Blank Page: How to get over writer’s block
Idea to Value
JANUARY 29, 2019
Why are blank pages so scary? Whether it is in the form of a book to be written, a presentation to be delivered, a song to be scribed or any other creative output. The sight of a blank page is enough to prevent many people from ever getting started. But why is this?
Sleeping with the enemy: The pain of innovation disrupting your industry
Idea to Value
AUGUST 20, 2018
I’d like to start today’s article with a story about something that shook me up a bit recently. I recently bought a diamond engagement ring at an amazing online store, but needed to get the size adjusted slightly.
Podcast S2E30: Scott Kirsner – Turning innovation management in to a real career path
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
On today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, I speak with innovation leader Scott Kirsner. Scott is the founder of Innovation leader, and today we talk about some of the research his company has found about how innovation works in large companies, and what innovation specialists do. Topics covered in today’s episode: 03:00 – what innovation managers do after they leave their position in corporations, and how long they stay in their positions.
15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future.
6 Ways to Build a Successful Innovation Program
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Learn how forward-thinking leaders use crowdsourcing to impact their company’s bottom line through methods such as creating a culture of innovation.
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How machines learn (a great video explanation of deep learning)
Idea to Value
JANUARY 8, 2018
In today’s dose of inspiration, I wanted to give you an insight into one of the most innovative technologies of the past few years which has the potential to revolutionise entire industries: machine learning.
What is Design Thinking? Extensive interview with Tom Kelley from IDEO
Idea to Value
JUNE 9, 2017
One of the most important figures in the field of Design Thinking is Tom Kelley, one of the heads of IDEO along with his brother David. Recently, Tom was interviewed by High Resolution (video above) about his thoughts on Innovation and Design Thinking.
How to keep our children (and adults) from losing their creativity
Idea to Value
OCTOBER 8, 2017
All children are born creative. Yet why is it that when we ask adults, the majority would not describe themselves as being creative anymore? What has happened over those formative years to remove a person’s ability to come up with great new ideas? Can we keep our children creative for longer?
New insights on how your creativity decreases as you get older
Idea to Value
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
I couldn’t wait to teach you some amazing insights I recently found out on how creativity evolves over time, so I just grabbed by phone and shot this quick video for you.
Spigit's 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report
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A rigorous analysis of how the world’s largest brands – representing 21 different industry verticals – leverage their innovation programs to solve problems and surface opportunities, and the key role crowdsourcing plays in their success.
This video shows how bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
One of the most pressing concerns in medical innovation is how to address the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. There are regular news updates about diseases that are becoming resistant to traditional drugs, such as MRSA and even Super Gonnoreah.
4 Reasons Great Leaders Are Not Afraid to Fail
Idea to Value
AUGUST 18, 2017
Many people have an overwhelming fear of failure. This usually stems from societal programming that tells us how negative and even shameful failure is. However, the reality is that failure is a necessary part of life. It is just one step of thousands you will take.
The single biggest reason why startups succeed
Idea to Value
MAY 5, 2017
One of the most complicated questions to answer in business is why some ideas succeed and others fail. That is where I came across this interesting TED Talk by Bill Gross (video above), who is the founder of the first US-based startup accelerator: Idealab.
The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse
Idea to Value
APRIL 28, 2017
In this very special guest post by Professor KH Kim, we find out the updated facts of what is happening to people’s creativity levels over the past decades, now with updated statistics for 2017.
Quantifying a Culture of Innovation
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Examining five years of anonymous data from over 6 million users in 170+ countries, Spigit has discovered that a culture of innovation can be measured – with a 99% statistical confidence level – by a metric called ideation rate. Download the eBook now for an in-depth look at this groundbreaking study.
The TRUE story of Post-It Notes, and how they almost failed
Idea to Value
APRIL 20, 2017
Everyone knows the story of the humble Post-It Note, and how it represents an idea’s ability to evolve and flourish. Some people would even hold up Post-It Notes as a symbol for innovation itself, much like the lightbulb is a symbol for an idea.
Why I have a problem with the Global Innovation Index
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
INSEAD Business School, along with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have just released their analysis of the world’s most innovative countries for 2016.
How Hollywood turns this vehicle into any car you can think of using CGI
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
You probably know about green screen, and how film and TV studios use it to create computer-generated images for you favorite blockbusters. But did you know that a lot of the cars you see on screen, on TV and especially in commercials might be computer-generated as well?
65% of Venture Capital-backed deals fail to return investment, and only 4% make substantial returns
Idea to Value
OCTOBER 14, 2018
Everyone knows that investing in innovative new ideas carries a degree of risk. However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be. The chart above shows the financial outcomes for 21,640 different financing deals between 2004 and 2013 (note that these were the total number of deals, not individual companies).
Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works
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Analysis of how 3.5 million employees using Spigit ideate proves innovation is a science, and can be measured.
Your lazy brain: Why thinking is actually uncomfortable
Idea to Value
MARCH 3, 2017
A fantastic video by Veritasium which shows how your brain usually reacts instinctively, because that is more energy efficient that actually working on a challenge.
This engineer replaced a $1,000.00+ medical device with one costing $0.20
Idea to Value
JANUARY 18, 2017
Sometimes, you need to set yourself really strict constraints in order to come up with the most creative innovations. This is exactly what Manu Prakash did with his team at Stanford when trying to make a better, cheaper way to test blood samples in poorer countries. Check out his video above.
Amazon Go is the future of supermarkets. But right now it allows you to steal tampons.
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Amazon has just taken another step towards owning your entire shopping experience, by opening the world’s first supermarket where you just pick up whatever you want and leave.
Did you know: Some people are born with an imagination?
Idea to Value
OCTOBER 6, 2016
One of the most important skills for any creative person is that of visualisation.
5 Product Traps - And Better Paths
Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
Is your agile team overloaded with feature requests, with no time for discovery? Do your roadmaps read like impossible wish lists? Well, you’re not alone. It may seem impossible now, but what if we said that with a few changes, you could be meeting deadlines with the ability to predict progress with accuracy, be happy with your progress against the roadmap, and be making time for near-continuous discovery? Johanna Rothman has seen this all too often across many different organizations. She will take us through five common traps that agile product teams fall into – and likely you are in several of those traps right now. And good news - she has ways to avoid them!
The Top Reasons We Fail to Achieve Our Creative Goals (And How to Stop It Happening to You)
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
There are few things more detrimental to a person’s self-confidence and motivation than failure to achieve the goals they set for themselves. Yet this is something that happens to countless people every day.
Diminishing law of innovation returns and the problem with “better”
Idea to Value
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Every company thinks that they can innovate by making their product better. But eventually, this concept of “better” begins to become irrelevant.
What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition
Idea to Value
MARCH 18, 2016
I spoke to 15 of the world’s leading innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. Content. Introduction. Nick Skillicorn. David Burkus. Stephen Shapiro. Pete Foley. Gijs van Wulfen. Kevin McFarthing. Robert Brands.
2016’s best innovation blog articles, from the top influential innovation bloggers
Idea to Value
JANUARY 6, 2017
Sometimes, it is important to take a step back from your own work, and highlight some of the best work from other people around the world.
What Users Want: How and Why to Build Knowledge into Your Product
Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
Usage data allows PMs, the product team, and the whole organization to make better decisions. Good usage intelligence gives you the ability to be smarter, more active, more decisive, nimbler, and to minimize risk. But what if you don't have that data - such as before you have users? Or, what if the right decision seems to fly in the face of the data you have? Or, what if your product offers more than just the standard features? To get deeper into these questions, Nils Davis asks, "What is the most interesting thing about Instagram?" (Because who doesn't like a product that Facebook paid $1 billion for when it had fewer than 50 employees and no revenue?) Nils will use the example of Instagram’s Filters to talk about how putting prebuilt knowledge in your product can change the way your product is used for the better - putting you in the company of most market-leading products. Finally, he’ll tie it all together by explaining how the way you interpret and use usage data can impact the way your tell your product’s story, and ultimately, how your users use your product.
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