ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

It is the lifeblood of our global economy, a survival skill and a strategic priority for any company worldwide. We looked at some of the most innovative companies and their unique practices and filtered out seven key habits that are applicable to business and beyond. Innovation. Adapt or die. Fail forward.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It drives growth, differentiation, and value creation, allowing companies to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market. Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. This reduces the risk of innovation and increases visibility Introduce the idea of innovation portfolios and the need to innovate across the three horizons. If it is important, it will be expected, measured and rewarded.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Here’s why: Human Creativity : Human creativity is characterized by generating novel ideas, thinking outside the box, and connecting seemingly unrelated concepts. AI can assist in idea generation and optimization, but it lacks the capacity for originality and the ability to envision entirely new possibilities.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential. Training Accelerates Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

The right keynote speaker can provide a fresh perspective, inspire new ideas, and refocus an organization’s vision. When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. Get innovation training from an experienced source, someone who has actually created innovation, both inside large companies and as an entrepreneur.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach. Embedding sustainability : Companies are increasingly integrating sustainability into their operations. This involves moving computing power, data storage, and decision-making to the edge of operations.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. Practitioners of CPS, like Gregg Fraley, facilitate solutions for big companies and start-ups. Comedy improvisation games and story telling are already integrated with MCPS. It Starts With Mindset and Culture.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Practical Solution for Medium Sized Companies to Grow. This mild paralysis is an opening for small and medium sized companies. Leverage the innate agility. The best way to ramp up and grow quickly, beyond having a great initial business idea, is to continuously innovate. The 80/20 Solution for the MisFortune 10,000.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Deliberate combinations, aka concept blends, can be done by individuals, companies, non-profits, or governments. This simple combination experiment only scratches the surface, you usually need more scaffolding and structure to go beyond obvious ideas. Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Your future could be that company that thrives amidst chaos. There are solutions for how to revive your business, be it a Fortune 100 company, a non-profit, or, a one person consultancy. The time to invest in innovation agility is now. The potential, much of it, lays in digital technology. Saves us. Two Real World Examples.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2015

If that sounds like a pretentious title, you are probably right, but it's time to start talking about the fact that so many companies simply cannot innovate effectively. Larger organizations lack the freedom and agility that smaller organizations have. It's not an either/or proposition.

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CREATORS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It’s remarkable when corporates and multinational companies realize they need to change or seek for outside help in order to stay ahead of technological advancements. However, it is the actual implementation of innovation that determines success or failure of a company. —?but only half.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. Companies worry about the investment and time associated with developing a new product, concerned that customers won't accept or adopt a new product.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Now we all know not all things are equal, many companies have invested significantly in improving their innovation capabilities. Also countless studies on companies’ innovation performance are indicating the ‘needle’ of improving total innovation performance is stuck or gradually being pushed up with a lot of effort, questionable reward.

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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Often caused by a disconnect between the idea generators and decision makers, innovation can never truly thrive unless every person within a law firm is onboarded. Alyson Reeves, PwC A comprehensive set of values can also be used to educate customers and potential clients about the company.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. SWOT Analysis. Standup Meetings.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. Almost every company shifts into overdrive to create ‘smart’ products, to turn a product business into a service business, to create new business models or to reach out beyond their traditional industry boundary.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level.

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

The average lifespan of S&P 500 companies is just 18 years, down from 61 years in 1958. At this churn rate, 75% of the companies will be removed from the index in another 10 years. On the other hand, companies such as GE and Procter & Gamble have been around for more than 100 years and still continue to grow.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

Fill up your pipeline with new, vetted ideas. The fastest growing companies interpret innovation through multiple lenses. H2 and H3 on the other hand, often require a more agile, explorative and iterative process with different returns, different capabilities and different people on the projects.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere. There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. Tell me what I should be thinking about.” We were at a social event.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

You will be exposed to agile-development principles and techniques for technical problem-solving. Novel methods learnt in this course of open innovation enables your company to benefit from external knowledge and ideas. Idea generation. How to navigate a new product from the development stage to launch and review.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

You will be exposed to agile-development principles and techniques for technical problem-solving. Novel methods learnt in this course of open innovation enables your company to benefit from external knowledge and ideas. Idea generation. How to navigate a new product from the development stage to launch and review.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

An electronics company might incrementally innovate its supply chain to make it more efficient, or continuously find ways to improve its products’ battery life. Incremental Product Innovation: Microsoft & Coca-Cola This means small improvements to the products that a company makes. It is also known as continuous improvement.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). ” Innovation Director at a Major Chemical Company. Why innovation?

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There also seems this perpetual dilemma of clients’ wishes that are hard to reconcile with operational realities to turn their organizations from being focused on effective and efficient into agile and adaptive ,required for innovation. I wonder if the larger consulting company can see beyond their own noses for the value in this?

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ideation : Ideas for innovation in products, services and business models are generated. These may come from inside the company or from outside (open innovation). Social Business platforms are becoming a critical tool for discussing, enriching and prioritizing these ideas. More and more, Enterprise 2.0/Social

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. It was costing the company millions and threatening their future. And that’s a good thing.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Sadly, this was the case of The Eastman Kodak Company. In fact, there are companies that came later and captured a much bigger market share. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. Agility is not an option. Here are few metrics that you can start with.

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