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Are You Doing Agile Right?

Leapfrogging

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? Today, everyone wants to be agile. It’s seen as sexy and cool to be agile, but most people don’t know what the term really means. There’s little surprise that the agile framework has taken off.

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Conditions for innovation to succeed

Jeffrey Phillips

With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. If you are interested, here's a brief definition of each of the factors that contribute to success. Brief explanations I'd like to provide a brief explanation of these criteria and explain why I think they are important for innovation success. Want more innovation?

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Open Innovation: definition, what types and benefits

mjvinnovation

The English term inbound open innovation refers to a type of innovation that happens when a company appropriates an innovative idea created by other entities, so that it can be transformed through its own innovation process, in order to generate value for itself. Open innovation benefits.

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Innovation fundamentals: using time effectively

Jeffrey Phillips

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling.

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The cost of delaying innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

If the company isn't all that good at innovation, and what they delay for a few quarters is only incremental innovation that does not radically change the product portfolio, then I think it's reasonable to suggest that delaying isn't all that risky. What work can be done to improve innovation and shorten time to market?

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Building a lasting innovation capability

Jeffrey Phillips

Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people. Innovative people wonder why we aren't doing better or something new, or why we are sticking with these products long after they've been superseded in the marketplace.

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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality.