Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How do you make innovation important to an executive team? Most of them already say that innovation is important. You need to demonstrate that innovation is not "a" strategy, but is a way to accomplish strategies - growth, differentiation, new line extensions and so on. Develop real training to build skills.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Whilst the need to innovate is not new, what is changing is how organizations innovate- the way they imagine and create new products, services, and businesses. All the breakthroughs in science and technology and the need to work iteratively in crisis-prone times are pushing our innovation strategies and approaches to change rapidly.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

In response, a solution is to invest in growth initiatives that are developed and incubated externally, as a “Venture NewCo” that operates with startup agility, and then to eventually integrate successful ventures back into the core business. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. They are all becoming digital endeavors.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Innovation often feels isolated, remote and starved of the resources and recognition it should be achieving.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? Innovation managers: Innovation managers use design thinking to drive innovation within the organization. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As the author states: As companies and agencies get larger, they start to value the importance of “process” over the “product.”… to explain how and where innovation will be applied and its relationship to the rapid delivery of new product. . He does give a hint however when he states. This is indeed true. Original Article ».

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. It is time for us to start building our business model.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Almost always. People really want to do good work.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive innovation initiatives are best to be evaluated on the potential impact they would create: How it fits into your innovation strategy and long-term goals? A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Your organization has likely updated its innovation strategy (or at least started to). But the changes to your innovation strategy have probably been significant—that means you’ll need to invest significant effort in implementing those changes. How might innovation strategies change in response to COVID-19?

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

What does a process consultancy do? When we mention process consulting, we are essentially talking about greater agility in the execution of activities and, mainly, saving time and resources by improving operational routines. Remember Agile? Process review and redesign. Ah, so you’re on the right track!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? There is a difference. You have to first develop a deep understanding of your company.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

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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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. How can we restart our innovation culture?”. What Drives Innovation? The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. Above all, it is a mentality based on several principles, such as placing the user at the center of the strategy. Design Thinking is a problem solving and idea development strategy centered on human beings.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you innovate across your entire value chain? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

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. Once you have the project idea, organizations can use the framework they have in place to validate, improve, and implement.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. This can, at times, conflict with a true innovation process because of the preponderance of unknown factors inherently involved when one innovates.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also provides a complete framework for innovation project management, as well as a compare and contrast of the most commonly used frameworks (useful for those in framework selection mode.) The course explores longer term innovation road-mapping and links to organizational strategy and purpose. Why innovation?

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 21, 2018

Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. More and more we also see firms opening up their innovation funnel at this stage to allow for external concepts to be pulled into the innovation funnel.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. To achieve this you have to go digital.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. To achieve this you have to go digital.

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Inceodia

MARCH 2, 2017

Both Agile and Lean provide blueprints for organizational culture designed to innovate. With Agile, the outcome is focused on the goal, which in the small retailer example is to establish a relationship. It also allows management to focus on a strategy of enabling goals, rather than micro managing execution.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. We could design and manufacture the best systems.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is the failure to innovate that led to its “demise.”. In other words, it is because sometimes innovation strategies fail to produce products/ services that the customers want. Which brings us to the question, “Why do innovation programs fail?”. Take the following innovation management process for example.

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