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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation

Tullio Siragusa

The Tech Backstage Podcast is a live streamed video podcast that goes behind the scenes with today’s leaders of industry to learn what technologies are solving business problems, and how Design Thinking applied to the future of technology is impacting the world.

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Top Takeaways from the 2019 Innovation Trends Report

InnovationTraining.org

Review what you need to know from the 2019 Innovation Report released by Stanford Professor Bret Waters. Image taken from the 2019 Innovation Trends Report. Creating true innovation within larger, established organizations is notoriously difficult. Design Thinking Still the Most Popular Framework.

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic!

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Jobs to be Done: what is it, and how is it used to analyze customers

mjvinnovation

Jobs to be Done teaches us four important things: How to separate correlations made from causality to understand the customer better; How to define real competitors; How to improve the marketing focus and sales strategies; How to improve the innovation process. The guide to the innovation process. Use Data Science.

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Projects Are How Innovation Happens

Gregg Fraley

Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. Organisations that excel at driving genuine innovation don’t just rely on existing market intelligence like focus groups, trend reports or big data.