Idea to Value

JANUARY 18, 2021

There will always be certain target customers who are more resistant to trying out new ideas than others. Rogers’ research was the culmination of analysing more than 508 examples of diffusion of new ideas across a wide range of industries and social groups. This group makes up about 2.5% This group makes up about 13.5%

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. This is yet another thing about innovation that needs to change. Innovation. To teach innovation to students?

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2020

Yet, no one likes to talk about the flip side of the same coin. Truly innovative companies have cultures that manage to strike productive balances that harness these opposing forces. Truly innovative companies have cultures that manage to strike productive balances that harness these opposing forces. Gary Pisano.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 1, 2023

Great ideas do not always come from the top down. As a matter of fact, some of the most transformative ideas that have gone on to change the world have been from a lower- to mid-level employee. Employees looking to sell their ideas need to understand the dynamics of the company’s most common pain points and how their ideas solve them.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable. But what is innovation management , exactly? What is innovation management?

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100%Open

JULY 26, 2018

We have published almost 500 blog posts on the 100%Open blog over the last decade. The great thing about blog posts is that they are not meant to be perfect and they just reflects a series of thoughts at a moment in time.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I've been writing a series of blog posts focused on some of the most fundamental building blocks. Let's first talk about why diverse voices and perspectives are so rare in many corporate innovation teams, and then look and what a little more diversity can do. A clarifier seeks clarity - asks questions about strategy, purpose and scope.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2018

If you’ve been reading our blog, then you know that there are two ways of measuring innovation program success : innovation inputs and innovation outputs. One of our customers is so good at measuring their innovation outputs, that they know the value of every incoming idea (whether it’s implemented or not).

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 8, 2024

This isn’t just a lofty ideal; it’s a practical approach to leadership and management grounded in emotional intelligence (EQ) and the fundamental respect for free will. In this rapidly evolving business world, the need for organizations to transcend traditional management styles has never been more critical.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 12, 2023

Often, command-and-controls management styles alienates the team and results in talented individuals feeling marginalized, leading to higher attrition rates.” Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, understand, and manage emotions — both one’s own and others.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. With about 840 employees, active in more than 20 countries and six continents, Barenbrug have been experts in their field for over 100 years.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 However, it is essential to remember that digital transformation is not only about adopting new tools. Where do ideas come from?

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

There was this great infocomic a few years ago that talked about the virtues of online brainstorming. When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into reality. Still, it requires a distinct set of principles, mindsets, best practices and a specific divergence from traditional 20th-century management approaches.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

The real stories behind some of the famous examples people usually refer to when they talk about big aha moments and overnight successes are often quite different. He was actually first heard discussing the event many decades later , and even then, he only talked about seeing an apple fall to the ground in his orchard.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 3, 2021

Yet, innovation doesn’t just happen, it starts with ideas. Ideas can result in new revenue streams, product improvements, enhanced employee engagement, and more. Yet to reap the true benefits of innovation, organizations must create a structured process whereby ideas are systematically collected, evaluated, and implemented on scale.

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Yet2

JANUARY 15, 2019

Our team wrote a number of widely read blog posts in 2018, spanning the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, adjacency in tech scouting, startups and their comparative value proposition, anonymous searches in tech scouting and more. Here’s a recap of those blog posts. Tech Scouting Blog Posts.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Remember that if you have a clear idea of the problem you are trying to solve, you will be better able to develop a working prototype or minimum viable product (MVP) quickly. Remember that the right solution may require bringing on new staff members or individuals with different skill sets and ideas. But it’s also more than that.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 30, 2023

Magnetize Your Team: How CEOs Can Attract the Right Leadership by Being the Right Leader It’s been often said that a CEO’s success depends on hiring the right team, but this blog isn’t about that. Being a successful CEO is about more than just hiring the right team.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

The most common reasons for failure are: People struggle to work with long checklists since it is difficult to manage the details. Another difficulty in a lengthy checklist is that it is not made to manage delays, directional change, or scope creep. Everything is about people. Unfortunately, this is where integration goes wrong.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

I'm writing a series of blog posts about the fundamentals of innovation success. In my previous article I wrote about the importance of fundamentals in any activity , using music and practicing scales as an analogy for understanding the fundamentals of innovation. Simply suggest a more radical idea and wait the feedback.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A prioritization framework is a list of rules and processes for the team to come up with a prioritized sequence of ideas. A formal framework is one where the rules, criteria, and processes for generating ideas, assessing them, and determining their order have been explicitly defined. What Is a Prioritization Framework?

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success As leaders, it’s not just about what we know, but also about how we interact with others and manage our own emotions. For example, imagine you’re leading a team meeting, and someone presents an idea that you don’t agree with.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 2, 2018

Probably not, if you’re reading blog posts about innovation. This always starts with an idea. And not just having an idea – but executing it so that it creates value. And not just having an idea – but executing it so that it creates value. Where do these ideas come from?

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whataventure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Having a great idea is the first step to startup success, but that alone won’t ensure its success. Especially in the case of corporate startups and intrapreneurship teams, there is a set of specific challenges that make the success of their idea even more difficult. Four reasons why corporate startups fail. The story of MOBIKO.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question. What's more, most organizations don't think about staffing this way. While the company had a handful of good product managers, almost all of them had taken over existing products.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These writers seem to believe that the people running the current business are not capable of generating new ideas – and shouldn’t be given responsibility for doing so, because that would distract them from their core mission of increasing operational efficiency in the current business.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the differences between working "in" the business for strategy and innovation versus working "on" the business for strategy and innovation. What about a third option That post got me thinking that the tradeoffs between "in" and "on" are incomplete.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2021

The discovery is where the stimulus and catalyst point to take an idea to commercialization. . This capturing, evolving, exploiting and exploring needs a clear management process and the understanding of how to undertake this. It is the place I feel I can make the best contribution within the energy transition.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

Why Command-and-Control Culture Fails Stifles Creativity and Innovation A command-and-control culture tends to stifle creativity and innovation, as it leaves no room for employees to contribute their ideas or think outside the box. A rigid hierarchical structure meant that fresh ideas from lower-level employees were often ignored.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Recognizing the pivotal role that ideas play in driving innovation, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has introduced ISO 56007 guidance on tools and methods for managing opportunities and ideas. This standard serves as a comprehensive guide to managing innovation opportunities and ideas.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

One of the most effective ways to engage your crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”.

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Planview

MARCH 8, 2024

The group that Zetkin rallied in Copenhagen then — about 100 passionate women from 17 countries — has grown exponentially. Antara Kundu Product Manager, based in India Conversation fosters a sense of belonging like nothing else. How can we foster a sense of belonging for women from diverse backgrounds?

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 4, 2022

Innovation and Ideas. According to Alicia, people are confused about being rich and being wealthy. Alicia created a hybrid formula that allows people to make decisions to feel inspired about investing in other people. People start getting confused about their participation in creating wealth. Challenges.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This means being willing to embrace new ideas and ways of doing things, even if they’re different from what you’re used to. It also means being proactive about identifying potential issues or challenges and taking steps to address them before they become bigger problems. Blog Subscrition Here Email*

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achieve.

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