Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.”

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. 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. Innovation.

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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. Some activities require an agile approach rather than the waterfall model. ?

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ibbaka is a consulting and technology development company focused on helping companies bring innovations to market and to help them to scale. This relates to pricing, because if you’re not sure what your value is then you’re not able to price effectively which means you’re not able to continue to innovate and grow.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. Recognizing the types of innovation leadership might help you manage the innovation work a little better. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader? Are they a front-end or back-end innovation leader?

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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. How to Measure Open Innovation Value – The very first 100%Open blog post when we launched 100%Open 8.5

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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

Fifty years ago, a little-known children’s book introduced the “SCAMPER” model as way to help teachers foster creativity in their classrooms. It’s an amazingly simple tool, and unbelievably powerful for pushing thinking beyond “business as usual” to help teams innovate. It’s flexible.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

Embracing the Circular Economy through Enterprise Architecture The concept of a circular economy has been rapidly gaining traction as businesses and governments alike recognize the need to transition from a linear, resource-intensive model to a sustainable, regenerative one.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2021

This capturing, evolving, exploiting and exploring needs a clear management process and the understanding of how to undertake this. This needs a focused innovation specialist or a systematic approach to building those innovating capabilities and capacities. Innovation is made up of many enabling technologies that support energy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? Kano Model. Kano Model. The Kano model is really simple to use.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

I'm often asked how many people should be employed in innovation work in larger organizations. But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question. But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We desire the “one-size fits all” as a comfort blanket, it makes our innovation lives easier. No one can maintain the past, much of our systems are rooted in the 20 th century, in markets that were predictable and where supply and demand were simply managed to seek out the status quo. Theory X management. Theory Y management.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 27, 2023

Today’s guest blog post comes from Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Advocate Health. Below, Todd shares his three-step process, grounded in Christensen’s theories, on how to shift innovation from a vague buzzword to a clear way to make progress. He immediately answered Intuit.

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whataventure

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Junior Innovation Manager (m/w/d). Du organisierst Innovation Camps und hilfst bei den Workshops. Innovative und kreative Herangehensweise, Begeisterungsfähigkeit und Durchsetzungskraft. Befähige namhafte Industrieunternehmen, Banken, Energieversorger und innovative Mittelständler*innen (z.B. Werde Teil des Teams!

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Let's delve into the numerous ways AI is reshaping business models and operations, helping organisations stay ahead in today's fast-paced digital world. Optimising supply chains with AI AI is redefining supply chain management, from demand forecasting to logistics, enhancing reliability and reducing costs.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2021

This capturing, evolving, exploiting and exploring needs a clear management process and the understanding of how to undertake this. This needs a focused innovation specialist or a systematic approach to building those innovating capabilities and capacities. Innovation is made up of many enabling technologies that support energy.

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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. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Jeffrey Phillip s and I are launching our fourth collaboration together, this time we are exploring innovation ecosystems and the growing impact they are having in the business world through their ‘conecting and collaborating difference’ that can lead to vastly different final customer experiences. Open Innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 9, 2023

Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition and meeting the ever-changing needs of customers. To be successful, organizations must be able to effectively manage their innovation processes, from idea generation to commercialization. The process should entail a natural grading of your current innovation ranking.

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whataventure

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Business Development Manager bei Pixofarm (m/w/d). Als Business Development Manager bist du dafür verantwortlich, den Markt zu analysieren, ein großes Netzwerk an Partnern aufzubauen, , kontinuierlich nach neuen Leads Ausschau zu halten und diese Chancen zu nutzen. Key Account Management und Betreuung der Kunden und Partner.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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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. These fundamentals are necessary to sustain innovation in corporations, and are most often overlooked or treated as an afterthought. In many ways, innovation teams are often built this way. But these usual suspects aren't criminals.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Everyone wants to uncover the secret to the perfect business model that will unlock their true potential. And this is exactly how Amazon innovates. Amazon uses four simple steps to innovate as highlighted in the book Working Backward: Step 1: Define the customer problem or pain point. Subscribe to Innovative Insights.

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HYPE Innovation

MARCH 30, 2016

The value of experiments for innovation is a topic we’ve previously covered here on the blog, and for good reason: if done well, experiments can help avoid some costly new product, service, process, and even business model mistakes. As Microsoft likes to put it “[our] IT stands for Innovation and Transformation”.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Enterprise businesses are constantly on the lookout for their next ‘eureka’ moment – an innovative solution to a strategic business problem. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

I wrote this recently in a post entitled “ Bringing New Innovation is Stretching the Mind “ It opened with this view: “There is a profound shift taking place, relating to innovation. Each of these is a link to the post itself: Bringing New Innovation Together Is Stretching the Mind, Posted on October 25, 2016.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 9, 2022

Successful strategy and innovation are about how fast you can become aware of your assumptions. When it comes to strategy and innovation , success depends on how fast you become aware of your assumptions and then modify them. When it comes to developing your strategy or innovating, get clear on what you need to know and learn.

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Innovators Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Emerging technologies are something that innovative organizations should continue to pay close attention to. Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, business platforms, cyber security, crypto currency, and more all set the stage for organizations to have the future in mind when considering long-term planning and innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation. Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. The use of innovation activities is one way to accomplish these goals, spur creativity, and drive business or organizational growth.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. 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 percentage points per year.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 31, 2022

As many of my readers know, I usually write about strategy , innovation , and leadership. That’s because it’s incredibly hard to cut through the noise and establish a new brand, website presence, and business model in today’s increasingly cluttered competitive world. Building a new business is tough.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 21, 2022

We need to co-create a society more emotional aware that will help people manage their emotions intelligently. Managing emotions would then lead to maintaining healthy relationships, assisting people to co-create and collaborate. Integrated cultures bring about more collaboration and innovation.”. Self-Accountability.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2021

Most companies are not really aware of all of the innovation projects they are working on. This is where a tool called the Ambition Matrix is extremely useful, and it is a tool I use with clients all the time to gain clarity on what their current innovation portfolio looks like. Is this project an innovation at all?

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Christensen Institute

MAY 11, 2022

This is the first of a two-part blog series on Water4 and how it addresses a market need to provide clean and safe water in Sierra Leone. But one innovative organization is taking a market-creation approach to solving some of the challenges associated with providing safe drinking water. As a result, many water projects fail. .

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 30, 2022

In February, I wrote an Innovators Worth Watching blog highlighting Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company , his new pharmaceutical venture selling generic medications at a fraction of the cost of other pharmacies. Part of what makes Cuban’s business model innovative is its removal of pharmacy benefits managers from the picture.

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