Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2023

From completing an MCI bootcamp for policymakers in Uganda and finishing a report on market-creation for Nigeria’s solar sector by breaking down the large projects into weekly tasks that I could easily allocate time and attention to, to launching a Thursday Theory Tips blog series by establishing a disciplined and regular writing schedule.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For many years, in writing this blog, and in leading innovation projects for my clients, I tried to advocate for the benefits of innovation. The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 10, 2023

That seems simple enough, but when it comes to innovative business models there are many other questions that arise. What type of business model do I have? This week’s Thursday Theory Tips blog will answer all of these questions so that you can determine if your business model is working for you. What makes up a business model?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity. What Exactly is Business Innovation?

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IdeaSpies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When asked about their level of interest in a range of news types, more than half (56%) say they are very or extremely interested in positive news stories. I co-founded the open innovation platform IdeaSpies in 2016 disturbed by the growing impact of negative news on mental health, risk-taking and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag. Let me know.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity. What Exactly is Business Innovation?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

Considering I am constantly giving advice on the ways that companies can improve their innovativeness, and people can come up with new business models and business ideas based on their creativity. But with all types of innovations, it makes sense to start small, learn fast, and continue improving. Email automation.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2023

The increased interdependence has birthed countless collaboration opportunities, leading innovators to strategically weave a network of partnerships throughout their supply chain to continuously drive better, more sustainable results, especially when it comes to evaluating emerging technologies and engaging with startups.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This shift was powered by the defining trait of our species, our human creativity, which is at the heart of all creative problem-solving endeavors, where innovation is the engine of growth, no matter, what the context. But for business problem solving, using GPT-4 resulted in performance that was 23% lower than that of the control group.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

It highlights the importance of a new concept that every corporate innovation leader needs to internalize: the Path-to-Value for each innovation. Like many companies, Acme Corporation has a new (ish) corporate-level innovation program. Executives are hoping for big things from the innovation group.

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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. There is a search for new solutions. The looking back is important.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Sometimes called “negative brainstorming”, “ reverse brainstorming ” is one approach to problem-solving sessions that can be a useful way to explore different options in an innovation or design thinking project. This technique really suits out-of-the-box thinking that is perfect for these type of scenarios.

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Exago

JUNE 1, 2016

From talent spotting through to technology scouting and the development of special connections with main stakeholders, the benefits of open innovation are many, no matter the type of industry or how big or small your organisation. The post Innovation beyond closed corporate walls appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. The whole search for diversity can generate so much fresh thinking if we open our minds to the alternatives. It provides the innovation marching orders. Source: Rikke Dam and Teo Yin Siang.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

This offers the chance of seeing something completely differently, by being simply aware and open to new possibilities, detaching yourself from your own (comfortable) environment. Cross-industry discovery is growing in its importance to innovating differently. Going cross-industry.

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Imaginatik

APRIL 7, 2017

This condition of covert expertise is no longer being tolerated by both corporates, who are never ceasing to find ways of monetising assets, nor independent domain experts, aggressively seeking a piece of ‘upside’ to their innovative ideas rather than remaining content with being a sunk cost to ‘the suits’. Let’s look at just a few.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. The types of disruptors are changing and their numbers are multiplying. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As a leader, you need your people to perform at their best if innovation is going to happen. If you want your organisation to be able to innovate repeatedly, protecting the environment for healthy dialogue around differing views must become a regular part of the culture you create.

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Wellspring

JUNE 29, 2017

There are four main tactics that organizations commonly use for inbound open innovation; tech scouting, vertical collaboration, horizontal collaboration, and technology sourcing. In this blog, we will walk through the four main types of open innovation for corporations and discuss some of the pros and cons of each.

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Wellspring

JUNE 29, 2017

There are four main tactics that organizations commonly use for inbound open innovation; tech scouting, vertical collaboration, horizontal collaboration, and technology sourcing. In this blog, we will walk through the four main types of open innovation for corporations and discuss some of the pros and cons of each.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Innovators listen to what leaders say, but most of all, they watch what leaders do. Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership.

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Betterific

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

She started an innovation conference in the mid 90s, before innovation was a buzzword. At Betterific, we faciliatate both convergent (thru our crowdsourced innovation challenges ) and divergent thinking (thru our concept refinement and crowdselect challenges ). Inquire: Questions create openings.

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IdeaScale

JULY 18, 2017

Without a pause, I answered, “Yes, right away,” and with my boss standing over my shoulder, I opened my to-do list and typed “G-E-T-_-F-E-D-R-A-M-P-E-D.” As a result of these investments, IdeaScale is ready to provide an innovation management solution to meet the FedRAMP needs of any federal agency.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 12, 2016

I'm writing this a bit tongue in cheek, but the point of this blog is very serious. There are a number of phases that innovators go through, accepting what they can about innovation based on what the executives and corporate culture allow. We innovators, especially corporate innovators are like this, but often in reverse.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 14, 2022

Over the last two and a half years, if there was a glass-half-full way of looking at COVID-19’s effect on education, it was to consider how the challenges created by the pandemic might also catalyze innovation. Remote and hybrid learning also opened the door for conversations about rethinking conventional instruction. Click To Tweet.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? Managing this, in all honesty, though, is hard to get the balance right but highly valuable if you do achieve it, it can transform the business. It is far more than ‘just’ this.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. That’s the open-hearted, egalitarian environment that EPIC fosters. On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

Coordinating brainstorming sessions and innovation work can require a substantial amount of creativity. These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. Here are some tools to inspire and help you overcome barriers to innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Defining and achieving concrete improvements in organizational culture and employee performance is a challenge for organizations of all types. This is an acute reality when an organization is facing a clear mandate or opportunity for this type of change. Achieving Workplace Well-being with Innovation Management.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 18, 2022

It seems to be a new trend that businesspeople, executives, and other types of team leaders stew on what the right decision in a specific circumstance is, or go back on what they have said merely weeks prior to completely change gears, much to the dismay of their employees or equals waiting for resolution.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2018

In these situations, asking a positive, open-ended question: Suggests that you’ve been listening very closely. The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. What types of impacts should / can we expect? Push for More Innovation. via Shutterstick.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the past week or so, I have been looking a little harder at the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry relating to innovation, it left me a little frustrated. I felt that warm and fuzzy feeling, as I read all too often those comforting words or platitudes of how “innovation is vital to us” and one of the “highest areas of focus.”

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. What type of meetings do you prepare for? What type of meetings do you prepare for? I have asked her a series of questions to get to know her on a personal level.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? Managing this, in all honesty, though, is hard to get the balance right but highly valuable if you do achieve it, it can transform the business. It is far more than ‘just’ this.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

One meeting participant said this type of strategic thinking was a breakthrough for them. It opens up a whole new array of potential options. Look at your brand attributes as platforms to innovate, expand, and introduce broader meanings that deliver greater value for your customers. Its best current performance areas.

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