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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

Explore the future with new opportunities by innovating. As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Not many innovation resources required.

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Innovation 101

Gregg Fraley

Getting started is challenging because there is a great deal of conflicting advice in the form of books, consultancies, methods, and anecdotal stories. Does one need to take a Stanford course or read 35 books about innovation to get started? Start Your Innovation Program Now. Fun, then Serious Results.

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How to Keep Innovating During an Economic Crisis

Innov8rs

At the same time, a crisis presents organizations with unique conditions for innovation. As long as innovation teams have a strategic approach to solving old problems with new solutions, organizations can expect to not only survive but also thrive. One way is to create simple rules to guide the innovation process.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

I previously started posting the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book. As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. They operate under the misguided belief that getting more ideas leads to better innovation. So I am going back to that for this post.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. This can lead to more creative and innovative solutions. What are the benefits of design thinking?

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

What it is: One of the most important theories of innovation, but one which is usually completely misunderstood. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. It might take sales away from our current offerings.

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How to test & iterate new product & service ideas faster & cheaper

Leapfrogging

That’s why so many companies now spend sizable chunks of their research and development budgets on things like focus groups and market research. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges. Even the most innovative businesses usually contend with comparable ventures.

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