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New Year’s Resolution: Catch Up on These Must-Read Innovation Blogs from 2019

IdeaScale

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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6 Building Blocks for Innovation Department Success

IdeaScale

True innovation requires diverse perspectives and confidence in everyone’s ability to add value to the innovation process. Define Roles and Processes. An innovation department needs a leader with a clearly defined role. Likewise, everyone else on the innovation team should have a defined role.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

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How internal innovators win the game

Innovation Excellence

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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How internal innovators win the game

Innovation Excellence

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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Improvement vs Innovation: Which Is Better For your Business?

Qmarkets

Innovation can happen quickly, (known as radical innovation), or it can take place over time, (incremental innovation). Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. The three main types of innovation are product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation.

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29 Innovation Activities for Your Next Ideation

Innovation Excellence

While there's a limitless list of possibilities that need to be tailored to each innovation challenge, I do have some favorites. I often get asked what activities a team should do in ideation to get better results and keep it fun. Here are 29 that work and are adaptable to a variety of businesses and challenges.