The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

From this basic statement we can go further into the topic of creativity in innovation. We can explain that the tools for creativity are used during a regular innovation process where teams should generate new ideas to further explore their feasibility as proper business models. Analogy cards.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

This approach aligns with the concept of innovation management powered by artificial intelligence , which leverages the capabilities of AI to supercharge the innovation cycle. By integrating AI into the innovation process, companies can uncover valuable insights, streamline workflows, and make more informed decisions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Lack of training/skills or experience Another problem with innovation as a discrete project is a lack of training. In fact, the main metric for most innovation projects is how quickly they can get through the work, so the team can go back to their day jobs.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Experienced innovation professionals will learn new methods, tools, and concepts. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Almost always. People really want to do good work.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

AI in the Ideate Stage of Design Thinking The Ideate stage of Design Thinking is where creativity comes to the fore, with the objective of generating a broad set of ideas for innovative solutions. This collaboration can significantly widen the scope of ideas generated, leading to more innovative and user-centric solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” ” These are the words I’ve heard innovation directors and c-suite executives use to describe their own innovation programs. This post is to make a simple point about innovation. ” “Lackluster. Are you lost?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Practical Exercises to Encourage Innovative Thinking To cultivate an innovative mindset, leadership development programs should incorporate practical exercises that challenge leaders to think outside the box. Involve team members in the innovation process, ensuring their voices and concerns are heard.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. Strange that the activity that should be the easiest, most natural activity in an innovation process is singled out as the most complex, difficult and dangerous.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You can’t innovate without an exploratory learning process. Deliberately embracing learning — as part of the innovation process — can lead to better ideas and improved innovation results. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite. How Scaffolding Applies to Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy. These tools can prompt new lines of thinking, challenge assumptions, and ultimately lead to more innovative outcomes.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

The first course is a one-day Innovation Intensive Overview , targeted for executives. It’s theory, practice, and how to get started, or improve your innovation process. If you take this course you’ll know why and how to move forward with results oriented innovation projects. More ideas and better ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. The reason?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

are Not Innovation. Thinking about things is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

Internal innovation teams or labs also use hackathons as an external source of innovation. These open-innovation based models are often combined to achieve the desired effect by companies. The Innovation Process. “In In too many organizations, innovation occurs by serendipity rather than by deliberate management.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Not rocking the boat is safe and introducing new practices and ideas to a business will inevitably cause friction. Yet, according to risk management expert Steve Culp, learning to professionally manage risk can actually stimulate, rather than impede, an organization's innovation process.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 4, 2016

In my view, great innovators combine the principles of brainstorming/ideation with good practices of constructive conflict. They defer judgment at times, making it safe to generate many wild ideas. At other times in the creative process, they engage in healthy dissent and debate.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Because innovation leaders largely exist within the confines of traditional corporations, bringing a strategic perspective to the innovation process is a vital skill for them to have. As Langdon Morris observes strategy and innovation are intricately linked and "should be mutually reinforcing."

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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

In innovation processes, we usually run into companies that mostly use ‘questionnaires’ and ‘expert interviews’ as part of their ‘research process’ Sometimes, if engineers or psychologists are involved, they use experiments too. Bodystorming: more active forms of idea generation.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Idea Champions. Creating a Culture of Innovation.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Idea Champions. Creating a Culture of Innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Idea Champions. Creating a Culture of Innovation.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Idea Champions. Creating a Culture of Innovation.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Idea Champions. Creating a Culture of Innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll look at a design thinking framework that can be used to help you design innovative solutions to your challenges. We call this simple framework: Challenge, Ideas, and Action. This is based on the three basic thinking stages of the process. Either way, they are the spark of the innovation process.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Looking for innovation opportunities in new digital technologies. Involving and engaging a wide group (Open innovation concepts and use of virtual ideation platforms). Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”). Tools and techniques for generating ideas. Brain Writing.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2016

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Idea Champions. Creating a Culture of Innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Also, start pushing back on the reluctance to involve customers in the innovation process if that’s something you’re up against. Frameworks like Innovation Games and other co-creation activities improve customers’ perception of a company, leading to better partnerships and customers that feel heard and understood.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Also, start pushing back on the reluctance to involve customers in the innovation process if that’s something you’re up against. Frameworks like Innovation Games and other co-creation activities improve customers’ perception of a company, leading to better partnerships and customers that feel heard and understood.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Also, start pushing back on the reluctance to involve customers in the innovation process if that’s something you’re up against. Frameworks like Innovation Games and other co-creation activities improve customers’ perception of a company, leading to better partnerships and customers that feel heard and understood.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Such practices allow generous amounts of time for quality control, market research, and other practices that help ensure that when new ideas are introduced to a company's product line, for example, that they are sufficiently mature for the current needs of the market. How can the innovation process be better managed?

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Initially published in the widely known book the St.Gallen Business Model Navigator , these patterns can be used as templates for innovation. For that purpose, BMI published a set of convenient cards which can be used during ideation sessions within an innovation process. They are just multipliers. Execution is worth millions.”

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Qmarkets

APRIL 28, 2017

Yet as was explained above, there are good reasons why innovation must be carefully nurtured to avoid subsuming the entire company with a 'brilliant' idea. With an organized means for plotting the steps taken along the road-map to innovation, Qmarkets' offering can help make sense out of the initial chaos of the innovation process.

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