Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

At its heart, business model innovation is about change. In this article, we’re going to explore why changing your business model is crucial in today’s world. We’ll look at what business model innovation really means, why it’s important, and how you can start thinking about your own business in new ways.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Erosion is everywhere, it just seems inevitable, we somehow get caught up in the process of time and our organizations seem to ‘freeze’ before our eyes, then simply age. They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

In my continuing series of posts about lessons learned from corporate innovation, today I'd like to expand on the idea of innovation language, and go even further. I'd like to riff on the idea of innovation as central, organizing idea in a business rather than an occasional distraction.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This reduces the risk of innovation and increases visibility Introduce the idea of innovation portfolios and the need to innovate across the three horizons. Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. This does need a real change but can we achieve it? Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the rest of what innovation needs to be built upon.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. In either case, companies are frequently forced to reinvent themselves by changing the way they have been doing business so far. Culture of experimentation (and speed).

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the design thinking process? What are the key steps of the design thinking process? How can I learn design thinking? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can I learn design thinking? These can be a good starting point to learn more about design thinking and its applications.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

For companies, embracing incremental innovation means fostering a culture of continuous improvement where even the smallest changes are valued for their cumulative impact over time. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. A truly innovative culture? Join us at Catalyst Ranch, a truly fun place to learn! Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Do you seek sustained growth?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. This is the best place to start your discovery process.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”. 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. Mahatma Gandhi.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. They adhere to lean principles of product development.

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Why should innovation be any different?

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. It is important to focus on learning in this stage. Prototype?—?Test

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But I still find it a helpful visualization tool for outlining a high-level innovation process in search of good ideas. It’s also equally applicable to bootstrapping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators alike. Innovation for innovation’s sake usually leads to interesting solutions, but disappointing business models.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You can actually start with either of those, but one should take a big step backward to learn more about the actual opportunity.). Adapt to the Changing Environment. These changes represent both a threat to market stability and an opportunity to market capture. How will adjacent markets be affected by the coming changes?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Mine is usually a mix of exploring and researching around innovation in the morning, a couple of hours at the gym, a walk to finish off and then a mixture of enjoying a nice home-cooked meal and a relaxing evening. We, in general, all seem to remain constantly disappointed at the end results of our innovation efforts.

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

Moreover, innovation activity is often treated as a separate branch of business?—?employees The easiest way to change it is to introduce innovation KPIs targeting the company’s staff across the board. There are different types of innovation KPIs. Failure is a part of innovation, perhaps the most important part.”

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These structures, while effective for the incremental growth of billion-dollar core businesses, often kill potentially disruptive innovations at their inception, as Pilot 44’s Andrew Backs suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Labs session. In most companies there’s a lot of opportunities just collecting dust.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

But the changes to your innovation strategy have probably been significant—that means you’ll need to invest significant effort in implementing those changes. How you measure and communicate (internally) about innovation should be central to that effort. How might innovation strategies change in response to COVID-19?

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

It means that you have to start with the results you hope to achieve and work backward, always keeping an open mind, but also trying to work with what you know and what you’ve learned from other people, other instruments, and of things completely outside the musical instrument world.’. 4 Let Others Help You Innovate from Their Design Trees.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation. Defining an innovation process is not innovation.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

While most innovation management software makes it possible for teams and organizations to gather and iterate on ideas, the question you must ask is, how do you ensure the best ideas become reality? The right innovation management solution helps bring ideas and delivery together in one coherent experience and collaborative effort.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Some questions your team should be able to answer: What’s your company’s vision for the future?

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But I still find it a helpful visualization tool for outlining a high-level innovation process in search of good ideas. It’s also equally applicable to bootstrapping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators alike. Innovation for innovation’s sake usually leads to interesting solutions, but disappointing business models.

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