BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups. Innovation Strategy in Your Organization – An Innovative Workplace Culture. Implementing smart, innovative possibilities. – Mike Brown.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 31, 2020

Medical professionals and businesses in multiple industries are learning how to use technology and innovation strategy during this pandemic to curtail the spread of such diseases. Existing Innovations. Numerous existing innovations are already being used to help fight Covid-19. Innovations on the Horizon.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2018

An executive responsible for strategy planning who was downloading our eBook on 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas posed an important question: How can you successfully identify and try new ways to get internal groups working together on strategic planning? 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, Amway won the Innovation Management award for best innovation engagement strategy. So we asked Amway a few questions about their program and here’s what they had to say: IdeaScale : Why is innovation vital to your organization? IdeaScale : What are you most proud of in your innovation program?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

A client raised a question about what more it can do to quicken its pace of innovation ? As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. A growth transformation system is one in which corporate strategy, R&D and innovation all work together and in harmony to drive transformation excellence.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Running a hackathon that prompts genuine innovation requires careful planning.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 23, 2016

.” But what if the superpower weren’t fictional, at least when it comes to your ability to envision and implement an innovation strategy ? If you actually had an innovation strategy superpower, which one would you want to wield? Find New Resources to Innovate ! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. So, it’s time to announce an innovation program, because that will undoubtedly fill the growth gap facing your brand. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy!

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation . Gaining customer insights.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Eighty percent of nonprofit leaders consider innovation to be mandatory, yet of those, only 40 percent think their organization is ready for innovation. Leaders recognize the importance of innovation, yet many aren’t sure how to make their organizations innovation-ready. Laying a Strong Foundation for Innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to engage with the disruptive forces reshaping virtually every industry by turning radically disruptive signals into strategy, and strategy into action. This will require entirely new levels of innovation throughout every enterprise and unique ability to continually engage all stakeholders.

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Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 10, 2023

Let’s walk down memory lane: The music industry faced significant disruption with the emergence of Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing application enabling illegal downloads, causing a decline in CD sales. iTunes challenged this convention by offering legal digital downloads of individual songs, eliminating the need to buy entire albums.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 14, 2016

I was talking with an executive charged with implementing an innovation strategy for a new company initiative. While the business objectives and expectations are lofty, the budget available to fund the innovation strategy has disappeared. Budget dollars disappear, but expectations for innovation and growth remain.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

Looking for a quick way to generate tons of innovative ideas? If you need a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry, here’s a mega-simple way of generating them : Select the objective, opportunity, or challenge you are trying to address. Scores of innovative ideas! – Mike Brown. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2017

If you’ve been following IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards , you know that this year saw some really thrilling innovation come from some unexpected places. In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. The room configurations don’t allow for people to move around and collaborate with each other.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. The engineers are so accustomed to testing EVERYTHING, they routinely shoot down any innovative ideas. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Off the top of my head, I suggested the following strategy to strengthen the consistency of their customer experience strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2016

Facing a major goal when seems you have is too few resources CAN BE an incredible inspiration for your organization’s innovation strategy. Because of this, he saw difficult and resource-scarce times as the BEST opportunity for creativity and moving ahead with a bold innovation strategy. – Mike Brown.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Here are six lessons to take away from these winners.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Part of my shifting my own innovation advisory work was to build out a greater understanding of the power of ecosystems platforms and customer experience collaborations. Also, a great place to start is to download their Whitepaper “ From Business Modelling to Platform Design ”.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2020

I’ve worked with some of the world’s most innovative startups and big companies for over 25 years. I’ve also seen people so focused on implementation that they lose sight of the bigger strategy and opportunity. Real innovation happens when you have both vision and results. There are many models out there.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We were set to work with a client team exploring the customer experience strategy they’d introduce to their internal customers. Each of the four roles were intended to help push the group’s thinking on its customer experience strategy in varied ways. 4 Roles to Push Bold Customer Experience Strategy Thinking. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2018

There has just been a highly useful benchmarking report released by Innovation Leader with KPMG LLP sponsoring this and providing some of their collective insights into the different aspects of “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018″ At present, you can download the report before it might slip behind a paywall at some later stage.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. They thought they needed a new growth strategy. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I stopped by the grocery store to use the ATM the other morning before leaving for New York to deliver a content marketing strategy workshop today at the Social Media Strategies Summit. Finding nothing even remotely appealing, I headed for the door, not expecting to witness a solid customer experience strategy lesson.

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