InnovationManagement
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Some people are looking for financial predictions, some people want to know how an idea measures up to their organizational objectives, but everyone is looking for the perfect set of criteria so that they can evaluate ideas at some point during the innovation process and validate them.
Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles
JULY 15, 2020
However, out of left field came the global health pandemic, and collaboration has since taken a major hit at a time when creative ideas and solutions are needed most. Innovation is not all that different to a team sport. Innovation is not about quantity, but rather quality.
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HYPE Innovation
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Welcome back to the 10 Rules of Innovation Management series! If you're new to the series, I'll be sharing 10 best practices to help you manage your online collaborative innovation program or get started if you're thinking about launching one ( subscribe to the series here! ). The Innovation Manager
Planview
APRIL 4, 2019
Such disruption, impacting companies regardless of industry, is fueling the sense of urgency behind innovation. Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat. The challenge for many program leaders and their innovation programs comes down to their level of involvement in the idea implementation process.
Planview
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
You’ve done the groundwork for creating a successful innovation program. You’ve learned what mistakes to avoid , and even moved forward with adopting innovation management software like Spigit to enable innovation in a way that’s valuable and repeatable. If you’re still struggling to make the connection between ideas and outcomes, here are 4 things you can do to invigorate your innovation program.
Acuvate
APRIL 16, 2019
Innovation practice has made some amazing progress over the last few years. Large enterprises are trying various programs to foster new innovations in an attempt to find the best way to change course for their big ships. To resist ever-growing challenges, organisations are increasing their investments in innovation and deploying a variety of strategies. You’ve heard it a thousand times now: organisations need to invariably innovate to sustain. Open Innovation.
Planview
AUGUST 10, 2015
What of the innovation management practitioner? Can a checklist or memory jogger save their program? The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Innovation Management. The innovation practitioner scores each factor a 2, 1, or 0. Potential of ideas/ innovations vetted/ tested. Innovators left to their own devices. Growing commitment and ownership of the innovation process and outcomes. Perhaps SCERL will save a couple of innovation programs.
PlanBox Innovation
MAY 10, 2022
This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation is not a destination, it is rather a state of mind.
hackerearth
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
It is the failure to innovate that led to its “demise.”. In other words, it is because sometimes innovation strategies fail to produce products/ services that the customers want. Which brings us to the question, “Why do innovation programs fail?”. Below are 6 reasons why innovation programs can fail. Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Banking on a single program. Programme manager.
Planview
JANUARY 6, 2016
Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation. This year, enterprise leaders can learn a great deal from the insurance giant about crowdsourcing innovation successfully.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
At IdeaScale, we host the annual innovation management awards in order to honor the accomplishments of some truly groundbreaking organizations, but also so that some of our smartest clients can share their best practices with others. We invited our winners to answer a few interview questions and we’re pleased that the City of Calgary had some great advice and answers to share: IdeaScale: Why is innovation vital to your organization?
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases.
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. In the last piece we shared 7 critical success factors for a three-horizons approach to innovation management.
Imaginatik
JULY 29, 2016
Well, in terms of innovation valuation, you can and you should. Investors are requiring enterprises to be more transparent about their commitment to ongoing innovation in their capital expenditures in order to attract longer-term investment. The question then arises, how can an enterprise provide greater investor confidence from a range of speculative innovation investments with greater certainty ? Download our free State of Startup/Corporate Collaboration 2016 report today.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Last month we hosted a webinar with Viki Almog-Ayzenberg from Intel on the topic of Scaling Innovation Success. This insight-packed session told the story of Intel’s experience implementing a decentralized approach to innovation across various business units at the company.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 9, 2017
Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. Many times, trying to launch an innovation program at your company can encounter endless pitfalls and stumbling blocks, as illustrated in this example from the Harvard Business Review. When senior leadership says they want ‘innovation’ within the company, what does that mean? Investing Wisely in Innovation.
Tim Kastelle
MARCH 13, 2016
In part 1 of this post , Ralph revisited key innovation issues that were already addressed by us three years ago. In addition to these still highly topical issues, we’d like to raise another four points which we personally foresee key for innovation management in the time to come – making no claim to completeness: Organizational Ambidexterity. It doesn’t always translate to managers, however. Co-Innovation and startup engagement.
Hutch Carpenter
AUGUST 5, 2015
In a recent PwC survey, 61% of CEOs said innovation was a key priority for their company ( pdf ). Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. In this post, I want to focus on another type of innovation initiative: Collaborative Innovation. Ideas matching the innovation appetite of the organization.
Acuvate
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Innovation management is one of the crucial contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors. Digital innovation is driving increasing interconnection, giving unprecedented access to capabilities, resources and talent on a global scale. Noticeably, innovation is the buzzword in the success formula of these applications. Understanding innovation management. Read More: An Introduction to the Ultimate Idea Management Solution.
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases.
hackerearth
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
One of the vital contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors, is innovation management. “It In all of these applications, innovation is the buzzword. How innovation management enables digital transformation. According to a report by MWD Advisors and HYPE Innovation, innovation management practices and tools enable open, iterative, and collaborative change to support digital transformation.
Planview
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Engaging the “crowd” at scale in your innovation initiative has been proven to fundamentally transform companies. From vehicle manufacturer, Polaris, leveraging its employees’ creativity to out-innovate the likes of Harley Davidson, to the UNHCR changing the lives of millions of refugees through crowdsourcing ideas. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. But what’s the secret to creating and sustaining a successful innovation program?
HYPE Innovation
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
For some organizations, an innovation program is a “nice-to-have”, sometimes struggling for time and attention against other corporate initiatives. Our HYPE Innovation team recently caught up with Grant Beecham, Sr. Ideation & Collaboration Legal Services
eZassi
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
CIMdata Publishes Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Landscape — Connecting the Dots. eZassi Participates in CIMdata’s Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Landscape Report Findings. CIMdata recently published this report, eZassi participated in the report findings, providing insight, commentary, discovery and suggestions to aide in guiding enterprise organizations with connecting the dots of enterprise innovation management (EIM).
KindlingApp
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
There will be collaboration, or there will be conflict. Amazon employees all share a fundamental drive toward improvement—they’re innovative, and accordingly, they're successful. It is possible to seek innovative success in collaboration rather than competition and from humans rather than data. In this culture, project managers , innovation officers , intrapreneurs , and engaged employees work collaboratively to meet their goals.
Planview
OCTOBER 17, 2019
What does innovation management mean to you? You need ideas to be innovative, but you need an innovation culture to continually source the most valuable ideas. The concept of “building an innovation culture” is a topic that’s come up in a variety of conversations with Planview Spigit clients over the last few months. But we are innovative—right? In many organizations, innovation is a buzzword—a quick box to check. Reframe Innovation as Engagement.
Planview
AUGUST 4, 2015
Innovation has never been as misunderstood, challenging, expensive, or transformative as it is today. Many companies are turning to innovation centers — physical hubs where people can gather to design, build, and test products — to complement the crowdsourcing software (like Spigit ) that enables their overall programs. Here are our top 5 takeaways on innovation centers from a recent report released by Capgemini. Innovation Labs Can Inspire New Ideas.
Qmarkets
MARCH 16, 2018
With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. The future of innovation is now. In today’s highly disruptive, always-connected world, online innovation communities can be a most powerful force for change, propelling companies in directions their executives might not have thought of otherwise.
Planview
AUGUST 6, 2015
Recently, Spigit CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Innovation is so often tied to never-before-seen ideas and inventions that it can be difficult to pull back from the grand picture and look for ways to innovate on a smaller scale. As you’re spreading your innovation investment, you’re more likely to see a return in a shorter space of time, building a demonstrable ROI.”.
Planview
OCTOBER 29, 2015
But bad business habits can throw a major wrench in innovation before it even has a chance to get off the ground. Here are 10 things you might be doing without thinking that are killing your innovation efforts right now. You want people to contribute great ideas to your innovation program, and that’s exciting. Herd mentality is very real, and presents a major threat to innovation.
whataventure
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Nicola Büsse, Co-Founder of MOBIKO, is one of those intrapreneurs who managed to make the jump with her team from an internal innovation project to a successful spinoff. The story of MOBIKO starts at Audi Business Innovation in 2017. You underestimate stakeholder management.
Planview
OCTOBER 21, 2015
In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing. The New Rules of the Collaborative Economy. Companies Leverage Open Innovation Better than China. that are taking innovation initiatives to heart.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 7, 2017
Premise: Almost every CEO that i meet wants to find out a way to out-innovate their competition. They want to innovate to improve their profits. They want to innovate so that they can help their customers innovate. And in the same breath, they also say that almost all their innovation projects are either struggling to take off or have not yielded the kind of results that looked possible. They need to persuade their peers to collaborate with their teams.
Planview
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Crowdsourcing innovation works best when the crowd knows exactly what issue they’re trying to address. Innovation business collaboration business innovation collaborative innovation company crowdsourcing crowd innovation crowdsourcing software enterprise innovation innovation management innovation program language of crowdsourcing
hackerearth
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
One of the vital contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors, is innovation management. “It In all of these applications, innovation is the buzzword. How innovation management enables digital transformation. According to a report by MWD Advisors and HYPE Innovation, innovation management practices and tools enable open, iterative, and collaborative change to support digital transformation.
Planview
DECEMBER 8, 2015
If your New Year’s resolutions include having an enterprise-grade innovation program that operates like a well-oiled results machine, then we sure have the webinar for you. Read on to find out exactly why you need to register today for our 12/10 webinar, featuring three of the top innovation thought leaders in consulting, cloud services, and crowdsourcing software. First up: Dr. Norman Lewis of PwC, who leads the charge for the One Innovation Programme.
Innovation Architecture
MARCH 5, 2018
Booz Allen Hamilton hosted Innova-Con at their new Innovation Center across from McPherson Square in Washington DC. The International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP) sponsors Innova-Con as the capstone to their annual cycle of events. The IAOIP, a non-profit professional society, seeks to raise the level of knowledge amongst the professionals working in the field of innovation management.
Planview
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Are you an idea champion, ready to inspire innovation in your company? Then you’re also going to love Spigit’s 2015 Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide, with a handpicked selection of gifts to help you inspire innovation in your organization. Try these stellar innovation books, all under $20. If you know an intrapreneur who’s always on the path to self-improvement and career advancement, hook them up with tickets to 2016’s hottest innovation events.
KindlingApp
OCTOBER 14, 2015
There’s a lot of emphasis in the idea management world on being creative—see Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2015 , for example—but it’s not always obvious that being creative is only step one. Innovation requires creativity, but creativity on its own isn’t enough to move a company forward. To be truly innovative, we need to harness and structure the creativity that we already have. Innovative ideas are ideas that have an impact. Enter idea management.
Planview
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Can you think of a single innovation that didn’t change something? Innovation is change, or at least, innovation requires change. In my role as an innovation keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, I recently led a German-based industrial company’s North American IT leadership team through an innovation workshop, during which we spent part of the time working to define their common language of innovation (as described in my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire ).
Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 15, 2016
The following business innovation reports cover three core elements that consistently prove important to success: developing a certain kind of company culture; the connection between data, legislature, challenges, and opportunities; and finally, emerging business trends that continuously impact enterprise innovation programs.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 7, 2022
As long as firms continue to innovate themselves, they have little to fear from the trends that are reshaping the industry. We’ll also explore why and how firms must innovate to ensure that they seize those opportunities, and evolve into organizations fit for the future.
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. Creating Strategic Alignment, 2.Funding Innovation, 3 Delivering Impact and 4 Moving forward. ” Who Owns Innovation? ?
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