eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. This is an idea “Generator.”

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In another chapter, the author notes that BASF expects culture change to take 8 to 10 years.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Michel van Hove is the co-owner and partner of Strategos , a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps companies grow. We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how to successfully foster a culture of innovation within a company. Tell us a bit about your background. What drew you to Strategos?

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION? Without accepting failure, you squash the generation of innovative ideas. Collaboration.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Since innovation is a difficult and often misunderstood word, or perhaps just because it is used to mean different things in different contexts, it can be difficult to understand why innovation at an entrepreneurial company or a startup is different from innovation in a corporation.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

It is the lifeblood of our global economy, a survival skill and a strategic priority for any company worldwide. We looked at some of the most innovative companies and their unique practices and filtered out seven key habits that are applicable to business and beyond. Innovation. Fail forward.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

For instance, greater diversity of ideas and the efficiency found with them save your firm time and money while exposing your team to ideas that could be more effective overall. Plus, involving your audience in company decisions is innovative branding and marketing in and of itself. Efficiency. Plus, crowdsourcing can be fun!

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Many companies have responded to these threats by reinventing themselves—often from the inside out. Did the incremental revenue problem presented to the group result in the creation of new features, functionality, or line extensions that added to the bottom line? Did the productivity solutions reduce costs?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Training Accelerates Innovation. Almost always.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

They can be an ad hoc group from your organization who have been invited to explore a new challenge, goal, or opportunity. If your Team Leader finds value in our "Culture of Innovation" survey, each team member will also be required to respond to this survey. We have worked with many companies engaged in highly technical pursuits.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader. By learning to innovate through knowing how to generatively question and listen, reveal and challenge operating beliefs and test assumptions to enable them to emerge, diverge, converge and prioritise high-quality creative ideas for change.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation. Happy to do that on the phone, or in a talk or discussion with your group. These Bullets Can Be Dodged.

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CREATORS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It’s remarkable when corporates and multinational companies realize they need to change or seek for outside help in order to stay ahead of technological advancements. However, it is the actual implementation of innovation that determines success or failure of a company. —?but only half.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 1, 2017

Read on to discover innovation best practices from Robert's experience working at a range of renowned companies, including Citibank, Delta Airlines, and most recently Southwest Airlines. As opposed to a closed model, Open Innovation is about groups of people coming together to share ideas and solve problems. Wise words, indeed.

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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

We’ve helped companies completely transform themselves through idea management, but for many businesses it’s still a new concept, and a hard thing to get right. Idea management is the process of generating, collating, analysing and implementing ideas that solve real business problems, as part of a wider innovation strategy.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 15, 2018

You can create an environment where everyone can contribute to your company’s innovation efforts… How do you structure your innovation teams? If you are like most companies, you put your most creative people in a room to develop ideas who then hand off those ideas to a team of implementers.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Often times, the most successful and innovative companies stem from the humblest of origins. Colruyt Group is a great case in point. Although the name Colruyt has historically been synonymous with the popular supermarkets chain, today that is only one component of the multifaceted Colruyt Group. Qmarkets: Great.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Now, almost 20 years later, an increasing number of companies are beginning to appreciate the importance of fostering innovation so that their employees have the flexibility to exercise their creativity, which in turn would result in their products and services sitting at the forefront of their domain. Jobs made that quote in 1998.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Analysis and Synthesis: grouping collected data and reframing the initial situation based on transforming data into insights. Ideation Tools. Focus on the problem.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? It does not start and end with idea generation.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Enexis Group finds itself in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily. The final winner receives a small statue and appears in the company magazine.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Read on to discover innovation best practices from Robert's experience working at a range of renowned companies, including Citibank, Delta Airlines, and most recently Southwest Airlines. As opposed to a closed model, Open Innovation is about groups of people coming together to share ideas and solve problems.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere. Does your culture support innovation? They think, “that’s for R&D to do,” or, “that’s the innovation group.” Even in groups and teams that are nominally about innovation, a leader has to make sure the team is not faced with continuous stumbling blocks.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. These ideas are assessed on previously defined criteria and then the best ones are selected for execution.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation? What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? What is your definition of “innovation”: Turning an idea into a solution that adds value from a customer’s perspective. The results surprised me.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. These ideas are assessed on previously defined criteria and then the best ones are selected for execution.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Almost every business leader will tell you that they value innovation and that it is a positive & important factor for their company. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key learnings from each company. Pfizer, who has been a Spigit customer for the past five years, has turned its innovation program into a key initiative that has helped the company succeed in multiple ways, including developing new products and driving high employee engagement.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key learnings from each company. Pfizer, who has been a Spigit customer for the past five years, has turned its innovation program into a key initiative that has helped the company succeed in multiple ways, including developing new products and driving high employee engagement.

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

The average lifespan of S&P 500 companies is just 18 years, down from 61 years in 1958. At this churn rate, 75% of the companies will be removed from the index in another 10 years. On the other hand, companies such as GE and Procter & Gamble have been around for more than 100 years and still continue to grow.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

To take the risks necessary to innovate in a company environment, employees must also be given the freedom to try different things and that naturally leads to making mistakes. Fear of being punished or reprimanded for a failed experiment is the surest way to destroy an innovation culture. Don’t Fear Failure.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Working with Fortune 1000 companies I’ve found cultures rich in respect for qualitative research. The term “Focus Groups” really doesn’t do the method justice, it’s more sophisticated than that. ” Respect for qualitative data is important; companies have died ignoring consumers words.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 31, 2017

An example highlighted by Gartner involved a telecommunications company that was embarking upon a major changes in its workflow. To best facilitate the adoption of this SOP in your company, the use of an idea and innovation management platform such as Qmarkets' Q-max is ideal.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At the award event that concluded the SOS Alarm hackathon, CEO Maria Khorsand announced that the company would move forward with all five concepts presented instead of just the winning team’s concept (which was the original plan). Outreach and invitations to find a diverse group of participants.

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Strategos

JANUARY 11, 2017

Who’s doing the innovating in your company? A central innovation group? For many companies, the Holy Grail is to have the entire company innovating; and especially the front line employees. Your employees need to learn to develop their own new perspectives about your customers, market, and company. marketing?

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