Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Most companies say that they are investing in innovation. They will showcase large initiatives for gaining ideas and suggestions from across the organisation. They will point to their last brainstorming session and say how successful it was, how it produced hundreds of ideas (or at least post it notes).

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Company Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 160

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The researchers wanted to see if there was a link between people delaying themselves starting work on a project, and that time being used to incubate ideas, resulting in output which was deemed to be more creative. In order to test this, the researchers conducted three sets of experiments in the USA and Korea.

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Creativity Video Study Survey 199

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

At lower risk and often lower costs, companies can use this strategic tool to explore new opportunities for growth. When companies leverage the power of brilliant minds everywhere, success can’t be far behind. The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. General Electric.

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Open Innovation Company Crowdsourcing Innovation 91

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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Innovation Project Tips Marketing 271

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

For a deeper dive into how AI is revolutionizing the stages and gates processes of innovation, explore next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes. By integrating AI into the innovation process, companies can uncover valuable insights, streamline workflows, and make more informed decisions.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Analysis Technical Review 100

whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

L et our Intrapreneurship 101 give you a better idea of what it takes to set up a successful innovation process within your company. Stop generating ideas and start creating ROI instead. The good news is, the idea is very often the starting point. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation 75

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Problem: Game-Changing Ideas Get Stuck at Square One Without a reliable system for testing early-stage ideas, orgs are leaving innovation ROI on the table. Gartner has found that business leaders underfund transformational projects by ~33% due to ineffective innovation project evaluation methods.

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Software Review Innovation Programs Project Innovation 105

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. They present an opportunity for you to reassess the company’s direction, realign with the core values, and ensure that every leader is committed to a shared vision.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. That is IF you want to increase the odds of new ideas actually making it out the door. You're busy. The result?

Ideation 89

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 89

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. What is interesting in his process is that there is no specific idea generation "step".

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create.

Artificial Inteligence 157

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Innovation Generative AI 157

IdeaScale

MARCH 17, 2021

This initial process of gathering information often leads to idea generation. Companies need a way to increase growth on an ongoing basis. Use this and other similar mind mapping tools to hold company-wide brainstorming sessions. Create ongoing projects that lead to multiple innovations. Collaboration tools.

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Brainstorming Tools Collaboration Idea Generation 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It consists of a series of phases (stages) where specific tasks are performed and milestones (gates) where decisions are made about whether to proceed to the next stage, halt, or redirect the project. Risk Assessment : By predicting potential hurdles, AI helps in identifying and mitigating risks early in the product development lifecycle.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Management Management Generative AI 100

IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. An innovation consultant is someone brought in by a company, usually for a defined period of time. Innovation consultants provide innovation leadership primarily by helping client companies pursue innovation goals.

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Leadership Innovation Training Crowdsourcing 164

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. These activities might include: Idea Generation Workshops : Leaders participate in brainstorming sessions where they are encouraged to propose unconventional solutions to business challenges.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose.

Artificial Inteligence 83

Artificial Inteligence Ideation Brainstorming ChatGPT 83

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

It acts as the lifeblood of a company, influencing every aspect of how you conduct business. It influences employee motivation, attracts top talent, fosters company-wide alignment, enhances customer satisfaction, and ultimately drives performance metrics upwards.

Culture 100

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a technology-enabled innovation process still holds good for the individual company that wants to evolve this out in more open thinking. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping. This step involves testing and refining the concepts.

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Generative AI Design Data Innovation 162

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. Top Model Principle.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

NASA@Work, the space program’s internal crowdsourcing program, is charged with promoting knowledge-sharing and idea generation. Administrators dub each project a “challenge,” and have a specific process for submitting as well as evaluating and accepting them. Be a Sherpa.

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Crowdsourcing Learning Data Technical Review 219

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

The right keynote speaker can provide a fresh perspective, inspire new ideas, and refocus an organization’s vision. When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A promising idea did not foresee a roadblock that cannot be resolved. Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company”. The two major takeaways for me.

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 15, 2020

Companies believe that since they have a new technology, simply getting the technology into the marketplace should be considered innovation. Few large companies do this work well because it is not a common research task and because it is qualitative, not quantitative. There is far too much technology push when it comes to innovation.

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Technical Review Trends Innovation Technology 227

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. That is IF you want to increase the odds of new ideas actually making it out the door. You're busy. The result?

Ideation 41

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 41

PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As an innovation manager, you’re tasked with the challenging responsibility of leading the development and implementation of new ideas, products, and initiatives that will drive growth and competitiveness for your company.

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ChatGPT Analysis Trends Competition 84

Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here’s what they need to see and believe: An innovative corporate culture is one that supports the creation of new ideas and the implementation of those ideas. Leaders must help employees see innovation in practice as a regular part of how the company does business. See innovation as a competency. See innovation as a process.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Innovation Leadership 99

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A formal framework is one where the rules, criteria, and processes for generating ideas, assessing them, and determining their order have been explicitly defined. An informal prioritization framework is one where the rules, criteria, and processes of ideas generation and assessment have not been explicitly defined.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Brainstorming Examples 130

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Companies are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of gamification. In countries where companies have already made gamification part of their day-to-day, they know that it can bring specific benefits beyond having a bit of fun and simple teambuilding. To start an innovation project. To optimise creative sessions.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Real-world Examples of Psychological Safety and Experiential Intelligence in Action In one global technology company, a shift in leadership approach led to a dramatic increase in team performance. Innovation Metrics : Measure the number of new ideas generated and implemented by the team.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader. Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025.

Learning 59

Learning Generative AI Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 59

eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. Can Innovation secure a strategic seat in my company’s goal setting? Break down the silos that divide a company by department. This is an idea “Generator.”

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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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Brainstorming Idea Generation How To Meeting 40

Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Idea Champions brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Creativity 52

Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Another excellent use case for Instant Coffee! SWOT Analysis. Standup Meetings.

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Brainstorming LEAN Technical Review Analysis 98

Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

We have worked with many companies engaged in highly technical pursuits. Follow up includes: -- Review two Insight & Ideation Reports -- Two Reality Check Debrief calls (for the Team Leader) -- Coaching and consultation with your team's Point Person -- Project champions do their due diligence 18. Our business is highly technical.

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