Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Innovation is deemed too risky and is often replaced with projects that can deliver immediate results. Yet prioritizing long-term innovation is the key to surviving crises. And so, how to keep innovation alive during crises? How to get leadership support for innovation?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Discuss ways to empower employees to take initiative and innovate.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

Embracing change and fostering innovation are essential for companies aiming to thrive in today’s market. The concept of ‘scaling innovation’ has become a crucial strategy for organizations looking to transform occasional successes into a consistent, organization-wide capability.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

Innov8rs | At Chick-fil-A, innovation is not merely a process, but a culture deeply embedded within the organization's fabric. Their approach is to develop the innovation mindset at all levels, starting with leadership and gradually influencing the entire organization.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2022

If you work in a company, and want to develop a new innovation, at some point you are going to meet resistance. While some antibodies will just voice their disagreement with an innovation project, they will not have the ability to stop the project. Most innovation projects require a change.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Innov8rs

JUNE 8, 2024

Supercharged ideation processes The creative potential of generative AI can help teams to generate hundreds of ideas for new projects, products and solutions in a matter of minutes. A bigger funnel of initial ideas also enables innovators to be more selective with the ones they take forward, resulting in higher quality end results.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet not every intrapreneurship program leads to successful outcomes beyond innovation theatre. During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. When these components are in place, your innovation process becomes predictable and encourages participation across the spectrum. These questions will show you opportunities for innovation. Implementation.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2019

For innovation leadership to be more than just empty words, companies must understand innovation, determine the best ways to encourage it, be willing to put resources behind it, and understand the importance of the word “practices” in the term “best practices.”. Innovation is similar. Here’s how to do that.

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Innovation Management is a strategic activity that isn’t necessarily needed to implement throughly for every company. For smaller companies however, that is not general practice: having such a formal process in place simply doesn’t weigh up to cost efficiencies will generate.

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Innov8rs

MAY 19, 2024

The facilitator: May or may not be a member of the team Can either be internal or external to the organization Could be dedicated to the project in question or on rotation with other projects What’s most important is for a facilitator to have specific training, and to be given enough time to create and uphold the project’s structure and process.

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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. This process is interesting and helpful.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. This is actually a very common approach, but we’ve yet to see a single company that would be very successful with it.

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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. Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. If it is important, it will be expected, measured and rewarded.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Attracting the most skilled talent has already become a strategic focus for future-forward companies. The End of “Jobs” and the Beginning of Capabilities.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. 52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Different Stuctures, Yet The Same Need For Support Panera has adopted a distributed approach to innovation. Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. As such, our number one priority is to design innovation around these constraints”, she says.

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Instead, it’s a framework designed to enhance the innovation process. The key lies in creating a culture of innovation that values creativity while ensuring a structured approach to execution. Driving Market Leadership through Innovation: ISO 56001 encourages organizations to prioritize innovation strategically.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Managers who embrace all of the other nine roles so far will have gone a very long way to showing their commitment to innovation. However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Beyond these other nine roles, people can sense when a leader has a real personal passion for innovation.

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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. Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Fail forward.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. — I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way.

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But to drive tangible change and propel a business forward, there needs to be a conscious effort put into curating the leadership style of each internal group – from executive teams down to individual staff members. Is your company geared to see a constant stream of results from innovation?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating. A lot of innovators that I have met are impatient people. By the time we start working together, they are already fed up with their company. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 23, 2015

Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year. It’s not a new idea but it’s one more companies should consider. But first: If you’ve not got an innovation plan in the process of being executed, right now, you are treading water and will eventually drown.

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ITONICS

JUNE 24, 2019

Are you still working on ideation or are you actually building an innovation ecosystem supporting the management and the entire company to scale up ? When it comes to proper innovation management , we see more elements in the process than effective and efficient ideation. Maintain cost leadership in the core.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. Assess your current innovation portfolio and how you make investment decisions.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Practical Solution for Medium Sized Companies to Grow. The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. This mild paralysis is an opening for small and medium sized companies. The 80/20 Solution for the MisFortune 10,000. That lowers risk.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Research by the Boston Consulting Group shows that 75% of executives report that innovation is a top-three priority and driver of growth of their companies. Yet results in terms of growth from innovation rarely live up to expectations, despite an abundance of innovation activities. Three Pillars To Drive Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. 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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Why Innovation is a Critical Theme for Keynote Speeches Innovation remains a key driver of success in the business world, and as such, it is a critical theme for keynote speeches at corporate events. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project. Many innovators take on a project without a plan to measure and revise the return on investment projection (and course-correct) as the product evolves. Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app.

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

While these models of advanced work led to so many innovations and created tremendous broad economic value, though not always to the lab’s corporate owner, it is clear that large scale, insulated corporate research is no longer the most common model for entering new markets or developing technologies of the future. What has changed?

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Imaginatik

APRIL 24, 2015

For many companies, the desire to be more innovative is driven by a strategic issue – flat-lined growth, competitive threats, industry upheaval, etc. Over the past decade, I’ve watched the vast majority of innovation programs, and corporate innovation leaders, quietly disappear within 2-3 years of inception (often much sooner).

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Several perspectives and reflection points have emerged regarding what innovation teams should look for when evaluating their portfolios. Bringing Back Financial Projections. In 2023, it’s crucial to move away from making single point estimates and instead relying more on financial projections.

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