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The 4-Step Guide to Refining Your Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Innovation processes can be complex. Most companies today make innovation a priority — or at least they say they do. However, innovating is an inexact science. So how do you know if your innovation process is working? So how do you know if your innovation process is working?

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. This, by far, is the most common challenge faced across companies. Challenges in “Buy-In”.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Companies that survive do both. Here are a couple of options seen at various companies over time.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything.

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How Innovative Is Your Organization? Take This Brief Assessment to Find Out!

IdeaScale

Innovation drives economic growth. The most innovative companies understand the importance of developing solutions that solve critical problems. In 2021, approximately $600 billion will go toward research and development in the U.S. ranking third on the Global Innovation Index. Risk Tolerance. Confidence.

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Use this White Space Innovation Tool to Supercharge Your Innovation Efforts

Leapfrogging

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. Description of the White Space Innovation Process . Finally, Implement the White Space Innovation Plan

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The appropriate innovation speed: slow, then fast

Jeffrey Phillips

At the time I was writing this post, I was concerned that too many companies were under too much pressure to speed up their innovation activities and generate some interesting new ideas. Otherwise, speed can kill an innovative idea. The problem with that speeding up concept was that most companies were starting from zero.