IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

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. My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

As we welcome the new year, we asked our team of product innovation experts and thought leaders to identify trends they’re seeing across the industry and within our customer implementations. Trend #1: Greater Financial Scrutiny on New Product Development Balanced Against Innovation Opportunity While the U.S.

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

CPG embraces constant change and ceaseless innovation to keep up with consumer demands while building brands customers rely on in their daily lives. How do the major companies’ research and development teams build and manage a portfolio of innovative products while ensuring long-term market success and consistent brand loyalty?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Seven Roads of Innovation–Based Growth. It might be a matter of finding new markets, even creating new markets, or just finding new space in your current markets through new technology and products. ROAD #1 — PRODUCT INNOVATION & BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION. And it's unrelenting.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What is your definition of innovation? An article in The Wall Street Journal about food companies innovating to raise prices features this definition of innovation from Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen: “Creating something I didn’t know I needed is innovation.”. Think about: Who is pushing the product to the extremes?

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Yet2

MAY 28, 2019

de Chabot-Tramecourt explained to the audience how innovation has changed at Janssen over the years and how they handle the specific challenges of: Higher regulatory requirements. A conservative market. Geoffrey de Chabot-Tramecourt, Janssen PMP, presenting at NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry Conference.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 6, 2022

What’s next for consumer products Innovating for new moments in consumer journeys. Putting digital-first up-front in the design process, rather than having it as an after-thought, can decrease the cost and reduce the risk of product development and omni-channel launch.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2015

If a manufacturing company committed to deliver 100 items per day to a customer from a line capable of producing only 50 items per day, it would not stay in business for long. Later, they wonder why their projects are consistently late or miss target market windows. Continue reading →

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Brunner

AUGUST 12, 2020

Social listening is widely accepted in the world of business as a way for companies to connect with their target audience and find out what that audience thinks about a given product, campaign or initiative. It’s good for market insight in terms of developing new brand positioning, and it could be used for product innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

An old marketing adage is that half of a company’s advertising is effective, we just don’t know which half. A similar conundrum faces innovators and product developers, with the best companies finding success with about half of the products they create (and the odds are much worse for average companies).

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Planview

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The dismantling of silos is especially crucial in companies that produce physical products involving cross-functional teams that need more efficient ways of sharing and visualizing their work across the organization.

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Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

This can include information about the company internally, customer information, market information, sales velocity, competitive information and numerous other metrics. When used correctly this data can allow companies to reasonably predict the outcome and validate their decisions while still moving quickly and innovating.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. What besets today’s companies? Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999).

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. What besets today’s companies? Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At At our company we have a culture that fears failure. Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2017

Be clear with your product marketing! Many companies and people confuse what they mean when discussing Value Propositions, Benefits, and Features. Be clear with your product marketing. The solution then is not your product or its technical.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership. It has also given birth to outstanding innovation methods such as outcome–driven innovation (jobs–to–be–done theory) and discovery–driven innovation. Thank you, Design!

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Innovation and change destroy complacent, unchanging business structures and models. In every market. Product life cycles are collapsing - I was recently in a conference where a camera manufacturer estimated the average shelf life for a new camera was between 3 and 6 months, or less than half the product development cycle time!

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s a series of much smaller innovations that make sure that a product consistently evolves over time and becomes more competitive in the market. Examples of Incremental Innovation Incremental innovation can take a lot of forms. Another company that is an expert at incremental innovation is Coca-Cola.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Purpose answers an all-important question, “ Why does a company exist? ”?—?and Companies that were already purpose-driven have been pivoting and expanding to include new areas and specialties. They are also healthier, more resilient, and more likely to stay at the company.

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2021

Grant Thornton International, a Fortune 500 company, is a winner of the IdeaScale 2021 Innovation Management Award for Best Innovation. This year, one of our winners was Grant Thornton International in the category of Best Innovation for their ability to deliver the IASC – a process and product innovation with global appeal.

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New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

All of them directed to the same article, which made the point that while innovation isn’t everyone’s job, it should be. Executives are constantly lamenting that new ideas only come out of “the labs” or “Product” when, in fact, the company is made up of thousands of people with great ideas. It over-emphasizes product innovation.

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helloFUTURE

AUGUST 14, 2022

In the end, we never met with Netscape; this was about a week before they went public on the stock market, and they ended up not having enough time for us. We spoke about developing Yahoo! Canada, which would be the company’s first edition available in a country other than the US. The conversations were fruitful.

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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.

Product Development 65

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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.

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Product Development Project Management Groups 40

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.

Product Development 40

Product Development Project Management Groups 40