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All You need to know about Roadmapping in Innovation

ITONICS

Roadmapping has been used in industry for a while and recently has been extensively scientifically analyzed and further developed. All companies from corporations to SMEs need a quick and effective opportunity to deal with the topic of roadmapping, identify new technologies and embed them in their own corporate strategy. Thus, it’s essential to actively use robust methods such as roadmapping – to stay ahead of the competition. Technology Roadmap.

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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. .

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All You need to know about Roadmapping in Innovation

ITONICS

Roadmapping has been used in industry for a while and recently has been extensively scientifically analyzed and further developed. All companies from corporations to SMEs need a quick and effective opportunity to deal with the topic of roadmapping, identify new technologies and embed them in their own corporate strategy. Thus, it’s essential to actively use robust methods such as roadmapping – to stay ahead of the competition. Integrated Roadmap.

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Double Down on Digital Tech Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Adjust Innovation Project Roadmaps Now. More uncertainty will freeze some of your competition. I could be wrong, if it’s longer, the double down strategy is still viable, but it won’t pay off as soon. To Revise Innovation Roadmaps: Double Down on Digital.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

competitive advantage or be a USP, is what drives every organization. with the overall business strategy How much risk they carry What the trade-o?s projects moving. right behavior, activities, and projects. roadmaps and another 9 hacks resulting in process improvements.

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How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade

New Markets Advisors

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. The world is evolving too quickly for competitive advantages to last for a meaningful amount of time. While the value of leveraging your organization’s competitive advantages isn’t gone, it is diminishing. The breadth of its user base is certainly a competitive advantage.

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Learn How IdeaScale’s Solution Creating & Development Feature Can Help Your Business Prototype and Test Concepts

IdeaScale

Innovation strategy needs to have a strong component of team building and a process for developing, launching, and reporting on idea prototypes and pilot projects. Innovation strategy only works if ideas are acted upon. This approach is best for: Competitions. Highlights.

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Are You Doing Agile Right?

Leapfrogging

The Agile Innovation Process is a methodology for continually improving and adapting to competitive and consumer conditions in the marketplace. This goal is met by adopting an agile framework which splits up larger innovation initiatives into smaller projects with simple, manageable tasks. Innovation agile business strategy innovationWhat is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? By Upboard.

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Why innovation portfolios matter

Jeffrey Phillips

What I constantly fail to understand is why innovation is treated so cavalierly, with so little regard for planning and integration to strategy. Certainly companies are good at product portfolio and roadmaps, making decisions on how much to invest in older technologies, how much to invest in newer products and the roadmaps and versions that should be developed. Where are the strategies, portfolios, investment plans for innovation?

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Working in, Working on, Working for the business

Jeffrey Phillips

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the differences between working "in" the business for strategy and innovation versus working "on" the business for strategy and innovation. Good outcomes don't happen by accident, or simply by having a good roadmap.

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Timing of Innovation – Getting the Odds on Your Side

Innovation Excellence

The problem with timing is that every innovation only has a relatively small window of opportunity that happens when the technology and customers are ready, but there isn’t much entrenched competition. It requires companies to adapt, innovate, and find new ways to be competitive.

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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

As Steve Blank well put it in his article , reorganizations, new innovation activities, and process reforms, are all useful tools that usually need to be a part of the transformation plan, but they’re not enough without a strategy, mindset, and culture for innovation.

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Timing of Innovation – Getting the Odds On Your Side

Idea to Value

The problem with timing is that every innovation only has a relatively small window of opportunity that happens when the technology and customers are ready, but there isn’t much entrenched competition. It requires companies to adapt, innovate, and find new ways to be competitive.

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How to Set Department Goals: 5 Useful Tips

CMOE

In addition, two-thirds of large organizations globally struggle to implement their strategies. Establishing the right department goal and roadmap is key to overcoming companies’ execution challenges and obstacles. Consistent with the organization’s strategy and mission.

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The Myth of the First-Mover Advantage: Why to be Smarter, Not Faster

New Markets Advisors

Why would anyone want to be late to the game when you’d just have to take on an entrenched competitor who already has name recognition and a host of other competitive advantages? As other companies released MP3 players, Apple sat back, observed where there were pitfalls among existing offerings, and created a solution that noticeably outperformed the competition on key dimensions. Who will ultimately staff the project, and where does that headcount come from?

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From MW to GW’s of Renewable Hydrogen using Electrolyzers

Paul Hobcraft

The two briefly discussed green Hydrogen and where Electrolyzers will fit within the future strategy of building a broader Hydrogen business. The commercial competitiveness of the electrolyzer will depend on the ability to advance the underlying technologies.

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

More than ever before in history, companies are at risk of missing the boat when it comes to “the continuous evolution of the internet, digitization, the climate change, new competition from startups, the rise of Chinese competition, new technologies and other new megatrends.”

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

More than ever before in history, companies are at risk of missing the boat when it comes to “the continuous evolution of the internet, digitization, the climate change, new competition from startups, the rise of Chinese competition, new technologies and other new megatrends.”

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

More than ever before in history, companies are at risk of missing the boat when it comes to “the continuous evolution of the internet, digitization, the climate change, new competition from startups, the rise of Chinese competition, new technologies and other new megatrends.”

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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures. But does that mean that designers should just make pictures and leave the strategy to others? The best designers transcend the gap between strategy and execution. But rather than seeing picture-making as a mere stepping stone toward strategy, we can use it as our “super power” to lead. The roadmap is a collection of prototypes showing what each release will look like.

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Turn the Tables on Product Development Disruptions

Planview

Suppose organizations make adaptability a cornerstone of their product development strategy and overall culture. As a byproduct of that growth, they will find it easier to: Unearth strategic innovation Differentiate at speed Gain a competitive advantage.

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Getting Started with Innovation Management

Strategos

Innovation Management involves all activities that provide the right conditions for innovation to repeatedly deliver value for customers, competitive advantage and growth for the business as well as benefits for employees and all other stakeholders. Practices such as project management and total quality were introduced decades ago and have matured over time. For more on how you develop an Innovation Strategy visit this webinar. Start innovation projects in waves.

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Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption

Innovation in Practice

The opportunity to proactively leverage disruptive events in an effort to leapfrog the competition and actually accelerate results. A simple Reinvention Formula* and Reinvention Roadmap* (for both individuals and organizations), and assorted tools that can create breakthrough results, overcome resistance and inertia, and ensure that every change made reinforces and aligns to the end goal. His projects have received prizes in the areas of leadership and change.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

Do you have a roadmap for its short- and longer-term implications? This could for instance be future competitors or collaborators and the force could be competition from new entrants. Identify necessary projects to be executed now.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. The conversation I recited at the start of this blog proves they are far from being alone in misunderstanding the importance of culture, processes and strategy to innovation. First they need to look at their vision, or innovation strategy. Resources allocation must match the strategy. innovation-management strategy innovation product-management

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AI in Foresight & Innovation Management

ITONICS

The more complex the organization, however, the more difficult it often becomes to keep a clear overview of all the innovation projects, teams and products in the making. Companies usually start by compiling a list of existing innovation projects to get a foundation for further AI algorithms.

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Future Trends 2021: Purpose & Co-creation

Be-novative

Connecting people virtually to co-create in a purpose-driven way accelerates positive business outcomes and unites people in finding meaning in transformative change, that is why Purpose & Co-creation projects are trending in 2021. MENTOR ROLES TO SUPPORT THE PROJECTS?—?Enablers,

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Engaging C-level managers in co-creation from silo-thinking to group dynamics

Be-novative

The problem: A typical problem in large organisations is that senior leadership concentrates on short-term business goals and are less motivated by opportunities to engage with people co-creating projects that reflect on the long-term impact of the company when it comes to a hackathon.

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Engaging C-level managers in co-creation from silo-thinking to group dynamics

Be-novative

The problem: A typical problem in large organisations is that senior leadership concentrates on short-term business goals and are less motivated by opportunities to engage with people co-creating projects that reflect on the long-term impact of the company when it comes to a hackathon.

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Soldiers & Hessians, Ronin & Ninja

Boxes and Arrows

Full “domain knowledge” starts with knowing the basic terminology to business rules, previous project successes and failures, and regulations. In the course of a project, UX professionals dig up data and identify solutions to problems beyond the immediate project. A UX future vision accelerates short-term delivery, but also drives the product roadmap. How to figure out the right team for a new project? Lifespan of project/portfolio.

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3 User-Experience cases that we separated for you

mjvinnovation

In concise English, the User Experience is the art of putting the user in the center of the project. Here, we show you how a User-Centric strategy can help insurers cope with competition from startups! Why companies are investing in User-Experience strategies. Now, why would a company invest in User-Centrism, having the user experience as a guide for its projects? These are projects in which our team applied a User Experience strategy.

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Five Ways to Fight the Inertia Holding Back Innovation

New Markets Advisors

They assume that the customers who are buying their products today will continue to buy from them as long as they do a reasonable job keeping up with the competition. In my book on Jobs to be Done , I outlined five strategies that companies can use to combat inertia. These strategies aren’t simply theories or historical anecdotes. One of the first strategies for fighting inertia is to tie your new offering to a purchase the customer is already making.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. The conversation I recited at the start of this blog proves they are far from being alone in misunderstanding the importance of culture, processes and strategy to innovation. First they need to look at their vision, or innovation strategy. Resources allocation must match the strategy. innovation-management strategy innovation product-management

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. The conversation I recited at the start of this blog proves they are far from being alone in misunderstanding the importance of culture, processes and strategy to innovation. First they need to look to their vision, or innovation strategy. Based on the assessments we provide clear recommendations and roadmaps for improving companies innovation credentials.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. There is a rub here, most transformation projects seem to fail. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage? Business digital transformation, it can certainly get your pulse racing as you start looking for the nearest exit.

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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

And secondly, looking to baseball, the quintessential analytics dream sport, with a century of meticulous and massive data to use to drive competitive advantage – and it wasn’t until the late 90’s and early 2000’s that the standard metrics and value interpretation were challenged, giving teams that were more innovative and savvy in analytics an important statistical advantage. How do we value IP when looking at our own acquisition strategy? by Erik Reeves, CTO of Anaqua.

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Chief Digital Officer - To have or not to have

hackerearth

Today, companies are trying to deal with huge amounts of data, lots of tech advances, and disruptive business models in a highly competitive environment, and the thought cloud has just about burst! With guidance from the board and the CEO, he or she can make a decisive shift around the digital strategy and innovation. The CTO/CDO can connect strategy and implementation better than anyone else.

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Four Steps for the successful Implementation of a holistic Innovation Management

ITONICS

Do you have a clearly formulated innovation strategy and dedicated innovation goals? With the help of questions on innovation strategy and objectives, innovation organization and processes, methodological competence, software solutions and the evaluation of innovation success, a personal innovation benchmark and an individually tailored roadmap are set up to show the potentials for an increasing innovation performance.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

Global manufacturing executives rank “skilled talent” as their #1 competitive differentiator. In order to prepare for the coming skills shortage in manufacturing, business leaders must assess their current capabilities, refine their market strategy, build a culture of innovation, and ensure that they have the most effective leadership styles in place. . We use these as benchmarks to identify gaps and develop a roadmap for each organization.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. There is a rub here, most transformation projects seem to fail. We need to ask can this lead to disruption, ours and others for competitive advantage? Business digital transformation, it can certainly get your pulse racing as you start looking for the nearest exit.

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Munich Re offers a real clarity to their innovating future

Paul Hobcraft

They are “forming an interlocking business model” in what they are currently undergoing, providing a growing range of digital solutions and how active they are in continuously transforming and extending their business and take this opportunity to discuss, through selective projects, the level of detail that gives you an undercurrent of their commitment and belief in the transforming they are undertaking, searching for innovation synergies in all of what they are exploring.

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Successfully shaping Digital Transformation

ITONICS

The way how new business models evolve depends to a large extent on how companies adapt their established value-added processes and structures to environmental changes and on how they face competition. Having a clear strategy and a purposeful, structured process for implementing new business models and/ or gradually adapting existing ones to new business models will determine the success of digital transformation projects and company’s market position. By Andreas Rusnjak.

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AI in Foresight & Innovation Management

ITONICS

The more complex the organization, however, the more difficult it often becomes to keep a clear overview of all the innovation projects, teams and products in the making. Companies usually start by compiling a list of existing innovation projects to get a foundation for further AI algorithms.

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