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What to innovate now

Jeffrey Phillips

Today, experience innovation, process innovation and service innovation is as important as a new product. But all of this innovation activity seems somewhat quaint, like planning to take your Model T out on the highway, or bringing a pocket knife to a gun fight, in light of what's happening in the market.

Agile 261
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Innovators need to heighten sensory intelligence and cognitive abilities.

Paul Hobcraft

Even if heightened sensory profiles were a universal characteristic among innovators, it wouldn’t be the sole factor driving innovation. Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, play significant roles in the innovative process.

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Every idea needs a sponsor

Jeffrey Phillips

Since it is easy to generate lots of ideas, every business has plenty of incremental and disruptive ideas floating around. Sometimes "pet" ideas or concepts that aren't really interesting or innovative have sponsors. What do sponsors do for ideas? What happens without sponsorship?

Resources 175
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Leveraging Venture Building for Long-Term Returns

Innov8rs

The dilemma is further exacerbated by corporate governance systems designed for operational excellence rather than innovation. This makes innovation budgets subject to intense scrutiny, especially during economic downturns, often resulting in budget cuts. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

Agile 40
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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

When they are constantly scanning reports on the “state of innovation” it can often lull them, to give some that warm glow, others quickly being dismissive, disregarding many of the key messages as “not applicable to me”. Then disruption suddenly hits. So where does innovation sit within your organization?

Report 212
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Conditions for innovation to succeed

Jeffrey Phillips

It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success. This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas.