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Innovation Confidence Course

Jeffrey Phillips

The author refers to a lot of factors that stymie innovation, including many of the usual suspects: holding a brainstorm and then doing nothing sustaining a fear of failure thinking innovation is something the technology guys do One of the factors that caught my eye also got me thinking, however. What's wrong with an obstacle course?

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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It's past time to reintroduce risk into corporations

Jeffrey Phillips

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market. One participant talked about the role that large corporations could play, and sometimes do play, in commercializing new technologies.

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Future-Proof Your Business: Building Strategies for a Disruptive World

Leapfrogging

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Conditions for innovation to succeed

Jeffrey Phillips

For example, one of the biggest idea killers is the inability for many companies to take really good ideas and get them prioritized in the existing product development process. Solution Development - You've got to figure out how good ideas are going to get converted into new products or solutions.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. It does seem we all need to pursue disruptive and radical innovation designs.

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Six factors that lead to greater innovation success

Jeffrey Phillips

A new product may lack key features or components, or like some successful products take years to build an audience. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Why is there so much failure in the front end of innovation? As much as any can be, these are good failures.