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Inform Your Product Development with Innovation Roadmaps

IdeaScale

Product roadmaps are powerful tools to get the team organized and to get a new product launched. Innovation roadmaps use the product roadmap technique to drive innovation strategy, and they’re powerful tools regardless of your industry. Why A Roadmap? What kind of product do you want to produce?

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

IdeaScale

How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? Regardless of how your organization is structured, you must invest time in teaching your employees how to think creatively and be more innovative. Here are a few of my favorites: How To Build Your Creative Confidence (video). The Corporate Startup (book). Originals (book).

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Innovation Services: In-House or Outsourced?

IdeaScale

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. Start the outsourcing process before you hit that milestone, however, so you can stick to your roadmap. Timing is key to outsourcing.

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

IdeaScale

How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? Regardless of how your organization is structured, you must invest time in teaching your employees how to think creatively and be more innovative. Here are a few of my favorites: How To Build Your Creative Confidence (video). The Corporate Startup (book). Originals (book).

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

The power of collaboration beyond the confines of a conventional organization are leading many to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding innovation – so independent parties work together to design, produce and finance new things. Or of Jugaad – small, smart innovation for ordinary people.

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Expert Interview Series: Jennifer Riggins of Happy Melly On Growing Your Brand Using Collaboration And Innovation

IdeaScale

Don’t love the word “component” kicking off the first question – we aren’t talking about Ford’s pieces on an assembly line that have mostly been replaced by robots, we’re talking about human beings, usually working in knowledge and creative-based jobs, albeit toward a common goal.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Roadmapping. Process of Creativity (Gill). Creative Problem Solving (Isaksen). Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more….