Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. They need a more fluid, highly adaptive design.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation. For some, it may be through hard work and determination, while others may find success through innovation with creativity, data, and automation. The success of Alex’s company, Pet Markt Co, was a combination of creativity, data, and automation. Creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2021

Moving to an anonymous, text-based online collaborative environment, though, offers multiple new, intriguing possibilities for leaders to cultivate innovation. For example, while designing and facilitating an early Brainzooming online collaboration in 2013, a nonprofit’s leader decided to change his participant role. The Expander.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part. Peeling away and pulled away- why do we do that?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Organisational culture plays an essential role in fostering successful innovation, yet it is often overlooked or discounted by those responsible for driving that growth, i.e. the executive team. Furthermore, all the elements of the innovation system need to be interconnected and equally mature. Not in a high-performing way, at least.

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

We’ll explore how fostering a culture that embraces a future-fit mindset can be achieved by leveraging ISO 56001 as a tool to enhance creativity and innovation. “ The key lies in creating a culture of innovation that values creativity while ensuring a structured approach to execution.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Low-skilled, repetitive labor is being automated, while skills like innovation and creativity are more and more in demand.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2022

In a world that’s flooded with assessment and measurement tools that tell you what kind of leader, innovator or person you are, it’s refreshing to see a new assessment that is backed by rigorous academic research and data. I like the mindset approach to innovation because it isn’t black or white – a, b, c, or d kind of work.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I’ll unpack the core principles of ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ and share approaches to help overcome the organisational antibodies that often stifle innovation, empowering teams to unleash bold ideas that can reshape your industry’s future. They are not always intentional or by design.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Managers who embrace all of the other nine roles so far will have gone a very long way to showing their commitment to innovation. However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Beyond these other nine roles, people can sense when a leader has a real personal passion for innovation.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 15, 2018

If you are like most companies, you put your most creative people in a room to develop ideas who then hand off those ideas to a team of implementers. Each team was composed of two groups: the “designers” who had to work out a solution to the problem, and the “builders” who were charged with making it work.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The shedding of legacy can equally liberate innovation. The changes we are undergoing around a new strategy design play towards innovation outcomes. So by us recognizing innovation as the means of gaining an advantage, we need to think more creatively on where and how we scale.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Broad Categories of Innovation At the heart of the innovation spectrum lie two broad categories that encapsulate the range of strategies businesses can deploy: incremental innovation and radical (including disruptive) innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Prototyping — including: design, graphic arts, and concept writing are skills that go beyond engineering. A Practical Solution for Medium Sized Companies to Grow. That lowers risk. Fractional Trend.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For more than a decade now, the fundamental challenge around driving real growth and value from innovation is tied to many companies low focus on organisational design and culture. The design of an organisation and more importantly, how its people contribute, places HR at the centre of the challenge. Gary Vaynerchuk.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It is an integral aspect of people and team performance, as it creates an environment conducive to collaboration, creativity, and, ultimately, innovation. Still, the rewards are well worth it, as teams that feel safe communicating and taking risks are more productive, engaged, successful and innovative.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Image taken from the 2019 Innovation Trends Report. Creating true innovation within larger, established organizations is notoriously difficult. The ability to assemble cross-functional teams, as well as gain input from many different departments and minds, can spur creativity. Design Thinking Still the Most Popular Framework.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app. A Strategy Framework to Drive Innovation-- and ROI-- at Large Enterprises. It is possible to drive a creative and thoughtful process without losing sight of the return on investment. The key is to prioritize the end-users’ needs.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

nd There are multiple “stretching and straining points” that make the life of the innovator increasingly uncomfortable. These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. The innovation process becomes core to delivering on these needs.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative. 3 rd sign: The emergence of emotional intelligence and good character values to balance the historical bias towards the mental side of innovation. That was Frank’s formula for a true “Return on Innovation Investment (ROII).”.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Kumuda Suppayah an Innovation strategist, and business transformation expert in the Oil and Gas sector. Part 1 of the episode is designed around three main questions: What is innovation? How should innovation be measured? 08:28] How Should Innovation be Measured?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Follow thru: arranging and designing. By reviewing the ways in which your employees process and handle information and tasks, you can design better workflow in your organization and design teams primed to innovate together. Myers Briggs is a classic personality assessment designed based on C. Myers Briggs.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 4, 2019

Design Thinking (DT), (also known as human-centered design) is an innovation process used to evolve products and services in business and social impact sectors.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?—?and and the real innovators know that. Because these innovation challenges are neither linear, just like breakthroughs (however the most used the stage-gate process is a more linear process).

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You can’t innovate without an exploratory learning process. Deliberately embracing learning — as part of the innovation process — can lead to better ideas and improved innovation results. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite. How Scaffolding Applies to Innovation.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION? There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. Innovating inherently suggests taking risks, and we know organisations can be risk-averse.

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