Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Getting started with Innovation Metrics. It seems an oxymoron to some that, a process as spontaneous and creative as innovation can and should be measured. Metrics are essential to track and guide the development of your innovation system. Metrics are essential to track and guide the development of your innovation system.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS. We can define Design Thinking as: “A structured, human-centered approach to innovation which seeks to generate solutions that align user’s desires and needs with business value generation.” This way, the most strategic ideas are prioritized for prototyping. Prototyping Tools.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

This simple innovation dramatically increased idea production and accelerated the work on the bomb. If a brainwriting group has 10 members, up to 10 ideas will be generated for every one generated in a typical brainstorming session of 10 members. Brainwriting increases idea production dramatically.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

And besides, even a casual scan of the literature will reveal an extraordinary number of innovation-leaning people who joined forces with others to conceive something brilliant that none of them could have conjured on their own. The anti-brainstorming forces are also fond of asserting that creativity is stifled in a brainstorming session.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". And here, oh aspiring innovator, is where the plot thickens. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2016

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". And here, oh aspiring innovator, is where the plot thickens. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". And here, oh aspiring innovator, is where the plot thickens. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, many people just consider individual idea generating (or thinking) as brainstorming – when it was originally meant to be a group experience…a brainstorming session. IDEO’s rules of brainstorming are well-known in the innovation community. Stick your ideas on the wall so others can visualize them.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Our conclusion after almost twelve months of executing online workshops with hundreds of participants: it is possible to develop innovative business ideas remotely – if you consider certain points. We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

But in the spirit of an Economic Development “What If…” What If all those other Amazon bidders had put that same energy, and money, into doing innovation projects that are smaller in scale, but, new, different, and clever in their regions? What kind of innovation projects might they have done instead?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

For results in idea generation you need a system, a framework, and a wide, deep chest of tools. How can you generate great ideas with a more systemic approach to “brainstorming”? Professional innovators already use brainwriting — and a vast array of other tools — to brainstorm/generate ideas.

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