Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We’re often left feeling powerless to influence the type of change that we want to see, to release our creative juices and not simply to make those quarterly reporting numbers or get caught up in constant cutbacks when they don’t meet market expectations. Every time we begin to call on innovation, we face negative forces.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s the strategies, idea stage gate and workflows that move creative ideas, novel technologies, or key market insights through an efficient and transparent pipeline of challenge solvers and intrapreneurs to drive sustainable growth and gain a competitive edge. Why is it significant?

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2016

From vehicle manufacturer, Polaris, leveraging its employees’ creativity to out-innovate the likes of Harley Davidson, to the UNHCR changing the lives of millions of refugees through crowdsourcing ideas. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. Estimated resources needed to run and sustain the program (i.e.

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IdeaScale

JULY 5, 2017

It’s one of the reasons that crowdsourcing and innovation management champions must communicate the benefits of such programs. Here are some of the most commonly cited benefits of crowdsourced innovation management. Steven Johnson explored the nature of disruptive and creative ideas that have transformed our society.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For over fifty years, we’ve honed our reputation as a leading management consultancy by combining strategy, technology, data science, creative design, and engineering expertise with an inventive mindset.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise. So back to what I have no idea about when it comes to Shrimp.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

That means, as always, that the only limit is your own creativity… Read on to discover more. Personalized AI Writing Assistant: Never Get Lost for Words Again It might sound strange, but one of the most time-consuming aspects of an innovation program can actually be writing and content creation.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It almost sounds like an oxymoron, but with the help of generative AI systems like ChatGPT—OpenAI’s advanced AI language model that’s all the rage these days—you can take a lot of weight off your shoulders by streamlining your innovation processes, so you can have a bit more structure and creativity without the headaches.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I I have very little creativity.” Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation. Catering, hospitality, security, and more are all part of the services it provides.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors attempt to divide the company’s business into buckets with one devoted to the current business that is all about operational efficiency and incremental change, and another that is about delivering organic growth through breakthrough innovations. The “business as usual” program will always win.

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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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Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

Embracing change and fostering innovation are essential for companies aiming to thrive in today’s market. The concept of ‘scaling innovation’ has become a crucial strategy for organizations looking to transform occasional successes into a consistent, organization-wide capability.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 10, 2019

The new unified team also brings together two seasoned professional service organizations that combined have decades of consulting experience in the Innovation Management market and can now fuse their knowhow to deliver an unparalleled set of domain expertise and next practices. About Imaginatik. Media Contact.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Nearly all of their brands were struggling with stagnant or declining market share. These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams. Future Building – a Core Innovation Skill Set.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Revamp your innovation strategy with Planbox’s Avatar Mode , enabling contributors to engage and innovate using anonymous personas. This feature fosters an immersive and dynamic environment, encouraging free-flowing creativity and participation from all levels, including top executives, without compromising anonymity.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The C-Suite holds the key to successful innovation, which can be realized through proper vision and alignment at the top, and then rolled out to the rest of the organization through a coordinated effort. Proactive IS integration with innovation teams can lead to more creative and expansive products and service capabilities.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. Embracing the reality of continuous volatility Remaining relevant means staying vigilant to the constant changes initiated by customers, markets, regulators, employees, etc.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors attempt to divide the company’s business into buckets with one devoted to the current business that is all about operational efficiency and incremental change, and another that is about delivering organic growth through breakthrough innovations. The “business as usual” program will always win.

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Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles

JULY 15, 2020

However, out of left field came the global health pandemic, and collaboration has since taken a major hit at a time when creative ideas and solutions are needed most. Leadership is critical for innovation to be a home run hit however. Knock Your Innovation Program Out of the Park appeared first on Planbox.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. What’s needed is energy AND knowledge about How To Do Innovation. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovative companies treat it as just another core skill by: Creating a well-defined set of innovation competencies and embedding them into every employee’s competency model along with other required behaviors such as ethics and leadership. Conducting regular training courses in creativity methods and innovation management.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

But none of them, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Training makes a big difference in bridging the gap between market knowledge and… what could be.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So, what should organizations be measuring to demonstrate that innovation is an essential activity to achieve their business objectives? This could include breakthrough ideas brought to market, or reduced costs. As a bonus, softer metrics can be reported on easily, as well as early, in the life of your innovation program.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete purpose or hurdle against which the innovation program is supposed to act.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

A really cool thing over at Good Samaritan hospital: They actually created a TriHealth market. For example, if there are ideas that come in involving marketing, we have a contact in marketing who helps team members work through their ideas. SH : You need to impact culture to build your innovation program.

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

Fear that can halt our creativity and productivity in its tracks. Research from the 2008 Great Recession has been clear: companies that continued, even accelerated, their initiatives for innovation across multiple dimensions of business emerged with as much as 2x the stock market growth compared with average companies.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

However, frameworks have built-in assumptions, such as, there’s motivation to innovate, and that the culture is aligned with an innovation effort. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. There is no innovation without creativity.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Do the words “creativity” and “innovation” mean the same thing, or something different? Do “entrepreneur” and “innovator” mean the same thing, or something different? The blurring between creativity and innovation has caused all sorts of headaches. Unleashing creativity" can unleash a flood of new ideas.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Yet a two-track innovation agenda is among the most reliable killers of well-intentioned innovation programs. Two real-world cases are instructive: An international food-service company created a VP Global Innovation position to refresh their food products, packaging, and market approach. The market timing was off.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. Attempts to harness or direct that creative energy are not only futile, but actually impede the process. Illustrating that innovation “ecosystem” is really the first step towards developing a mature innovation function.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It gets better, though: this collaborative partnership ensures innovation isn’t just a department thing—it becomes an organization-wide ethos. Everyone, from the front desk to the top floor, gets in on the act, adding their own creativity to the mix. The best part? Follow me on LinkedIn.

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Hutch Carpenter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The area of collaborative innovation is a natural extension of the social business movement. It’s the extension of social into purposeful collaboration , a term Alan Lepofsky uses to describe the evolution of the social business market. It was run in conjunction with the weekly innovation conversation on Twitter, Innochat.

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Values Centered Innovation

JUNE 15, 2021

For decades, CEO’s have named innovation a top priority. Strategies for innovation abound. Innovation is a popular branding and marketing strategy. The global market is flooded with innovation models, processes, tools, techniques, and slogans like “innovate or die.”.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2019

And Innovation Emergencies Happen. You’re caught off guard by a market shift, a new competitor, or a technical advancement. Unfortunately, many organizations don’t have a formal innovation program, and so, they wait until the proverbial poop hits the fan. Time is what you don’t have in an emergency.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Estimated Benefit of your idea describes all of the ways that it adds new value to the issue at hand such as new revenue through sales, productivity savings, and intangible benefits such as improved morale or creating a creative culture. Please reach out with a note if you want to discuss your innovation program.

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