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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

Instead, they are tapping into the global pool of talent and ideas, using tools like crowdsourcing and hackathons. This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking. Design thinking: Design thinking is another methodology that is gaining traction in innovation.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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Applying Collaborative Innovation to Design Thinking

Innovation Architecture

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. The lean practitioner innovates their way to True North.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. Whether you call it Open Innovation, Idea Management, Innovation Management Systems or Crowdsourcing, the concept is pretty similar. Some of the aspects of Lean Innovation Management include: Encouragement of lots of small scale, cheap experiments instead of full launches.

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Be Innovative if You Want to Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. Third, remember you’re designing for agility which means you’re only making a commitment to explore and evaluate. IdeaScale makes it easy to implement a high-level methodology (e.g.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. With lean budgets for innovation a reality at many large organizations, managers are often reluctant to allocate funding and staff to projects they perceive as risky, or that don’t help them achieve their short-term performance metrics.

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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes? These cover Lean, Co-creation, Collaboration, Ecosystems, Open Innovation, Ten Types of Innovation, User-Led Innovation and others.