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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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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far.

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Innovation Services: In-House or Outsourced?

IdeaScale

Of course, in the case of tools like open innovation and crowdsourcing, you might want the perspective of customers and clients on what they need and want. Common examples of outsourcing in innovation include crowdsourcing, platform design and implementation, data collection and analysis, auditing, and testing.

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The Need for Digital Innovation Platforms

Paul Hobcraft

We are seeing many digitally aware organizations like Apple, Amazon, Salesforce all recognizing their future innovation is reliant on innovation and digital to be tied at the hip, wedded together in a design that builds towards satisfying customer needs. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. Pixel will make full use of the power of crowdsourcing to solve a specific problem statement, which is broken down into “pixels,” faster and more efficiently. Check out how the idea generation and project roadmaps here.).

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Design Competitions. Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Roadmapping. Design for Six Sigma (Idov). Double Diamond (Chu).

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.