Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. It does not include product development.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Sustainable innovation requires following a simple framework and living innovation within organizational culture, but it doesn’t need to be scary. New Releases in 2021.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. There is also a lot of yakking about culture. Projects aligned with a vision for the future and a strategy to get there.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Principle 1: Think Big. When companies build a business strategy, they start with the addressable market and decide where to play.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. This process can lay solid foundations for sustaining In the context of sport, something analogous to the Lean process would be to create new team compositions that compensate for the absence of injured players.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Restaurants were the first vertical market, but the strategy at the time was staggering in scope. This wasn’t part of OpenTable’s original thinking or strategy. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Spend all your time debating strategies and arguing business cases, and one thing is certain – you won’t be innovating. From day one, foster a healthy cultural balance between garage entrepreneur and savvy corporate executive. The result is scattershot activities that never grow up to deliver big-league results.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

The change to an innovation mindset and culture can bring many benefits to companies willing to commit. Creating and establishing an innovation culture can be a difficult task for companies that are starting this endeavor. Only in this way is it possible to implement a sustainable innovation culture. User Experience Consulting.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

The present and the future will belong to companies that think about co-creating and putting the focus of their strategies on their employees, customers, and service providers. The Design Thinking methodology is in our DNA and is the foundation of our values. Design Thinking is the backbone for strategic reframing.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Design Thinking. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership. Innovation Management. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Organizational & Human Capability Development. LinkedIn: [link].

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Design Thinking. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership. Innovation Management. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Organizational & Human Capability Development. LinkedIn: [link].

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A multi-billion dollar consumer products company recognized a major shift in its industry, and formed an innovation strategy from the Board level down. The "surface" innovation agenda explicitly defines all the new activities designed to facilitate innovation. And their innovation strategies were sound. The Best-Laid Plans.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! Does your culture support innovation? Is your culture supporting innovation? ” “What!

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Innovation 360

APRIL 30, 2017

Evrim is a senior executive that has accumulated extensive experience and knowledge in innovation, strategy development and execution, business development, mergers and acquisitions, portfolio management, as well as operational excellence. Innovation Strategy. Innovation Culture and Management. Design Thinking.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2023

Lean forward, eyes glittering, eager to hear more Stare blankly and nod slowly Roll their eyes and sigh Wave their hands dismissively and tell you to focus on other, more urgent priorities. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton How do people react when you say “innovation?” If you answered C, you’re in good company. Innovation is […]

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Someone who understood the why behind innovation methods such as design thinking or lean startup and could help you apply them in your organization? Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. One reason innovating is so hard, is because there’s often no real strategy on how to do it.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change. Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that Disruptive innovation initiatives are best to be evaluated on the potential impact they would create: How it fits into your innovation strategy and long-term goals?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

They might take a design thinking initiative, or a lean innovation initiative with growth as the objective, or just improving their data development process. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in. It sits in that layer between strategy and execution. Strategy is another important layer.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy.

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

Or, another alternative that is particularly popular with larger companies: We’ll commission a consulting firm to compile a strategy paper on digitization, substantiated by figures from relevant studies and complicated calculation models in Excel. Focusing on people is a key factor in design thinking /human centered design.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy Innovation for innovation’s sake is a recipe for disaster. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. Communicate the overlap visually and include this in your conversations with others. How can we do this?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

At our company we have a culture that fears failure. How can we restart our innovation culture?”. Why Execution and Innovation Need Different Tools, Cultures and Organizations. I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. What Drives Innovation?

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It is time to build a much more humanized strategy, structured on transparency and truth. Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author, emphasizes the importance of a user-first strategy. Being invested in technology and innovation is a crucial strategy to win market share and customers. New business models.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

It turns out more essential than ever for corporations to find ways how they can balance their innovation portfolio and to evaluate which structures, strategies and resources they have to put in place. On the one hand, it requires tailored digital strategies for companies, entailing technology-enabled, but highly customer-centered innovation.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

Inceodia, and our partners at Innovation Catalyst Group , lead a large public land-grant university through our collaborative Adjacent Business Strategy program to discover new innovative business ideas that addressed the needs of unserved or underserved learner audiences.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

Inceodia, and our partners at Innovation Catalyst Group , lead a large public land-grant university through our collaborative Adjacent Business Strategy program to discover new innovative business ideas that addressed the needs of unserved or underserved learner audiences.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. The challenging part of this is that culture is a very personal thing, which will vary between companies, industries and regions.

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