Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

When restaurants have several years of data in the system, the next several weeks of reservations lined up in it, a staff that’s been trained on how to use it, and a large percentage of their reservations coming through it, they’re essentially locked into the model. This wasn’t part of OpenTable’s original thinking or strategy.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is an easy-to-use, self-guided innovation kit that is designed to help you explore entrepreneurial ideas, systematically take your idea to the next level and develop and practice start-up skills. Spark uses the iterative process of the Design-Test-Repeat cycle to adapt your course of action based on evidence.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development. Now, every website change or product update is expected to have data and evidence to back it up.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Rather than on delivering mass-scaled products or services, the focus is on creating data-based platforms that enable a number of stakeholders, such as customers, partnering companies and third party contributors, to participate in co-creating highly contextualized solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” 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!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods. Data Analytics.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

While you may have never of Rick Turner, you have undoubtedly heard and probably seen one of his famous innovations: the Model 1 guitar. He designed the instrument forty years ago for Lindsey Buckingham, formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Previously, Turner designed guitars for another company. 2 Introduce One or More Constraints.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Traditional market research uses personas to represent an amalgamation of data in effort to humanize data. So, considering your sandbox and the time horizon, what patterns exist in the customer data? It should be noted that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all “innovation” framework. Concern for the environment?

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

For leaders, I offer this first piece of advice: Leading FOR Innovation starts with self and an awareness that in most organisations, the challenges and barriers that stand in the way of driving innovation-led growth are put there by ourselves. They are not always intentional or by design. Why is this methodology critical?

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

These KPIs measure the “inputs” into the innovation process, demonstrate what level of innovation activity is going on in the company and display how wide the range of innovation activities is.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? AI, Analytics, IoT, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Social Media, Sensors, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Voice Recognition… and the list goes on. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. That’s where lean methodology comes up. We suggest that instead of waiting on years of data to try out new ideas in education, we provided a structured approach to innovation so that teachers can actually try out new initiatives to see if they work.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. More efficient management of innovation projects, including smarter team formation. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

Critical points assessment – after reaching the process map, the time has come to assess the most bureaucratic points or those with the greatest evidence of inefficiency, in addition to proposing actions to mitigate or eliminate these bottlenecks. Modeling – organization, design or redesign of the process flow.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation. Fail forward.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. 75% of all digital data is now created by consumers , much of it via handheld devices.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

A-priori and post-hoc – Predict what future outcomes or wait to get actual data. This is a constant tension in any innovation management system and an area in which new, AI-based tools will have significant impact in this area. The four phases are as follows: Data from 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In working with this extended innovation funnel model we have made one more interesting observation: The chances for identifying and implementing successful breakthrough innovations are greatly increased if the individual stages are orchestrated by Design Thinking (see e.g. here). More and more, Enterprise 2.0/Social

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. — I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The adoption of Lean and Agile, of Design Thinking, of being encouraged to invest in rapid experimentation and build prototypes that can quickly advance understanding of customer need, design and how it will provide functionality in the marketplace is accelerating innovation. It needs a base.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. What do we need that is different from today?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. What do we need that is different from today?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. Today, our DoD and national security agencies are running as hard as they can just to stay in place, but our adversaries are continually innovating faster than our traditional systems can respond.

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The BMI Lab Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

More specifically, those examples do not show how European companies, that are hidden champions in their domain, are succeeding in innovation. In fact, achieving results from a business model innovation process is possible with proper guidance and resources. This business model eventually became TICK.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Breakthrough innovators (i.e. strong and disruptive innovators) – accounting for only 7.6% of BCG’s sample, by the way – seem to be especially effective at bringing together required management, governance and organizational design and synthesizing them for high impact.

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IM Insights

JANUARY 11, 2022

And so, when we design the skates now, I suppose are points of decision making whether or not we want to continue or not continue. And I think many people are struggling with it, I see many people designing it and I’m not sure like to ask too many questions. No, that’s good. That’s really what we’re looking for.

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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Breakthrough innovators (i.e. strong and disruptive innovators) – accounting for only 7.6% of BCG’s sample, by the way – seem to be especially effective at bringing together required management, governance and organizational design and synthesizing them for high impact.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For example: When you’re considering the risks of increasing production line capacity for an existing business, the expected benefits, costs and risks related to the project are usually pretty straightforward to assess and calculate, which means that it’s easy to make a very educated, data-driven decision.

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