Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2023

They had just run an idea-generation challenge and received a decent number of responses from their employees about new innovations they could pursue. The issue was that the company now had no idea which of the ideas should be taken forward.

LEAN 214

LEAN Idea Generation Analysis Project 214

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation. Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy.

Company 276

Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring.

Disruption 52

Disruption Strategy Strategy Groups 52

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. You can find great people, have great leadership, have some interesting innovation processes or tools and do innovation occasionally if the culture will alllow it. The real challenge in what I've written is in culture.

Innovation 157

Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively.

Training 58

Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“TRIZ is a problem solving method based on logic and data, not intuition, which accelerates the project team’s ability to solve these problems creatively” Using the FORTH Method to Navigate Your Innovation Journey. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive.

Crowdsourcing 199

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed? Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation. It’s assumed that the team of idea people will just do combinations organically.

Ideation 52

Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52