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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Plus, innovation as a project demonstrates some investment in innovation but controls for cost and risk.

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What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition

Idea to Value

I spoke to 15 of the world’s leading innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. Analysis of all the definitions. The ultimate definition of innovation. I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”? Introduction. David Burkus.

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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

Problem: Game-Changing Ideas Get Stuck at Square One Without a reliable system for testing early-stage ideas, orgs are leaving innovation ROI on the table. Gartner has found that business leaders underfund transformational projects by ~33% due to ineffective innovation project evaluation methods.

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Building a lasting innovation capability

Jeffrey Phillips

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people.

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Book Review - Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou

Jeffrey Phillips

As such, it's not just choosing a subject, but also having a senior sponsor who cares about the success of the project. Here he relies on Jobs to be Done, a fine methodology, but ignore ideas like the Customer Experience Journey and nice tools from design thinking.

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Idea Champions Helps All Kinds of People Originate Great Ideas

Idea Champions

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Idea Champions brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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Creativity Is Where Innovation Starts

Gregg Fraley

Beyond real world projects, I’ve studied the literature, theory, frameworks, strategy, thinking tools, facilitation, assessments, research, project management, team dynamics, and even improvisation. It’s all useful, but you can drown trying to make it useful in projects. So where do you start?