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Practical Innovation throughout the business

Jeffrey Phillips

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. I happen to be a fan of the big, platform basis innovation programs, where an organization sets out to build innovation capacity as a core competency.

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

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Innovation activity is at an all-time high. From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. Leaders have established clear goals for all innovation efforts. Here’s how.

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How Schibsted Media Group Used Empathy and Evidence to Validate New Ideas

Moves the Needle

Schibsted Media Group Case Study Founded in 1839, Schibsted Media Group is a Norwegian media group with operations in 29 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden. Furthermore, innovation catalysts have been identified and received the “ Train the Trainer ” certifications to help scale innovation internally.

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Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge

Gregg Fraley

Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.).

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. What is Design Thinking?

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

Leaders must give teams secure space within the safety of an innovation program to question and overturn these assumptions before the competition inevitably does so. Organisations that excel at driving genuine innovation don’t just rely on existing market intelligence like focus groups, trend reports or big data.