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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

Most innovators are optimists. There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Bungle team composition. Move straight to “solution” mode.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Johnson & Johnson’s Linda Lavelle

Planview

From developing digital technology solutions for our medical devices to utilizing a digital supply chain to better deliver our pharmaceutical products to our customers, I’m really interested to see what comes up from Fast Track Ideas (Johnson & Johnson’s idea management system – more on this later) along those lines.

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

Moves the Needle

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. 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.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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A Recap of Innova-Con 2018: The Maturation of Innovation Management Continues

Innovation Architecture

The IAOIP in its development finds itself at the right place at the right time, based on conversations that I had with the members at Innova-Con: practitioners there expressed a need to define, embrace, and master standards for the field in response to their organizations’ call to achieve ever greater levels of innovation.

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The Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

The discipline's contributions are very well known⃜ human–centric design and design thinking, together with many powerful design methods like personas, empathy maps, customer experience journey maps, and probably a hundred or more creativity hacks, all used to study and better understand needs and solutions.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.