IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Increased Range of Thought.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Stages and Gates Process Explained The Stages and Gates process, a cornerstone of innovation management, is a framework designed to guide new products and services from conception to launch. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined.

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Innov8rs

MAY 19, 2024

Nowhere is this more important than innovation, where great things rarely happen without a group of focused, talented people coming together to experiment with new ideas. But how can we create the right conditions for these teams to succeed? This can cause frustrations when people with different thinking styles work together.

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Board of Innovation

JULY 20, 2023

Speed, depth and breadth: the rise of Creative AI Table of content The power of imagination Creative AI in product design Ethical considerations and future implications More creative AI resources Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been revolutionizing various industries, and its impact on the creative realm is no exception.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? Agile is a way of thinking which revolves around the idea of designing a product, solution or service quickly in order to get feedback from customers. How do we enable faster decisions?

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

With Innovation Management In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires embracing Industry 4.0 and leveraging the power and adaptability of Innovation Management and strategy. Innovation? innovative manufacturing methods must be developed. Improving Industry 4.0

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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. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation is undergoing a tectonic shift. As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

A lot of innovators that I have met are impatient people. By the time we start working together, they are already fed up with their company. As much as we are keen to get started, it is also important to ensure that we are working on the right things. Innovation Readiness.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. We caught up with the founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital, Ariana Smetana, to find out more about the business and its approach to open-source innovation.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. In this case we will use the Qmarkets platform as an example, as we have achieved some very good results applying this tool.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Innovators listen to what leaders say, but most of all, they watch what leaders do. Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. Innovation is not easy. Ask, “What can we learn?” ask “Why?” “Why

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation .

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. They are not always intentional or by design. Does it matter if no one labels them innovative?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. Our pursuit in life is often the same as our innovation efforts, the search for discovery.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

Practices such as project management and total quality were introduced decades ago and have matured over time. Innovation needs to be on that same trajectory to provide significant value for a business. Innovation is associated with creativity, fun, change and excitement and many people speak of the need for an “Innovation Culture”.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities. Not only is continuous innovation necessary for survival, but also constant refinement and recalibration of existing business models. Exploitation focuses on getting most out of your existing earning model(s).

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Spark uses a proven methodology to deliver a structured process to help you determine the best ideas in which to invest. Maybe you think innovation is just too expensive or time consuming?

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

There is a perception of serendipitous, Zen enlightenment related to ideation that is often accompanied by a thorough dismissal of “process,” as if they are mutually exclusive. In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. Any organization can be innovative. The COO is focused on supply chain, etc.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Find it here.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. It should drive your team.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 14, 2020

Recently, we have been exposed to a lot of information about the new and rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning which is likely to change many things about the way we work and exist in the future. And for this some tools are required.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

The question now – how do we keep that momentum going? For decades, we’ve talked about innovation in education and innovative teaching, but when push comes to shove we often continue to do things the same old way. We have an opportunity right now to truly do something different, to create a new normal.

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

Just like an orchestra, innovation is an interaction of all employees. The moment your company starts introducing innovation-driven activities, there will always be employees who question the purpose or the effectiveness of these strategies. There are different types of innovation KPIs. What are you doing the whole day?”

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. We were at a social event. He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” Not Design Thinking?” Then he popped the question.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Unrealistic expectations of first projects.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. So, the process itself must be carefully tailored to your organization’s culture, needs, and fit seamlessly within your business to ensure employee adoption.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2016

Not long ago our innovation team was asked by a client to lead an innovation project to create a new product. As always when we are asked in by a new client, we did a quick survey. It's important to understand what the client knows about innovation, what they have learned or attempted previously.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 26, 2021

By this point, you must have been struggling to find a consultancy with experience in the market who understands your segment and knows how to drive innovation with speed and consistent results. But, in a market where everyone is looking for innovation, how can we be sure that this initiative will generate satisfactory results?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Unrealistic expectations of first projects.

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Commodore Innovation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At a minimum, it would present companies with an extraordinary opportunity to enhance their innovation productivity —which would enhance shareholder value [3] and be an important source of competitive advantage. Companies who aren’t attempting to leverage AI to enhance innovation risk being left behind.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you’re interested in implementing personality inventories or style assessments into your own hiring practices, here are the top assessment tools we’ve used and have been hearing about from practitioners to help you understand your employees and potential hires better: DISC. Follow thru: arranging and designing.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Today, those changes in the environment are compounded by the impact the crisis is having on innovation budgets. Potential changes to innovation strategy might include: Adjusting goals to align with the crisis’s impact on your target markets (e.g., Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.”

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