Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

For leaders, I offer this first piece of advice: Leading FOR Innovation starts with self and an awareness that in most organisations, the challenges and barriers that stand in the way of driving innovation-led growth are put there by ourselves. They are not always intentional or by design. Why is this methodology critical?

Innovation 59

Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 17, 2016

. “The problem is that an organization’s capacity for innovation stems from an innovation system: a coherent set of interdependent processes and structures that dictates how the company searches for novel problems and solutions, synthesizes ideas into a business concept and product designs, and selects which projects get funded.

Strategy 124

Strategy Strategy Innovation Resources 124

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2022

Over time our organizations are finding increasing reasons to put off the more radical innovation that is needed. Incremental innovation is safe and contains all the risks within acceptable levels, so it allows the organization to keep its fixation on the short-term as its only line of site (and executive pay-off).

Innovation 130

Innovation Radical Innovation Creativity Analysis 130

hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

Most often, teams that work on co-innovation projects share some or the other common capabilities, including technical, organizational, financial, and marketing. The best practice for successful co-innovation and for avoiding future disappointment is to fill the knowledge gaps before the beginning of a project.

Open Innovation 68

Open Innovation Survey Collaboration Innovation 68

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 29, 2016

Another source on the theme, O’Reilly III and Tushman (2004) , talks about being able working ambidextrously with incremental and radical innovation at the same time. The insight of dividing innovation work into different Horizons in order to manage it effectively is, in my experience, often well known at C-level.

Company 40

Company Radical Innovation Leadership Study 40

Innovation 360

MAY 29, 2016

Another source on the theme, O’Reilly III and Tushman (2004) , talks about being able working ambidextrously with incremental and radical innovation at the same time. The insight of dividing innovation work into different Horizons in order to manage it effectively is, in my experience, often well known at C-level.

Company 40

Company Radical Innovation Leadership Study 40

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

As Geoffrey Moore [2] has pointed out, breakthrough innovations need to “cross the chasm” between the initial customers and the majority of the market. Actively managing the market introduction therefore increases significantly the likelihood of success for radical innovations.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Let me offer some of the parts that need to be explored and changed, to radically update the innovation effect within the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries and allow for a different scope of discovery, engagement and exploitation. Product innovation from discovery to market is still the biggest drag on industry performance.

Collaboration 138

Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Industry 138

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). Pitfalls to Avoid. Quantity does not equal quality.

Innovation Programs 56

Innovation Programs Software Review Technical Review Innovation 56

Integrative Innovation

JUNE 15, 2017

Although it often involves external partners and capabilities (including acquisitions), it engages significant resources of the established company, and internal teams typically manage projects. Leading advocate organizations build an arsenal of facilitation methodologies, new business design tools and networks with external capabilities.

Entrepreneurship 92

Entrepreneurship Innovation Culture Disruption 92

Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

LEAN 96

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Design 96

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). Pitfalls to Avoid. Quantity does not equal quality.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Software Review Technical Review Innovation 40

The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

Disruptive Innovation – Requires a new business model but not a technological breakthrough. Radical Innovation – Requires a technological breakthrough but not a new business model. Architectural Innovation – Requires significant changes in both business model and technology. The design space is large – but not infinite.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Creativity System 40

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

Based on retrospective analytics—Net Present Value (NPV) models, for instance, are built on market projections that are calculated using past trends—they tend to skew innovation decisions toward optimizing existing product lines rather than pursuing new ones. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

Innovation 133

Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Companies which want a structured system to manage a funnel of ideas and projects (e.g. What it is: Inspired by a number of Lean Startup principles along with aspects of Design Thinking and Agile Development, Lean Innovation Management is a framework to manage innovation projects in a more agile way than traditional project management.

Company 248

Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Metrics are important in sending a signal you are serious about innovation and in establishing the desired innovation behaviours. Metrics help managers make informed decisions based on objective data, which is especially valuable given the long-term nature and risk associated with some innovation projects.

Guidelines 45

Guidelines Innovation Innovation Programs System 45

100%Open

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Sometimes open innovation is perfect for new areas or radical innovation. Similarly if you are innovating outside your core capabilities then it often makes sense to acquire new skills from the outside. A couple of years back Lego asked us to find ways to reduce static on production lines using open innovation.

Open Innovation 40

Open Innovation Innovation Radical Innovation Collaboration 40

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

Based on retrospective analytics—Net Present Value (NPV) models, for instance, are built on market projections that are calculated using past trends—they tend to skew innovation decisions toward optimizing existing product lines rather than pursuing new ones. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

Innovation 133

Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The Lockheed Skunk Works ® led by Kelly Johnson was responsible for its Advanced Development Projects – everything from the P-80 , the first U.S. That means that somehow we need to take the innovation that a skunk works removed from the core of the company and integrate the two. But to survive companies need innovation by design.

Disruption 35

Disruption Groups Radical Innovation Culture 35

Integrative Innovation

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many organizations have also built up the capabilities to tackle Playing Field 3 via innovation centers, incubators / accelerators, internal venturing, intrapreneurship programs or external startup engagement. However, as our project work shows, when it comes to integration (Playing Field 2), most companies face huge problems.

Innovation Management 49

Innovation Management Management Innovation Strategy 49

ITONICS

JULY 30, 2018

For example, what are the biggest challenges for clients planning and carrying out individual construction projects worldwide? Discovering and designing an innovation field requires a mixture of data research and intuition. Which solutions can they use to perform their tasks even better?

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Innovation Big Data 40

Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In this part, we put Scaling-Up in the context of a foundational framework for modern corporate innovation management which we call ‘ Dual Innovation ‘ Dual Innovation is a new and unique framework that integrates the two corporate innovation perspectives : Operative Business Units (short: BUs) and Corporate.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Disruption Design Management 40

Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

After studying innovation among 759 companies based in 17 major markets, Gerard J. Chandy found that corporate culture was a much more important driver of radical innovation than labor, capital, government or national culture. Breakthrough innovators (i.e. Top management is commited to radical innovation efforts.

Culture 100

Culture Radical Innovation Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 100

hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

“Innovation Management is about more than just planning new products, services, brand extensions, or technology inventions. It’s about imagining, mobilizing, and competing in new ways,” says Idris Mootee, author of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation. They design their strategy based on context. Source: BearingPoint.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Technical Review Management Software Review 40

hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

“Innovation Management is about more than just planning new products, services, brand extensions, or technology inventions. It’s about imagining, mobilizing, and competing in new ways,” says Idris Mootee, author of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation. They design their strategy based on context. Source: BearingPoint.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Technical Review Management Software Review 40

Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

While they don’t have the same resources as large corporations, SMEs can potentially be quite innovative. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The project ran for 30 months, with the first half focused on assessment and strategy, and the second on implementation and value creation.

Case Study 51

Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Project Study 51

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. The thing that stood out was that Qmarkets showed the most flexibility when designing a workflow.

Crowdsourcing 98

Crowdsourcing Software Review Technical Review Project 98

Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

After studying innovation among 759 companies based in 17 major markets, Gerard J. Chandy found that corporate culture was a much more important driver of radical innovation than labor, capital, government or national culture. Breakthrough innovators (i.e. Top management is commited to radical innovation efforts.

Culture 40

Culture Radical Innovation Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 40

Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Masterful innovators aren’t just throwing stuff at the wall to see what will stick (although there is a time and place for this kind of experimentation), they are structured, methodical and systematic in organizing their innovation projects. Building a culture of innovation. Why do we innovate? What do we innovate?

Culture 83

Culture Management Project Leadership 83

Integrative Innovation

MARCH 28, 2015

The Breakthrough Factory focuses on development of a pipeline of “grand-challenge”-led radical or game-changing innovations that push the boundaries of science. This model is especially effective in technologically-complex domains with high uncertainty where faster progress is needed.

Innovation 40

Innovation Disruption Survey Technology 40

Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

These systems can deploy massive resources with precision, yet have the flexibility to keep innovations alive in hostile market environments defined by UPACS (Uncertainty, Paradoxes, Ambiguity, Complexity, and Speed). We will outline which structures which will be required by your unique innovation footprint. Success by Design.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Radical Innovation Technical Review Software Review 40

Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

These systems can deploy massive resources with precision, yet have the flexibility to keep innovations alive in hostile market environments defined by UPACS (Uncertainty, Paradoxes, Ambiguity, Complexity, and Speed). We will outline which structures which will be required by your unique innovation footprint. Success by Design.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Radical Innovation Technical Review Software Review 40

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. Even fewer are actually investing in them. (…).

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. The thing that stood out was that Qmarkets showed the most flexibility when designing a workflow.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Software Review Technical Review Project 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

Each design perhaps is unique to fit individual circumstances. The ones who will want to frustrate, exhaust and determine a pathway towards project death by any means are a constant threat. To ensure the team has degrees of freedom to create, design and innovate. There is no single way to do intrapreneurship.

Agile 100

Agile Disruption Culture Change 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

Each design perhaps is unique to fit individual circumstances. The ones who will want to frustrate, exhaust and determine a pathway towards project death by any means are a constant threat. To ensure the team has degrees of freedom to create, design and innovate. There is no single way to do intrapreneurship.

Agile 100

Agile Disruption Culture Change 100

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 30, 2010

Testing Content: Early, Often, and Well – Colleen Jones, Kevin O’Connor In their presentation, Colleen Jones and Kevin O’Connor talk about how testing content is just as important as testing design. In this presentation, Amy Cueva and Megan Grocki discuss how research inspires design and how reality inspires creativity.

Design 74

Design Learning Tips Collaboration 74