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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

An excellent example, outlined in the video below, is Adobe’s Kickbox program, which gives anyone who has an idea and wants to try it out a box with advice on how to approach the experiment and a pre-paid credit card with $1,000 to be used however the person wants. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.

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Adventist Health: Pioneering a New Era of Process Improvement

Planview

In May of this year, we had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Jill Waters, Lean Six Sigma Coordinator at Adventist Health, which is a not-for-profit healthcare organization comprised of over 20 hospitals and over 30 clinics in the U.S. Incremental improvements are significantly easier to implement than large, disruptive transformation.

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5 Innovation Management Best Practices for Amplifying ROI – Qmarkets’ Head of Customer Success Shares Her Insights

Qmarkets

Exploring new territory can be both daunting and exhilarating – whether it’s oceanography or innovation management! As a leading supplier of idea management software, Qmarkets allows large organizations to gather, develop, evaluate, select, and implement ideas which can deliver bottom line value across the company.

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The Challenges being Faced by Innovation Consultants

Paul Hobcraft

When clients were pushing down prices it made sense to offer general solutions but the disruptive forces occurring in clients markets are requiring far more the return to crafting individual solutions. Larger Consultants have been offering body shops, set piece solutions, to offset client resource shortfalls.

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Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance

Steve Blank

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. I’ve been working with Richard, a mid-level executive in a large federal agency facing increasing external disruption (technology shifts, new competitors, asymmetric warfare , etc.).

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Getting The Fundamentals Right

Innov8rs

This approach is particularly valuable when companies face disruptive threats and contemplate transformational change. It’s much easier to master disruptions when you’re forging strategy in concert with others who view the world through a different lens than you do. Organizing Innovation Decentrally.

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Five Things You Should Measure about Your Innovation System

The Inovo Group

We know that it is awfully hard to predict outcomes (especially for very early disruptive opportunities) but we want to try to do it anyway. A recent article in HBR describes a study of 154 companies that use the Spigit idea management system to analyze data on new concepts as they move from initial idea to reality.

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