Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Companies that survive do both.

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Underperforming Technical Team Resources Innovation Project 283

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 17, 2024

Discontinuous innovation, on the other hand, marks a profound departure from the established norms of technology and business models, fundamentally reshaping markets and consumer behaviors. This concept, often used interchangeably with radical and disruptive innovation, has nuances worth understanding.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Much of the innovation discovery journey is a disappointing one. Resources constantly “churn” and get depleted, waiting for others to be brought up to speed. Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. Then disruption suddenly hits.

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

The key is knowing what are the critical factors for your innovation activities and their dependencies for sustaining innovation success? The question is, which are critical, which naturally occur when others begin to be put into place, and which seem to have limited or no real effect on changing the dynamics of innovation?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

This innovation disrupted traditional media consumption, shifting from physical rentals and purchases to unlimited on-demand digital content, and significantly impacting the cable TV industry. This theory underscores the importance of focusing on simplicity, convenience, accessibility, or affordability to disrupt an existing market.

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Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

The dilemma is further exacerbated by corporate governance systems designed for operational excellence rather than innovation. This makes innovation budgets subject to intense scrutiny, especially during economic downturns, often resulting in budget cuts. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They are not afraid to challenge the status quo and are driven to find innovative solutions to problems. By fostering intrapreneurship within your organization, you stimulate the development of disruptive ideas and invest in a collaborative work environment. Offer mentorship and guidance to help them navigate the process.

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Software Review Technical Review Innovation Management Software 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Optimize resources by predicting potential challenges and bottlenecks. For a deeper dive into how AI is revolutionizing the stages and gates processes of innovation, explore next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes. It helps organizations to: Anticipate future trends and consumer demands.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Since it is easy to generate lots of ideas, every business has plenty of incremental and disruptive ideas floating around. Sometimes "pet" ideas or concepts that aren't really interesting or innovative have sponsors. Given that many organizations have lots of ideas and few resources, resource allocation and prioritization is in order.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So let’s explore these four primary levels of growth-lead innovators to develop and maintain such an innovation narrative. Adopt a customer-centric innovation process : The process used by growth leaders starts with deep insights into customers and anticipates emergent needs.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success. This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It begins by defining innovation as a departure from the norm and highlights the importance of tying innovation to specific outcomes. The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. By dedicating resources to these horizons, organisations can future-proof their businesses and stay ahead of industry disruptions.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 6, 2020

However, failing is key in every innovative process, regardless of how established you are. First, if you’re not failing, you’re not pursuing innovation, and when you do fail, rebound quickly and start all over again. Intergalactic Innovation: A Case Study in Fast Failure. Many Failures, One Success.

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Learning Case Study Open Innovation Study 119

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Some will be short and focused on incremental change, while others are longer and focus on more disruptive ideas. All of these ideas need to operate under and within the umbrella of innovation competencies, and you will need to do more innovation in the future than you do now.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

The cost of conducting business is a function of its complexity and grows with scale, its size and the resources that need to be managed, including intermediaries. Business transactions that take days and are costly to manage via intermediaries are prime for disruption by nimbler competitors. Transaction costs. Invisible threats.

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Technical Review Innovation Report Disruption 178

ITONICS

JULY 26, 2019

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? 20% | Adjacent Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2016

From the data presented it's clear that "innovation" is still defined very narrowly, as improvements to existing products and services. In other words, most of these executives and their teams are just scratching the surface, when right underneath the surface a range of innovation options and outcomes is just waiting to explode.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 13, 2019

Tools, resources, processes need to be established in order to Enable the new mindset to flourish. When leadership is not aligned, they will fail to make needed resource allocation decisions, the company will be rudderless, morale will suffer. If your company is not being disrupted now, it will be eventually.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Plus, everyone wondered how AI could be leveraged as a source of process innovation in the innovation management process itself. As I delved deeper into the processes that underpin effective innovation management that AI could transform, I realized the potential for even greater disruption than I had thought.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Playing the role of mentor means you are able to: Use innovation efforts as an opportunity to develop innovators’ capabilities and careers. Coach an innovation champion and team through the entire innovation process. Ask tough questions and allow innovators to struggle, without taking over the project.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Technical Review 189

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

These recent classics are just as useful and practical to professionals looking to learn innovative methodology and approaches. Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Question 5: How can we make sure we get disruptive ideas? If you want your innovation program to be focused on disruption, ask participants to submit their problems and then look for patterns and combine similar problems that potentially help uncover an area that is ripe for disruptive innovation.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Programs Innovation 78

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Design Innovation Agile System 138

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So let’s explore these four primary levels of growth-lead innovators to develop and maintain such an innovation narrative. They shared accountability to contain and manage innovation risks by making small, staged bets on a “share to gain” approach. The constant asking of “what do they need?”

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So let’s explore these four primary levels of growth-lead innovators to develop and maintain such an innovation narrative. They shared accountability to contain and manage innovation risks by making small, staged bets on a “share to gain” approach. The constant asking of “what do they need?”

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

ITONICS

JULY 25, 2019

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? 20% | Adjacent Innovation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Resources Innovation 40

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

When is it appropriate to "go fast" Today, ten years on, there is more and more talk about rapid innovation, innovation sprints and so on. The focus is still on speed, because of the three factors I wrote about in my last post - people, tools and time - time is the most precious resource.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Tools Training 167

IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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System Design Innovation Handbook 100

IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100

System Design Innovation Handbook 100

Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). If the resources can be organized so all projects can be optimally executed without any interdependencies (i.e., Interdependency.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to CultureAmp research, ‘Nearly 8 out of 10 of highly engaged employees regard their companies as having a culture that nurtures innovation’ 5. Gathering knowledge and ideas from these resources allows a business to tap into otherwise unheard voices and opinions.

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Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Open Innovation 98

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to CultureAmp research, ‘Nearly 8 out of 10 of highly engaged employees regard their companies as having a culture that nurtures innovation’ 5. Gathering knowledge and ideas from these resources allows a business to tap into otherwise unheard voices and opinions.

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Innovation Programs Innovation Open Innovation Technical Review 95

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

This is, of course, just a rule of thumb, and in reality a 20% resource investment in next and new products and services will seem rather large to most corporations. So, in a few years maybe a resource allocation of 90% core and 10% next and new won't look quite so strange. Just focusing on product innovation is too limited.

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Innovation Trends Survey Course 144

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions. Resource Allocation, Capacity, Planning Best Practices.

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