Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the biggest questions I am getting from businesses at the moment is what the potential impact of a recession or the slowdown of the economy might have on their innovation efforts. And according to a new report by Innovation Leader and KPMG USA called “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead.”

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Stephen Shapiro

MARCH 11, 2021

In this episode, I share three useful tricks every innovator should steal from magicians. I also share why simplification is often the best form of innovation. The premise of this lens is that you should not design your solutions with a one-size-fit-all strategy. Download the lenses from Invisible Solutions.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The team was wrestling with a concern voiced by the organization’s senior leader that its complete innovation portfolio wasn’t capable of yielding the financial impact he is seeking. via Shutterstock. Enjoy this article?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a brand new year, which means it’s time for a brand new annual innovation strategy for your organization. Perhaps you’ve been working on your annual strategy since before we entered this new year, or perhaps you just now have the bandwidth to really confront it. Many companies focus on incremental change, slow development.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a brand new year, which means it’s time for a brand new annual innovation strategy for your organization. Perhaps you’ve been working on your annual strategy since before we entered this new year, or perhaps you just now have the bandwidth to really confront it. Many companies focus on incremental change, slow development.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Innovation strategy in a highly regulated industry presents specific challenges.?. Innovations are derived from new ideas, but what if your industry puts limits and constraints on the ideas you’re allowed to pursue? This is where innovation strategy gets dicey, but don’t let it discourage you.

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IdeaScale

JULY 17, 2019

A Deloitte study of Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) companies found that the number one skill high innovators say they’re working on is critical thinking skills – and these are companies that work on the leading edges of technology. Furthermore, the less innovative companies ranked critical thinking skills as less important.

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Yet2

APRIL 11, 2022

As providers of both proactive technology scouting services and open innovation portals, we often get asked when to use each approach. They serve different purposes, but you might be surprised to learn they’re also complementary: ~80% of our portal clients also hire yet2 for proactive technology scouting work. Contact us to learn more.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. They thought they needed a new growth strategy. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 31, 2020

Medical professionals and businesses in multiple industries are learning how to use technology and innovation strategy during this pandemic to curtail the spread of such diseases. Existing Innovations. Numerous existing innovations are already being used to help fight Covid-19. Innovations on the Horizon.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Diversity and inclusion are good ideas on many levels, but they can also drive your innovation strategy. Here’s why a diverse innovation team leads to better products. To learn more about diversity in innovation, download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

Last fall, Emma and I saw Beth Comstock, the former vice chair of General Electric and head of its GE Business Innovations unit, keynote at the Inbound conference. While the conference featured stronger keynotes, these innovation strategy-focused quotes and action items from Beth Comstock resonated with me.

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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups. Innovation Strategy in Your Organization – An Innovative Workplace Culture. Implementing smart, innovative possibilities. – Mike Brown.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

If you go to the “ Explore My Insights and Thinking ” tag shown above, you will see there are two files you can download that provide all of these posts in a PDF format. “ The hierarchy of business ecosystem needs emerges as a guiding force for organizations ready to navigate the new era of interconnected success.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 26, 2019

We live in an age of technological innovation, and one of the biggest beneficiaries of new technologies has been the healthcare industry. Innovations for 2019 alone (as listed by the Cleveland Clinic ) range from exciting to mind-boggling and include: Alternative pain therapies. Innovations in Diagnostic Technologies.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. A growth transformation system is one in which corporate strategy, R&D and innovation all work together and in harmony to drive transformation excellence.

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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 . Gaining customer insights.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Eighty percent of nonprofit leaders consider innovation to be mandatory, yet of those, only 40 percent think their organization is ready for innovation. Leaders recognize the importance of innovation, yet many aren’t sure how to make their organizations innovation-ready. Laying a Strong Foundation for Innovation.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Off the top of my head, I suggested the following strategy to strengthen the consistency of their customer experience strategy.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to engage with the disruptive forces reshaping virtually every industry by turning radically disruptive signals into strategy, and strategy into action. This will require entirely new levels of innovation throughout every enterprise and unique ability to continually engage all stakeholders.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2018

There has just been a highly useful benchmarking report released by Innovation Leader with KPMG LLP sponsoring this and providing some of their collective insights into the different aspects of “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018″ At present, you can download the report before it might slip behind a paywall at some later stage.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2018

Of all the industries poised to improve with innovation, none are more promising than healthcare. However, many organizations struggle to move forward due to a lack of strategy and a lack of employee and leadership buy-in. Make Innovation a Shared Responsibility. But you’ll learn a lot just by starting a program.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The outcome from human centered innovation is increased learning about the customers you serve and how you can solve the problems they are facing. The Human Centered Innovation Learning Loop is an exploration into discovering customer problems and potential solutions, with knowledge as the desired outcome.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no longer necessarily about developing software, but about developing innovation. Tips for Ensuring a Successful Hackathon.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When organizations talk about innovation, they are referring to generating bright ideas. But innovation is not the Idea; it’s more than that. Ideation is a necessary step in the innovation process , but it’s only one step. Having the right tools and processes in place as you innovate is essential.

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Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 10, 2023

Let’s walk down memory lane: The music industry faced significant disruption with the emergence of Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing application enabling illegal downloads, causing a decline in CD sales. iTunes challenged this convention by offering legal digital downloads of individual songs, eliminating the need to buy entire albums.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Every click is trackable, leading for rich detail in the attendee journey: how long there were there, what they looked at, what was downloaded, polling responses, etc. There has been a huge amount of virtual/hybrid meeting investment and tech innovation during the pandemic, and more developments and best practices are to come.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Here’s what they learned. A Common Theme.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, Amway won the Innovation Management award for best innovation engagement strategy. So we asked Amway a few questions about their program and here’s what they had to say: IdeaScale : Why is innovation vital to your organization? IdeaScale : What are you most proud of in your innovation program?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 16, 2019

The word innovate comes from the Latin innovatus , where “in” means “into” and “novatus” is a form of the verb for “making something new.” Innovation can come from anywhere, anytime, and learning to encourage and manage innovation is a major competitive differentiator. Here are some highlights of the discussion.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2019

Learn what’s new in our webinar.?. Open innovation, intrapreneurship, crowdsourcing. No matter what methods your innovation strategy involves, we’re talking about how our new features and updates will help you build a stronger, more innovative company September 4th in our online webinar.

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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. However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. In the early 1990s, Starbucks relied heavily on Oldenburg’s third-place philosophy for its customer experience strategy. That is, people learn by observing and practicing hands-on, receiving constant feedback from their customers.

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