Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

INSEAD Business School, along with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have just released their analysis of the world’s most innovative countries for 2016. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016. The problem with extrapolating data.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. Doing this misses a huge opportunity for innovation. Innovate the experience rather than simply automate it. WHAT INNOVATING VIRTUAL LOOKS LIKE. Innovation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

L et our Intrapreneurship 101 give you a better idea of what it takes to set up a successful innovation process within your company. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. In practice, this means providing room for iterations of the idea, accepting tests, and developing a learning mentality as well as quick failures.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies issue arrived Saturday. In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Innovation leaders must master a wide range of skills in order to enhance the innovation potential of their teams. Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. This is a classic example of a strength becoming a weakness.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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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. They often have their own teams, their own budgets, and their own objectives. It is one that innovation researcher Gina O’Connor refers to as “mainstream” and “newstream”.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable. Board members and executive teams can also have significant power.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). Let’s transfer these findings into the business world, what are our takeaways?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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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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Inceodia

JANUARY 27, 2019

At HP, we developed technologies using the “next bench” method of customer needs discovery. Asking the guy sitting next to me what he needed worked as long as I was developing products for other software engineers or just-out-of-college-20-somethings-living-in-the-US-pacific-northwest. Innovate or die.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. Suppose a team is charged with doing the creative thinking to generate new ideas for an initiative. Remark positively on the idea’s possibilities and potential to grow and develop.

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CMOE

APRIL 26, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Speculation about strengths and weaknesses the organization faces. Specific innovative ideas the organization wants to pursue. They discussed a large process graphic we were about to address.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. What this suggests for you is that when working with a team, you don’t necessarily have to be ready to respond by saying ideas and concepts are good or bad. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Taivara

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Helping companies compete in a rapidly changing digital world through everything from Software Design & Development, New Product Strategy, and Corporate Innovation. The Grypmat team continues to sell their product with the help of the sharks on multiple platforms. Download Shuffle. Purchase a Grypmat. Email Address.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

An explosion of consumer data allows companies and brands to make targeted marketing campaigns and develop or sell more differentiated products more efficiently. The internet, one of the most transformative innovations of the modern era, was the catalyst. Download our ebook: “ Business Analytics- The data age has begun !”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

If no one ever says your ideas are too bold, that is also bad. You are going for safe and easy instead of innovative and disruptive. Does your CPR vary by client or team? She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Strategos

MARCH 28, 2018

How can you harmonize and accelerate innovation in a corporate organisation? Anyone given the responsibility to accelerate innovation in a large corporation quickly appreciates that they won’t start from scratch. In reality, accelerating innovation is difficult and systemic. Your situation is not unique.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 10 Barriers to Organizational Innovation – Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. An Individual Strategy to Embrace and Cultivate Change – Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. 9 Ways to Address Innovation Fears. Don’t Overthink It?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 26, 2010

Download Experience strategy: Dealing with a UX mid-life crisis – Richard Dalton, Rob Weening We make changes to our user experiences based on heuristics, usability testing, and data, but do we really know if we’re improving the overall experience over time and across projects?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. We’ll see if they take the advice. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

These (para)quotes on innovation , digital marketing, and life were the most memorable ones I took away from Inbound15. Innovation. If you innovate, you WILL fall down.” “Can we start by acknowledging that golf is a really bad spectator sport. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 2, 2019

Corporate Innovation Groups (CIGs) are often on “offense” when it comes to new product development and technological innovation, particularly when it comes to engaging the market and mitigating market-facing risks. Consider Project Risk and Internal Risk. It received high marks externally, but not internally. So it got killed.”.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. We developed this specific list of topics based on feedback from participants on a pre-workshop survey. New, Innovative Ideas – Strategy Planning with What’s It Like.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 8, 2019

User Experience has been gaining more and more strength, especially in companies that have already taken on a digital transformation and seek to continuously innovate. In practice, by utilizing User-Centrism in the development of digital product platforms and applications, for example, you can create more usable interactive systems.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

After a while, I started building two archetypical personas of an entrepreneur: the artist and the innovator. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. Let’s call them Steve and Larry.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A peer was developing a “think piece” on the transportation industry’s and our company’s place role in its future. We have also never pitched a client on developing a thought leadership strategy or influencer marketing program. Help employees develop as leaders. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. New, Innovative Ideas – Strategy Planning with What’s It Like. 11 Strategic Questions for Disruptive Innovation in Markets. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

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