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5 Misconceptions to Avoid When Building Your Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Similarly, strict top-level decision-making increases the opportunity for groupthink and lessens the chance of fluid idea generation throughout the organization. Both of these are explicit examples of how your organization may be unintentionally discouraging “out-of-the box” thinking and in return, lessening your chances of innovating.

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5 Misconceptions to Avoid When Building Your Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Similarly, strict top-level decision-making increases the opportunity for groupthink and lessens the chance of fluid idea generation throughout the organization. Both of these are explicit examples of how your organization may be unintentionally discouraging “out-of-the box” thinking and in return, lessening your chances of innovating.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation? In one final quote from this article: “when boards seem to have a “widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes (that) could be a major blind spot and a potential liability”. Customers and employees are driving innovation.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

The MoshPit system seeks to find combinations of concepts that lead to innovation. Digital technology holds promise to improve, or radically innovate, many areas of an organizational value chain. To discover radically new applications for digital tech what’s needed is taking a comprehensive look across all operations.

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How to Speed Up Your New Product Development Process by 30%

Innovation 360 Group

It refines the hypotheses by clustering many ideas and use components to refine the hypotheses. It keeps ideators engaged (through good and bad, i.e. even when an idea is parked or discarded). Use a non-linear ideation process to form ideas generated into ‘big ideas’.

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

In this paper [1], which is a “must read” for everyone engaged in this topic, Stanford University’s Charles A. As Geoffrey Moore [2] has pointed out, breakthrough innovations need to “cross the chasm” between the initial customers and the majority of the market.

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Getting started with Innovation Metrics

Strategos

Examples: Fraction of the workforce trained in innovation, amount of leadership time spent on innovation vs day to day operations, the fraction of the capital budget that the company invests in innovation projects, number of ideas coming from customers or partners, number of innovation tools and methodologies available to employees.