Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. ” So narratives attract, engage, motivate and call people to push and achieve their potential.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. ” So narratives attract, engage, motivate and call people to push and achieve their potential.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. At this stage of the process, I like to use Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.

Engagement 40

Engagement Tools LEAN Design Thinking 40

Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These systems are based on a teachable process and the leadership and people/culture infrastructure, which engage staff and foster collaboration. Ultimately, companies with a superior innovation management system make better decisions. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup.

System 59

System Innovation Management Management LEAN 59

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Body language says a lot about how engaged you are. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward.

Creativity 182

Creativity LEAN Examples Engagement 182

Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Lego: By integrating digital experiences with its physical building blocks, such as video games, augmented reality apps, and interactive playsets, Lego expanded its appeal beyond traditional toys, engaging children in both physical and digital creative play. It offers a straightforward way to understand, design, and pivot your business model.

Software 52

Software Innovation Innovation Management LEAN 52

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Too often, companies participate in what is known as innovation theater, where executives talk about innovation but little actually gets done. Executives need to talk about innovation, but also engage in innovation, check in with direct reports, better yet, go do some innovation work.

Innovation 157

Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. Traditional methods and approaches to innovation are completely breaking down, hence my total belief we are in the new era of innovation.

Innovation 185

Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 185

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. So going a step further in my own design within this new innovation era. Each of us has a part to play in innovation.

Innovation 178

Innovation Design Agile System 178

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations.

Radical Innovation 52

Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis. What’s an Innovation Sprint? ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

Groups 45

Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless. Lean, digital disruptors threaten their larger, more rigid corporate counterparts.

Data 40

Data Innovation Processes Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 40

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

Marketing 65

Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Accenture reveal the receipe behind portfolio growth with their 12 key rituals to governing innovation. Employee Engagement The benefits of employee engagement are no secret, especially to organizations who want to drive business success and longevity. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business?

Innovation Programs 98

Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Open Innovation 98

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Leaders with a deep belief that innovation is essential and who care about the value it can deliver to their customers—and perhaps to society at large—help elicit that extra spark of inspiration that innovators need. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Be inquisitive.

Handbook 150

Handbook Leadership Innovation Project 150

Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship LEAN Leadership Innovation Programs 40

Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship LEAN Leadership Innovation Programs 40

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. When you design innovation sessions: Use a variety of experiences. Do Improv games. Tell Stories, Reflect, Write.

Learning 45

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

Planview

JULY 9, 2019

While most innovation management software makes it possible for teams and organizations to gather and iterate on ideas, the question you must ask is, how do you ensure the best ideas become reality? Kanban boosts motivation and engagement within the project team and makes follow-up of project deliverables both easier and more accurate.

Collaboration 63

Collaboration Software Innovation Management Management 63

CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

Some focus on impact, others on the process, financial output of innovation, etc. These KPIs measure the “inputs” into the innovation process, demonstrate what level of innovation activity is going on in the company and display how wide the range of innovation activities is.

Innovation 52

Innovation Culture LEAN Innovation Processes 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

Change 100

Change Technical Review Marketing Management 100

Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

Design Thinking 40

Design Thinking Innovation Training Design 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The session is engaging, highly kinesthetic, intense, fun, demanding — and highly productive. The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

Technology 50

Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Does it matter if our customers don’t use the word innovative but are completely bowled over by the solutions we create for them? If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc.

Innovation 59

Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

People can relax and lean on the methodology. ? See how this is possible to do this in practice; check out a success case: Intrapreneurship: employees engaged in the innovation process ! What do you think? Are you prepared to transform your organizational culture with Design Thinking?

Design Thinking 40

Design Thinking Design Culture How To 40

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

Design Thinking 9

Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. Identify critical follow-up engagements to make sure everyone is heard. Use collaborative assessment tools, such as Rationalize , to tap into the ‘wisdom-of-crowds’.

Leadership 52

Leadership Groups Product Development System 52

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

Company 248

Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In this paper [1], which is a “must read” for everyone engaged in this topic, Stanford University’s Charles A. In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. O’Reilly and Michael Tushman review and condense the research done so far on the subject.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The upside for achieving greater growth and revenue comes from the experience of greater customer engagement. As you chase for engagement, you seek customer experiences and this leads you to expect and look for growing market share. These call for a different approach to the innovation process. Is it possible?

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The upside for achieving greater growth and revenue comes from the experience of greater customer engagement. As you chase for engagement, you seek customer experiences and this leads you to expect and look for growing market share. These call for a different approach to the innovation process. Is it possible?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120