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The 4-Step Guide to Refining Your Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Innovation processes can be complex. Most companies today make innovation a priority — or at least they say they do. However, innovating is an inexact science. So how do you know if your innovation process is working? So how do you know if your innovation process is working? It’s continuing.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Today, I'm not going to write about "innovation theater" - that is, the concept of talking about innovation and moving some pieces around but failing to achieve any meaningful benefits. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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The Final Perspective: A Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework

Paul Hobcraft

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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What is an Innovation Maturity Assessment and How Can You Create One?

IdeaScale

When building an innovation strategy, this takes the form of an innovation maturity assessment that examines your organization, your team, and your personal innovation approach. Here’s how an innovation maturity assessment works and how to use one. You’ll also need to develop goals from this feedback.

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Why Visualization Tools are a Logical Next Step for Innovators

IdeaScale

Not to say that this is a bad thing necessarily, but it does make innovation much more difficult. Not only does this business model make innovation difficult, but it also means people aren’t used to innovating their workflow and the business as a whole becomes very poor at innovating new ideas.

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Elevate Your Innovation Management Capability With ISO 56004 Assessment

PlanBox Innovation

Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition and meeting the ever-changing needs of customers. To be successful, organizations must be able to effectively manage their innovation processes, from idea generation to commercialization. Ludwig Melik CEO at Planbox and author of the Future-Fit Manifesto.