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10 Things We’ve Learned From Deploying 400+ Enterprise Innovation Programs

PlanBox Innovation

Introduction Innovation isn’t just a buzzword in the business world; it’s the lifeblood of growth and sustainability. At Planbox, our extensive journey through the deployment of over 400 enterprise innovation programs has offered us a front-row seat to the transformative power of innovation.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

The basic needs of an innovation mandate should include: Innovation Mandate for [XXXX Organization Name] – an example Vision and Objectives : Our vision is to be a leader in innovation, delivering breakthrough solutions that create value for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

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Choose Your Own Innovation Adventure Infographic

IdeaScale

Overview : Innovators face a number of challenges, as detailed in our choose-your-own-adventure infographic , including leadership buy-in, resources, and team-building. Leadership. The first step in building an innovation culture in any organization is to develop the idea of innovation as a priority.

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Rating Your Innovation Program: Vanity Metrics vs. True Impact

Moves the Needle

How do you measure the success of your innovation program? In my experience guiding corporate innovators, I have found that even the most well-intentioned teams aren’t evaluating true impact—instead, they deliver vanity metrics, which offer, at best, a measurement of partial engagement. Rate Management Engagement.

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Closing the innovation leadership gap

Paul Hobcraft

We cannot get away from the reality that in most of our organizations we have a disconnect going on around innovation. Research shows a lack of engagement in non-managers, also there are claims through studies that 7 out of 10 of employees do not understand how they can make a worthwhile contribution. All rights reserved.

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Winpak Case Study: Connecting Employees Across Multiple Continents and Languages

IdeaScale

The company had an innovation program in place that was well-versed and effective both in running workshops to gather ideas and to iterate and develop those ideas to implementation. Yet what Manuel Moreno, the company’s corporate director of innovation, noticed was that ultimately the approach was time and location dependent.

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How Do Your Employees Feel about Your Innovation Strategies?

IdeaScale

Innovation is at its best when everyone in your organization is involved in the process. Are your employees engaged with your company’s innovation strategy? Employees who are directly engaged with what’s going on in the company will feel a stronger need to innovate than their disengaged counterparts.

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