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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process.

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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. How do you move from idea generation to rigorous idea development the right way?

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AI-Powered Design Thinking: Accelerating Innovation and Insights

Leapfrogging

Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. This process encourages businesses to focus on the people they’re creating for, leading to better products, services, and internal processes.

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Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Gregg Fraley

Facilitation — who conducts strategy, visioning, ideation, and solution development meetings? Prototyping — including: design, graphic arts, and concept writing are skills that go beyond engineering. New ideas need to integrate product development with marketing and sales as well.

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The Creative Process And How Idea Management Solutions Fit In

Qmarkets

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled.

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The Creative Process And How Idea Management Solutions Fit In

Qmarkets

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled.

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A Sampling of Testimonials from Idea Champions Clients

Idea Champions

"Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.