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Four Ways to Refine Your Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Your innovation process will likely touch an enormous range of stakeholders, from internal departments to your biggest clients. Soliciting feedback about how your business is doing in general, and how new innovations are working for these stakeholders, will help you hone your process. What did you learn?

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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. A well-implemented strategy is key to any innovation process, but that doesn’t mean finding one is easy.

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Innovation Hacks: Lessons Learned from Successful Startups

IdeaScale

Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. That problem can be extremely simple (for example, Facebook mostly exists to stay in passive touch with friends and family), or it can be complex (like figuring out cold fusion). Identify the Problem.

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Failing Is Learning; Fail Fast to Learn Faster

Daniel Burrus

However, failing is key in every innovative process, regardless of how established you are. First, if you’re not failing, you’re not pursuing innovation, and when you do fail, rebound quickly and start all over again. This is the idea behind my powerful strategy: Fail Fast to Learn Faster. Many Failures, One Success.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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More Than Ideas: Learnings From Managing Intrapreneurship Programs

Innov8rs

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. This example shows that a successful intrapreneurship program requires you to treat your employees as users.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.