Planview

JUNE 12, 2018

Measuring the success of an innovation program is a critical step in determining the impact it has on a company’s bottom line. But how do you know if your innovation program is delivering value? During the webinar, Amin gave listeners an inside look at Bechtel’s innovation program, including how they measure success.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 24, 2021

With this in mind, we delve into the corporate innovation landscape for 2021 and share where we think organizations will find their ‘diamonds’. The Top 4 Corporate Innovation Trends for 2021 1. In 2020 we’ve seen more and more companies that are interested in employing a holistic mutli-faceted approach to innovation management.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. I happen to be a fan of the big, platform basis innovation programs, where an organization sets out to build innovation capacity as a core competency.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 16, 2022

Creativity and innovation are often seen as interchangeable. Here’s how to understand the differences and apply them in your innovation strategy. Creativity Vs. Innovation. Innovation is the act of putting something into practice. Both creativity and innovation need nurturing. The Flow of Innovation.

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Engaging the “crowd” at scale in your innovation initiative has been proven to fundamentally transform companies. There are plenty of examples that show this. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. But what’s the secret to creating and sustaining a successful innovation program?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2023

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. All of these need to be used at the right time, and in the right way, so that your innovation program delivers maximum value at minimum cost.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

One of the largest employee-owned companies in North America, Graybar offers wholesale electrical, communication, and data networking products and has always thrived on people-first innovation. To that end, the company launched the NEXT Innovation Program, a name chosen from employee feedback.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Taking your “suggestion box” online covers a few crucial points for any effective innovation strategy. For example, you might invite them to fill out a quick survey after they make their suggestion. Yet there are other opportunities for data you can use to bolster your innovation program.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Creativity and innovation are often seen as interchangeable. It’s important to understand and apply that difference in your innovation strategy. Creativity vs. Innovation Creativity is the act of conceiving something new, whether a variation on a theme or something wholly new. A creative goal can be modest.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation. Well, every year we ask our customers what it is that they would most like to learn about in order to support their programs.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets. Whether it’s tweaking a product to perfection or revolutionizing an industry standard, innovation comes in many flavors.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Very few innovation programs have the luxury of waiting multiple years before delivering quantifiable results. Measuring innovation requires partners. Demonstrating the effects of a strong innovation program typically depend on active involvement from other units and functions in the company. Process efficiencies.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 2, 2019

Open innovation, where a company invites outside groups such as academic organizations and non-profits to offer ideas to address challenges, can be a superb way to get those perspectives. However, some challenges must be addressed as you develop your innovation strategy. Efficient Filtering. Efficient Structure.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

One of my all-time favorite stories is the one he told about the Pathfinder team’s approach to a “don’t fail” strategy. Enter what I call the “Gremlin” strategy. I see this attitude all the time in my role as a strategy advisor. Charge them with putting you out of business in new and innovative ways.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Organizations choose to adopt the process of innovation for a myriad of reasons; to tackle existing challenges by ideating for solutions, to generate new revenue streams, to improve existing products or services, and so on. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business? 9 The result?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Organizations choose to adopt the process of innovation for a myriad of reasons; to tackle existing challenges by ideating for solutions, to generate new revenue streams, to improve existing products or services, and so on. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business? 9 The result?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

Most innovation (like up-armored Humvees) were the brain child of the soldier in the fight, and in many cases these innovations were discouraged or even blocked by higher ups. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Lead from the front.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

With Innovation Management In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires embracing Industry 4.0 and leveraging the power and adaptability of Innovation Management and strategy. Let’s take a look at two use case examples. innovative manufacturing methods must be developed.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Overview: In any innovation program, ideas need to be examined through three lenses: How practical they are, the likelihood the idea will succeed, and whether the idea reaches your ultimate goals. For example, “Would you use this feature?” There are multiple techniques for doing so, which can be mixed and matched as needed.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 16, 2017

That happens all day, what is missing is a structured process to identify the biggest risks and to develop strategies to be unleashed and implemented at any cost once evidence is given that the identified risks are inevitable or likely to hit. Tesla is a great example for the automotive industry because it’s not a car.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 29, 2019

Only if an idea or potential innovation can say “Yes” to all three questions is it going to have any chance of becoming a success. If any of the criteria are missing, then the innovation program is likely to fail. Does the challenge fit with our innovation strategy?

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As an innovation manager, you’re tasked with the challenging responsibility of leading the development and implementation of new ideas, products, and initiatives that will drive growth and competitiveness for your company.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. We started out with an example from an IdeaScale community. For years, the executives had talked about websites as a core part of any business’s online strategy, yet did not offer a website solution for our partners to resell.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 25, 2016

This ambiguity often leads to very conservative forays into Innovation – "cosmetic" efforts that produce little impact. This happens when business leaders convert innovation efforts back into more familiar territories like operational excellence, cost reduction, market expansion, etc.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 10, 2022

Examples from schools and institutions. Over the last few years, a host of early innovators have started to build an evidence base for the instrumental role that students’ relationships—alongside individual effort and ability—play in the student success equation. Click To Tweet.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

They thought they needed a new growth strategy. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. For example, “What if autonomous vehicles completely replaced human drivers?”. “

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Firefighting agencies are responding with computer modeling, advanced topographic mapping, new fire management techniques, sensors, mobile monitors, infrastructure upgrades, and new government innovation programs. Increasingly, government innovation is coming from government agencies working together. The Scale Of The Problem.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In this article we will explain what considerations we make when helping companies to structure their exploration activities and explain how an innovation management platform can help with that. In this case we will use the Qmarkets platform as an example, as we have achieved some very good results applying this tool.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To create a culture of innovation ripe for propelling the innovation process and program, clear and consistent communication is key. When it comes to changing your corporate culture to make it more accommodating for innovation , you will want to plan a cohesive and consistent communication strategy.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Many corporate innovation efforts suffer from a subtle defect: two competing innovation agendas that fight for control. Yet a two-track innovation agenda is among the most reliable killers of well-intentioned innovation programs. On the surface, both of the example companies did everything right.

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eZassi

APRIL 21, 2021

The biggest take-away from the HBR report and subsequent reports is that for an innovation program to be successful, the focus should be a mix of incremental (core), adjacent and transformational initiatives. This mix will enable a program to deliver results both in the near term and long term. Conclusion.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In this article we will explain what considerations we make when helping companies to structure their exploration activities and explain how an innovation management platform can help with that. In this case we will use the Qmarkets platform as an example, as we have achieved some very good results applying this tool.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This requires a talented ‘innovation team’ – the right synthesis of strategists, technologists, and communicators - to lead this fundamental change and operate at the core of the ‘innovation machine’; to introduce the new culture , to inspire teams and drive innovation by example. To innovate by example.

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KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

I was introduced to these innovation management resources a few months ago when two clients, both referencing The Idea-Driven Organization , came to Kindling looking for a software solution to evolve their innovation strategy. An eight-step process for developing an innovation management strategy.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By avoiding these mistakes, you will undoubtedly excel in your next open innovation endeavor! Just like any good investment strategy, open innovation works best using a diversified portfolio approach. They will be the case studies that you will point to build additional support for your OI program internally.

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