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The Baldrige Award Program and Innovation Management: A Match Made in Heaven

Innovation Architecture

companies who commit to performance excellence in five (5) areas: product and process outcomes, customer outcomes, workforce outcomes, leadership and governance outcomes, and financial and market outcomes. For many organizations, describing what they do, and how they do it, proves a tortuous exercise the first time.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation. Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy.

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Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. One of the top innovation management topics I run into is evaluating the Return on Investment (ROI) for an idea. Introduction to ROI.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

It examines anonymized data from over 3600 value streams, representing over 38K individuals across the value chain from ideation to value. Mark Schwartz , in his book War and Peace and IT , describes it best for CFOs—it is the most akin to purchasing an option at a fraction of the cost of the value that you may exercise in the future.

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Part 3: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

Commit to a comprehensive focus on Leadership for Innovation. With this focus, leaders at all levels can learn and practice what it takes to implement the other two components: engage employees to work innovatively, and empower the network of innovative teams. Start with the top HR priority: Develop Leaders.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As innovation managers or as someone working with innovation, it’s essential to discuss with leadership and show how your work and the projects envisioned for the organization can help achieve the goals even in the new context. So, instead of taking a top-down approach they went for the bottom-up one.

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

hackerearth

Survey results of Design Management Institute’s 2014 analysis show that design-led companies such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Whirlpool, and Apple have maintained a significant stock market advantage for the past 10 years and have outperformed the S&P 500 by 219%. Stages of Design Thinking. Source: Forbes. Empathize.