Leapfrogging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Even worse, your business may end up being disrupted by the next big innovation that comes on the market. While benchmarking can take many different forms, most benchmarking exercises follow a similar set of steps: Step 1. You want to look at benchmarking yourself against leaders in your market but also market disruptors and laggards.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies. Here are five things we do to bring other marketing agencies in early to set them up for implementation success: Invite the partner organizations into all the planning activities for developing the branding strategy. Photo via Shutterstock.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 9, 2021

million project taking several years was instead quickly approved and in the sky in months on a much lower budget. It was so popular that when it went to market a few months later, it sold millions of units and was awarded project of the year. And what was going to be a $1.3 The Bucket Mister. Now, bucket misters are everywhere.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As a result of increased focus on innovation, innovation training programs are springing up – both inside companies and as entities that are marketed to businesses. Instructors who have actual innovation experience and who have led innovation projects are ideal. Active, hands-on training exercises in addition to academic learning.

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Idea to Value

MAY 26, 2017

Go through a warm up exercise wherein the brand has been newly acquired and they are there to rebirth it. Now, go through an Orthodoxy exercise to make all inherent bias explicit. Then, run a Business Model Canvas exercise on the existing model. Then, run a pro and con exercise for each model. Now comes the easy part.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. While I would guarantee that beginning with prayer is the BEST place to start, a new extreme creativity question is finding its way into future strategic thinking exercises: “Where would you start if you had to do the impossible with nothing?”

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

That was the question from two nonprofit executives tasked with planning market research to support a new marketing plan. Before diving into planning market research, I asked about old research they had. 14 Questions Before Planning Market Research. Examining Your Own Previous Market Research. That’s a Start!

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With limited insights into what exactly internships signal to which employers (and whether the scarcity of internships contributes to the premium they appear to command in the labor market), there are at least two risks if colleges rush to scale internships. It’s no mystery that we desperately need to bend the cost curve in higher ed.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2017

People routinely ask some variation on that question about our social-first content marketing strategy. 23 Content Marketing Strategy Benefits for an Emerging Brand. Thinking about the list of impacts for our emerging brand, our content marketing strategy: Built and and continues to cultivate a global audience for the brand.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. This exercise can either be done in person or online. Brainwriting Exercise Template.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Exercise during your lunch break. Immerse yourself in your most exciting project. Ask yourself what the market wants or needs. Enroll your boss or peers in your most fascinating project. Work on hottest project every day, even if only 5 minutes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

By leveraging experiential insights, executive teams are better positioned to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and potential disruptions. Adaptability : An ability to pivot and respond to changing market conditions and business needs.

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Planview

AUGUST 7, 2023

Executives express to us that their organizations are exercising long-unused decision-making muscles. For Executives An executive needs data-driven, guided decision making to answer questions such as: A recent example: Google search seemed invulnerable to market disruption eight months ago. The market has restored their market cap.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Launched in 2018, the program initially served as an exploration exercise to build internal capacity for managing its partnerships. Viability (how will we define the go-to-market strategy and bring value to the market together?) The Zurich Innovation Championship is an important link in this chain.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

To accommodate uncertainties inherent in innovation projects, it’s best to use ranges instead of fixed numbers. At ABN AMRO, they use “guesstimation exercises” to break the ice around financial modeling, making teams more comfortable with making estimations.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Think of what can be achieved when the marketing and production avatars start co-creating! When considering implementing avatars in your own meetings or activities, consider the following questions: What are the objectives of the exercise, and how can avatars help achieve them?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. This can involve regular check-ins, progress reports, or a dashboard that tracks the status of different projects.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2020

Keep reading to understand what the most innovative organizations have done to project their future and what you can apply from now on to ensure the continuity and health of your business! The transformation brought about by Disruptive Innovation is just that: anticipating trends and not simply following the market flow.

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Svava

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consider it to be the early stage of research and development, regardless of what type of project you apply it to. Pen To Paper or Stylus to Tablet The old fashioned way, pen to paper, is meant to be a writing exercise where one sits down for a predetermined time, usually 10 to 20-minute sessions, and writes every thought down.

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Planview

APRIL 15, 2024

You can undertake an extensive, expensive market research exercise for AI use cases that takes eight to 10 weeks. Or you can start building with the user insights you already have to get a capability to market.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Idea sponsors typically don't sponsor ideas out of the goodness of their hearts - this isn't a charitable exercise - but for purposes of advancing a new opportunity that has value to them or to their business. Sponsors keep attention on an idea, ensure funding flows to critical ideas even when other projects are getting sidelined or killed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I was speaking with a long time colleague and trusted branding partner, Kevin Polonofsky from Revered recently about branding and marketing. Let me stop here and say that training, for people who have the focus and the passion to exercise the training, is exceptionally valuable. One good example of this is innovation training.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As businesses adapt to the ever-changing market demands, the integration of AI into the design thinking process has become essential. By harnessing AI’s computational power, teams can: Identify user needs and market trends with greater accuracy. Generate a vast array of ideas and conceptual designs quickly.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2018

Originating in a long-term future visioning exercise we designed and facilitated for a client, we developed these questions to prompt a group’s thinking about dramatic future change. Need to challenge your team to being imagining the future, realizing it may look hardly anything like today ? Photo via Shutterstock. Completely unpredictable ?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. Crafting an Impactful Story to Market Your Business. The program may also include discussions or exercises on identifying key messages, crafting compelling narratives, and delivering stories in a compelling and engaging way.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 19, 2020

There's really nothing more interesting to me than to think about how the future will unfold, and science fiction is a great way to project what may happen with society and technology in many different future settings. The same is true when starting an innovation project. In an innovation project, this is also true.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But, for the most part it’s difficult to create something truly novel and useful if you don’t understand the situation, context, market, area, the domain. Some would call this market research, and by all means do that, but I think it goes deeper. The key is to get creative with how your organize your innovation projects.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Strategic Thinking Exercises to Pursue an Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. #5 Your environment needs to be ready to understand what’s important today while looking ahead to future developments and opportunities to disrupt markets and competitors.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 1, 2018

Help us enter a new market or go after a new kind of customer. Change how we compete in the market. Change the businesses we compete against in the market. Enable us create new product offerings for existing or new markets. Who will be impacted by this exercise? The initiative needs to use a digital technology to.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Calculating the ROI can serve as a valuable exercise to understand whether one of your open innovation campaign’s ideas should be developed into a project and whether a project should be developed into a minimal viable product, service or a national program. . Introduction to ROI. is saved and is the initial Estimated Benefit.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

Market disruptions by startups; sure. This example underscores the fundamental flaws with the “peanut butter” approach to cost reductions: Spreading budget cuts equally across projects or business functions. We thought we knew about uncertainty. Shifting consumer behaviors? Part of the job.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 1, 2020

It's true that post-COVID we will experience more volatility - if by volatility we mean sudden shifts in the economy or in markets, or if by uncertainty or ambiguity we mean the inability to gain more stability and work with certainty. They are valuable but often not trusted with core processes and products.

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Yet2

JULY 20, 2021

In times of economic uncertainty, yet2 continually sees large companies turn to technology scouting to help diversify supply chains in order to protect product supply, market share, and profit margins. Working with our key contact, the yet2 team quickly pivoted the project to expand scope outside of the U.S. yet2 Process.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Pay them only at the end of the project after they have posted into all your challenges! Also pay them what they would expect from any market research exercise that would take them the same amount of time. You may not know how much that is, but find out, because they will.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Innovation Process Insights The journey to innovation is a critical path many businesses pursue to stay ahead in today’s fast-paced market. Utilizing customer feedback loops to stay aligned with market needs. Empowerment : Empower leaders to make decisions and take ownership of innovation projects.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 14, 2015

As regular readers of this blog will not doubt remember, there is a market window for every opportunity. Get to the market too quickly and your great idea or technology will be rejected because no one is ready for it, or the infrastructure doesn't exist. Another concept related to speed is the increasing pace of change.

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