Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Innovation needs structure.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

They didn’t realize how “sticky” their business model would get. When restaurants have several years of data in the system, the next several weeks of reservations lined up in it, a staff that’s been trained on how to use it, and a large percentage of their reservations coming through it, they’re essentially locked into the model.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. Develop real training to build skills.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

People can relax and lean on the methodology. ? See how this is possible to do this in practice; check out a success case: Intrapreneurship: employees engaged in the innovation process ! Go deeper into this theme; download now our best-selling e-book: Design Thinking – Business Innovation ! What do you think?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! NCARB teams learned how to proactively reach out to customers to deeply understand them and to design quick experiments for testing potential solutions before building them.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

And How much value would it potentially create for your customers? The validation of the idea comes after based on business validation, customer validation and technology validation over a longer period of an agile innovation process where the team may experiment and learn week-by-week.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2019

Every innovative product begins as a concept in the mind of someone or some group of people. How is your company cultivating these seeds? How do companies manage this asset, the portfolio of product concepts, even before they enter the pipeline? These concepts are the seeds of your company’s future growth.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. And yes, this can be trained.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What and how to adjust to better and faster speak to our customers and meet their needs? During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation).

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Leaders with a deep belief that innovation is essential and who care about the value it can deliver to their customers—and perhaps to society at large—help elicit that extra spark of inspiration that innovators need. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Be inquisitive.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark uses the iterative process of the Design-Test-Repeat cycle to adapt your course of action based on evidence. Most teams start out with a failed idea, but this high failure rate is not a bug, it’s a feature of the innovation process. So, How Does Spark Work? Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. Learn How to Scaffold . The reason?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Both incremental and radical innovations are essential to a balanced strategy, allowing businesses to maintain their competitive edge while also pursuing growth through market transformation. Understanding when and how to leverage each type is key to navigating the complex landscape of today’s business world.

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

Some focus on impact, others on the process, financial output of innovation, etc. These KPIs measure the “inputs” into the innovation process, demonstrate what level of innovation activity is going on in the company and display how wide the range of innovation activities is.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation. Defining an innovation process is not innovation.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

and how to price the product. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups. What We Now Know about Corporate Innovation. metrics (validated/invalidated hypotheses, Investment Readiness Level ) and processes.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Participants learn classic pitfalls and how to avoid them using best practices and emerging advanced practices. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often. We explain how to conduct a quick check-up below.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

It requires that you logically justify each and every little decision, and that you do nothing just because “that’s how it’s done” or because “that’s what I know how to do.” Challenge every decision to ensure you aren’t leaning on the familiar. Simultaneously forget everything and nothing about what you know.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

In our new book The Startup Teacher Playbook we make the case for how teachers can use startup principles to fix problems in education and reinvent learning. One reason innovating is so hard, is because there’s often no real strategy on how to do it. We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate. Once alignment is in place, broaden the innovation team to include more people from across the organization. You have to understand how this stuff works in order to think creatively about how to use it.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. One of the conundrums is why does innovation take so long to happen in corporations? Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. This suggests, this path to explorative innovation may be more appropriate for them.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 27, 2019

It is one of the early stages of the innovation process, and it is integral to the continued success of any organization. In fact, one of the most important parts of running a successful business is identifying the right concepts that can turn into real innovations that will help you meet your customers’ needs.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. In summary, fostering a climate ripe for innovation doesn’t hinge solely on traditional markers of success.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.

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