Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

Scaling innovation involves expanding and enhancing the capacity of an organization to innovate consistently and effectively across all levels. The goal is to create a culture where innovation thrives, supported by processes and tools that facilitate idea generation, evaluation, and implementation on a larger scale.

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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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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

Disruptive innovations like these have a legendary status that is richly deserved, but it is actually incremental innovations that are more likely to provide sustainable fuel to drive ROI for your innovation programs year in, year out.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 8, 2020

First, some definitions Open innovation has traditionally meant getting ideas or technologies from individuals or teams outside your company. To my knowledge, the phrase "closed innovation" hasn't ever been a thing, but if it was, it would define doing idea generation entirely within a company, with no input from the outside world.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Rewarding employees for innovation, both the results of as well as efforts to become more innovative. See innovation as a competitive weapon. Innovative companies use innovation to differentiate themselves by: Conducting regular idea generation workshops within business units.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 31, 2018

At some point in your journey to drive innovation, you’ll want to take a deep breath and ask – what happened here? I’ve seen too many innovation programs get off to a fast start only to fizzle out later. Here are some ideas. Develop a way to track and manage ideas generated from innovation workshops.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. Digital technology innovation is an opportunity where most organization’s will be too late to the party.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When it comes to measuring direct financial value, start by asking yourself: Did the innovation program produce any breakthrough ideas that were brought to market? As a bonus, softer metrics can be reported on easily, as well as early, in the life of your innovation program.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” ” “We don’t do idea generation well.” But I digress.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

You will get an overview of how you can consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming for any need, at any time, in any kind of business. Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 is a highly proven innovation best practice – proven in university studies and, more importantly, in the real world for over two decades.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Almost always. People really want to do good work.

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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

Develop a plan and schedule for your innovation project – and manage it as a project. Innovation should be a structured process; not a free-for-all. The sequential steps of insight development, idea generation, idea elaboration, and experiment design can be managed using a variety of tools.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success. What can be a complementary business case to idea production during fallow seasons? Idea production telemetry uncovers how your organisation ‘thinks’ – not only what it thinks, but how. These efforts codified ephemeral activities.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

While wild and wacky ideas might not be the winning ideas coming out of a Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Creative Session you may not get those winning ideas unless they start as wild and wacky ideas. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 from previous blogs.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. If you are in charge of an innovation program or initiative — do training first. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This blog provides powerful, practical information about how to use stimulus to inspire breakthrough innovation solutions. Stimulus is the second of the four Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Here is a brief recap of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 The benefits of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Guaranteed.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The world’s largest networking company has Innovation Centers around the world which are open innovation hubs to help explore and develop new technologies by “bringing together communities of customers, partners, start-ups, accelerators, governments, universities and research groups.”

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

We know from our history that while promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades.”. But for an innovation program to be efficient and successful, there are certain guidelines or best practices an organization needs to abide by. Ideas - Number of ideas generated. Walk the talk.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

The award for Best Employee Engagement looks at clients who have created a robust reward and recognition program, and have increased employee engagement and participation across their innovation campaigns and challenges. Having that visibility throughout the company has enabled Pfizer’s small innovation team to do more with less.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

The award for Best Employee Engagement looks at clients who have created a robust reward and recognition program, and have increased employee engagement and participation across their innovation campaigns and challenges. Having that visibility throughout the company has enabled Pfizer’s small innovation team to do more with less.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2016

Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Spigit, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. Q: How do we make it easier for employees to understand how their engagement affects our innovation program?

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Each phase is designed so that you can tap into many potential sources of inspiration and insight, using varied systems and processes to develop ideas, and eventually manage the delivery of bottom-line outcomes and deliverables. Now let’s dive into each phase and explore how you can maximize your innovation ROI.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Examples: Fraction of the workforce trained in innovation, amount of leadership time spent on innovation vs day to day operations, the fraction of the capital budget that the company invests in innovation projects, number of ideas coming from customers or partners, number of innovation tools and methodologies available to employees.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Each phase is designed so that you can tap into many potential sources of inspiration and insight, using varied systems and processes to develop ideas, and eventually manage the delivery of bottom-line outcomes and deliverables. Now let’s dive into each phase and explore how you can maximize your innovation ROI.

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Strategos

JANUARY 11, 2017

The software platform is not a magic bullet; it will help to organize and sort ideas and can also build greater virtual connections between dispersed innovators. But the software platform cannot substitute for other key parts of an innovation program. Spark the innovation with new perspectives and insights.

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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. Vision & Leadership 1.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2017

Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes. Ten questions for you to focus on assessing the state of your organization’s innovation program. If you think your current program is working, non-existent, or just a disaster — you will learn something by taking this quick survey.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Take an inventory of the 4 Innovation Styles within your project teams and balance these types across the different departments of your business to be confident there is cognitive diversity for innovation. This is an idea “Generator.” You need more resources who identify opportunities for improvement.

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KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Consider the iPod, Uber, or Airbnb—one good idea can can be so valuable that it disrupts entire industries. Most companies obviously won’t hit on something so revolutionary as these three, but the benefits from a single good idea justify the cost of investing in an innovation program surprisingly often.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

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. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Call your shot.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 18, 2016

The conversations go something like this: "We've told our folks we need more innovation. We've promised to reward them for their ideas. Yet here we are, four or five weeks into an innovation program, and we aren't getting any ideas. People are already implementing dozens of small, incremental ideas every day.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Call your shot.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 21, 2016

Many leaders pull back on innovation programs because of expenses, and, fear of change. They settle for small changes and improvements and continue to look at innovation as if it’s extra work. They pay lip service to innovation and waste time doing culture assessments. For more detail, read my post over at Gibson.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2000, I predicted that we would see innovation as a service in the near future. It’s fascinating to see how our new digital sharing economy led by global idea generation is placing a stronger importance on innovation, collaboration, and anticipation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Because digital and technological transformation cut more deeply than a simple website or social media “paint job,” as it were, external innovators from the private sectors must be involved from the start. You can also create a timeframe with deadline for idea generations and assign various participants to different sections of the project.

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Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business. Step 2 – Define the scope of your innovation effort. Innovation Agenda.

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