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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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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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. It’s not enough to know a market white space.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So, what should organizations be measuring to demonstrate that innovation is an essential activity to achieve their business objectives? This could include breakthrough ideas brought to market, or reduced costs. 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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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

“Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. Organizations world over have been employing this innovation model fruitfully for years now.

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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? Why should idea production be any different? Idea production telemetry uncovers how your organisation ‘thinks’ – not only what it thinks, but how.

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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 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. Training makes a big difference in bridging the gap between market knowledge and… what could be. Get Training!

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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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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. These companies understand that good idea can come from anywhere. Walk the talk.

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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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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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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

We are all Innovators. Who’s doing the innovating in your company? A central innovation group? marketing? Or, is everyone expected to be an innovator ? For many companies, the Holy Grail is to have the entire company innovating; and especially the front line employees. Keep the enthusiasm flowing.

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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.” Utilize Open Innovation Solutions.

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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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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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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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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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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

MAY 1, 2018

Domain Knowledge, understanding your area and market, deeply. The science and the technology, and, the ever-changing market and customers. If you don’t have a cycle of projects going on, you’re not innovating. If you’re completing innovation projects now, you have a framework!

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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. Innovation Agenda.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? So buying innovation externally is a smart option.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? So buying innovation externally is a smart option.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 13, 2017

Even those organizations with existing continuous improvement and innovation programs need to amplify and expand their efforts. The innovation effort alone is complex. Once-household names like Radio Shack and Blockbuster will continue to exist in the pages of Wikipedia. A big part of the conversation is going to be about How.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Some innovators go to market with a product that uses customer communication giving them only a 25% chance for success or less. For these innovators, what’s holding them back is not very persuasive customer communication. Often innovation is focused on inventing an entirely new product or making an existing product better.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This public* course is at a significant discount to on-site courses delivered directly to organizations by Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi). The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs. Innovation team formation.

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