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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

Problem: Game-Changing Ideas Get Stuck at Square One Without a reliable system for testing early-stage ideas, orgs are leaving innovation ROI on the table. Gartner has found that business leaders underfund transformational projects by ~33% due to ineffective innovation project evaluation methods. Here’s how.

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The Rise of the Innovation Department

IdeaScale

Companies of all sizes are organizing their innovation programs around their crowds these days. The reason for this is because a great deal of research has emerged that proves the power not just of valuable ideas, but connections between valuable ideas. No Fixed KPIs.

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Your Guide to Incremental Innovation: Examples and Lessons from Global Brands

Qmarkets

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. Take Microsoft’s operating system Windows.

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Keeping Your Innovation Momentum

Innovation in Practice

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 Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

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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Getting started with Innovation Metrics

Strategos

Here at Strategos, we firmly believe that innovation can be taught, learned and systematically implemented by establishing the right processes, systems, structures, skills and metrics. Metrics are essential to track and guide the development of your innovation system. If you don’t know what’s broken, how do you fix it?

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Why Your Innovation Funnel Needs an Overhaul: A Step-by-Step Guide

Qmarkets

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.