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Assess Your Innovation Program

Planview

Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat. The challenge for many program leaders and their innovation programs comes down to their level of involvement in the idea implementation process.

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

Innov8rs

Solution: Drive Outcomes With Portfolio Management Discipline Imagine a thriving innovation program. Leaders have established clear goals for all innovation efforts. Thousands of grassroots innovators are continuously developing ideas in line with those goals, confident in their next steps. This is our baseline.

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Different Ideas Emerge From Different Doing

Gregg Fraley

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.” Are you lost?

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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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Analytics: The Business Value Beyond New Ideas

Imaginatik

Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success.

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Four things you can do to make innovation happen

Strategos

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. This means providing clear objectives, tools and instruction, and setting intermediate milestones.

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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II

Gregg Fraley

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. Knowing how to adapt and blend frameworks to your needs is advanced practice in innovation. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire.