Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

An innovation strategy is a key business asset, and innovation leadership is no longer nice to have, but necessary. Innovation leadership can make the difference between an innovation strategy that actually produces results and one that languishes on paper. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation Engineer.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. They are the day-to-day manifestations of your company’s culture, seen in everything from how meetings are run to the way projects are managed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

These two ideas - the deep engagement of senior leadership in innovation skill and process development, and the time it takes to build innovation competence, and scattered throughout the book but not directly addressed. What is interesting in his process is that there is no specific idea generation "step".

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. That thing is innovation projects. They can actually prevent innovation if they are not in the context of a project.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You can take an innovation test to self-assess your own leadership for innovation with the Innovator Scorecard. you do need a balance of problem finding, idea generation, evaluation and. macro (project milestones). anyone with ideas to contribute. Expecting teams to accommodate new projects in. to advance.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovative companies treat it as just another core skill by: Creating a well-defined set of innovation competencies and embedding them into every employee’s competency model along with other required behaviors such as ethics and leadership. Developing an idea management and tracking capability. See innovation as a competitive weapon.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. It happens through projects. The best innovators organize their efforts around projects. Projects aligned with a vision for the future and a strategy to get there. This wastes Time and Money.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Next, find the best people to do innovation work and give them the skills necessary to lead and conduct innovation projects.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

You can find different sets of idea generation cards, like IDEO Method Cards, or a game like Binnakle The Expedition, covering all phases of the creative process. To start an innovation project. Gamification can be used to kick off a project by identifying, defining and agreeing on challenges. To optimise co-creation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

So ‘the cascade effect for innovation’ often does have to deal with many unforeseen chains of events that need working through, as they can be negative on the system by taking away vital resources from other more valuable, commercially viable projects, or they can be breakthrough or transformational in pursuing.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 9, 2021

Digital transformation is a significant and common challenge for organizations and thus a great design thinking project. Leaders, facilitators and design thinking project leaders also have to be creative about working virtually. Using guided idea generation. The year 2020 forced most organizations to digitally transform.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences. With the right AI tools for design thinking, teams can unlock new opportunities and drive success in their projects. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . Almost always.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Streamlined management of innovation projects. This is a one day deep-dive, hands-on workshop in facilitation of innovation projects.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Collaborate across disciplines and product lines while supporting change management and the human factors which ultimately increase the probability of success of the project. Have I considered the Innovation Styles of my organization and its leadership? What is the best method for evaluating all our new ideas?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. These ideas are then published to the entire organization, which then votes and selects the most promising ones. About Hyundai Motor America.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. GFi does fractional CINO work.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. No compelling vision or reason to innovate If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at how TSYS launched their revolutionary Project WOW (War on Waste) – a ground-breaking process improvement methodology developed by management consulting firm Above + Beyond and powered by Qmarkets software. This left employees sceptical of the idea that future programs would be any different.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. Projects change culture.

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Michael Roberto

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Source: statetechmagazine.com What happens when someone runs with a creative idea initiated and formulated by someone else? What pitfalls arise when there is a transition from idea generator to idea executor? The scholars identified the person who generated, elaborated, and executed the idea.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

So ‘the cascade effect for innovation’ often does have to deal with many unforeseen chains of events that need working through, as they can be negative on the system by taking away vital resources from other more valuable, commercially viable projects, or they can be breakthrough or transformational in pursuing.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. This 12-month campaign incentivizes participants to contribute innovative ideas that have potential to impact the company’s key strategic priorities in positive ways.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Innovation leaders are much more stage-setters to create the setting for idea generation, trial and error experiments and openness for breakthrough learning and results. This makes stage setting for innovation perhaps even more important to create the right circumstances when people are working on innovation projects.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 23, 2018

We took a closer look at the most important sources of innovation in large companies: The Leadership. Yet, companies around the world are in digital transition and face even larger leadership gaps. Today’s top management needs a completely different set of skills and expertise than in previous generations.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Prototyping, Testing, and Iterating: The iteration process tests and refines the ideas generated during the ideation phase, while prototyping helps push the process of delivering a tangible outcome forward. Generally, the ideation phase is handled by project managers or engineers.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

It will focus on how to get initiatives started and how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes that impede project success. You have to create projects and execute to see results. GFi is a consultancy that focuses on innovation training, project facilitation, and innovation culture building. Innovation doesn’t just happen.

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 8, 2019

If you don’t have any ideas, at least you didn’t spend the resources to create them and you don’t create the illusion that you’re actually making progress. In that way, it’s better to avoid creating new ideas if you’re not going to do anything with them. You already have too many ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Doing the hard and detailed preparation work ahead of time can save the entire meeting — or project, from failure. Seven Facilitation Fails.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Is your organization doing continuous projects? ” “What!

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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. Leadership will have goals determined by factors such as revenue, culture, and operational costs etc.,

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. What comes out of these spaces could be a time and cost savings piece of tech or enhanced outcomes to drive continuous improvement or projects for energy conservation.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 23, 2018

We took a closer look at the most important sources of innovation in large companies: The Leadership. Yet, companies around the world are in digital transition and face even larger leadership gaps. Today’s top management needs a completely different set of skills and expertise than in previous generations.

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