PlanBox Innovation

MAY 9, 2023

To be successful, organizations must be able to effectively manage their innovation processes, from idea generation to commercialization. An IMA based on ISO 56004 is a good starting point for organizations looking to assess their innovation strengths and weaknesses.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed. It encompasses five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

People need these essential services and products during the good and bad times as well. The idea generation phase involves various possible solutions, then the designers start prototyping, gaining feedback, and ongoing iterations. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 8, 2020

Right now, during the COVID pandemic, there is a big push to engage everyone, and tools like Zoom, Teams, Slack and others seem to provide the means to involve a lot of people simultaneously to address key challenges. People are more willing to share ideas and opinions now than they were before.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. GenAI’s most prominent contribution is in idea generation and validation—innovation’s divergence and convergence phases.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

The Purpose of Brainstorming Brainstorming is a technique that allows individuals or small groups to generate ideas. Brainstorming resides in an activity or phase that we call Idea Generation, which in turn sits in the larger context of innovation. It is not the only idea generation technique.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 24, 2015

It's interesting to me how little we appreciate the depth of knowledge and discipline that has been developed over the years where innovation is concerned. Recently I've stumbled upon another historical artifact that illuminates idea generation. This is why expertise can be dangerous when generating ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Thinking, with the subtitle "The Unconventional Approach to Breakthrough Ideas". What this book is about The book introduces a framework the authors have developed to improve innovation thinking to lead to better ideas. All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design. Conclusion.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here are some classic examples of Innovation Theatre: Idea challenges (which result in ideas which are never implemented): Many companies will run large-scale innovation challenges to collect thousands of ideas. This builds frustration among all of the people who submitted ideas. Let me know in the comments below.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. What will the world look like when we are ready to finally release a product based on an idea from the past? Usually, blank stares result, for good reason.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Many intrapreneurship programs put the major emphasis on creating ideas. The good news is, the idea is very often the starting point. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. Make sure that you put your focus on turning ideas into valuable products. Intrapreneurship is about teams.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. Adopting a fundamentally new product development process is no different.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rural Development Hinges On The Creative Class. Richard Florida is, in my view, the top theorist in the USA with regards to economic development. His main point: the data shows that rural areas that develop and maintain Creative Class workers, innovate more, and improve the economy of the area.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 1, 2017

Booz & Company (now part of PwC) reported that companies with “robust open innovation capabilities” were seven times more effective than firms with weak capabilities based on its survey population. . In contrast, weak innovators tend to rely on a more closed scope to generate ideas.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Often you are the initiator and the evangelist as well as the project manager and team leader. ” Individual ideas are rarely big enough on their own.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Booz & Company (now part of PwC) reported that companies with “robust open innovation capabilities” were seven times more effective than firms with weak capabilities based on its survey population. In contrast, weak innovators tend to rely on a more closed scope to generate ideas.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Rampersad, G.,

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Rampersad, G.,

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

While producing new ideas might not be difficult considering how frequently ideas come and go, producing great ideas often requires some inspiration and implementing some scientifically proven techniques of ideation. It’s time to let go of conventional, boring idea generation tactics. Brainstorming. C – C ombine.

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Strategos

JANUARY 11, 2017

The front line employees, those closest to the work and the customers, usually have the best insights to improve performance, reduce cost, or develop new products and services. Leaders must act intentionally and proactively to build new skills throughout their teams of employees. Innovation seldom happens in a vacuum.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

If you don’t innovate, your company is likely to take this route: development → introduction → growth → maturity → decline. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. “Innovate or die” has become the catchphrase of the decade.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Innovation failures are frowned upon and few people have a chance to develop new innovation skills. Many large organizations have their own internal consulting teams deployed to offset external needs and bolster the internal capabilities. The front end in many companies is poorly defined and much of the innovation work is incremental.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is definitely not a failure of a single product, acquisition, or bad campaign. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. Absence of an exclusive team. And innovation partners such as education institutions, incubators, and developer communities are just as important.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Economic Development and the “Home Run” Complex. But in the spirit of an Economic Development “What If…” What If all those other Amazon bidders had put that same energy, and money, into doing innovation projects that are smaller in scale, but, new, different, and clever in their regions?

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Just pick a method, book a conference room, invite some team members, and dive head first into your brainstorm, right?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

For results in idea generation you need a system, a framework, and a wide, deep chest of tools. How can you generate great ideas with a more systemic approach to “brainstorming”? Professional innovators already use brainwriting — and a vast array of other tools — to brainstorm/generate ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. However, if you know the principle you can facilitate yourself or a team using stimulus and scaffolding.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Gregg has a secret ingredient to his training programs: Fun, he has a well developed sense of humor, and that helps when communicating complex material. Serious Content, Fun Delivery. Gregg Fraley is a master trainer in innovation, working with customers like Coca-Cola, Johnsonville Sausage, P&G, and Leo Burnett.

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