Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. So what can you do about it? 40 principles of TRIZ.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

This dichotomy delivered by the financial pressure is unfortunately pushing many leaders and top managers towards suboptimal decisions that tend to focus more on survival and not enough on investing in the future. Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

There is huge value in applying the three horizon framework into your thinking. It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2017

We need a new management model, one where we are pushing to seek increasing new knowledge. We actually are in urgent need of a new management operating model. We need a new management practice to deal with our digital world. Applying the three horizon lens to develop new management practices.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. “Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. —– Lean Innovation Management. Companies or Government agencies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. Horizon 1 are mature businesses.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

This is especially true in the field of innovation management, which are so broad that it would be impossible to highlight every diverse opinion on how to approach the subject. Ralph-Christian Ohr: Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond. Greg Satell: The 9 Rules Of Innovation. 9 Rules of Innovation by Greg Satell.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 28, 2016

Visual two heads… different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same process we lose so much. Innovation today disappoints.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 20, 2016

In previous posts, I have shared my view on important cornerstones for successful innovation management systems. In the following, I would like to summarize and complement these thoughts by suggesting an innovation management model that may help organizations to innovate more successfully and sustainably.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. This quote is from the former U.S.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). Three projects without interdependence. All three projects require some work from all three resources, an example of interdependence.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns.

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eZassi

AUGUST 22, 2022

Budget Planning for Innovation During Changing Economic Times. Their goals for success lie in the adaptability and strength of their resources across the Innovation Portfolio. For example, running the business (operations) versus changing the business (innovations)? Innovation Strategy Consulting.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 23, 2016

I certainly believe we are in need of a fresh approach to innovation. Let me offer some of my thoughts on why we need to reinvent our innovation management. Let me offer some of my thoughts on why we need to reinvent our innovation management. The framing of the innovation potential has to be altered.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The – in the truest sense of words – ‘billion-dollar-question’ we are addressing is: How can companies generate more business impact from non-incremental innovation? The solution to this question lies in the middle part of an end-to-end process for non-incremental innovation. Digital Transformation).

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. A Typology for Innovative Organizations. Typology for Organizations: an update.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

As all of us working on innovation know, it’s quite an opaque topic that many innovators and organizations don’t talk about openly. As a result, innovation is an area that’s fraught with many common myths and misconceptions. But, without further ado, let’s get to these myths and misconceptions on innovation. The Reality.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 29, 2016

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. Horizon 2 (H2) is about expanding and building new business (the next S-Curve) through innovations.

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Innovation 360

MAY 29, 2016

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. Horizon 2 (H2) is about expanding and building new business (the next S-Curve) through innovations.

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Company Radical Innovation Leadership Study 40

Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Innovate or be disrupted. Magnus Penker on Innovation (subtitled in English) from Innovation360 Group on Vimeo. Schumpeter is best known for his assertion that, “Innovation is the creative destruction where the entrepreneur combines existing elements in new ways.” bctt tweet=”Adapt or die. Schumpeter’s Response.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Innovation IQ. Prepare to regularly revitalise your core value proposition through internal and external innovation. How innovative is your organisation in comparison with the rest of your industry? Fortunately, an Innovation Capability is something that can be learned and improved on through iterative practice.

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Innovation 360

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Prepare to regularly revitalise your core value proposition through internal and external innovation. How innovative is your organisation in comparison with the rest of your industry? Fortunately, an Innovation Capability is something that can be learned and improved on through iterative practice. InnovationIQ Score.

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Wazoku

JULY 3, 2018

Based on the Innov8rs webinar on the same topic where Nicola Darke, Customer Success Director at Wazoku, Tim Westall, Co-Founder of April Strategy, and Hans Gillior, Founder of the Goodwind Company, each shared two ways to improve innovation through culture change. Be open to exploring rather than being too focused on the solution.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Operational excellence is a business principle which is currently supported by a range of process management tools and methodologies, however, these approaches fail to utilize the most valuable resource at the disposal of all large organizations - their employees. As you might expect, Michael was especially busy in San Francisco.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What’s more, the trends shaping the corporate innovation landscape in 2020 are set to be just as earth-shaking. Last year, we wrote a blog exploring the corporate innovation trends that would shape 2019. Because of this, we wanted to write a follow up to help you prepare for new seismic shifts looming on the horizon.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 1, 2016

By studying over 1,000 companies in 62 countries and all continents over the past years, we have not just built the largest 360-database with multiple respondents in each company (external and internal stakeholders as respondents for a full 360°) but we have also been able to refine and develop our methods for analysis and management of innovation.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 1, 2016

By studying over 1,000 companies in 62 countries and all continents over the past years, we have not only built the largest 360-database with multiple respondents in each company (external and internal stakeholders as respondents for a full 360°) but we have also been able to refine and develop our methods for analysis and management of innovation.

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mjvinnovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

At best, this awareness can produce innovative responses that gradually move society on a path to more sustainable growth. That is where the concept of Eco-innovation is gaining more and more weight among governments, universities, and organizations. Innovation and sustainability: is it possible to combine them?

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Three , customers were price sensitive and acutely aware of what value these companies provided in their busy lives. Those who don’t will be left behind, watching a train full of customers disappear into the far horizon. Taxis, Records, and Toys: A tale of three industries. Or are you on the edge of irrelevance?

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Your opponent’s troops are gathering on the horizon at the far edge of your vision. Your opponent’s troops are gathering on the horizon at the far edge of your vision. That balance is precisely what you must develop to save your organization – and it starts with a culture of innovation. That is the marketplace. Maybe a bit more.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

Now we start the work co-creating volume 3 of the Complete Guide to business Innovation and you are invited! INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 3: INNOVATION SYSTEM FROM IDEATION TO GOVERNANCE. Innovators are always saying that they want to make the world a better place, so why isn’t it any better? Contribute at [link].

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Underperforming Technical Team Radical Innovation Technical Review Software Review 40

Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

Now we start the work co-creating volume 3 of the Complete Guide to business Innovation and you are invited! INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 3: INNOVATION SYSTEM FROM IDEATION TO GOVERNANCE. Innovators are always saying that they want to make the world a better place, so why isn’t it any better? Contribute at [link].

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Underperforming Technical Team Radical Innovation Technical Review Software Review 40

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

This is part three of a three-parts article co-written with innovation-3 ‘s Frank Mattes. The first part highlighted that radical and incremental innovation build on two different innovation set-ups (exploration and exploitation, respect. Analyzing ambidexterity: the “extended innovation funnel” model.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Operational excellence is a business principle which is currently supported by a range of process management tools and methodologies, however, these approaches fail to utilize the most valuable resource at the disposal of all large organizations - their employees. As you might expect, Michael was especially busy in San Francisco.

Crowdsourcing 40

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Operational excellence is a business principle which is currently supported by a range of process management tools and methodologies, however, these approaches fail to utilize the most valuable resource at the disposal of all large organizations - their employees. As you might expect, Michael was especially busy in San Francisco.

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