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Four Ways to Refine Your Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. The same is true of innovation processes. So how do you refine it?

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10 Things We’ve Learned From Deploying 400+ Enterprise Innovation Programs

PlanBox Innovation

Introduction Innovation isn’t just a buzzword in the business world; it’s the lifeblood of growth and sustainability. At Planbox, our extensive journey through the deployment of over 400 enterprise innovation programs has offered us a front-row seat to the transformative power of innovation.

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Choose Your Own Innovation Adventure Infographic

IdeaScale

Actively solicit ideas and approaches from them, get information on the challenges and ways to resolve them, and ask what their ideal innovation program looks like. Early on in the innovation process, the resource demands are usually modest, and far less complex than you might think. Team Building.

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FAST Innovation® Trademark Approved

Stephen Shapiro

After 16 months of waiting, the USPTO has finally approved my FAST Innovation® trademark. FAST Innovation is more than a buzzword. It stands for the four key steps of the innovation process I have been using for over a decade: F = FOCUS: Innovate where you differentiate. T = TEST: Don’t glorify failure.

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Are we EVER going to embrace innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

How much does a business organization spend on its ERP system compared to its innovation system? The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation? How feasible is this?

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What’s the Real Difference between Creativity and Innovation?

IdeaScale

The Flow of Innovation. Creativity should be key in the goal stages of your innovation program. Along the way, you’ll likely have to reinvent all the systems within the car and you’ll have to apply creativity each step of the way, then innovate to reach your goal. Say you have a creative vision to reinvent the car.

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Five Creative Ways to Use Customer and Employee Suggestions Boxes

IdeaScale

A transparent innovation process makes this particularly effective. Start with identification; it should be an anonymous system if the user wants it to be, and they should understand just how and why the system is anonymous. Yet there are other opportunities for data you can use to bolster your innovation program.