Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. According to Tom, streamlining our portfolio is the first thing to do in 2023 to increase customer satisfaction and speed up the overall innovation process. “If Innov8rs |.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Let me outline these here and some of their observations of why the innovation narrative is so important. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Let me outline these here and some of their observations of why the innovation narrative is so important. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. ” The value of the innovation narrative is it should offer beliefs about the company’s ability to innovate.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Discover how to lead your own innovation team with real-world examples in action of how other organizations are succeeding through teamwork and innovation methodology. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This June 2021 release from Dr. Kim Hires is especially for innovation leaders and would-be leaders.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. Cooper makes the case that “firms can respond quickly and pivot with innovations.”

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You need to demonstrate that innovation is not "a" strategy, but is a way to accomplish strategies - growth, differentiation, new line extensions and so on. In fact, every strategy, every business and every product should have an innovation component. Demonstrate that innovation can be purposeful, and managed through a process.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. Managers who embrace all of the other nine roles so far will have gone a very long way to showing their commitment to innovation. Become a living example.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Broad Categories of Innovation At the heart of the innovation spectrum lie two broad categories that encapsulate the range of strategies businesses can deploy: incremental innovation and radical (including disruptive) innovation.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Leadership. Innovation Management. The post Dana Shadadd appeared first on Home of Innovation. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Design Thinking.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Leadership. Innovation Management. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Design Thinking. Organizational & Human Capability Development. LinkedIn: [link].

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Innovative companies provide the right platform for their employees to share and discuss ideas and have dedicated teams to turn them into prototypes and test the prototypes resulting from those ideas. They promote innovation leadership. Most often, leaders don’t need to be innovators. They encourage failure.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership 1. Innovation needs structure.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I’ll unpack the core principles of ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ and share approaches to help overcome the organisational antibodies that often stifle innovation, empowering teams to unleash bold ideas that can reshape your industry’s future. Horizon 1 activity has lower risk but also lower return.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. A truly innovative culture? This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Streamlined management of innovation projects. How do you get there?

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. The idea was rejected.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often. After all, what gets measured gets managed.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. We created a short video for you on this topic.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. I go through a whole list of the psychology of why managers don’t like being asked for permission to innovate in another article here.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation. Defining an innovation process is not innovation.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: 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. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Alexander and I often collaborate on new ideas for corporate innovation. Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve successful business models and value propositions. This happens because managing the present often takes oxygen away from inventing the future. Equip this “space” with power and prestige.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This trend has led to a situation where the management is either non-existent (chaos) or overly bureaucratic (cement). To address this, business structure, culture and leadership are some key elements to help identify, encourage, uncover and structure ideas. However, this is only possible with a well thought-out process of innovation.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Open Strategy. Read more here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. An Innovation Process and Pipeline.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. One of the key elements in experiencing a successful innovation transformation is having a strong in-house capability. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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