Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes. So what can we do about it?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. 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.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

When these components are in place, your innovation process becomes predictable and encourages participation across the spectrum. Innovation and problems go hand and hand because problems are the source of which opportunities to implement new ideas are born and iterated upon. Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation.

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As part of a simulation game on innovation management we have been running at universities and in corporate training programs for over 4 years now, we have developed an integrative model for dealing with innovation management on a daily basis. product leadership or operational excellence?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. Innovation is complex and difficult — but one thing about it is not. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Some will fail.

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Establishing an innovation standard, as facilitated by ISO 56001, is not about stifling creativity or impeding execution. Instead, it’s a framework designed to enhance the innovation process. The key lies in creating a culture of innovation that values creativity while ensuring a structured approach to execution.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. They can then decide whether to train, hire, automate, partner or acquire whole companies to obtain the competencies they need.

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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. Organizational Design: Beyond leadership, we also need to design our company structures to support innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. Gartner studies highlight that 70% of companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list are currently using gamification techniques and that 50% of innovation processes will be gamified in the coming years. To start an innovation project.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy. This capability allows teams to anticipate and address potential issues early in the design process.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Doing even basic market research takes training and experience. Hiring a Fractional CINO gets you most of the pricey benefits of having innovation process experience. That lowers risk.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project. Many innovators take on a project without a plan to measure and revise the return on investment projection (and course-correct) as the product evolves. Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app.

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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. Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation.

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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. Projects change culture.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This might involve rethinking classroom layouts to encourage collaboration, incorporating technology that facilitates prototyping and testing, and designing projects that address real-world challenges. Design Thinking Beyond the Classroom The impact of Design Thinking in education extends far beyond the classroom walls.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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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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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you innovate across your entire value chain? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? Classic innovation frameworks and IT-centric team composition are not going to get it done.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. Innovation Leaders sometimes get it backwards. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It also allows those who aren’t trained as designers to use creative tools to address a vast range of challenges. The Five Stages of Design Thinking The process of Design Thinking is divided into five stages that guide the problem-solving process.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

Innovation management needs to become a professional discipline. Managing innovation is a relatively young discipline considering that many of our management practices have been developed almost a hundred years ago. Practices such as project management and total quality were introduced decades ago and have matured over time.

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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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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION? 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. Innovating inherently suggests taking risks, and we know organisations can be risk-averse.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 18, 2016

What Won’t Change Innovation Culture: A one or two day intensive workshop or training by an innovation guru. If the innovation group is motivated, and, has a mandate to do innovation, a training intensive can work as a kick start. Having an outside agency or consultancy execute an innovation project.

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Wazoku

MAY 4, 2017

Most predictions made in companies, whether they concern project budgets, sales forecasts, or the performance of potential hires or acquisitions, are not the result of statistical analysis and data driven calculations. The good news is that training in reasoning and debiasing can reliably strengthen a firm’s forecasting competence.

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Commodore Innovation

JULY 25, 2019

Sometimes it’s inescapable: new executive or innovation leadership asks the question: “ Are we measuring innovation the right way? ” 1) A new innovation process needs to be measured A new innovation process almost always requires consideration of how to measure its performance.

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eZassi

JUNE 7, 2017

In struggling to set measurable benchmarks for innovation, many companies make specific mistakes, which include: Lack of Alignment. Too often, metrics are set that have no relationship with what senior leadership values. Leadership Metrics address the behaviors of senior managers and leaders. Lack of Patience.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com. Furthermore, innovation catalysts have been identified and received the “ Train the Trainer ” certifications to help scale innovation internally.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

It wouldn’t be difficult to completely reimagine the professional learning space or teacher training. These are just a few ideas on how we could use these spaces to promote innovative teaching and create a culture of innovation. Providing structure to the innovation process does not need to be difficult.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Knowing how suited any given employee is for those four traits can help management place them in suitable roles during innovation projects and teamwork assignments. Promising to help you find insights into leadership, initiative, and innovation, this personality assessment may be another good option for your organization.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

I’m always surprised at the number of organizations I speak with that tell me they don’t have any training programs for their employees. Less than a half-day of effective training can make a big difference in helping people to generate more and better ideas for a crowdsourcing project. Learn through doing. Make it easy to start.

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Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The perception of a gang of wired people in white coats doing the “innovation thing” is widespread, but nothing, based on data from 6,000+ companies in 62 countries, could be more wrong. In fact, strategy, leadership and capabilities are the foundation but culture is the enabler.

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