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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. But as even Steve Blank, the father of the Lean Startup movement, notes- if you apply the Lean Startup in the corporate context, you will only get innovation theater.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Leaders with a deep belief that innovation is essential and who care about the value it can deliver to their customers—and perhaps to society at large—help elicit that extra spark of inspiration that innovators need. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations.

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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt

InnovationTraining.org

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? There is a difference. You have to first develop a deep understanding of your company.

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Getting to “Yes” for Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Over the last 9 months his staff got innovation teams operating with speed and urgency. The innovation pipeline had been rationalized. His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. His teams, not outside consultants, would write their own innovation processes and procedures. and apply the appropriate policy.

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

Thankfully, we have done away with many of these policies. In the world of innovation, if you incentivize innovation managers simply to run hackathons or launch accelerators, the money gets spent: t-shirts get printed, foosball tables get purchased, Lean Canvases get hung. Build better innovators.

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

Thankfully, we have done away with many of these policies. In the world of innovation, if you incentivize innovation managers simply to run hackathons or launch accelerators, the money gets spent: t-shirts get printed, foosball tables get purchased, Lean Canvases get hung. Build better innovators.

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