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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Mentors see themselves as people developers. They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey.

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Discover Spark: Strategyzer’s Step-by-Step Innovation Kit for Business Teams

Strategyzer Innovation

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Spark uses a proven methodology to deliver a structured process to help you determine the best ideas in which to invest. This is why we created Spark. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. This can lead to more creative and innovative solutions. What are the benefits of design thinking?

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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design

Paul Hobcraft

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs. This 3H thinking helps break down complex issues.

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Shifting Radically the Innovation Business Model

Paul Hobcraft

In summary, on results gathered so far: “The results so far suggest that while innovation is a key strategic focus, it’s still taking time to filter down to a day-to-day activity, frequently losing out to other priorities. The front end in many companies is poorly defined and much of the innovation work is incremental.

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How to Avoid Innovation Blockers and Activate Amplifiers

Innovation 360 Group

Every innovation project begins with a series of design choices, but each of these choices has implications for the sort of blocks you can expect to encounter along the path. When workers are not engaged, or actively disengaged, they tend to make bad decisions from the standpoint of the business. Blocker # 2: Lack of Purpose.

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