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Why Visualization Tools are a Logical Next Step for Innovators

IdeaScale

This means that when people are trying to formulate new ideas and find ways to innovate, using visual aids will help streamline this process. When presented with visual formatting, people can comprehend large amounts of new information, making their ability to understand and synthesize new ideas much easier. Let me explain.

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What is an Innovation Maturity Assessment and How Can You Create One?

IdeaScale

When building an innovation strategy, this takes the form of an innovation maturity assessment that examines your organization, your team, and your personal innovation approach. Here’s how an innovation maturity assessment works and how to use one. You’ll also need to develop goals from this feedback.

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How to Move from Process Improvement to Innovation

IdeaScale

In some ways, innovation is about going “back to the drawing board.”. Process improvement is about making an existing process better, and there’s no reason not to do this when the opportunity presents itself. People must be free to create, but that doesn’t mean that necessary business processes and administration go away.

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The Need for Digital Innovation Platforms

Paul Hobcraft

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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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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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. Engage stakeholders and experts in the process from start to finish.