Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 17, 2023
You developed and are using a best-in-class Innovation Process. Innovation Leadership Management collaboration Design Thinking disruption Innovation Culture Process project management Strategy successGUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Congratulations!
IdeaScale
MARCH 14, 2019
Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. Your innovation process will likely touch an enormous range of stakeholders, from internal departments to your biggest clients. If, for example, a department feels it needs more of a voice in the process, you can ensure it gets one.
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IdeaScale
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Innovation processes can be complex. Most companies today make innovation a priority — or at least they say they do. However, innovating is an inexact science. So how do you know if your innovation process is working? Be an Innovation Leader.
IdeaScale
APRIL 7, 2021
It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. The innovation process needs to be crafted to fit each group.
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ITONICS
JUNE 22, 2022
What's the difference between a traditional innovation process covering ideas to projects and an end-to-end innovation approach from strategy to execution? The end-to-end approach will boost your return on innovation!
Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 26, 2021
I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything.
Wellspring
AUGUST 23, 2021
Oftentimes in large organizations and F500 companies, innovation and R&D are treated like a shared service, with the majority of initiatives originating from outside the function. Other business units and product lines, inspired after an ideation session or hackathon, come to the innovation team with an idea to explore. This engagement and collaboration allows the innovation function to stay close to strategic initiatives and high-level, vital projects.
The Future Shapers
MARCH 9, 2020
I have spent most of my working life on innovation projects. And I have to concede that most of these projects needed a ‘process’. However, this ‘process’ is certainly not designed to inhibit freedom of thought.
The Future Shapers
MARCH 10, 2020
Where to start and which techniques to use at various phases of the project can sometimes be quite a question. The post The Best Design Thinking Exercises for Any Phase of a Project appeared first on The Future Shapers. Creativity Culture Innovation Process
Strategyzer
MAY 27, 2021
Innovation Process: Testing Business Ideas Business StrategyHaving the right tools often makes the difference between success and missed opportunity. An equally important factor that gets much less shine however is the use of the right tool at the right time.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 23, 2015
Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year. But first: If you’ve not got an innovation plan in the process of being executed, right now, you are treading water and will eventually drown. So what’s stopping you from kicking off an innovation initiative? What I hear from top management: “we don’t have the time or resources for innovation projects, we’ll start later this year.”
IdeaScale
MARCH 8, 2022
Project planning helps ensure ideas become products. IdeaScale’s project planning tools are designed to streamline this process. Project planning is where innovation strategy crosses from the abstract to the real. Why Project Planning is Important.
Ideanote
OCTOBER 10, 2019
"When introduced to different innovation processes, some of the newcomers to this field are overwhelmed because there are so many opportunities out there and you don't know which of the techniques you have to pick and choose"–says Serena Leka. We asked Serena to share some tips for teams that are just starting with innovation. First thing to do is actually have an overview of all these different innovation processes.
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. Thinking about things is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 4, 2019
Innovation Learning Points From the Great Faucet DIY Fiasco. DIY is a Form of Innovation. I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects. As an innovation consultant who is a facilitator, team builder, idea person, and strategist, my need for hands-on engineering skills are minimal. So after I finished the bleeding on my latest DIY effort, it strikes me that, on a larger scale, DIY pain is exactly what an organization trying to innovate goes through.
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. It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project. A Strategy Framework to Drive Innovation-- and ROI-- at Large Enterprises.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 23, 2016
This is cognitive bias and it is the enemy of innovation. Innovation Open Innovation Processes & Tools Innovation Management Product Management product managersYou’ve likely heard of the curse of knowledge or sometimes it is called the curse of the expert. It occurs when our knowledge leads us down predictable paths, likely not considering other possible solutions to problems but only those that are familiar to us.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 5, 2019
In any industry, innovation is essentially an arms race. Apple Build Capability collaboration Creativity Feature Of The Week Innovation Processes & ToolsIf you’re not creating the next big thing, someone else is seizing the opportunity to define it. The problem is, there’s a lot of time between the moment when you first envision a new concept and the moment when it actually hits your market. How you.
The Vault
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
In Part One , we recently talked about the need for an Innovation Measurement system and how it might be developed. Part Two outlines the Innovation Process part of the system, which describes the “necessary but not sufficient” things that you need to do in order to innovate. Innovation Measurement System: How to Track Innovation Process. Here are the seven key metrics that need to be tracked in the Innovation Process realms: A.
The BMI Lab Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2017
When we introduce somebody to innovation methodologies, especially those focused on business models, the role of creativity topic usually comes up. The most common question is whether we need to use creativity or not to innovate. There is a short answer for this: The majority of the most successful innovation methodologies give creativity a strong role. From this basic statement we can go further into the topic of creativity in innovation.
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
There are many different types of innovation. Some are internal ( involving employees , incremental innovation , etc.), and some are external ( involving customers , open innovation , etc.). Another successful approach to generate and implement innovation is to search for ideas that are at a much later stage in their development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
There are many different types of innovation. Some are internal ( involving employees , incremental innovation , etc.), and some are external ( involving customers , open innovation , etc.). Another successful approach to generate and implement innovation is to search for ideas that are at a much later stage in their development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.
Board of Innovation
MAY 15, 2019
The scoping canvas is the best tool to help teams come up with a project briefing before beginning an innovation program begins. The post Why scoping helps move innovation projects go forward appeared first on Board of Innovation. Expertise scoping canvas innovation process innovation program innovation projects
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. Innovation Management is a strategic activity that isn’t necessarily needed to implement throughly for every company. – you would be able to select approximately 2 or 3 types of processes that should be of interest to you.
Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 21, 2017
What if you could empower every citizen with tools that will help your city, state or country innovate and change faster than the competition for a penny a person? Change education Innovation Processes & Tools The Economy Change Planning Canvas Change Planning Toolkit Cities countries Experiment Canvas Government Innovation tools innovation training intellectual property Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing Project management training toolkits training Visual Project Charter
Imaginatik
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
“Innovation” is often discussed in terms of the “idea” as the product and the formation of that idea as somehow unique and ineffable …. There is a perception of serendipitous, Zen enlightenment related to ideation that is often accompanied by a thorough dismissal of “process,” as if they are mutually exclusive. In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. Neither process, nor technology alone holds the key to sustainable innovation success.
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. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. It happens through projects.
InnovationLabs
OCTOBER 25, 2020
People who in those organizations (and many more) are now using Innovation Mastery – our new online innovation course. A month ago InnovationLabs released our new online innovation training program, Innovation Mastery. What do Airbus, Cisco, Microsoft, Reliance, SAP, SUNY, Tata Group, Centria University, and MIT have in common? It’s true. It’s the most complete […].
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 4, 2017
It quickly became simply sold as a process, just like Six Sigma, it became limited by those jumping on the latest concept not being true design thinkers, apart from attending a short course or two. It suddenly gets broken down so it can be repeatable, a step-by-step process. Then we get the “let’s systematize this” into a familiar , easy to use and follow process. It quickly became boiled down to aiding and supporting the incremental innovation.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
The Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. If you want an organization to survive, you must innovate. But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. It advocates that innovation is an exciting part of everyone’s job, not “extra work.”
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 1, 2018
New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation.
Qmarkets
JULY 22, 2021
Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. Submission Arguably the submission phase is the most important step of the process.
IdeaScale
APRIL 19, 2017
In case you hadn’t heard, open innovation was defined by Henry Chesbrough as “a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.”. It means that the process of innovation and competitiveness has been democratized. If you want to learn more about open innovation, download our complimentary Open Innovation Guide.
Corporate Innovation
JULY 26, 2016
Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. This is the first of what we hope to be a series on posts on how startup innovation is impacting corporate R&D models. The World of Innovation Has Changed. A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC.
Corporate Innovation
JULY 26, 2016
Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. This is the first of what we hope to be a series on posts on how startup innovation is impacting corporate R&D models. The World of Innovation Has Changed. A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC.
IdeaScale
MARCH 27, 2019
Process innovation is perhaps the “classic” form of innovation. Finding a better way of accomplishing necessary business tasks is low-risk, can lead to other types of innovations, and helps companies maintain and sharpen their competitive edge. Processes must evolve with changes in markets and technologies. Process innovation ensures that it does so effectively. Ideally, process innovation should be built into the company DNA.
Gregg Fraley
JUNE 21, 2016
I recently was a guest blogger for Gibson Insurance and I wrote this piece about the risk of Not Innovating. Many leaders pull back on innovation programs because of expenses, and, fear of change. They settle for small changes and improvements and continue to look at innovation as if it’s extra work. They pay lip service to innovation and waste time doing culture assessments. They also spend precious time developing a precise process for innovation.
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 26, 2016
Getting a Mandate to Innovate is Key. Larger companies typically have an innovation process in place. They don’t always work, but the majority of the Fortune 1000 has some kind of innovation process or system. There is an implied consent then, to innovate, at those organizations. At smaller companies, the Mis-Fortune 5000 as I sometimes jest, there is often not a process in place. Nearly any process is better than no process.
Innovation 360 Group
MAY 18, 2020
A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. The fastest growing companies interpret innovation through multiple lenses. Linking innovation horizons to time (e.g.,
Corporate Innovation
JULY 26, 2016
Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. This is the first of what we hope to be a series on posts on how startup innovation is impacting corporate R&D models. The World of Innovation Has Changed. A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 9, 2016
After a fairly detailed exploratory working through crowdsourcing in this mini-series, I wanted to offer my ‘take’, to help our thinking though in formulating clearer positions in this, to see its increasing value as contributing into an innovation management system. Crowdsourcing does offer increasing value as a contributor into our innovation management system.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 9, 2016
After a fairly detailed exploratory working through crowdsourcing in this mini-series, I wanted to offer my ‘take’, to help our thinking though in formulating clearer positions in this, to see its increasing value as contributing into an innovation management system. Crowdsourcing does offer increasing value as a contributor into our innovation management system.
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