article thumbnail

What innovation leaders share with military leaders

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Mental models and organizational structures that restrict innovation What do we think limits military generals from innovation or new tactics?

article thumbnail

The Day the Enterprise Stood Still

PlanBox Innovation

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. What’s more, 90% anticipate ramping up their innovation budgets, with nearly all increasing by more than 10%!

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Importance of Aligning Innovation Strategy with Business Goals

Moves the Needle

Fortunately, there are ways for senior executives to recognize their role in identifying areas of concern, communicating strategy, setting expectations and goals for innovation, and ensuring those efforts are headed in the right direction. It means that your organization has undertaken innovation with specific goals in mind.

article thumbnail

Getting The Fundamentals Right

Innov8rs

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Innov8rs |. Open Strategy.

article thumbnail

Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

Can you imagine having the same number of people involved in innovation growth as we have that manage the finances of a business? In most companies, we have small, dedicated innovation teams of five to 10 people trying to take on this Herculean task of growing a business through innovation. Dedicated Innovation Team.

article thumbnail

How the Kindling Team Uses Idea Management

KindlingApp

For an illustration of the versatility idea management techniques can offer to even a small team, I polled around the Kindling office to see how our teams use Kindling internally. Kindling is a key component of our workflow on team Product, Quality + Support. This, in turn, helps our team, processes, and product evolve.”.

article thumbnail

How Schibsted Media Group Used Empathy and Evidence to Validate New Ideas

Moves the Needle

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

Groups 45