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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?

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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%!

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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.

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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.”.

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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.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Everyone’s an Innovator

Strategos

For many companies, the Holy Grail is to have the entire company innovating; and especially the front line employees. The front line employees, those closest to the work and the customers, usually have the best insights to improve performance, reduce cost, or develop new products and services. Innovation seldom happens in a vacuum.