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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

Ideation on its own isn’t enough to drive innovation outcomes—and could even be a waste of resources if not governed properly. To drive outcomes, you need disciplined portfolio management, as Rachel Kuhr Conn , Founder and CEO of Productable, outlines below. Leaders have established clear goals for all innovation efforts.

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6 Steps to Getting Executive Buy-In for a Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. But what’s the secret to creating and sustaining a successful innovation program? The reality is not every company is fortunate enough to have a crowdsourced innovation program mandate come directly from their executive team. Create a plan of attack.

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Are we EVER going to embrace innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations need balance, and innovation tends to constantly push to upset this need; that’s its nature as it seeks to change. The providers of these solutions have them reasonably refined and offered in all shapes and sizes, but is that REALLY the sum of our innovation programs needed? How feasible is this?

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

On the other side you had the experts – think of Coopers and Edgett, Clayton Christiansen, Henry Chesbrough and Jay Doblin, theorizing and promoting new approaches to innovate. This often resulted in over engineered solutions that practitioners had a hard time to use. How to Tackle the Problem. Quantity does not equal quality.

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Innovation - fast and slow, for the right reasons

Jeffrey Phillips

Far too many innovation activities start with ideas and move quickly to create minimum viable products, but these activities lack good understanding of the emerging future and lack customer insights and needs. Innovation itself is not necessarily a slow activity, it is often slowed by factors beyond the control of the innovation team.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

On the other side you had the experts – think of Coopers and Edgett, Clayton Christiansen, Henry Chesbrough and Jay Doblin, theorizing and promoting new approaches to innovate. This often resulted in over engineered solutions that practitioners had a hard time to use. How to Tackle the Problem. Quantity does not equal quality.

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

Rapid production and MVP. A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is more than the product itself, it represents the beginning of a whole process. The concept is more broadly related to product development and UX design. This is an alternative to questioning customers about a respective product.

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