Viima

MAY 30, 2019

Having the right set of tools can help you get more out of your innovation activities by providing you with concrete ways for managing different parts of innovation. The right tools allow you to consider different aspects of innovation, look at innovation from new perspectives and save time.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2020

Drawing together everyone should be the goal of any innovative organization. There’s nothing more important to innovation than an engaged, thoughtful workforce. Yet bringing your team out of their box of day-to-day tasks and larger projects to focus on innovation can feel daunting. Have a transparent innovation process.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 20, 2020

Leading innovation is hard. It involves creating the right culture, guiding innovation teams, and investing in the right ideas and business models. Without the right toolkit, this would almost be an impossible task.

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Collectivecamp

AUGUST 21, 2023

Different corporate venture capital models reflect unique strategies, objectives, and degrees of integration, offering corporations a flexible toolkit to drive innovation and growth. Not all CVC initiatives are created equal.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 20, 2023

Engaging your users to understand, participate in, and promote your innovation initiative is vital to its success. That’s why we’ve assembled this practical toolkit containing everything you need to engage your audience, resulting in a persevering culture of innovation that will help you deliver on your innovation goals.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 20, 2023

Engaging your users to understand, participate in, and promote your innovation initiative is vital to its success. That’s why we’ve assembled this practical toolkit containing everything you need to engage your audience, resulting in a persevering culture of innovation that will help you deliver on your innovation goals.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 20, 2023

Engaging your users to understand, participate in, and promote your innovation initiative is vital to its success. That’s why we’ve assembled this practical toolkit containing everything you need to engage your audience, resulting in a persevering culture of innovation that will help you deliver on your innovation goals.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 13, 2022

I’ve been hard at work building all kinds of tools to help innovation, change, transformation and design thinking practitioners be more successful in their jobs. I’ve grown the number of human-centered tools in the Change Planning Toolkit v13 from the … Continue reading →

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Creating an innovation approach that is as effective as it is exciting should be the focus of every innovator. As we embark on the “ corporate innovation odyssey ” that is 2024 (as Planbox CEO Ludwig Melik calls it), equipping ourselves with the right features in our innovation toolkit cannot be overstated.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s an amazingly simple tool, and unbelievably powerful for pushing thinking beyond “business as usual” to help teams innovate. SCAMPER can be used to generate ideas for improving existing offerings or business processes, or innovating completely new products and services. It’s flexible.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2019

Today, we are speaking with the former Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan Wardle. We speak about what it takes for companies to become more innovative, how ideas are developed at Disney and Pixar, and why companies need to embrace creativity to prevent themselves from becoming disrupted in the coming decade.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the big challenges to innovation is that many people think of it as a big program, like implementing the quality programs of the 1980s, or rethinking everything, like the re-engineering programs and right sizing programs of a more recent vintage. But innovation and design thinking have something to offer here.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 16, 2016

Continuing the “Best Of The Bonn Forum” series, this next post is all about some of the handy (and often surprising) resources our presenters used to refine and redefine their innovation processes, principles and culture.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The Innovation Journey Map (IJM) is a similar concept showing the journey that an innovation takes from initial conception through to final implementation. The IJM would typically include: A flowchart or diagrammatic representation of the journey which the innovation takes. These might include: Where do good ideas originate?

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Braden Kelley

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The first three of ten free downloads from the Change Planning Toolkit™ were focused on innovation and change: Five Keys to Successful Change Architecting the Organization for Change Building a Global Sensing Network The goal of these three frameworks was … Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2020

However, we have incorporated selected practices from the agile toolkit to enhance innovation and speed products to market. It is a methodology that depicts key milestones, but supersedes specific engineering models such as waterfall or Agile. The beauty of this process.

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CMOE

JUNE 21, 2021

In her book, Reality-Based Leadership , training expert Cy Wakeman discusses how workplace leaders can build a results-oriented culture driven by innovation and engagement—not drama. Soapbox’s New Manager Toolkit. This toolkit from Soapbox offers useful tools that can help you automate and expedite workflow processes on your team.

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Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It covered a wide range of topics related to innovation: strategy, organization structures, measures, technology, and more. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.” May 2013: In an attempt to kick start the toolkit again, I shot two dozen test videos.

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Viima

JUNE 22, 2021

As we talk to dozens of customers who are about the launch a new innovation program or campaign every month, we field a lot of questions on different topics. These are all great questions, and if you haven’t launched an innovation program before, it can be difficult to get started. How should we communicate about the launch?

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 3, 2021

This course is focused on those that would like to make a positive social impact with design thinking as it’s origins are in the iDE/IDEO Human-Centered Design Toolkit funded by the Gates Foundation that shares many examples of using design thinking to work on problems in the developing world. 30+ Top Design Thinking Workshop Resources.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This month we’ve been thinking about how the popularity of all the tools in our toolkits has varied over the years, and why we think that is. For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. Does it result in faster innovation, more profit or higher scientific value?

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100%Open

JUNE 5, 2017

This week we’re launching our new free open innovation toolkit. Our existing toolkit has been a success – with over 3,000 subscribers globally – and we’re building on our experience these past 3 years by iterating! So check out the toolkit here !

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In any startup or innovation endeavor, most of what we think we know is pure conjecture. Access the Value Stream Discovery Loop and Toolkit. Access the Value Stream Discovery Loop and Toolkit Here. We’re operating within the unknown. HOW TO USE IT. There are myriad ways someone might become aware.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It can be used with a variety of existing frameworks, such as the Business Model Canvas, Value Stream , and other popular innovation frameworks. Access the Rapid Experiment Map and Toolkit Now. Access the Rapid Experiment Map and Toolkit Now. The Experiment Map is focused on recording experiments over time. WHEN TO USE IT.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

As you lead your distributed teams, understanding the nuances of virtual collaboration is crucial for driving innovation, productivity, and engagement. Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. My second post identified specific skills and toolkits to be considered. Emphasize how collaboration can create mutual benefit and value for all parties involved, and how it can help build long-term partnerships and relationships.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 10, 2021

Learn about this innovation framework and find training resources, articles, tips, and more. In the innovation process, this really comes down to trying to find better ways of accomplishing this JTBD, rather than focusing on the product itself. Jobs to Be Done Books, Toolkits, Videos, Guides. JTBD Canvas. Case Studies.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 7, 2023

Innovation is the lifeblood of any organization—be it a startup or a seasoned corporation. But with innovation comes risk, and with risk comes resistance. Innovation antibodies can be that internal or external roadblocks that see their role to protect the organization from risk. Or the Vice Premier of Taiwan.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 15, 2020

When it comes to design thinking and innovative collaboration, these two tools can work together to design and develop with the end user in mind, right from the start of the process. Share, comment, and collaborate together with your innovation teams. Smaply is a wonderful addition to your digital collaboration and ideation toolkit.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 21, 2021

Add this digital whiteboard tool to your innovation toolkit! Next up in our list of digital collaboration tools and resources is Lucidspark, another digital whiteboard option for design thinking and innovation focused teams. Lucidspark is a low-cost collaboration whiteboard tool that may be useful for virtual innovation teams.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Shape is the latest collaborative digital software tool created by IDEO to help with innovation and design thinking projects. Shape may be a useful addition to your collaboration and ideation toolkit. Find even more remote working tools and tips on our innovation and design thinking blog. The post What is Shape?

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Yet2

APRIL 14, 2020

“There is a cost to standing still; there is a cost to doing nothing,” said Gavin McClafferty , open innovation lead, Subsea 7 at last year’s Innovation Roundtable in Copenhagen. Gavin, along with yet2 CEO Tim Bernstein , shared their insights in “Finding Game-Changing Innovations.”.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. Frequently, ideas generated in this way lead to outside-of-the-box thinking that can yield innovative solutions. An exploration of resources and advice for design thinking in education.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 21, 2021

Add this online whiteboard tool to your innovation and design thinking software toolkit. This free tool from Invision is designed as an alternative to other paid options out there but still includes many features that innovation teams will find useful for their projects. Invision Freehand is our next tool to add to this list!

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One up-and-coming innovation framework is human-centered design, an approach centered around the end user and their unique problems and needs. This evolving framework is a wonderful way to view the innovation process and develop custom solutions that match up with what the end user needs to be successful. What is Human-Centered Design?

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 18, 2022

These top Jeanne Liedtka’s books are a great source of information on innovation and design thinking. Design thinking books continue to be a popular topic on our blog, as many find them a useful way to learn about innovation and how to apply these techniques to organizational or personal challenges. Innovation Assessment.

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IdeaScale

MAY 11, 2021

The Innovator’s Dilemma. This makes ideas difficult to analyze or evaluate, and evaluation core to innovation strategy. Innovation works best as a process when it has investment by both the c-suite and the people out in the field, and this is also true of scoring and scoring criteria. Set Clear Expectations.

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