article thumbnail

[FREE] Business Case Template: Create a Business Case to Turn Your Idea Into a Funded Project

Leapfrogging

For over 25 years, I’ve worked with innovation teams within big companies to help them craft business cases for their ideas, and with founders to gain funding for their startups. Whether corporate innovator or startup founder, creating a business case is essential for success. . . Applied consistently to every proposed project .

Project 130
article thumbnail

Dark Innovation: Why Stealth is the Way to Go

Phil McKinney

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. Wired Magazine described it as.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

Time for Innovation 2.0

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years.

article thumbnail

Innovation Funnel Management System: The Secret Tool to Drive Innovative Product Development in Your Business

Leapfrogging

The innovation session had been going on for most of 2 days, yet the participants didn’t look tired. Enter the Innovation Funnel Management Process, one of my favorite tools to help manage business process innovation. The Innovation Funnel Management Process ?requires Innovation Funnel Management Process ?tool

article thumbnail

How to use the 70-20-10 Rule to drive innovation within your business

Leapfrogging

How does your team allocate time to driving innovation within your business? . The 70-20-10 Rule is a strategy for determining how to allocate time and resources in order to make a successful innovation. However, this framework has been proven helpful for successful innovation. . . 70%-Core Innovation .

How To 130
article thumbnail

11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

article thumbnail

The Business Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed: A Customer Problem Statement

Leapfrogging

If you aren’t living and breathing the problems your customers face every day, you will likely be unable to empathize with their needs, and providing meaningful innovation to address them. The Customer Problem Statement is a critical component of a project’s statement of purpose. Do you know what matters most to your customers?

Tools 130