Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 10, 2021

It's past time to innovate from the outside in. What I mean by that is to start taking your cues from your customers, the environment and future realities, and shape your capabilities and products to meet those emerging wants and needs. The vast majority of products we use meet some, but not all, of our needs.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. I described why we advocate trend spotting and scenario planning as a component of innovation, especially as the expectations of an innovation activity are more disruptive.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2015

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. Innovation has never been more important nor so difficult. An innovation centre is a team of people and a physical location. In-house Innovation Labs.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

INSEAD Business School, along with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have just released their analysis of the world’s most innovative countries for 2016. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016. The problem with extrapolating data. comparative benchmarks, industry analysis).

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. It is often used in the design of products, services, and experiences. What are the principles of design thinking?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

In past posts we've looked at the origin of explore and exploit , the emergence of true innovation explorers like Edison, Bell and a host of others. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. So we come to the ultimate post on explore and exploit, at least for now. Third, rework your financial models.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Then why is innovation such a rarity? Here’s what they are: 1.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. They often have their own teams, their own budgets, and their own objectives. It is one that innovation researcher Gina O’Connor refers to as “mainstream” and “newstream”.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of?

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of?

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

I think we can all agree that user adoption is the primary objective for all products. User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 21, 2019

This step between a breakthrough and a working prototype is often referred to as the ‘valley of death’ for innovation. Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!” To effectively drive enterprise innovation requires effort at every level of the organization, and it requires alignment among many moving parts. Stop focusing on products and start focusing on problems Problems are goldmines.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation. Cross-Functional Teams For starters, product and market research are usually two separate activities.

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Planview

APRIL 4, 2018

How, though, does a company of this size approach innovation? The Ignite conference – on May 1-2 in San Francisco – is fortunate to have Linda Lavelle, Director of Knowledge Management at Johnson & Johnson, speak about how the company drives innovation throughout the organization.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!” To effectively drive enterprise innovation requires effort at every level of the organization, and it requires alignment among many moving parts. Stop focusing on products and start focusing on problems. Problems are goldmines.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

Dealing with uncertainty demands innovative ideas. Combatting uncertainty demands innovative ideas. Innovative ideas are purchased externally and often not well integrated. It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation. I have been a student of innovation for more years now than I care to count. It has also given birth to outstanding innovation methods such as outcome–driven innovation (jobs–to–be–done theory) and discovery–driven innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

This short piece is not about innovation. Would that be so bad? I was recently with a founder of a small Swiss tech startup, and he was all over the ‘how’ they are squeezing value out of a step-change technology, to generate as many user cases as possible, whichever they are. By David Bruel & Frank Pagano. Spoiler Alert.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Embracing AI means more than just implementing new technologies; it involves rethinking entire business operations from the ground up.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. If I asked you to name some innovations of the 20th Century, which ones would you think of?

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 2, 2019

Corporate Innovation Groups (CIGs) are often on “offense” when it comes to new product development and technological innovation, particularly when it comes to engaging the market and mitigating market-facing risks. Consider Project Risk and Internal Risk. It received high marks externally, but not internally.

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Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 10, 2017

With innovation, the work is new. But with innovation, when the work is done for the first time, there can be no standard work. In that way, if you’re following the standard work paradigm, you are not doing innovation. With innovation it’s different. With innovation, it’s one-in-a-row solution.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts. Innovative approaches are filling this gap and proving their value to companies that adopt them. Technology roadmapping?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Innovation is always factored by the ticking click, who gets the jump and the competitive advantage, when a cost center becomes a profit center. I have often heard the mantra from development teams: “Better, Faster, Cheaper—we can give you any two and a half.” ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested reading: 13 – Budgets for Micro-Innovations.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

The term innovation has been much bandied about this decade. Although a hackneyed word especially in the world of education and business, “innovation” has much in its favor. Read WSJ ’s “Is a Peanut-Butter Pop-Tart an Innovation?” There are plenty of expert definitions of innovation out there. These were big companies.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 27, 2021

knowledge, considered complementary, easily integrated into teams, and used together in business strategies, there is confusion surrounding the non-specialized public’s minds regarding experience, interaction, and usability. This was definitely the end of your journey with them, and it is because of a bad experience.

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Mike Shipulski

AUGUST 3, 2016

For startup companies, when times are good, it’s the right time to try something new – the resources are there and so is the motivation; and when times are tough it’s also the right time to try something new – the motivation is there and breathing room is a sign of weakness. But this is not a binary world. But it’s more complicated, still.

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