Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You need the ability to adapt to change, and innovate, faster. Thus, for most businesses, the only truly lasting source of competitive advantage these days is the pace of innovation. Thus, for most businesses, the only truly lasting source of competitive advantage these days is the pace of innovation. It’s simple, really.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 16, 2016

I've been puzzling this over the last few weeks, trying to wrap my head around the importance of innovation generally and the lack of real innovation delivery specifically. What I mean is that everyone knows that innovation is vital to growth and future success, but very few new innovations are created.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In many instances, some very successful anticipatory entrepreneurs’ innovations were logical improvements upon existing products or services. Hard Trends are based on future facts that represent future certainties—things that are inevitably going to happen, such as cybercrime evolving as digital applications evolve.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. What is an innovation culture? The question we need start with is to actually define what an innovation culture is. Why is an innovative culture so important?

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Before joining Mach49, Christian served as Head of Airbus Scale — Airbus’ central innovation unit — where he drove all of the company’s internal and external innovation activities. Based on his experience as a corporate innovation lead and startup founder, Christian believes in talent and teams first.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

When it comes to innovation, there are countless ways things might go wrong. If you manage to get the timing just right, your innovations will obviously benefit from huge tailwinds when entire industries are transitioning from the old to the new with you riding at the top of the wave. The importance of timing in innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 24, 2017

Every organization, no matter what they do or whom they serve, is constantly watching for ways to increase the value of what they offer. Anticipation and being anticipatory is a very powerful strategy with which you can boost your overall value. To Develop a Completely Different Product, Think Differently. Know Your Customers Better.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Establishing product-market fit is critical for any new corporate venture, but that's just one component of successful corporate venture building. As many of us know from first-hand experience, a venture's success is not guaranteed even with a product-market fit, as it may still face failure or termination by the corporation.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 24, 2021

From virtual museum tours to five-star curbside pickup of a steak and lobster dinner, some tremendously innovative ideas emerged out of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. The post-pandemic new normal is whatever we make it, and the innovative Apps and more that have emerged can and will aid in business growth if you continue to apply them.

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Idea Drop

JULY 30, 2017

With management unable to know who came up with which ideas, not only do the ideas sitting inside this box exist completely without context (leaving a lot of leeway for misinterpretation), it’s also impossible for employees to get any feedback in return. The Suggestion Box This box is where you go to store ideas, not act on them.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This post came out of an interview on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Innovation with David Binetti , Founder of Innovation Options, and Brant Cooper, Co-Founder. One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? What is the Purpose of Innovation?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

As all of us working on innovation know, it’s quite an opaque topic that many innovators and organizations don’t talk about openly. As a result, innovation is an area that’s fraught with many common myths and misconceptions. But, without further ado, let’s get to these myths and misconceptions on innovation. The Reality.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But I still find it a helpful visualization tool for outlining a high-level innovation process in search of good ideas. It’s also equally applicable to bootstrapping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators alike. My answer: “ It’s near impossible ”. The concept of an idea funnel isn’t new. It has its limitations.

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Planview

APRIL 26, 2022

The pressure for adaptability, innovation, and speed in an ever-changing, ever-smaller world was mounting. Changing to an Agile way of working was both nearly impossible and desperately necessary for survival. At the start of 2020, the need for Agile transformation was already knocking on the door of most major organizations.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This post came out of an interview on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Innovation with David Binetti , Founder of Innovation Options, and Brant Cooper, Co-Founder. One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? What is the Purpose of Innovation?

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Like the majority of the world’s population in April 2020, I find myself unable to implement my preferred method of innovation discovery. In the meantime, however, I would like to make use of an innovation technique I have mentioned in previous articles. Hemingway House, Key West, Florida.

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100%Open

MAY 7, 2016

When it comes to the nebulous and overused concept of innovation, I have realised that it’s simply not possible without a spark of hope. If we allow negativity and cynicism to creep in then of course innovation won’t be possible. There are of course no shortage of things to be cynical about. Oscar Wilde.

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CREATORS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Why Collaborating with your Competitors Can Be the Key to Innovation ** This is a continuation of the blogpost about different innovation governance models. Cooperation of competitive global players with start-ups and research initiatives seems inevitable. Samsung and Sony?—?both What is Coopetition?

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But I still find it a helpful visualization tool for outlining a high-level innovation process in search of good ideas. It’s also equally applicable to bootstrapping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators alike. My answer: “ It’s near impossible ”. The concept of an idea funnel isn’t new. It has its limitations.

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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. Bill Gates.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In both the workplace and the natural world , evolution is both inevitable and painful. Fortunately, companies can take control over their evolutionary destiny by harnessing the power of innovation. Fortunately, companies can take control over their evolutionary destiny by harnessing the power of innovation.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Innovation leaders must learn the art of rapid decision making. Throughput = how many ideas (validated or invalidated) are pumping through your innovation engine. If teams working on innovation projects are conscious of their speed and rewarded for their throughput, they will find their way from the good ideas to a great one.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 6, 2017

The Founder, Lessons in Innovation. The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. Between the two of them there is enough marvelously illustrated content to teach a masters course in innovation. It also includes the dark side of innovation.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Page at the University of Michigan), and it makes developing and executing a strategic plan seem almost impossible because the future is not just unknown, it is unknowable. When you start a new business, it is like climbing a mountain. You have a goal in mind and generally understand what you need to achieve. The landscape changes again.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 16, 2016

However, to fully understand how we can use this to accelerate innovation in our own organization, I invite you to take a short trip back in time. Way back in 1983, after launching my company, Burrus Research , I was studying innovations in all areas of science and technology on a global level.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 9, 2018

Back in the day we called it by its full name, America Online. Prior to the broad penetration of the Internet, it was how we connected with each other. It was the company we paid on a subscription basis for both access to digital connectivity and content. Truth be told, I still have an active AOL account and get teased about that by friends.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. What is an innovation culture? The question we need start with is to actually define what an innovation culture is. Why is an innovative culture so important?

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The Human Factor

APRIL 4, 2019

If the system works well, you will meet your operational obligations and ensure that all is running smoothly; if it doesn’t, then your bottom line will inevitably be impacted. image source. Contributed post –. There are a number of different ways of thinking about business. A method of moving goods . image source.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. As I was reading, though, I had some questions come up that I felt weren’t answered–or maybe I missed the answer.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. But how do you get there from here? Making the case. The hardest part of building an in-house design agency is answering the basic “Why?”.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MARCH 20, 2020

A flair for the dramatic. Some people love this about me. My hiking club recaps featuring death defying encounters with packs of wild animals and herds of hang gliders have become the stuff of legend. But others refuse to take me seriously for this very reason. And that’s fair. I don’t always take things seriously.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Anyone who has heard me speak or worked with me in a consulting capacity knows how much I talk about the transformational impact of technology and how it’s advancing at an exponentially faster rate than ever before. That’s certainly true. And positive, constructive, collaborative relationships boil down to a single common denominator— trust.

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