Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The process breaks innovation into three continuous phases: build a prototype or solution, measure how it performs, and learn from the results to refine the product or strategy. It promotes agility, customer focus, and data-driven decision-making by minimizing time and resource waste on ideas that may not deliver value.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. It’s not just about rolling out fancy new gadgets or services; it’s about rethinking how everything ticks in your company. They make sure your company stays in the game, no matter how much the market shifts.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. It is the driving force behind the competitive edge that allows companies to stand out and meet the ever-changing demands of their customers. Understanding these challenges is the first step toward overcoming them.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This shared risk allows for bolder experimentation and innovation, as the potential downsides are not borne by a single entity. This dynamic interaction fosters a virtuous cycle where innovation begets more innovation, creating a continuously evolving and expanding ecosystem.

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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. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. However, there are more effective ways to innovate, as you will see further down this list. So what can you do about it?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Rather than treating innovation like a side note, make it front and center in your planning playbook.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process. The post Shifting gears between design thinking, lean startup, and agile appeared first on Board of Innovation. Continue reading.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes. And the reason is simple.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model. This is a great mode that I constantly refer back to with my clients, to convince them to think about innovation beyond product innovation.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process. The post Shifting gears between design thinking, lean startup, and agile appeared first on Board of Innovation. Continue reading.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform development using the innovation stack, and supporting the innovation stack with a platform.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We need to design our systems to be highly agile.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Enable Autonomous Innovation Processes : With advancements in self-supervised learning and few-shot adaptation, generative AI could eventually handle end-to-end innovation workflows with limited human intervention. This could revolutionize the speed, scale, and adaptability of the innovation process itself.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

“ The reply: “Here are some of the ways in which collaboration, ideation, implementation, and value creation have changed since 2019: Collaboration From siloed to interconnected: Collaboration is no longer confined to departments or companies. Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Many companies are still in denial or not wanting to address the significant legacy and change required. Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling.

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Idea Drop

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The innovation process is constantly evolving. Companies that achieve innovation maturity demonstrate greater agility. According to an MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte’s fifth annual study of digital business, 81% of organizations site innovation as one of their strengths.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Reverse innovation is more than a strategy for entering new marketsits a way to rethink how businesses approach problem-solving. By developing solutions tailored to resource-limited environments, companies can uncover cost-effective and efficient innovations that can later be adapted for high-margin markets.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Agile innovation is transforming how companies develop new products and services, fostering a culture of flexibility, speed, and customer-centricity. As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, understanding and implementing agile innovation can be the key to staying ahead. What is Agile Innovation?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While all of these are still extremely desirable assets, they no longer guarantee a sustainable competitive advantage for most companies. In the last few decades we’ve obviously seen many examples of companies with competitive advantages that seemed impossible to overcome completely break down in a matter of few years.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

To survive – and even thrive – in the post-Covid economy, companies will have to be faster than ever in responding to change. What will separate those companies that continue to lead and those that falter is their ability to rapidly react to changing circumstances and bring new ideas to the marketplace. Be Bold and Experiment.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check our write-up on linking business goals with the innovation groove. Getting the Innovation Ball Rolling Once you’ve spotted the treasure chests, it’s time to cook up strategies that’ll set the innovation engine humming company-wide. This throws light on fresh innovation chances.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Imagine a company as a ship navigating through uncharted waters. The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a forty-five minute working group you can either develop a new innovation process that you can upload and use in your IdeaScale community that day or you can create a communications plan to guide outreach in your next campaign. Come see the offices of these companies who are at the top of their game.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers. Perhaps the question we should be asking is: what is the cost of delaying innovation? What do companies that fail to invest in innovation miss?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape Innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s the fuel that drives businesses forward in a competitive and ever-changing marketplace. Your ability to innovate determines the sustainability and growth of your company.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Still, the hockey stick of benefits has not kicked in yet – while all companies are making efforts to adopt technology, most of the production industry (~70%) remains in pilot purgatory (where technology pilots last for extended periods of time, and companies do not take the final step of scaling up viable technologies).

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Where is innovation within this? We need to design our systems to be highly agile.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

You can follow their work over on innovation-3, where they help companies to set the Scaling-Up of a fully validated innovation concept up for success. This growing complexity to manage is increasingly moving organizations towards the very traits innovation also requires. This is where innovation comes into play.

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Wazoku

JUNE 15, 2016

In a company structure such as Google, when someone has an idea, they don’t require approval from higher up to chase it – they let the data provided from the results of their experiments do the talking. Innovation agility enables reduced times to market. Role of culture in innovation.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Foundation of Innovation Culture In today’s fast-paced business environment, cultivating an innovation culture within your organization is not just beneficial; it is imperative for survival and growth. Importance of Innovation Culture You might wonder why there is a pressing need to nurture an innovation culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2023

We still don’t understand the ‘dynamics’ of innovation and the interdependency of the parts. Innovation is still not treated company-wide holistically, as recognition of the dependencies is poorly understood. What would happen if we ignored certain innovation aspects?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

I really am fed up with constantly seeing claims that “ innovation is core to our business ” and that we are “ constantly seeking fresh growth ” Both of these are simply b t statements from the vast majority of our businesses. Ten, twenty, perhaps fifty out of thousands in medium to large companies.

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