Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. This process helps in minimizing risks and maximizing the chances of developing successful products or services. For more information on how AI can enhance your innovation management, explore our articles on ai in innovation management and ai for idea generation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Traditionally used in manufacturing and operations to track metrics like production time, cost efficiency, and quality, benchmarking has evolved into a broader innovation and strategy tool. One of the most valuable contributions of benchmarking is its ability to remove guesswork from innovation planning.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By blending innovation into your strategy, you’re cooking up a plan that’s as flexible as a yoga guru and keeps you ahead of the pack. For a deeper dive, check out our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? Today, everyone wants to be agile. It’s seen as sexy and cool to be agile, but most people don’t know what the term really means. By Upboard. How do we enable faster decisions?

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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. Provide Resources : Make sure your team has the tools, training, and time to work their magic.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It paves the way for adopting methodologies, like the lean startup methodology, that streamline and enhance the innovation process. By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We need to get closer to ‘real-time’ This reliance on rapidly out-of-date understanding cannot be the basis for any justifications for high-stake bets when it comes to innovation. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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 means defining what you want, grabbing the best tools, and rallying the troops to keep the ball in play.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

So where does innovation fit within this? I have read different views but most seem to be simply dressing their existing tools and methods in the those brighter new clothes of Gen AI appeal. This could revolutionize the speed, scale, and adaptability of the innovation process itself. Surely not?

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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. While continuing the other innovation you are already doing.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pulling in innovation is a must-have in today’s fast-moving scene, as detailed in our note on strategy’s need for innovation in disruptive times. Tools and Methods for Creative Strategy Development Want to shake things up in your business strategy? Toss some innovation into the mix.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation. Can we design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit the specific need?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be experimenting and exploring.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

The whole operational process has to reorient away from being internally driven into being externally lead. To re-equip whole organizations is a long transforming journey, the breaking down of siloed thinking to one of being more open-sourced one requires new communicating tools.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We can, by embracing 4IR, have available far more predictive and evaluation tools to help improve processes, to reduce or test risk, to prototype and experiment, partly engaged with customers in learning and adjusting design and value. Innovation emerges out of the Industrial 4.0

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Brainwriting. Mind Mapping.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Let’s take a look at some notable examples of reverse innovation in action: Examples of Reverse Innovation Affordable Healthcare Solutions Indias development of portable ECG machines for rural clinics exemplifies reverse innovation. Empower local teams: Allow local teams to lead the innovation process.

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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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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Teams are encouraged to think creatively, communicate openly, and remain agile in the face of unforeseen challenges. With Ezassi’s Innovation Program Management services, organizations can measure outcomes against KPIs, gather stakeholder feedback, and analyze data to refine their strategies. Why Ezassi?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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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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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

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? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

By focusing on attracting the right talent , establishing effective reward and recognition systems, and fostering a collaborative culture, businesses can create an environment where innovation thrives. Managing Innovation: Process Effective innovation management requires robust and well-defined processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A variety of NPD strategies can be employed, each with its own set of principles, methodologies, and tools. The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Operators clock in, have a brief conversation with their crew and shift supervisor and then operate a machine or tool for 8-12 hours before heading home. There is a strategic resistance, there is a lack of organizational agility and still not the level of commitment this is required, driven from the top. The internal change is slow.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It needs to be one that is integrated and connected up; in tools, methodologies, frameworks, in solution providers and collaborative clients. ” We need to leverage technology in significant ways to automate the process and capitalize on the power of data, intelligence, and flexible design, delivered in highly adaptive ways.

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ITONICS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Once again, the Innovation Alliance successfully trained employees as Agile Innovation Managers. The participants furthermore learned all about the most recent and effective innovation tools alongside the whole innovation process. Innovation Alliance c/o ITONICS GmbH. From Ideas To Market.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Attracting Talent : A culture that values creativity and innovation draws in individuals who are eager to contribute and push boundaries, which in turn, fuels further innovation. Adaptability : An innovative culture equips your organization with the agility to pivot quickly in response to market changes and consumer needs.

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Wazoku

JUNE 15, 2016

This is known as differentiated innovation; it usually focuses on a mix of efficiency increase/process improvement combined with user experience/proposition development. Innovation agility enables reduced times to market. Role of culture in innovation. Reviewing strengths and weaknesses across the business.

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