IdeaScale

JULY 10, 2019

Lake Trust Credit Union, which aims to serve some of the most financially disadvantaged communities in America, has decided to buck that trend and use human-centered design instead. The structure of credit unions is human-centered by design, as they’re non-profits owned entirely by their depositors.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

6: Design Matters with Debbie Millman. #7: He is also the author of Creative Calling , a book on what it takes to get over the hurdles to starting your own creative journey and potentially making it a career. 6: Design Matters with Debbie Millman. 2: The Chase Jarvis Live show. #3: 3: Accidental Creative with Todd Henry. #4:

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Destination Innovation

JULY 29, 2021

The Mum deodorant company took on Helen Barnett Diserens as a designer in the late 1940s. She adapted an idea from another field and copied the idea of the ballpoint pen to create a new roll-on underarm deodorant which was marketed under the name of Ban Roll-On. Someone put a coin punch and a wine press together and we got books.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 10, 2019

It was originally designed to store and play music. If the main route to market for your great innovation is blocked by naysayers committed to current products and methods, you should ask – who benefits most from this? Salman Rushdie later said of the book: “I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

I recall enjoying a book published a few years back, “ Innovation Governance- how top management organizes and mobilizes for innovation ”, written by Jean-Philippe Deschamps and Beebe Nelson. I am drawing from this book on some thoughts about innovation leadership. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader?

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Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One week from today, my 6th book, Invisible Solutions , will be released. I’ve been asked, “How long did it take to write the book?” December 2 – 10, 2018, I locked myself in a hotel room and started working on the book. In fact, upon reflection, the book took nine years to write and publish.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We discuss how challenging it is to develop completely new technology, the difficulty in describing its value and marketing it, and getting buy in for innovation processes in your company. 00:04:00 – The challenges were not just technical, but in convincing marketing and distribution channels to create a new product category.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach. They asked customers to help design new products. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on innovation. Satell’s book is a fascinating take on how this happens.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. These Jobs to be Done books cover the skills and techniques of this framework in an easy to follow and understand way. Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Fits into existing organisational design. Explore the future with new opportunities by innovating.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. LEGO’s User-Generated Content Platform : LEGO Ideas is an online platform where users can submit their own LEGO set designs.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2022

This article is part 5 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Vague statements such as, “Customer X likes cars,” don’t do much to inform your design thinking. What is lacking in your website, marketing strategy, product, or service that you can improve? This can seem like a, well, random approach.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you. Competitive disadvantage: A delayed or failed project can allow competitors to move ahead, capturing market share and innovation opportunities. Book an appointment with Nick

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

It is likely that many of you have heard of, worked with or are experts in design thinking. Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology brought to the forefront by IDEO at least two decades ago (read: it’s old). I started to work with Rinat and Johan on co-design projects back during pre-iPhone days.

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Viima

APRIL 26, 2023

Don’t judge a book by its cover or a process by its name. The design sprint is not just about design, not only for designers, nor it has anything to do with running. A problem, after all, is at the core of good design and successful innovation.

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Design Tips How To Innovation 86

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

” The book the “Innovation Dilemma” published in 2016 was written by innovation expert Clayton Christensen suggesting even though even the most outstanding companies can do everything right–yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 9, 2024

We have the power to design every aspect of the game, from which biases get encoded into our systems to what determines success and what the rewards are. In her new book, "Data, Strategy, Culture & Power," data expert Nicole Radziwill, PhD introduces “Radziwill’s Law,” which states: “Data cannot be decoupled from power.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2018

Over two years I believe we went through just one case study on how to produce and market a new technology (it was on fiber optics). Experiences with Dimis are out-of-the-ordinary, designed to have a lasting and practical impact. Today when some people talk about innovation they mean inventing or adopting new technology.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The journey has forced me into terrain that presented diverse challenges to achieve fresh insights and traversed many a rugged landscape to get closer to my goal of offering organizations their innovation fitness and future landscape design, one designed to alter their present capabilities and capacity to innovate radically.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Traditional project management and financial management processes and principles are designed to produce robust plans for exactly how a project should run, and select only projects which are likely to succeed. Clear in design ( “we know roughly what the perfect solution looks like and how it needs to be configured “).

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Often we forget to reinforce the very design within our organizational structures, we leave role structures incomplete and uncertain, or we always seem to be changing them, before they have had any real chance to ‘form and storm.’ It can’t solve complicated product design solutions in thirteen weeks.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 4, 2019

He asked his marketing team not to find the richest region but instead to find the wettest region in the UK. Bernstein employed a Russian theatre designer to create opulent interiors for his cinemas with Gothic, Renaissance and Moorish influences. Sidney Bernstein was the Managing Director of a cinema chain in the south of England.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 26, 2022

In managing the operations directly ourselves… we went from an asset-light backend distribution software platform to this market-facing platform that was out there delivering goods directly to shops themselves.”. As a result, most companies who wanted to compete couldn’t simply choose to design or manufacture just one or two components.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

In Power and Progress , Acemoglu and Johnson helped me understand that many new innovations and technologies are introduced into the market as efficiency innovations. These are innovations designed to do more with less, especially less labor. This is where market-creating innovations make their entrance. And new consumption.

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Marketing Technology Industry Innovation 93

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

Dr. Schwab, the Founder and Executive Chairman of the WEF also released his second book on the subject “ Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution ”. The second one is taking Dr.Schwab’s book of areas he discusses that have deeper impact and meaning for us all. I want to come back to this in another post.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

There was little consumer demand in a society impoverished by the war so Morita decided to focus on export markets. Five years later Morita designed a pocket-sized transistor radio for the American market but it was just a little too large to fit in a shirt pocket. Morita came up with an innovative marketing idea.

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Innovation Video Marketing Product Innovation 205

Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 12, 2024

How can you get your book done and published? My seventh book will be published in less than a week. Here is a list you might find helpful… BOOKS: Write a Must Read by AJ Harper is probably the best book on book writing. Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick. Then, I use 48 Hour Books to print them.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Matthew Lieberman who is the Chief Marketing Officer of PwC US/Mexico and an innovative executive at the crossroads of marketing, media, and technology. ML: I have a non-traditional background and am not a classically educated marketer.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When you think we are on a roll, we are making that transformation in technology, systems, new organizational designs, you are suddenly stopped in your tracks. They make up vital business processes that were designed years ago but not for the technology onslaught of technology we are witnessing. Can we continue to battle with legacy?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2025

His first book, Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a […]

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