Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Kotler’s Pricing Strategy: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Kotlers Pricing Strategy , developed by Philip Kotler , is a comprehensive framework that helps businesses determine the most effective pricing model to maximize revenue, market share, and competitive positioning. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 12, 2022

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. It should be a book that all managers read. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful.

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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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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. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It is the twin of corporate accounting but instead it is appropriate for innovation projects. 00:04:30 – Traditional corporate accounting and analysis methods are not appropriate for innovation because they are used to reduce risk and improve efficiency, which do not work for innovation projects. Ground Control: [link].

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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2021

However, project managers might wonder exactly who these “crowd workers” are. Critics often assume that employed professionals don’t have time to participate in crowdsourcing projects. This means that crowdsourcing projects are generally a hobby or a second source of income. Who Are Crowd Workers? What Motivates the Crowd?

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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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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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

One of the most important pieces of creativity and innovation research from the past couple of decades can be found in the book The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work. Failing to support the person or project. Actively hindering a project. Poor communication. Discouragement.

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Idea to Value

JULY 30, 2020

We go through how companies should measure innovation performance, and which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) actually make sense for these types of projects. 00:05:00 – The aspects which create a successful innovation culture are found nowhere in the accounting books. 00:03:45 – Why accounting is overrated.

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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? Get it here.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Today was one of those times when an email dropped into my inbox stating that Palgrave Macmillan, the publisher of my latest book Charting Change is offering it at a ridiculous Cyber Week Sale price of $9.99 Every so often something comes through your inbox that seems too good to be true. on the USA.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Sometimes, in order to produce the best creative work you can, it means you need to prune ideas from a project. Stephen King had this to say in his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Read a book. Work on a personal project. Within the last six months. Within the last year. Within the last two years. I cannot remember when. In your spare time would you rather. Play a computer game or soduko. Have you ever composed a song? I once wrote out the words or music to a song I composed.

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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. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. Beyond training, we also need to give people the experience of working on and running innovation projects.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. like P&G’s Connect and Develop platform).

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The theory comes from work by Leon Festinger and brought to the public in his 1957 book: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance In it, Festinger outlined how he noticed how two previous events showed people acting irrationally. In 1934, a powerful magnitude 8.1 earthquake hit India and Nepal , killing more than 12,000 people.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in project portfolio management , process improvement , change leadership , and stakeholder management. After several years working in museum management, Athena decided to specialize in project management, which gradually led her to her current role.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

To overcome this, a useful way of thinking about any creative or innovative project is to start with a Shitty First Draft, as coined by Anne Lamott in her book Bird by Bird. Because of this, many people are afraid to put down their first thoughts onto paper (or screen) in case someone sees them and thinks they are terrible.

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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. Ability to focus and not be pulled in multiple directions by competing projects.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Innovation needs high level sponsors who are actively engaged in innovation projects. The Prosci Adkar Model is explained in this book: On Amazon.co.uk. You train people for other soft skills so why not train them to think laterally, to experiment and to implement ideas? Ability. You do not get innovation for free. On Amazon.com.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This can result in people and projects trying to hide failure , or avoid trying things which challenge them at all so that they are less likely to fail. If there is a portfolio of 10 projects, and one brings a return of 100x, then it does not matter if the other 9 fail. Innovation projects are different.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 25, 2021

The same is true of many people’s creative projects, and companies’ innovation projects. Often, people start building creative projects, but before they are complete, they get distracted by something else and begin working on something new. Essentially, too many projects end up as unfinished bridges.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 18, 2022

These top Jeanne Liedtka’s books are a great source of information on innovation and design thinking. Design thinking books continue to be a popular topic on our blog, as many find them a useful way to learn about innovation and how to apply these techniques to organizational or personal challenges. Find it here on Amazon.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In her book, The Innovation Revolution, Melissa Kennedy accuses four key suspects. This legacy tool is used for analysis, presentation, project management, contact databases, calendars etc. What are the biggest barriers to productivity, efficiency and creativity at work? Which activities absorb the most time for the least return?

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Planview

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Dr. Mik Kersten published Project to Product a groundbreaking book that introduced the Flow Framework just over six years ago the term product operating model was relatively new. View the Executive Summary or Get the Full Report Sources 1 2024 Project to Product State of the Industry Report. Published on Oct.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 5, 2023

Work on this bias is often credited to Jonathan Baron’s book Thinking and Deciding. However, this is also often an issue which decision makers have when evaluating innovation projects. Compared to more traditional projects, innovation projects often have less data and information about what has worked and succeeded previously.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 11, 2020

00:05:30 – The power of Design Sprints to speed up project starts. Jonathan new Book: The Workshopper Playbook – get it now for FREE: [link]. Topics covered in today’s episode. 00:01:30 – How User Experience (UX) led Jonathan on his journey to starting his company. Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2017

The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. You can see examples of their various projects on their website. Changing the default position – e.g. so that everyone is enrolled into a pension scheme unless they deliberately opt out.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2022

One interesting fact is that newly promoted managers book 29% more meetings than more experienced managers. Ask your team members to respond within the hour, explaining what they’re working on, any important project updates, setbacks, etc. 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

It is a dilemma which Ed Catmull describes in his book Creativity Inc. He syas that if you give a great idea to a mediocre group, they will likely screw it up, because a movie or a project or a start-up involves many ideas and choices not just one. Pause for a moment and make your choice.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

About the Episode AI adoption is skyrocketing, but most AI projects dont deliver on their promises. In this episode, Dr. Evan Shellshear , Managing Director and Group CEO of Ubidy, breaks down why 80% of AI projects fail and what organisations can do to improve their chances of success.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MARCH 23, 2020

Leaders often struggle with judging and making decisions on innovation projects. When faced with several teams that have been working on new innovative business ideas, leaders find it difficult to choose the ideas to give further investment and the ideas to stop.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. Many large organizations spend the full budget on version 1, and shut the project down when it doesn’t meet expectations. Twitter: wilg.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This happened to me personally at one of my previous employers, who tried to double their headcount, only to let thousands of people go just weeks later when they began to miss revenue projections. It was coined in the book Antifragile. The classic example is in muscle growth.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Secondly, check the efficiency of your innovation evaluation process by monitoring how many ideas make it through the initial selection and into the next stage as projects. Thirdly, check how many projects become prototypes and how many prototypes become new products. How many people are engaged in innovation activities?

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