Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Unlike free-form brainstorming, SCAMPER provides a scaffold framework that guides teams through a wide array of mental shifts. It supports both incremental improvements and disruptive ideas, making it a versatile tool for innovation professionals, product designers, marketing teams, and operations leaders alike.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

By enabling quick revisions and visual brainstorming, the Business Model Canvas encourages ongoing improvement and innovation. Map out alternative models when pivoting or entering new markets. It provides a structured method to think through business design, adapt to market changes, and scale innovation efforts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It is particularly useful in situations where assumptions outweigh factssuch as launching a new venture, developing disruptive products, or entering unfamiliar markets. Traditional business planning often breaks down in environments where customer needs, market dynamics, or technical feasibility are not yet fully understood.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice. I have found that this method can work well for new product, service and marketing initiatives. The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? The Random Word method is very good.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2021

Start by focussing on the market leading product (or products). Brainstorm this topic and come up with ideas which will appeal to some customers and make your new product stand out. It does not have to appeal to the whole market. Add something different and take away something of little value. Does the new combination work?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

For example, an innovation team evaluating a new subscription service might use the hats as follows: White Hat: Review market data and competitor analysis. Green Hat: Brainstorm alternative delivery models or pricing strategies. Examples: Should we enter a new market segment? How can we improve the mobile onboarding experience?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws. Here’s why innovation should be at the heart of your plan: Growth Chances : Innovation helps spot and snag new markets, gizmos, and services.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

By using ODI, organizations can build offerings that align more precisely with market demand, increase customer satisfaction, and create lasting competitive advantage. ODI is especially useful when entering new markets, launching new products, or rethinking existing solutions. Providing a prioritized innovation roadmap backed by data.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By assessing concepts against predefined criteria such as feasibility, market potential, cost, and alignment with business objectives, businesses can systematically filter out weaker ideas before significant resources are invested. Optimize Resource Allocation: Prevent waste by investing in the most feasible and marketable ideas.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

While internal innovation can be a powerful force, there are situations where you need an outsider’s view, especially when you’re reaching out to a specific market, or trying to break into a new one. It also creates an effective feedback loop to assist in refining ideas and targeted markets.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

In todays fast-paced business environment, organizations must continuously adapt and evolve to meet changing customer expectations and market dynamics. Ideate Generate Creative Solutions Once the problem is defined, teams brainstorm potential solutions. Conduct thorough customer research before brainstorming solutions.

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HYPE Innovation

MARCH 2, 2020

While the second post provided guidance, practical tips, and examples on how to get started with brainstorming the future of your market , this post offers insight on where and how to identify industry trends to support brainstorming and other foresight activities.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. So I rise today to neither praise nor bury brainstorming, but to place it in its proper context. Brainstorming is a group technique to generate, socialize and evaluate ideas. Everyone knows this.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Learn more about how AI can enhance decision-making in our article on ai-driven market research. This leads to faster development cycles and quicker time-to-market for new products and services. Scalability : AI systems can handle vast amounts of data from multiple sources, providing a comprehensive view of the market landscape.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

While internal innovation can be a powerful force, there are situations where you need an outsider’s view, especially when you’re reaching out to a specific market, or trying to break into a new one. It also creates an effective feedback loop to assist in refining ideas and targeted markets.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Without a clear understanding of customer frustrations, companies risk developing products or services that fail to meet market demands. Understanding the market conditions or external factors that contribute to the problem. Use market research and competitive analysis to confirm the problem’s relevance.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

A new innovation in the digital marketing sphere is the idea of using crowdsourcing to generate or test marketing ideas. Up until this process, marketing, digital marketing and traditional marketing had been a “ one-way conversation ,” according to The Huffington Post. Benefits of Crowdsourcing. Efficiency.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 26, 2020

These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room. Interested in templates for brainstorming that you can even use with a team online? In this guide we will share some of the most popular brainstorming frameworks. Blue Ocean 4 Actions Framework. 5 Whys Template.

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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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

A good leader encourages everyone to speak up and makes sure brainstorming sessions lead to real plans. Lead Brainstorming : Use a set method for bouncing ideas around and putting them in order. Stay sharp, focus on what unifies everyone, and steer ’em toward innovation and your company will keep smashing those growth numbers.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 21, 2020

Find various marketing channels so you can develop new approaches that will prepare you to respond when the unexpected occurs. Marketing research shows 91 percent of marketers are either leading or are involved in driving innovation organization-wide. Brainstorm. You never know which ideas could turn into innovations.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

JUNE 14, 2022

How to not fall into the trap of thinking that a single brainstorming session will fix all your market and product woes, and other ideation pitfalls.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There are two huge reasons why it is important to get to market fast: to be the first and money. Get to Market First. In order to stand out, you must do everything you can to expedite the process of innovating in order to be the first to market. The post Why is it Important to Get to Market Fast appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 9, 2019

In a brilliant piece of marketing it repurposed diamonds as symbols of love and devotion. They kept the same product but promoted it with different benefits to a different market. SCAMPER is a powerful brainstorming technique in which seven verbs are used to generate fresh ideas for a product. The P stands for Put to Other Use.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 14, 2019

What are your main markets? These can be industry sectors, types of customer or geographical markets. These can be technologies, skills, market strength etc. Gather a cluster of strangers and share this brainstorm method. What are your main products or services? List three or four. What are your greatest strengths?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum. Encourage Creative Thinking Make space for new ideas and brainstorming. Strategy What’s It About?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. The right tools will net you with better ideas.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Another company may be working on the same idea and beat you to market with it. The first stage of the innovation lifecycle is brainstorming. While there are many ways to manage brainstorming sessions, the bottom line is that they are necessary to get the cycle started. How can you avoid such a scenario?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These can range from simple brainstorming exercises to sophisticated digital platforms powered by artificial intelligence. Startups, on the other hand, can use them to refine their unique value propositions or pivot quickly when facing market pressures. This versatility makes them an essential component of any innovation strategy.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. This means that companies need to continuously innovate if they want to remain competitive in the market.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. One of the most critical aspects of successful integration is unifying the sales and marketing functions of the newly merged or acquired organization.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Mix intense brainstorming with chill-out time and just-for-fun chats. Team Tasks : Get into team tasks that make folks collaborate, like brainstorming or solving challenges together. Here’s how you whip up a winning agenda: Define Clear Objectives: Know exactly what you want to achieve. Metric Aim Actual What’s the Deal?

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

While many innovation experts focus on helping individuals learn techniques to come up with more ideas, like brainstorming or design thinking, the most valuable skill is being able to select which ideas to focus on based on the value they will deliver. Psychological Safety. Innovation requires working as a team.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 29, 2021

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. It is very likely that the problem you face today has been faced by other people in other fields. Why not try adapting one of their solutions?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Market Share Are you David or Goliath in the market? Integrating Innovation into Business Strategy Understanding Innovation’s Role in Your Business Game Plan Staying in the race in today’s wild market means plugging innovation into your business plans. Profit Margins What slice of the pie are you pocketing?

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 14, 2019

So, here are some real life examples from Helloprint about how to avoid creative blanks and incite creativity amidst teams: Regularly scheduled brainstorming sessions. Brainstorming is a process, which allows you to come up with new ideas. However, it can also be disastrous, if you are not sure how to run a brainstorming meeting.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 30, 2019

There’s valid reason for this; if you know, say, your budget and you have a sheaf of market research, it’s a good sturdy starting point. There are a few ways of doing this that are worth trying, especially in the brainstorming phase. How would you advertise to this market if you had no advertising budget?

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