IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

The term was popularized by Jeff Howe in 2006, when he described how businesses could leverage online communities to source innovative ideas. By breaking down barriers to participation, crowdsourcing helps organizations tap into a wealth of collective intelligence while driving faster and more agile innovation.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A growing hybrid and remote workforce has shown the need for clear communication and collaboration across teams. The dismantling of silos is especially crucial in companies that produce physical products involving cross-functional teams that need more efficient ways of sharing and visualizing their work across the organization.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. In his paper on Accelerating innovation, Dr. Cooper makes the case that “firms can respond quickly and pivot with innovations.”

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The effectiveness of social media for outbound marketing activities, i.e. getting the news out about new products offerings, and interacting with customers, is well known. Social media is incredibly effective for conveying marketing messages and for receiving rapid customer feedback.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Whether improving products, optimizing processes, or transforming business models , the right approach can drive efficiency, growth, and competitive advantage. Here are four key types of digital innovation. Product Innovation This involves using digital technologies to create new products or enhance existing ones.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Each platform has its own development team, its own Program Manager and its own Project Manager. Scenario: A technology company is creating a consumer electronics solution that involves hardware, software and web components. Three separate teams, located in different parts of the company’s facility, create three platforms.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Their influence extends beyond mere presentations, playing an integral part in fostering team-building and collaboration among members. Effective speakers can identify and address underlying issues that may be hindering team cohesion, thereby setting the stage for more effective collaboration post-event.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Increased Productivity Automates routine tasks to focus on strategy. Product Innovation Identifies trends for new offerings. Implementing an AI-driven business strategy can significantly enhance your company’s ability to innovate and remain competitive.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By engaging in CVC, corporations can also contribute to the development of startup accelerator programs , which are designed to support early-stage companies as they grow. Business Model Innovation Adopting novel approaches to business operations and customer engagement.

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helloFUTURE

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In product development and innovation, collaboration is not just a buzzword—it’s an imperative. Breaking down these silos and fostering inter-departmental cooperation can significantly enhance product development processes and outcomes.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It enables businesses to innovate at a faster pace, tailor their offerings to customer needs, and outperform competitors. Using AI for Product Innovation AI can dramatically speed up the process of product development by analyzing large datasets to identify trends and patterns that humans might miss.

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Yet2

MAY 28, 2019

He detailed how the company decides where to place their innovation efforts and when closed vs open innovation models work best, using examples of innovation initiatives at Janssen. de Chabot-Tramecourt also shared how Janssen collaborated with yet2 for a focused, efficient, and comprehensive open innovation project.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 1, 2019

Scenario: a product development team at a medical device company had a testing phase that ran far longer than expected. This delay rippled throughout the project and had serious implications downstream. After the project was complete, the team leader wanted to go back and figure out why the test phase had not gone as planned.

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

It’s a complex, interdepartmental system that is augmented with 3 tactics: the advantage of open innovation, strategic supply chain forecasting, and tools for enhanced collaboration across teams that bring new products to market. Utilize Open Innovation for R&D.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Properly used, a business case embodies the essential learning and planning derived from Lean, Design Thinking, and similar approaches to product development. It is not a documentation exercise, but a tool for collaborative learning and communicating the justification for a product concept. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Games can also be applied to innovation, which is the topic of the book “Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play.” The book was published in 2006 and the games have had a significant impact on numerous companies, non-profits, and government organizations since then.

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New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

Additionally, diffusing innovation responsibility throughout an organization creates confusion about what your Innovation team should be doing. Rather, a strong Innovation team collaborates with other functions to capture customer insights, understand where processes can be improved, and share learnings with others.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

and the answer can serve as the beacon for all organizational decision-making in 2021 paired with collaboration in an online world. This is key for any innovation or co-creation process in order to drive results. CLIENT ENGAGEMENT DRIVES THE INNOVATION ROADMAP?—?Key VALIDATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE?—?Co-creation

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 21, 2017

They needed a new product, in a hurry. From concept to packaging, they needed it all: RTB, packaging design, product name, name and product fit with top benefits, and fully baked complete concepts to test against legacy products and competitive products. Competitive pressures were high.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Functional alignment: Many marketing organizations suffer from a failure of cross-functional collaboration. New product features may be introduced into an e-commerce site without understanding how they will impact traffic conversion rates and average order value.

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2021

Every year, IdeaScale hosts the Innovation Management Awards to award organizations who have demonstrated a level of sophistication in their innovation strategy that has had a measurable impact on their business. Is it you or different collaborators throughout the organization? .

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In essence all the CEOs questioned the current model of shareholder-driven capitalism, as well as highlighted the need to collaborate across systems and value chains. Winston : I agree with Mike that the focus on system change was notable. There’s $12 trillion in business opportunities for solving sustainability challenges.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The focus area (new markets, new uses, the source of ideas, line extensions, product development, etc.) for a consumer-product company or a business-product one or the best practices for product development in low-tech and high-tech firms will be different. Product Innovation. Culture/Country.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The focus area (new markets, new uses, the source of ideas, line extensions, product development, etc.) for a consumer-product company or a business-product one or the best practices for product development in low-tech and high-tech firms will be different. Product Innovation. Culture/Country.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Product development and innovation. Product innovation (new low-calorie beverage launches). Which teams need to collaborate? For example, Metas (Facebook) strategy roadmap might assign: AI research teams to lead metaverse development. Cross-team collaboration on new search and cloud innovations.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2025

Examples of where the idea evaluation process is invaluable include: Innovation Projects : Evaluating new business models, technologies, or creative solutions to meet emerging needs. Product Development : Assessing new product ideas or enhancements to existing offerings.

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