IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I didn’t realize how important crowdsourced innovation really is in the business world! Here are the three things I learned about crowdsourced innovation from my two weeks working alongside everyone at IdeaScale. Innovation is Required to Be Competitive. Creating a Concrete Innovation System Helps Firms Get Ahead.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, more companies have embraced this model as a key approach to scale their innovation efforts and stay ahead of the curve. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy? An open innovation strategy involves actively sourcing ideas, technologies, and knowledge from both internal and external stakeholders to accelerate innovation.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

The challenge s of centralized innovation. As part of their initiative, one person had been given ownership for an initiative to update the organization-wide tools and processes for idea management work. Different kinds of innovations simply need different kinds of processes, resources and expertise.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

This helps to further their goals while also providing the opportunity to license or use joint ventures to share their under-utilized technology or processes. Closed Innovation. It can also refer to innovations that have a social purpose, such as distance learning and online volunteering. Process Innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. It is the driving force behind the competitive edge that allows companies to stand out and meet the ever-changing demands of their customers. Understanding these challenges is the first step toward overcoming them.

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

Innovation management in business is quite similar; it requires a blend of talented people, structured processes, and powerful platforms to orchestrate success. In this article, we explore how to master innovation management from three vital perspectives: people, process, and platforms.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. Here I offer a different perspective of innovation that leads to proposing such a change. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Enable Autonomous Innovation Processes : With advancements in self-supervised learning and few-shot adaptation, generative AI could eventually handle end-to-end innovation workflows with limited human intervention. This could revolutionize the speed, scale, and adaptability of the innovation process itself.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Human-centered innovation is gaining momentum as a key strategy for businesses that want to foster meaningful growth and stay ahead of the competition. But what exactly sets this approach apart from more traditional innovation methods? What is Human-Centered Innovation?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Value innovation takes a different pathit creates entirely new demand by delivering higher value at a lower cost, making competition irrelevant. Instead of fighting over market share, companies that embrace value innovation redefine industry norms and unlock new growth opportunities. What is Value Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Surprisingly, I felt they lacked a more holistic view of innovation; a clear innovation process, and dedicated focus on this, which is required. Innovation is certainly central to the future of Siemens but it seems to me not to have the core positioning it should have. I felt innovation needed a more holistic focus.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. The chart below shows the responses to a questionnaire I administered called the Innovation Value Chain survey , and it demonstrates what an air sandwich looks like in practice.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

If we are to discover a prosperous future path, innovation is no longer optional. With a potential recession in sight and inflation, layoffs, and other geopolitical issues challenging the ability to protect traditional forms of competitive advantage, innovation is our only option. Those days are over. you might wonder.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The survey exposes the myth that innovation is not one of the three top challenges, innovation ranks fifth as it follows the more conventional concerns of managing talent as the top (and that did surprise me) and regulatory and competitive threats. Risk management is rated far more than innovation as a better process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 9, 2023

Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition and meeting the ever-changing needs of customers. To be successful, organizations must be able to effectively manage their innovation processes, from idea generation to commercialization. I help organizations build a sustainable culture of innovation.

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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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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

Over the last 25 years, I’ve spent thousands of hours and run hundreds of innovation sessions designed to help business executives across all industries to develop better strategies which will enable them to stay ahead of the competition when it comes to developing the most innovative products and services to serve their customers. ? .

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For the fifth year in a row, IdeaScale is hosting the Innovation Management Awards. Particularly if that story demonstrates innovation thought leadership when it comes to engagement strategies, innovation processes, or idea implementation. 5% discount on the 2018 IdeaScale subscription.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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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. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

How difficult would it be to embrace this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, as it is often argued that most people want to keep innovation management and its process simple? Any enterprise-enabled framework will require serious change management thinking. Why change?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation. Organizations can use this mindset by leveraging co-creation, partnering with customers, and engaging employees at all levels in the innovation process.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The ability to embrace digital innovation isnt just a competitive advantageits becoming a necessity for long-term survival. This article will explore what digital innovation is and how it differs from related concepts like digital transformation and digitalization. What is Digital Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Whether you’re a startup founder, R&D leader, or innovation manager, the transition from concept to market-ready solution involves navigating a series of interconnected stages. Let’s explore how our offerings can elevate your innovation journey and bring your vision to life.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

Our innovation insights are badly lagging, with the effect being the solutions offered are not ‘tuned’ into the present and anticipated needs, as they often lack dynamic data. We need to digitize our innovation activities fully. As manufacturers manage the lifecycle it opens up more options for innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

The cost of conducting business is a function of its complexity and grows with scale, its size and the resources that need to be managed, including intermediaries. As the world flattens and digital platforms connect disparate parties, distance has shrunk, but delays remain due to arcane business processes. Transaction costs.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Evolution of Innovation Management Innovation management has undergone significant transformation over the years. From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We are increasingly recognizing all the different collaborative tools increasingly at our disposal We are exploring both platforms and forming ecosystems to radically alter the competitive edge previously seen to reside inside the single company. A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

What is Innovation Management? Innovation Management involves all activities that provide the right conditions for innovation to repeatedly deliver value for customers, competitive advantage and growth for the business as well as benefits for employees and all other stakeholders.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last year, IdeaScale launched a webinar series that covered the repeatable innovation process (from problem identification to implementation). If all you do is solve the problem in the same way you always have, you’re probably not innovating very often.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

Where should a company place its emphasis to gain both an improving impact on its performance and strengthen its innovation capabilities? The difficulty for many is that innovation is a complex process that has many intangibles within the total mix to manage. There are so many challenges in managing innovation.

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