Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Five Forces Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Five Forces Model , developed by Michael Porter , is a strategic framework that helps organizations analyze the competitive forces shaping an industry. It provides a structured approach to assessing market dynamics, competition, and profitability potential.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

How can you assess how innovative your business is? The Innovation Sophistication Index is a list of just 24 statements. This is the Launch phase where the need for innovation is recognised but not much has been achieved so far. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 14, 2021

I've been asked several times lately to write about, or perhaps more specifically, to opine about, innovation strategy. If you are a somewhat regular reader of this blog or my work generally, you may know that I think talking about innovation strategy conflates two very important ideas that are related but not the same thing.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Enhance competitive positioning and market leadership. Encouraging long-term thinking and sustainable competitive advantage. Each element of the diamond contributes to a holistic, actionable strategy that aligns with business goals and competitive dynamics. Key differentiators include: Product innovation and superior technology.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

These goals align with the companys vision, mission, and values and provide a roadmap for achieving sustainable growth and competitive advantage. Innovation and expansion New product development, market penetration, and technological advancements. Enhance competitive advantage Position the company for long-term success.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I went to a meeting about innovation earlier this week with a former client and a discussion about digital transformation broke out. Where innovation and digital transformation meet Let's add in, of course, two really interesting management phenomena occurring before our eyes. It was both interesting and strange at the same time.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

How does achieving this metric support the companys competitive positioning? Enhance employee productivity by 12% through workflow optimization initiatives. Innovation and Growth SMART Metrics Launch three new AI-driven product features within the next 12 months. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Social media can connect you to innovators of all stripes. That creates a truly powerful resource of creativity on which to draw for your innovation strategy. Here’s how, and when, to use social media as part of your innovation strategy. Here’s how, and when, to use social media as part of your innovation strategy.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

Peter Berger is the Director of Innovation for EmbraerX, a Silicon Valley innovation unit of Brazilian aerospace company Embraer. Berger recently sat down for an interview with IdeaScale’s Jessica Day for IdeaScale Nation, the company’s innovation podcast. Innovation Units Should Be Separate from Business Units.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Throughout the past couple of years, I have been constantly arguing about the need to put innovation management on a digital platform. These have come in different thoughts on digital platforms, ready for cross-industry and having in place, a rapid digital innovation process that scales and evolves on new technology and insights.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 19, 2025

A Kaizen Approach to Market-Driven Innovation GUEST POST from Dr. Matthew Heim In todays competitive business environment, companies are under constant pressure to innovate, streamline processes, and improve product quality.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. Innovation is one powerful catalyst ripe for leveraging in this 4th Industrial Revolution. We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, Google has used OKRs since its early days , helping it scale rapidly by focusing on measurable innovation, product growth, and operational excellence. Challenging but achievable Encourages innovation and excellence. Encourage focus, transparency, and accountability. Reduce average page load time by 15% globally.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 7, 2018

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. A virtuous loop.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

While digital transformation focuses on integrating technology into all aspects of a business, digital innovation goes a step furtherits about creating entirely new value through technology. Companies that fail to innovate digitally risk being left behind as competitors leverage new tools, business models, and strategies to drive efficiency.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sustainability is no longer a constraint on businessits a catalyst for innovation, growth, and resilience. Companies that embed sustainability into their innovation strategies are not just reducing risk; they are unlocking new market opportunities, improving efficiency, and strengthening customer loyalty.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

Genius is often sparked by a single ideabut turning that idea into real innovation takes insight, action, and the right mindset. This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation.

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IdeaScale

JULY 14, 2021

IdeaScale is gathering trends to inform their view of the future of innovation. To do that, they are asking futurists, innovation leaders, entrepreneurs, and other forwarding-thinking business leaders to answer at least one of three questions in their Future of Innovation Campaign. Why Innovate? Change happens fast.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

With six new awards to celebrate, we’re proud that our innovation in Strategic Portfolio Management and our commitment to creating an exceptional workplace culture receive continued recognition. Innovation at the Forefront Our commitment to innovation has earned significant recognition from industry experts.

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eZassi

JANUARY 28, 2025

5-Year Innovation Forecast: The Future of 3D Modeling and Visualization Across Industries The rapid evolution of 3D modeling and visualization technologies is set to revolutionize multiple industries. This trend is especially impactful in aerospace, automotive, and industrial manufacturing, where precision and automation drive innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There's been a significant number of posts on LinkedIn and other social media about innovation lately, especially focused on the type of innovation that companies perform. The idea of diversification across the three horizons was the key point, not the amount of innovation in each horizon. First, it isn't gospel.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 1, 2017

If you want to gain ground on your competition you’ve first got to know where things stand. Where are their advantages? Where are your advantages? Where is there parity?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

So, after over a decade of innovation consulting, I can say without doubt that companies that are just starting to innovate have it much better than those that were attempting it years ago. That's because as more companies try more innovation, more tools are vetted, more methods explored and exposed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I've been thinking a lot lately about innovation in corporations, first, because that's what I've been doing for close to twenty years, and second, because I kept wondering when the switch would flip and we'd see more consistent innovation from large corporations on a continuing basis. Don't get me wrong. Here's where the issues start.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 30, 2015

Take innovation for example. No matter where you turn companies and experts are creating all sorts of innovation dichotomies. Products or services? I can say without fear of rejection that most innovation at the corporate level is incremental, extending existing products and services by adding new capabilities or features.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2019

A disciplined approach to evaluating innovation ideas is necessary. Companies have to move forward in an era of rapid technological change, and innovations are often the key to staying ahead of the competition by developing new products, processes, and business models. Narrow Down the Candidates with Pass-Fail Evaluation.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 24, 2021

We often hear about the concept of innovation and its importance in enhancing the competitiveness of an organization however, the excessive use of this term has distorted its true meaning and content. The post Breaking the Innovation Stereotypes: The Case of Curry Express appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Too much time at the innovation coal face was making me a bit cynical.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Some of the most innovative solutions emerge when businesses crowdsource ideas from employees, customers, and even the general public. But what is crowdsourcing, and why are so many organizations using it to drive innovation? These competitions help businesses tap into external expertise, accelerate R&D, and reduce costs.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2018

Businesses can get so wrapped up in all the excitement of an innovation idea they tend to give very little time to what the competition might do once the innovation has launched. Instead it gets waved aside with justifications like: “The trade and consumers will stay loyal to the first to market.” “It It will take.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. Producers of innovation need to transition radically into a different innovation delivery & design structure.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Yesterday I wrote a post about the need for executives to eliminate the "unknowns" when they want their teams to innovate. But when we call on people to innovate, there are a host of unknowns and uncertainties. How do we prioritize existing projects and new innovation work? For example: how much should we invest?

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 2, 2021

As two intermediaries from Hamburg that foster open and cross innovation processes, Science Scout (an initiative of Hamburg Innovation) and Cross Innovation Hub (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft) joined forces to start a discussion around the stimulation and measurement of open and cross innovation processes.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At this point in business evolution, every CEO understands the need for more innovation. After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. Innovation does require creativity and expansive thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

There's a real sense that we in the corporate world are standing on the brink of an amazing transition, moving from relatively older, static models of competition based on corporate size and mass, to new competitive realities dictated by speed, agility and innovation.

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2021

Grant Thornton International, a Fortune 500 company, is a winner of the IdeaScale 2021 Innovation Management Award for Best Innovation. This year, one of our winners was Grant Thornton International in the category of Best Innovation for their ability to deliver the IASC – a process and product innovation with global appeal.

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