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APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. SCAMPER in Innovation SCAMPER plays a strategic role in innovation by helping teams move beyond status quo solutions. What is SCAMPER?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. Unlike traditional planning methods that rely on fixed forecasts and clearly defined outcomes, DDP embraces uncertainty by emphasizing learning, testing, and adjusting.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Green Hat Creative and exploratory. Blue Hat Process-oriented and managerial. The Six Thinking Hats framework provides a disciplined yet flexible way to structure this process. This model is particularly valuable when: Generating and filtering creative ideas. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation, financial modeling serves as a foundation for pitching ideas to stakeholders, developing business cases, and iterating on product or service design. It helps bridge the gap between creativity and commercial viability, ensuring that promising ideas can scale sustainably. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas offers a practical framework to understand these influences and incorporate them into the innovation process. By using this tool, innovation teams can: Identify external threats that could derail innovation efforts. Ongoing updates ensure that your innovation strategy stays relevant and adaptive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Unlike traditional prototyping methods that may require weeks or months to produce high-fidelity models, rapid prototyping focuses on speed, learning, and iteration. The process encourages experimentation and validation, allowing for faster design cycles, improved usability, and better product-market fit.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. Solving this issue requires both encouraging creativity and broadening the scope of what an “idea” is.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is about diplomacy as well as creativity. Central to any innovation process is stakeholder management. All should be involved in the process to some degree, making innovation processes as much about people skills and diplomacy as engineering.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By managing these stages effectively, you can streamline your innovation processes and enhance the chances of success for new initiatives. Introduction to Leveraging AI in Innovation Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how you manage the Innovation Lifecycle.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? In an organization which follows decentralized innovation, everyone is tasked with contributing to the innovation process for the greater good of the company. Here are a few of my favorites: How To Build Your Creative Confidence (video). Originals (book).

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By blending innovation into your strategy, you’re cooking up a plan that’s as flexible as a yoga guru and keeps you ahead of the pack. For a deeper dive, check out our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. It pushes you to think ahead, building a vibe of creativity and non-stop betterment.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

One of the great virtues of startups is that they have to innovate quickly, or they cease to exist. Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. Asking multiple groups of stakeholders to weigh in will help limit problems further along in the creative process.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Access to Diverse Knowledge and Expertise Collective Intelligence : Innovation ecosystems bring together diverse participants with different expertise, experiences, and perspectives. This collective intelligence fuels creativity and problem-solving by enabling the cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines and industries.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Get instant innovation processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Project Recommendations for Success Weak Strategic Alignment Ensure the business case supports long-term goals. Map the proposal to corporate strategy or innovation themes.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Really hearing what somebody says is always a bonus for innovation. To learn more about strategies to spur innovation, join our newsletter ! In any group, one of the most fundamental needs is to be heard.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Whether businesses are launching new products, improving internal processes, or adopting emerging technologies, Agile Innovation provides the strategic foundation needed to remain competitive. Agile Innovation in Business Strategy Traditional innovation processes can be slow and rigid, often resulting in missed opportunities.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework lies the core, the different innovation stacks, and the learning components. Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This can significantly speed up the front-end of the innovation funnel, allowing organizations to explore a much wider range of possibilities. Enhance Creative Capabilities: Generative AI can assist human creatives by generating content, visuals, and ideas to complement and inspire their work.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2020

Events surrounding the introduction of the iPhone are a perfect example of what happens in the wake of innovation anxiety. After the iPhone debuted, there was a steady stream of products that were clearly more the result of panic over the popularity of the iPhone than of genuine creativity. Make it about learning, not winning.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation. For some, it may be through hard work and determination, while others may find success through innovation with creativity, data, and automation. The success of Alex’s company, Pet Markt Co, was a combination of creativity, data, and automation. Creativity.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To truly make the thrilling leap with innovation, go bold—foster an atmosphere where creativity and a bit of daring flourish. Here’s where a sprinkle of innovation can turbocharge your growth: Product Development : Cook up new goods or give current ones a spiffy upgrade to match what folks want.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

Business leaders continually search for more creative ways of conducting business. Idea sharing is the first step in the innovation process. The innovation blueprint helps leaders refine the areas where they need to innovate and define why. Leading Innovation Workshop. Excelling at Innovation Workshop.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Some of these challenges include: Aligning innovation with customer needs and market trends. Balancing creativity with practical implementation and scalability. It paves the way for adopting methodologies, like the lean startup methodology, that streamline and enhance the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. Can we design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit the specific need? It adjusts and you learn. Learning to work and listen more with the outside of our organization.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I I have very little creativity.” However, she explains, it’s all about the process. Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? In an organization which follows decentralized innovation, everyone is tasked with contributing to the innovation process for the greater good of the company. Here are a few of my favorites: How To Build Your Creative Confidence (video). Originals (book).

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

But how do you teach innovation? Innovation and Creativity. Innovation is creativity. This means that, at its core, creative training breeds innovation. But this does not always have to be the case when it comes to learning. Teach Something Creative. An Innovative Culture.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 21, 2016

Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out a fundamental framework of 10 Key Imperatives to help businesses create a structured, repeatable innovation process. 1] Oh those creative types! Why are people so opinionated, even impassioned and obsessed, with the creatives?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Culture Assessment Definition and Importance of Innovation Culture Innovation culture refers to an environment that encourages creative thinking and the advancement of new ideas. This can be a straightforward yet comprehensive way to capture the state of your innovation culture.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. Why Should I Outsource Innovation? There’s a lot of reasons to outsource innovation work.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wanted to build out some thinking based on the question, “Can we unlock the innovator’s potential through understanding their sensory and cognitive abilities?” Even if heightened sensory profiles were a universal characteristic among innovators, it wouldn’t be the sole factor driving innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Even if heightened sensory profiles were a universal characteristic among innovators, it wouldn’t be the sole factor driving innovation. Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, also play significant roles in the innovative process.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Design Thinking and Online Whiteboards.

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