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MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. It provides a structured way to analyze macro-environmental elements such as market trends, regulatory shifts, technological advancements, and customer behavior.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your innovation processes, streamline collaboration, and drive more effective outcomes. This allows you to make more informed decisions and accelerate the innovation cycle.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

These models typically use spreadsheets or software tools to estimate future outcomes based on assumptions like pricing, market growth, customer acquisition, cost structure, and capital expenditures. It helps bridge the gap between creativity and commercial viability, ensuring that promising ideas can scale sustainably.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A great idea is a good thing, but is it creative or innovative? Creativity and innovation are often seen as interchangeable. It’s important to understand and apply that difference in your innovation strategy. Can there be innovation without creativity? A creative goal can be modest.

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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. Innovation keeps strategic planning fresh by finding new angles and solutions to old headaches.

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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. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Market demand or pricing models.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Green Hat Creative and exploratory. Blue Hat Process-oriented and managerial. This model is particularly valuable when: Generating and filtering creative ideas. For example, an innovation team evaluating a new subscription service might use the hats as follows: White Hat: Review market data and competitor analysis.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an innovation ecosystem and makes it a must-have, is its ability to create a highly interconnected, dynamic, and supportive environment where innovation can flourish. What sets an innovation ecosystem apart? This makes the path to market smoother and more predictable.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Innovation Lifecycle Management (ILM) refers to the systematic process of managing the journey of an idea from inception to market release. For innovation professionals, understanding each phase is crucial to ensure that new products or services are successfully developed and launched.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The process encourages experimentation and validation, allowing for faster design cycles, improved usability, and better product-market fit. Rapid prototyping is commonly used in engineering, manufacturing, product design, and service innovation. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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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. Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. Want to see this vibe in your organization?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Evaluate Risks and Mitigation Plans Identify potential risks across categories: Market risk (e.g., Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Validate key assumptions with finance or market research. Conclusion A well-constructed business case is a foundational tool for innovation success. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

What is Agile Innovation Template? Agile Innovation is a dynamic approach to project execution that breaks initiatives into small, manageable tasks, enabling organizations to rapidly adapt to market changes. Innovation is no longer optional in todays fast-paced business landscape.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Market Share Are you David or Goliath in the market? Innovation Rate Anything fresh on the menu lately? Grab more wisdom on keeping the innovation fire burning in our piece on staying ahead in today’s ever-tumbling world. Peek at our innovation guide to supercharge your strategy for more drawn-out tricks.

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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. Alex was astonished to find that only a few industries offered innovation compared to the pet markets in the U.S.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I took a look at 1) how can AI drive innovation in different ways, 2) would this require a new operating model and 3) how the innovation workflow will require a transformational change to the operating model and 4) the outcome of a fundamental rethinking of how innovation is approached and executed.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

An important part of the innovation process is validating ideas. When done correctly, it is a powerful way of getting feedback from the market on what it would take to make the innovation a success. Validation that their idea was good, and therefore it means that they are a smart, creative person.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management.

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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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IdeaScale

JULY 9, 2019

At the intersection of modern technology and advertising, digital marketing is one of the fastest changing industries in the world. And to stay relevant in digital marketing, you need to be innovative. And perhaps one of the most competitive and technology-dominated industries is digital marketing.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today most organizations have barriers towards creativity, ideas and innovation. Many of these barriers to innovation lie in attitudes and perceptions at the leadership level but also can run through the organization’s design. Organizations are often too early or too late to market.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform development using the innovation stack, and supporting the innovation stack with a platform.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Human-centered (or human-centric) innovation is an approach that places people—both customers and employees—at the center of the innovation process. It prioritizes understanding the real needs, pain points, and desires of individuals to create products, services, or processes that deliver meaningful solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Often it became the promise of having creative ways to solve solutions and work in harmony with all the rational thinking that dominates much of business thinking today, DT sounded so appealing, it quickly became “oh, we need some of that.”. So, the marketing of Design Thinking kicks in, looking to capitalize and add a real momentum.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

(Larry Schmitt- The Innovation Stack) A comprehensive innovation ecosystem design offers several benefits, including fostering a culture of innovation, accelerating the innovation process, enhancing collaboration, leveraging diverse perspectives, and driving competitive advantage.

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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. Ezassi’s Idea Management Software fosters creativity both internally and externally by engaging employees, partners, and customers in the process.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Anna-Lena Lorenz Head of Innovation Process at ABN Amro Bank Why Banking Needs Innovation Now More Than Ever A highly competitive market with evolving customer needs means innovation has become vital for the banking sector. One of the most impactful areas has been market research.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

They have had a model of a constant growth success for years but it is getting harder as the market is fragmenting and looking for greater flexibility within the range of solutions. The IM software market is stirring. In my opinion, they need actually a more robust end-to-end innovation software solution as something of a real need.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

That’s why it’s nice to hear from other innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders about how to get creative and build the future. So we’ve gathered some of our favorites here and organized them into five sections that roughly align to the innovation process. Creativity is thinking up new things. Experiment.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2024

In fact, IDEO was one of the pioneers of Design Thinking back in the late 1970s, but the process of using Design Thinking as part of innovation work really exploded in the 1990s and 2000s.

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