Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, consumer behaviors shifting, and new market entrants disrupting traditional industries, your ability to innovate determines your potential for growth and sustainability. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 10, 2025

These aren’t failures of creativitytheyre often the result of fragmented processes, misaligned teams, and unclear execution across the product development cycle. Yet, many organizations still rely on outdated, linear methods that treat product development like a checklist. What is the Product Development Cycle?

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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. Role of Assessment in Cultivating Innovation The role of assessment in cultivating innovation cannot be overstated.

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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. Instead, it is integrating new innovations into the business without affecting the performance of core business operations negatively.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

And is the right balance between creativity and day-to-day business necessity possible? People must be free to create, but that doesn’t mean that necessary business processes and administration go away. Understand the Stages of Innovation. Innovation means taking an educated, considered chance on change. .

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Today, I'm not going to write about "innovation theater" - that is, the concept of talking about innovation and moving some pieces around but failing to achieve any meaningful benefits. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

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. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part. Peeling away and pulled away- why do we do that?

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this article, well explore what implementing ideas truly means and how it fits into the broader innovation process. Idea implementation is the process of taking a concept and turning it into an actionable plan that is executed to achieve measurable outcomes. What Does Idea Implementation Mean?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tips for building and sustaining innovation teams within your organizational culture. Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. This is an individual innovative mindset that also is alive in innovative teams.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 16, 2021

Innovation drives economic growth. The most innovative companies understand the importance of developing solutions that solve critical problems. In 2021, approximately $600 billion will go toward research and development in the U.S. ranking third on the Global Innovation Index. Measure Your Innovation Health.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Culture Innovation culture is the backbone of a company’s growth and longevity. It’s the environment that supports an ongoing commitment to creativity and novel problem-solving. They remove barriers that stifle creativity and reward initiatives that contribute to innovation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Not to say that this is a bad thing necessarily, but it does make innovation much more difficult. Not only does this business model make innovation difficult, but it also means people aren’t used to innovating their workflow and the business as a whole becomes very poor at innovating new ideas.

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Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2018

Adobe as a company has an innate link with creativity. But just like any other large organisation, they need to continuously develop new innovations, which requires radical new ideas. This contains instructions on how to approach developing and refining an idea. Every idea looks like a bad idea to start with.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Here are some common approaches to this problem: Look for Creative Employees Creativity is most definitely a component of innovation, but only one component. It turns out there are seven other skills that drive innovation business results. These consequences put innovation at greater risk of failure.

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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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

When I write that "innovation is easy" what I mean is that innovation as practiced in many corporations is rapid, inexpert and quickly converges on a simple solution. Innovation rarely has the preparation, commitment or effort applied to it to really succeed. Internal ideas and external intellectual property are evaluated.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

Diversity also leads to economic growth, and according to a study from Brown University “the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe.”

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 11, 2021

This also allowed organizations to grow, and created the need to create new forms of innovation - process innovation and organizational innovation. Innovation remained the same - but the people doing innovation and the methods changed to some degree. Both became more democratized.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 14, 2023

So, if we want to turn our ideas into innovations, we need to learn to embrace intense criticism. So why is constructive intense criticism a critical part of the innovation process? This feedback helps us identify the weaknesses in our ideas, and we can improve on them. Why Is Intense Criticism Important?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It almost sounds like an oxymoron, but with the help of generative AI systems like ChatGPT—OpenAI’s advanced AI language model that’s all the rage these days—you can take a lot of weight off your shoulders by streamlining your innovation processes, so you can have a bit more structure and creativity without the headaches.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. What’s more, 90% anticipate ramping up their innovation budgets, with nearly all increasing by more than 10%!

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Design Thinking FAQ Answers.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

A structured ideation strategy can be the driving force behind a company’s ability to innovate and remain competitive. Rather than leaving the creative process to chance, a well-crafted ideation strategy provides a roadmap for systematically generating, evaluating, and implementing new ideas.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Here’s the problem: the team missed the insight that a bulky laptop is just as bad as a stack of papers out in the field, along with their need to access documents offline. A Strategy Framework to Drive Innovation-- and ROI-- at Large Enterprises. Leadership wants to digitize the collateral into a web-based desktop app.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. MW: What impressed you most about the Betterific member base of creatives?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Simply put, innovation management is the management of product and organizational innovation processes within an organization.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It was an exciting and exhilarating journey into the playful and innovative world of gamification pioneers such as Farmville, Angry Birds, and BetterWorks. At the same time, this period has also created incredible opportunities for expanding our knowledge, developing new mindsets, behaviours, and skills!

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. Establishing a culture that encourages innovation, and rewards intrapreneurship, is a powerful way to counteract this effect.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Corporate Innovation: A Victim of Remote Work? Corporate innovation will not be spared the troubles of adjusting to the “new normal.” One danger corporate innovation teams may be already facing is quite trivial: reduced R&D/innovation budgets, a measure that myopic managers routinely resort to in times of economic hardship.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Corporate Innovation: A Victim of Remote Work? Corporate innovation will not be spared the troubles of adjusting to the “new normal.” One danger corporate innovation teams may be already facing is quite trivial: reduced R&D/innovation budgets, a measure that myopic managers routinely resort to in times of economic hardship.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

An innovation pipeline acts like the lifeline of your company’s growth, channeling fresh ideas through a structured process to transform them into market-ready products. However, navigating the complexities of innovation processes requires strategic planning, expert involvement, and robust measurement techniques.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

Diversity also leads to economic growth, and according to a study from Brown University “the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe.”

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