Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

In process innovation, benchmarking can uncover inefficiencies by comparing cycle times, automation levels, or throughput across peer organizations. For cultural or organizational innovation, benchmarking leadership practices, employee engagement, or DEI metrics helps shape internal transformation initiatives.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While many companies proudly display values like “Innovation” and “Excellence” on their walls, few successfully translate these aspirational concepts into meaningful cultural change. Performance management systems should explicitly recognize and reward innovation-related behaviours, not just outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Idea generation is the heart of innovation. Creating this culture in your organization increases employee engagement and promotes collaboration. Innovation increases brand loyalty. One way to inspire the innovation process is to hold an idea generation competition. Here’s how.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

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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. They make sure your company stays in the game, no matter how much the market shifts.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2023

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. In this article, I’ll go through the key points to consider to help you develop the most effective innovation process for your organization.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I 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. What did innovation mean for the company?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 11, 2019

Innovation culture is a mixture of employees’ innovation-related attitudes, experiences, beliefs, and values. The integrating function of environment, culture, and climates that stimulate innovation activities. Innovation structures that are formed to make up the innovation process.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

They simply won’t have the capacity to make sure that the process actually performs well, let alone maintain and develop multiple processes for different kinds of innovations for different parts of the organization. Different kinds of innovations simply need different kinds of processes, resources and expertise.

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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. In summary, innovation culture assessment is a critical step in fostering innovation in the workplace.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Quiet quitters are a classic example of poorly engaged employees. Employee engagement refers to the extent to which a company’s staff are invested in their roles and in the success of the business as a whole. Highly engaged employees, on the other hand, are invested in their work. Are Engaged Employees More Productive?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Culture The bedrock of a thriving organization lies not just in its products or services, but also in the underlying culture that fosters creativity and innovation. It is a culture that supports creative thinking and offers a platform for ideas to be shared, tested, and implemented.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It paves the way for adopting methodologies, like the lean startup methodology, that streamline and enhance the innovation process. By engaging with customers throughout the process, you’re able to validate assumptions and ensure that the final product truly resonates with your target audience.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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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.” Mistakes can not only be embarrassing but costly!

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Foundation of Innovation Culture In today’s fast-paced business environment, cultivating an innovation culture within your organization is not just beneficial; it is imperative for survival and growth. Benefits of Fostering Innovation The benefits of fostering an innovation culture are manifold.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

IdeaScale is offering innovators from around the world an extra week to complete their submission for the Innovation Management Awards. This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore what makes human-centered innovation unique, how customer- and employee-centered innovation fit within this framework, and why adopting this mindset can position businesses for long-term success. What is Human-Centered Innovation?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 24, 2016

These 10 simple and practical steps create a structured, repeatable innovation process to Create and Sustain Innovation in order to Innovate and Thrive in an intensely competitive marketplace. A portfolio that reflects shared innovation goals. Why Your Organization Needs a Whip.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Building an Innovation Culture Importance of Innovation Culture In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, fostering an innovation culture within your organization is not just a bonus; it’s a necessity. The benefits of nurturing such a culture are manifold.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Culture Embracing a culture of innovation is essential for any organization striving to remain competitive and relevant in today’s fast-paced business world. This section will define what innovation culture is and explain why it’s imperative to cultivate it within the workplace.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

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. This is one of the reasons that it is almost impossible to just add some innovation into an organization, without changing the culture.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. To achieve this, we do need a better conceptual innovation framework, this innovation ecosystem one.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. Traditional methods and approaches to innovation are completely breaking down, hence my total belief we are in the new era of innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

The idea of “outsourcing” innovation can seem contrary to the whole concept. 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?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation? In one final quote from this article: “when boards seem to have a “widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes (that) could be a major blind spot and a potential liability”. Customers and employees are driving innovation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers are integral to the product innovation process.?. Product innovation is all about new ideas from both your employees and your customers. To get useful feedback from your employees, it’s important to build a culture of collaboration throughout your organization. Your employees, however, are a different matter.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For 2021, IdeaScale has three new winners of the Innovation Management Awards: TriHealth for engaging nearly 80% of their workforce; Grant Thornton for pioneering work in automation; and Graybar for an exemplary innovation process. Best Innovation Process: Graybar. Best Engagement Strategy: TriHealth.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

To make these actions explicit, it is essential to identify and modularize the components of the innovation stack, which represents the knowledge operations within an innovation system. These components are oriented towards learning, knowledge, creativity, design, and testing—essential tasks in the innovation process.

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