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 Lack of Clarity on Horizon Definitions Ensure consistent understanding of what each horizon represents. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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IdeaScale

JULY 14, 2023

What is Process Innovation? Process innovation is defined as the process of development and implementation of new or improved processes, methods, or systems within an organization to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and value creation.

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Viima

MARCH 14, 2023

We’re continuing our series of interviews with innovation experts. This time we’re interviewing Matt Mueller about the importance of problem definition. Why do we fail to define them and why should we slow down in the innovation process?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Process Innovation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Before an innovative process can be deployed, however, it’s essential that it be tested thoroughly, under as many foreseeable conditions as you can envision. Only when an innovative process has been tested thoroughly should it go live. Innovation management software is the key to managing innovation from end to end.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Enable Autonomous Innovation Processes : With advancements in self-supervised learning and few-shot adaptation, generative AI could eventually handle end-to-end innovation workflows with limited human intervention. This could revolutionize the speed, scale, and adaptability of the innovation process itself.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Today, I'd like to write about sponsorship, and why it is critical to have engaged sponsors for ideas and for innovation. This idea is important enough that I took the extra 30 seconds and looked up the definition of sponsor. I think this is as close as we can get to what an innovation or idea sponsor is.

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Braden Kelley

MARCH 13, 2018

Many of you reading this have created or operated innovation or insights programs for organizations of a variety of sizes, or are curious about how to go about it. Operating an innovation program or leading an insights group is definitely … Continue reading →

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation. In this article, we’ll discuss design thinking and the impact that using it can have on the innovative process. Design Thinking and Innovation.

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ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A well-defined innovation process is crucial for companies to maintain competitiveness and achieve sustainable growth. While the specifics may vary across industries, the best innovation operating models share common characteristics: they are structured, repeatable, and fit the conditions.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

This guide explains product innovation, how it differs from other forms of innovation, and what it takes to develop a winning strategy. Youll also learn how the product innovation process works and how idea management helps turn raw concepts into products customers actually want. What Is Product Innovation?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

SWOT Analysis with a Twist of Innovation SWOT’s the tool to dissect and understand your business inside out: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Sprinkle some innovation on your SWOT analysis, and who knows what opportunities might come knocking. Check out connecting business strategy and the innovation process.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Companies that have a rapid pace of innovation, by definition, have both of these covered. By eliminating any unnecessary barriers and friction in decision-making, development, and innovation processes, you can achieve extremely high speed and still fulfil all of those qualitative requirements for your products and services.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. This is because there is little management engagement or support, a lack of preparation and skills, and a narrow definition of discovery and risk.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 15, 2017

What rationale do innovators have to work on interesting or disruptive ideas if they have no stake in the outcome? We ask them to take risks through the innovation process for a small reward or some recognition if the idea succeeds, and the potential they might lose their job if the innovation fails.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So many organizations set out to innovate, but lose their way close to the finish line. All of the time, money, and energy invested loom over them like an ominous shadow of failure ready to overtake the whole scene. What happened? There was so much momentum, good will, collaboration, and then—the painful, public crash into the wall.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

Jeffrey and I believed, even more so today , that the innovation space needs a common starting point – a collaborative reference model. As I said, on my recent re-visit it seems to stand a test of time and forms a fundamental bedrock of collaborative innovation in all its different dimensions and guises.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Addressing the Challenges of Consistent Change There are some challenges that arise with Continuous Innovation along with the benefits. The speed at which a company operates in a changing environment can mean that managers often lack the time to devote to effective innovation processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2017

We need to exploit it and extract what it can offer to enhance all the work we do in innovation. We need to appreciate always its terms, its definitions (and limitations) and the related performance values that can help to improve our performance and in our achievements of working increasingly with others.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. And, the work isn't free and requires air cover.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

At some moments in my career I've blamed this phenomenon on lack of breadth - the idea that too many companies shrink innovation activities down to idea generation and rapid evaluation. I'm talking about the depth of commitment of the organization, so that innovation isn't a flavor of the month.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? This process can be transformative to businesses across various industries, especially in the realm of software development and manufacturing. By Upboard. Today, everyone wants to be agile.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 23, 2018

By definition, nonprofits must be very innovative as the goals they pursue regularly change, and the organization is forced to keep moving. A vast number of stakeholders, the complexity of operations, and levels of social engagement (voluntary work and donors), all pose challenges towards the implementation of ideas.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Circling back to risk and innovation, let’s look at what risk means for innovators, or in other words, people that are trying to introduce something new (anything from products and services to process improvements) to the market. you don’t have talent capable of executing all parts of an innovation process.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 29, 2016

Rather than attempt to fully explore the innovation possibilities, managers first attempt to get a handle on what they believe innovation is, and how it should be conducted, managed and governed. Large corporations cannot survive with wild hare ideas sprouting everywhere and little definitive structure or guidance.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people. Innovative people wonder why we aren't doing better or something new, or why we are sticking with these products long after they've been superseded in the marketplace.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

If the company isn't all that good at innovation, and what they delay for a few quarters is only incremental innovation that does not radically change the product portfolio, then I think it's reasonable to suggest that delaying isn't all that risky. What work can be done to improve innovation and shorten time to market?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

The extract offers much for any innovation pathway we might be considering. The Innovation Pathway. ” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. Innovation is the path by which we seek the future we prefer.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Key Components of an Innovation Framework An effective framework is built on several key components that work together to ensure a systematic and successful approach to innovation. These components provide the structure needed to guide the entire innovation process , from idea generation to implementation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In order to accelerate the pace of innovation and increase the amount of innovation that's done, we need to simplify it, or at least remove some of the uncertainty. To do that I'm going to argue in this relatively short post that innovation has three important deliverables: problem definition, ideas and solutions.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Business banter talks a lot about “the process for innovation,” which is usually referenced in the singular and stated definitively, leaving most business leaders scratching their heads. It makes us think that there is one correct process, the secret sauce that top companies have and follow. Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 4, 2015

This shouldn't be surprising, since incremental innovation is more predictable and less costly. Still poorly defined We also asked you about the definition of the "front end" of innovation. There is still a lot of opportunity to define and improve front end skills and methods.

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IdeaScale

MAY 31, 2017

Even in their first case study with IdeaScale, the Department of Labor outlined a repeatable seven step process which they have used for numerous citizen engagement campaigns: 1. Process Definition. Articulating the Challenge. Build the Team. Stimulate the Dialogue. Data Analysis. Implementation.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

The English term inbound open innovation refers to a type of innovation that happens when a company appropriates an innovative idea created by other entities, so that it can be transformed through its own innovation process, in order to generate value for itself. Open innovation benefits.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

.” Recently in Stanford Social Innovation Review, an article on the “ Adoption of Innovation ” by Benjamin Kumpf & Emma Proud is well worth the read as adopting any innovation process is a tough, slow one. Each of these needs a definitive engagement process by the business platform provider.

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