Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. In cross-functional teams, the canvas ensures alignment between product managers, designers, developers, and marketers by providing a shared view of priorities and methods. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Customer Satisfaction How are the folks liking what you’re selling? For a deeper dive, see how to marry business strategy and innovation. Start by spotting where innovation could work its magic—be it cooking up new product ideas, jazzing up services, or streamlining how you do stuff. Fancy more on this?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. What is Design Thinking?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s review the three stages of this design thinking framework. This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking and Part 2: Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them. .

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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. Implementing Lean Startup Adopting the lean startup methodology can be transformative for your business, enabling agility and innovation in product and service development.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s a peek at how strategic planning can jazz up your business performance: Key Metric Wingin’ It With a Plan Revenue Growth 2% 7% Market Share 5% 12% Operational Efficiency 60% 85% Want the scoop on mixing strategy with a hint of creativity? Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process.

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Wazoku

MAY 23, 2017

Design thinking has become a popular topic for discussion; with industry leaders like IBM and GE embracing and embedding design thinking in their organisations, other organisations are inevitably taking note. Design thinking is first and foremost people-centred, deriving products and services to meet a genuine need.

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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. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking?

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Braineet

OCTOBER 28, 2019

All great innovations start with a key question: How can you make life easier for your users or customers?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Eye good picks like products, services, how stuff gets done, and biz tactics. How to Dig Up Innovation Gold : Market Recon : Get real with market waves and hear the buzz from customers. For more on blending these techy tools into your strategy, take a look at our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Explore the future with new opportunities by innovating. As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Companies that survive do both.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 12, 2022

In 2015, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Design Thinking Research Program conducted one of the most extensive global studies looking into the state of design thinking in organizations. 1 – What organizations use design thinking? 1 – What organizations use design thinking?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here. Customer Development versus Design Thinking. One of these processes is how startups versus companies learn from customers.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2023

Thinking through what this means requires understanding, relating, and putting a clear context of innovation, what you want to achieve, and how to set about this. The Learning Components are how we should work through each stage of the innovation process. Each stack “sits” on a technology platform.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

So, how do we undertake this need to think through and recognize a new innovative way of discovery. Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Intrapreneur / Innovation Leader Chapter is unique in that the members are both innovation leaders and the second-highest authority in the company, reporting directly to the Founder or CEO.

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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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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Innovation needs structure.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. Not only is continuous innovation necessary for survival, but also constant refinement and recalibration of existing business models.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Innovation needs structure.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Support Offer guidance and mentorship to help navigate the innovation process. Recognition Acknowledge and reward innovation efforts to reinforce their value. By empowering your team, you instill a sense of ownership and commitment to the innovation process. Define the core problems you have identified.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By understanding and implementing these new product development strategies, you can enhance your company’s capacity to innovate and thrive amidst the challenges of today’s disruptive world. At its core, design thinking involves five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Innovation needs structure.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you invite an innovation keynote speaker to your event, you’re not just getting a presentation; you’re accessing a wealth of knowledge shaped by real-world experience and success. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

A well-structured innovation pipeline ensures that new ideas are systematically developed, refined, and brought to market, transforming potential opportunities into tangible results. However, navigating the complexities of innovation processes requires strategic planning, expert involvement, and robust measurement techniques.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Key Methodologies to Foster Innovation in the Workplace Nurturing innovation in the workplace requires structured approaches that channel creativity into impactful outcomes. Here are four proven methodologies that help organizations systematically foster innovation. Diversity of thought is equally important.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

They didn’t realize how “sticky” their business model would get. When restaurants have several years of data in the system, the next several weeks of reservations lined up in it, a staff that’s been trained on how to use it, and a large percentage of their reservations coming through it, they’re essentially locked into the model.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical. The ‘innovation team’ needs to define what innovation is in the context of your company, and how to ‘get there’. It must identify the milestones and define the metrics and success criteria across the innovation transformation journey.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2022

Professor Jeanne Liedtka (author of Designing for Growth among other excellent books on design thinking) is one of the most respected researchers, teachers and practitioners of design thinking out there. It’s very qualitative and allows for a more nuanced look at what makes for successful innovation.

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