Leapfrogging

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. By capturing these dynamics visually, the canvas enables teams to anticipate challenges, uncover opportunities, and align innovation efforts with real-world conditions.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. 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.

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Innovation Agile Creativity Brainstorming 113

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

We need to think about a choice-cascade integrative model for innovation. Often we fail to understand our role in contributing to innovation; we need a cascading effect. Here I want to explain my thinking behind this and provide the visual cascading steps I feel help us succeed in innovation. It is complex.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Networking : Engage with a diverse group of people in your industry or interests. Talking to people from different backgrounds can spark fresh ideas. Keep a Journal : Write down your thoughts, observations, and ideas regularly. Reflecting on your experiences can help you identify patterns and potential innovations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Innovation Processes 249

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Where will Innovation Management Software go? This morning I decided to have a chat on ChatGPT on the future of Innovation Management Software, I asked a number of questions in a short series and can well-relate to the answers provided incredibly quickly. chat.openai.com/chat Where will Innovation Management Software go?

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Software Innovation Management Artificial Inteligence Management 182

Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ideas are vital to innovation. They are the seeds from which every innovation grows. When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In the fast-paced and competitive world of business, innovation is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity. One powerful method I use for generating innovative ideas is called Tri-Force Ideation. It’s important to be thorough in this exercise, as each strength represents a potential springboard for innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. There are so many obstacles and uncertainties as you take an idea or concept through to eventual release. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. We are pressured for results.

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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. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. “Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As the customer advocate, you work closely with employees to keep customers at the forefront of innovation. You want your employees to innovate with the customer in mind. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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Innovation Technical Review Handbook Idea Generation 173

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. Innovation needs reinventing. The building out of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management.

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Innovation Collaboration Disruption Crowdsourcing 171

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, hackathons have gained traction as powerful events for rapid problem-solving and innovation. Originally rooted in software development, hackathons have evolved into a strategic tool across industries, fostering creativity, team collaboration, and idea generation under tight timeframes.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With digital disruption accelerating across industries, traditional, closed approaches to innovation no longer suffice for most companies. In fact, research shows that companies practicing open innovation achieve faster time-to-market and often realize higher revenue from new products. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy?

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving.

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Training How To Innovation Ideation 124

Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Value innovation takes a different pathit creates entirely new demand by delivering higher value at a lower cost, making competition irrelevant. Instead of fighting over market share, companies that embrace value innovation redefine industry norms and unlock new growth opportunities. What is Value Innovation?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In fact, research shows that companies hosting regular hackathons see significant gains in employee engagement, faster prototyping, and fresh, actionable ideas. But behind every successful hackathon lies the right platform—one designed to streamline collaboration, track ideas, and manage participants efficiently.

Software Review 52

Software Review Idea Management Software Crowdsourcing 52

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Respond to Every Idea.

Innovation Management 113

Innovation Management Software Review Management Software 113

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As businesses increasingly focus on innovation and customer-centric strategies, customer co-creation has emerged as a powerful way to involve customers in the product development process.

Idea Generation 100

Idea Generation Product Development Innovation Meeting 100

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 16, 2023

So, what's this interesting flashback to scouting days have to do with innovation? Innovation and campfires There's a reason so many innovation tools and methods are associated with light or fire. Ideas are often considered "sparks" that will catch flame to create new ideas. Who will manage the idea?

Idea Generation 129

Idea Generation Innovation Culture Competition 129

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

We need to think about a choice-cascade integrative model for innovation. Often we fail to understand our role in contributing to innovation; we need a cascading effect. Here I want to explain my thinking behind this and provide the visual cascading steps I feel help us succeed in innovation. It is complex.

Innovation 130

Innovation Engagement Resources Agile 130

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn innovation and crowdsourcing strategy from NASA. Do you want to know the secrets for success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. government departments.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

Innovation has the power to unlock the Energy Transition, Innovation thinking and design are needed everywhere within the energy system. Innovation needs to be everywhere in transforming our existing energy systems. Innovation takes a long time to push existing knowledge and find new solutions.

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Innovation Design System Collaboration 130

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But in most cases, the difference between a fleeting concept and a breakthrough innovation lies in the ability to execute. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to transform their best ideas into tangible outcomes that drive growth and competitive advantage. Without these, even the best ideas risk failure.

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Software Review Ideation How To Underperforming Technical Team 59

Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

To maximize the ROI of your innovation initiatives, it’s vital to gain input from as many sources as possible and ensure all departments take part in a culture of ideation. In this article, we explore the concept of Total Innovation Management (TIM) and how you can leverage it at your enterprise.

Idea Generation 52

Idea Generation Innovation Management Management Innovation 52

Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Great ideas dont just come from boardrooms or R&D departments. Some of the most innovative solutions emerge when businesses crowdsource ideas from employees, customers, and even the general public. But what is crowdsourcing, and why are so many organizations using it to drive innovation?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Companies of all sizes are organizing their innovation programs around their crowds these days. The reason for this is because a great deal of research has emerged that proves the power not just of valuable ideas, but connections between valuable ideas. New ideas need runway for testing and that runway requires money and people.

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Innovation Innovation Programs Trends Idea Generation 124

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. Our pursuit in life is often the same as our innovation efforts, the search for discovery. Much of this work is incremental or distinctive in innovation. that we know we can improve upon.

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Management Idea Management Software Innovation 133

Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.

Idea Generation 52

Idea Generation Technical Review Ideation Collaboration 52

Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

Innovation management in business is quite similar; it requires a blend of talented people, structured processes, and powerful platforms to orchestrate success. In this article, we explore how to master innovation management from three vital perspectives: people, process, and platforms. Managing Innovation: What Does it Involve?

Software Review 98

Software Review Strategy Strategy Management 98

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

There's an old joke about perspective and laziness I love and have used before on this blog, because it illustrates many of the challenges (and opportunities) of corporate innovation. Therefore, everyone focuses like crazy on the idea generation, safe in the knowledge that they won't be called on to actually attempt to implement them.

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