Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way innovation professionals approach product roadmapping and strategic planning. AI tools can process information at a speed and accuracy that surpasses human capabilities, providing you with insights that drive innovation forward.

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Artificial Inteligence Roadmap Analysis Innovation 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

What is the Innovation Matrix? The Innovation Matrix is a strategic tool used to assess an organizations ability to generate and execute new ideas. The matrix provides a snapshot of an organization’s current innovation culture, helps identify areas for improvement, and guides resource allocation to support continuous innovation.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 27, 2020

Customers are the key stakeholders in your innovation process. The post Five Ways to Engage Customers in Your Innovation Process appeared first on IdeaScale. The post Five Ways to Engage Customers in Your Innovation Process appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Innovation Processes Engagement Innovation Data 147

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

What is the 70-20-10 Innovation Rule ? The 70-20-10 Innovation Rule is a strategic framework that guides organizations in allocating time, budget, and resources across three categories of innovation: core, adjacent, and disruptive. This structured approach helps companies avoid innovation imbalance.

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Technical Review Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Innovation processes can be complex. Most companies today make innovation a priority — or at least they say they do. However, innovating is an inexact science. So how do you know if your innovation process is working? Thinking is a critical part of the innovation process. Fight Inertia.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

But heres the uncomfortable truth: you can never prove your innovation will succeed. The Futility of Proof in Innovation Why is it impossible to prove an innovation will succeed? Innovation requires the same humility. However, this isnt a cause for despair. Consider a company developing a new app.

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Survey Innovation Analysis LEAN 178

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

AI can automate routine tasks, allowing you to focus on high-value client engagements. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! These strategies will position you as a forerunner in AI-driven business innovation. These strategies will position you as a forerunner in AI-driven business innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence Case Study Analysis Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

For that, we require ingenuity in our abilities to break through present seemingly difficult barriers in technologies, and this calls for breakthrough innovation. The importance of innovation is across the board. Innovation is required in all areas of research, development, demonstration, and deployment, to have equal focus.

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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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Technical Review Roadmap Trends Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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Engagement System Innovation Design 205

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Combining Ecosystems, technology and GenAI to unlock innovation The concepts of ecosystem innovation and generative AI has arrived at the point where we need to question workflows have the real poential openness has become central to our process of thinking and development building.

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Engagement Generative AI Innovation Collaboration 162

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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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. Make clear the different types of innovation, and demonstrate why it’s important.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions. Minimum Viable Product in Innovation In real-world innovation initiatives, the MVP model plays a critical role by turning abstract concepts into actionable experiments.

Software Review 130

Software Review LEAN Development Team Review Roadmap 130

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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Corporations launching internal innovation programs.

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Technical Review Roadmap Project Tools 130

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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Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Data 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. Innovation often involves uncertainty. Which channels produce the highest engagement?

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Agile Project 130

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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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Internet of things Strategy 113

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Business Case in Innovation In innovation projects, a business case plays a crucial role in determining the feasibility and potential impact of new ideas before committing significant resources. An organization must choose between competing innovation opportunities. Linking innovation to strategy builds credibility and buy-in.

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Underperforming Technical Team Roadmap Technical Review Analysis 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency.

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Comparison Technical Review Data Competition 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. SCAMPER in Innovation SCAMPER plays a strategic role in innovation by helping teams move beyond status quo solutions. What is SCAMPER?

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Underperforming Technical Team Ideation Idea Generation Brainstorming 130

Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. The challenge s of centralized innovation. Let’s look into why that is the case. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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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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Software Review Innovation Software Innovation Processes 222

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The process breaks innovation into three continuous phases: build a prototype or solution, measure how it performs, and learn from the results to refine the product or strategy. Its especially useful in digital product development, service design, and business model innovation. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Learning LEAN Agile Project 130

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. They just wanted to know what the process should be, so we can’t change that.

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Innovation Technical Review Innovation Processes Creativity 249

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This final post here is about the appeal, interest and growing engagement and judging outcomes.

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Collaboration Engagement Innovation Resources 147

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

This approach promotes parallel thinking, where participants explore different angles of a situation one at a time, rather than engaging in adversarial or chaotic discussions. Six Thinking Hats in Innovation In innovation projects, decision-making is rarely linear. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Analysis Project 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The Value Proposition Canvas is a strategic innovation tool designed to ensure that a product or service aligns closely with what customers truly want and need. This tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation teams, product management, marketing, and customer experience design. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

Software Review 130

Software Review Roadmap Tools Strategic Thinking 130

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual.

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Brainstorming Innovation Collaboration Ideation 246

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 11, 2019

We need to know how to unlock the real value of innovation both personally and within the organization, we work for. If we do not fully understand where the innovation capital comes from, how new capital and stock can be provided, innovation will remain tentative, always stuttering along.

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Learning Innovation Engagement Innovation Processes 208

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2019

Well, I had a reflective moment on some points I consider within innovation that need re-emphasizing. So my reflective points were these as we always should consider the whole connected system of innovation. Extending innovations value – appreciating the whole system. They need that responsibility.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s unique approach to innovation helps teams “work backwards” to create breakthroughs. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Brainstorming Tools 147

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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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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