Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can streamline various aspects of the innovation process, from idea generation to product launch. AI’s role in innovation management includes: Idea Generation : AI algorithms can analyze market trends and consumer behavior to suggest new product ideas.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For innovation professionals, understanding each phase is crucial to ensure that new products or services are successfully developed and launched. The ILM framework often involves: Idea Generation : Collecting and evaluating new ideas. Concept Development : Refining selected ideas into viable concepts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. By validating ideas early, you can identify potential flaws, understand market needs, and refine your concepts before significant investments are made. This approach allows you to gather insights quickly and make informed decisions about which ideas to pursue.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER in Innovation SCAMPER plays a strategic role in innovation by helping teams move beyond status quo solutions. Fuel idea generation for product updates or extensions. Spark creativity in process design or service enhancements. SCAMPER helps teams: Generate large quantities of ideas in a short period.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas offers a practical framework to understand these influences and incorporate them into the innovation process. By using this tool, innovation teams can: Identify external threats that could derail innovation efforts. Ongoing updates ensure that your innovation strategy stays relevant and adaptive.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

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. AI in innovation management is not just about automating processes; it’s about augmenting your decision-making capabilities with data-driven insights.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 20, 2019

I'm writing a series of posts that examine some of my lessons learned after over 15 years of corporate innovation consulting. Past posts have included the concept of needing a why and a how for innovation , why ideas need a sponsor and how to understand the range of innovation options your company will consider.

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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. However, there are various approaches for each step of the process which can be chosen based on what is best for your business and employees.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

More emphasis on data analytics and reporting to help companies better understand and track their innovation efforts. Greater use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate tasks and provide more intelligent recommendations. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more?

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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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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip.

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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. This needs to be purposefully built, compared and validated.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 1, 2025

This article explores the role of an idea evaluation matrix in the broader idea management process, detailing what it should includesuch as weighted scoring for fair assessment. Finally, well discuss how idea management software can streamline this process, making evaluation more efficient and data-driven.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

Without a focused approach, product innovation becomes a gamble instead of a growth strategy. This guide explains product innovation, how it differs from other forms of innovation, and what it takes to develop a winning strategy. Next, well look at how the product innovation process brings ideas to life.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

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. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

For example, wind solutions have continued to evolve as we learn to explore new materials, improve the integration of advanced technology development, improve the blade technology, as well as a gaining a greater understanding of weather conditions for strength and resilience.

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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. However, there are various approaches for each step of the process which can be chosen based on what is best for your business and employees.

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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. Here’s what they learned. A Common Theme.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Gathering this data will offer a clear picture of the limitations within your current framework and provide actionable insights into what might be hampering innovation. For more information on conducting a thorough innovation culture assessment, you can visit our guide on innovation culture assessment.

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

It involves a holistic view that integrates strategy, culture, and operations to ensure that innovation becomes a continuous and integral part of the business. Key activities in effective innovation management include: Strategy Development: Aligning innovation initiatives with the company’s strategic goals and vision.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

In fact, the main metric for most innovation projects is how quickly they can get through the work, so the team can go back to their day jobs. In most discrete innovation projects, the ideas generated are not distinguished from existing products or services, and thus many times the activity is deemed unsatisfactory or even a failure.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example, wind solutions have continued to evolve as we learn to explore new materials, improve the integration of advanced technology development, and better understand weather conditions. Then, the wind turbines evolved to generate more wind power by improving the blades and expanding their size.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 10, 2025

The process isnt linear; built-in feedback loops allow teams to revisit earlier steps as new information emerges. This adaptability is key to building successful, scalable product development and innovation capabilities. Stage 1 Idea Generation and Validation The cycle begins with sourcing ideasand knowing how to filter them.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This means: Creating safe spaces for employees to test new ideas without fear of repercussion if they don’t succeed. Recognizing and rewarding both successful innovations and valiant attempts that may not have yielded the desired outcomes. Encouraging employees to learn from their experiments and to iterate on their ideas.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Recognition can reinforce the value placed on creativity and encourage ongoing participation in innovation. Continuous Learning : Invest in innovation training programs that provide your team with the skills and knowledge necessary to drive innovation forward. Stimulates creative thinking and problem-solving.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

They have been trained in all kinds of tools and processes, but have little to no training in creativity, trend spotting, synthesizing various data points to create a new vision of the future, understanding customer needs or the customer journey, good idea generation, prototyping and so on.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out a step-by-step framework of 10 Key Imperatives that an organization must take to achieve profitable business growth through innovation. Innovation requires more than just idea generation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings. Let’s suspend judgement and see the innovation strategy decisions certain pharma players are introducing to motivate taking risks.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Actively soliciting ideas, surfacing new ones, discussing the process, making it easy to find ideas, and offering ways to organize ideas in the front and back end will all help bring more creativity to the fore. Yet, for idea generation, in particular, you need to bring everyone to the floor. Get Organized.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

An innovation culture transformation begins with a mindset shift, redefining failure as a learning opportunity, and embracing change as a constant. By fostering this mindset, you create a fertile ground for new ideas and breakthroughs that can lead to significant advancements in your products, services, and processes.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs. We will guide them through the learning and doing of innovating with ChaptGPT as a professional.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined. AI technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling, which can significantly enhance the efficacy of the Stages and Gates process.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

I want to dive into incremental innovation with you to unpack how and why it should be front of mind for your innovation program. We’ll explore examples, discover the key benefits of this type of innovation, and identify the best way of developing your own incremental innovation process. Let’s get started.

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