Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Innovation efforts often fail when teams build features or solutions that do not address a real problem or offer significant value. The canvas prevents this by offering a structured method for aligning innovation strategy with customer insight. Share it in presentations to align teams around customer-centric strategy.

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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. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Having a strategy isn’t just covering your bases; it’s about setting your business up to dance circles around the competition. Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2023

Recently, I was speaking with a corporate client about a challenge they were having with their innovation process. They had just run an idea-generation challenge and received a decent number of responses from their employees about new innovations they could pursue.

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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. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes. So what can we do about it?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction to New Product Development In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, the ability to innovate and execute new product development (NPD) effectively is a cornerstone of business success.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

This article will dive into the concept of radical innovation, its potential for market disruption, and the role of strategies like technology scouting in staying ahead of the curve. Scaling Up Scaling radical innovation requires overcoming challenges like infrastructure needs, customer adoption hurdles, and resource demands.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Many organizations face difficulties in establishing effective innovation programs, often due to misaligned strategies, unclear processes, and inadequate tools. Success in corporate innovation requires a thoughtful approach to overcoming these obstacles. Fostering a culture of innovation is crucial.

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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.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

From that wave we've had successive efficiency strategies: Six Sigma (an outgrowth of the quality movement), business process re-engineering, lean, outsourcing and right-sizing. To the point where many strategies begin with - how does this help us cut costs, or help us increase throughput at the same cost?

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Innovation Strategy Strategy LEAN 171

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

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. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. Really hearing what somebody says is always a bonus for innovation.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The direction it chooses and the strategy it employs can determine whether it discovers new lands or remains adrift. The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

At the recent The Innovators Handbook 2025 Launch Event, Michael McCarthen, an innovation leader at Chick-fil-A, Frank Mattes, founder and CEO at Lean Scaleup, and Gina OConnor, a Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, shared how to navigate these barriers and make innovation a long-term success.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Innovation often feels isolated, remote and starved of the resources and recognition it should be achieving.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Leaders with a deep belief that innovation is essential and who care about the value it can deliver to their customers—and perhaps to society at large—help elicit that extra spark of inspiration that innovators need. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Be inquisitive.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. They are all becoming digital endeavors.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Restaurants were the first vertical market, but the strategy at the time was staggering in scope. This wasn’t part of OpenTable’s original thinking or strategy. We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How do you make innovation important to an executive team? Most of them already say that innovation is important. You need to demonstrate that innovation is not "a" strategy, but is a way to accomplish strategies - growth, differentiation, new line extensions and so on. Develop real training to build skills.

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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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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Cycle (Avans). The Lean Startup (Ries). The Lean Enterprise. New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser). End-to-End Innovation Process (Furr). Citizen-Drive Innovation (World Bank). Innovation Generation Process (Gopalakrishnan). Innovation Audit (Adams).

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

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Change Technical Review LEAN Design 100

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

However, having leaders who drive and foster innovation accelerates a company’s growth. Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. It also shows the company’s interest in investing in innovation.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

To get to this transforming point we need to build in a faster adaptation of business strategies and turn out faster innovation outcomes that meet these needs as key to this. More information, greater personalization is both unpredictable in what it yields and is an ongoing process. Is it possible?

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories. Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Innovation for innovation’s sake is a recipe for disaster.

How To 109

How To Innovation Innovation Programs LEAN 109

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Accenture identified 12 key rituals that companies can practice to effectively govern innovation, which include; ‘putting innovation at the centre of corporate strategy’, ‘everyone generates ideas, and ‘actively build a culture of innovation’. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business?

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Why should innovation be any different?

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But I still find it a helpful visualization tool for outlining a high-level innovation process in search of good ideas. It’s also equally applicable to bootstrapping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators alike. Strategy Alignment I often get asked how does one go about creating something valuable from nothing.

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Roadmap Ideation LEAN Tools 75

Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. One of the key elements in experiencing a successful innovation transformation is having a strong in-house capability. But, that’s not all there is to it.

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System Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Innovation 77

Leapfrogging

MAY 27, 2019

It is one of the early stages of the innovation process, and it is integral to the continued success of any organization. In fact, one of the most important parts of running a successful business is identifying the right concepts that can turn into real innovations that will help you meet your customers’ needs.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories. Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy Innovation for innovation’s sake is a recipe for disaster.

How To 98

How To Innovation Innovation Programs LEAN 98

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Understanding Innovation Techniques and Methods Before diving into specific strategies, it’s essential to understand the difference between innovation techniques and innovation methods. Both play a crucial role in driving enterprise innovation, but they serve distinct purposes.

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