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.

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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. It’s like giving your business the tools to handle surprises and shake-ups with a grin.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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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. If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy.

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. For further intel, drop by our piece on integrating innovation into planning. Tools and Methods for Creative Strategy Development Want to shake things up in your business strategy? Toss some innovation into the mix.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: TRIZ is a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature. At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. It has no predictive power.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 14, 2025

At ABN AMRO Bank, Anna-Lena Lorenz and her team are navigating this transformation by exploring how humans and AI can collaborate to drive innovation. At ABN AMRO, innovation is built on three core pillars: human-centered design, lean and iterative processes, and portfolio thinking.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.”

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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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. Creating methods and innovation processes and training your teams helps them become more capable and productive.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Execution and Value Delivery needs to drive the whole innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

The whole operational process has to reorient away from being internally driven into being externally lead. To re-equip whole organizations is a long transforming journey, the breaking down of siloed thinking to one of being more open-sourced one requires new communicating tools.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A variety of NPD strategies can be employed, each with its own set of principles, methodologies, and tools. The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

By focusing on attracting the right talent , establishing effective reward and recognition systems, and fostering a collaborative culture, businesses can create an environment where innovation thrives. Managing Innovation: Process Effective innovation management requires robust and well-defined processes.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

From our point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Develop a process or at least define a consistent set of tools. I am a firm believer in defining a fungible innovation process - a set of steps to help ensure that innovators complete a set of activities and learnings before they recommend an idea.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

Below are four key strategies to foster radical innovation. Technology Exploration Emerging technologies like AI, IoT, and blockchain are powerful tools for driving radical innovation. These approaches reduce risk while diversifying innovation efforts, ensuring organizations stay ahead of emerging trends.

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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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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

JULY 11, 2024

However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Many organizations face difficulties in establishing effective innovation programs, often due to misaligned strategies, unclear processes, and inadequate tools. Fostering a culture of innovation is crucial.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

At the core of this success is innovative business models – and the ability to improve existing models while consistently launching new ones. Find practical tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating the process, as well as strategies to reduce risk when launching something new. The Innovator’s Method.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. At this stage of the process, I like to use Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? Planning and executing are not the right process for innovation.

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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? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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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. Innovation for innovation’s sake usually leads to interesting solutions, but disappointing business models.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why and How are Billions in Potential Innovation Left On The Table? Innovation is Fresh Combinations . What’s Needed: Sophisticated Tools to Deliberately Make Fresh Connections Across Domains (see MoshPit ). How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? It’s fun.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to CultureAmp research, ‘Nearly 8 out of 10 of highly engaged employees regard their companies as having a culture that nurtures innovation’ 5. This graphic from The Lean Enterprise Institute illustrates Toyota’s use of the continuous improvement method to improve existing processes efficiently.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

If they give you skepticism or consternation, you can also show them tools like the Business Model Canvas. When you break them down, these tools cover what they’re used to seeing in a business plan without the weeks/months of wasted time and effort. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Structure, Tools & Processes.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. New tools for digital technology integration are presented including GFi’s Digital MoshPit. Thursday, November 1 at CRC.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Why innovation? Challenge Mapping.

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