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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Smart crowdsourcing yields successful product development. Product design teams can often feel they lack the most important voice in the process: The consumer. Fortunately, crowdsourcing tools allow the innovation process to involve consumers every step of the way.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners?

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum. Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. Craving more on meshing business plans with innovation?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s where a sprinkle of innovation can turbocharge your growth: Product Development : Cook up new goods or give current ones a spiffy upgrade to match what folks want. Check the Score : Put systems in place to see how your innovative ventures are paying off.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

Before being “open” as in open innovation, research is conducted internally within a company to privately create and manage inventions and new advancements before sharing them with the world. Social Innovation. It can also refer to innovations that have a social purpose, such as distance learning and online volunteering.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

I will go through each of them one at a time, and explain the positive and negative aspects of each: Different possible organisational locations for innovation resources: Option 1: A bridge between R&D and Sales / Marketing. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 21, 2020

Managing the innovation process can help you improve customer experience with your brand.?. The solution is to combine customer data with product information to form innovative ideas. This process, known as idea management, is what drives business and improves the customer experience. The Idea Management Solution.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2019

Suppose you’ve been successful innovating. What new product development strategy might an Idea Magnet employ to pursue a fresh path to new ideas? That’s a question guitar innovator Rick Turner faced. This is Turner’s personal perspective on his new product development strategy.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We discuss how challenging it is to develop completely new technology, the difficulty in describing its value and marketing it, and getting buy in for innovation processes in your company. 00:08:00 – Innovation is not a team sport, it is usually done by one or two people.

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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.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

Since innovation almost always pays off only in the longer run, and cost management can be controlled in the short run, the dilemma is obvious. When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies. Traditional Phases and Gates Processes Traditionally, the phases and gates model has been a cornerstone in structuring innovation management.

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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. Youll also learn how to integrate an idea classification matrix into your innovation process, ensuring that the best ideas receive the attention they deserve.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Some of the most impactful innovations dont come from high-tech labs in advanced economiesthey emerge from the ingenuity of resource-constrained markets. Now, these solutions are disrupting industries in wealthier economies, proving that innovation thrives under constraints.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. That is the time that individuals and teams can commit to any specific innovation project.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. In this post we will cover how to: Cut your development cycle time and free up working capital. The fastest growing companies interpret innovation through multiple lenses.

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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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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. In his paper on Accelerating innovation, Dr. Cooper makes the case that “firms can respond quickly and pivot with innovations.”

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This process is critical to innovation in business success as mastery of the art of implementation is necessary to ensure that your innovation process and program clicks on all cylinders, all the time. Ensure that your innovation efforts and initiatives are cross-referenced with your organization’s marketing efforts.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

For example, one of the biggest idea killers is the inability for many companies to take really good ideas and get them prioritized in the existing product development process. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas.

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

While these models of advanced work led to so many innovations and created tremendous broad economic value, though not always to the lab’s corporate owner, it is clear that large scale, insulated corporate research is no longer the most common model for entering new markets or developing technologies of the future.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This crowds the product development process and eliminates room for new concepts to enter. Third, as the product development and commercialization teams get burned by inadequate or poor concepts from the innovation activities, these teams downplay and "back burner" new concepts and focus on existing products.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

Organizations need balance, and innovation tends to constantly push to upset this need; that’s its nature as it seeks to change. Can innovation be something different than it is for the vast majority today? The market for investing in innovation management tools remains fragmented.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The ability to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and predict outcomes has made AI an indispensable tool for businesses seeking to innovate and stay competitive. Strategic Agility: AI’s predictive analytics can help you anticipate market changes and quickly adapt your strategy, ensuring your business remains agile and resilient.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Having learned that many young football players pack bananas in their sport bags only to find them mashed between their cleats before practice, she asked her product development team to create a better solution. The result: Gatorade “01 Prime,” a pre-workout drink pouch with a powerful carbohydrate punch.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. The whole operational process has to reorient away from being internally driven into being externally lead. They are all becoming digital endeavors.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

Moves the Needle facilitated a five-day Lean Innovation Sprint to help staff tackle current challenges in a new way, and a five-month Accelerator to help one team make dramatic progress on a promising product idea from the Sprint. As a result, the product garnered little attention from early potential buyers.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services. Tailor products and services to specific market segments.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 19, 2021

Over the next few weeks I'll work up a couple of blog posts about what I think the outbreak, our reaction and the aftermath of COVID can tell us about innovation, creativity, new product development and more. I'm also going to address briefly the need for burning platforms as an impetus for innovation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It drives growth, differentiation, and value creation, allowing companies to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market. Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility.

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