Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

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. These are initiatives with low risk and high predictability, aimed at maintaining market share and improving operational efficiency.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

These models typically use spreadsheets or software tools to estimate future outcomes based on assumptions like pricing, market growth, customer acquisition, cost structure, and capital expenditures. Financial models in innovation projects help to: Forecast market penetration and customer growth. What is the timeframe (e.g.,

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Six Thinking Hats, also known as Listening Hats, is a structured problem-solving and decision-making framework developed by Edward de Bono. It encourages individuals and teams to look at problems or opportunities from six distinct perspectives, each symbolized by a colored hat. Blue Hat Process-oriented and managerial.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

This might require typical accounting, management and sales processes to track and predict performance, and often comes from experience and time. Sometimes, a small number of innovation resources are tasked with taking new technology developed by the company’s R&D department, and try to find a market or use for it.

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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

JULY 30, 2020

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 10, 2025

These aren’t failures of creativitytheyre often the result of fragmented processes, misaligned teams, and unclear execution across the product development cycle. Yet, many organizations still rely on outdated, linear methods that treat product development like a checklist. What is the Product Development Cycle?

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

A fully centralized ownership of innovation and idea management naturally makes it easier to achieve “maturity”, since that one team can manage everything in a controlled manner, often with the same exact process for every idea and innovation. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Today, I'm not going to write about "innovation theater" - that is, the concept of talking about innovation and moving some pieces around but failing to achieve any meaningful benefits. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey.

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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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Qmarkets

APRIL 1, 2025

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideasand then discard the bad ones. Linus Pauling (Acclaimed American Chemical Engineer) Innovation isnt just about generating ideasits about identifying which ones are truly worth pursuing. The strength of an idea matrix lies in its flexibility.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

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. The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

This meant that they had few capabilities, few people dedicated to innovation and few good ideas. When is it appropriate to "go fast" Today, ten years on, there is more and more talk about rapid innovation, innovation sprints and so on. The problem with that speeding up concept was that most companies were starting from zero.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This type of culture is essential for businesses aiming to stay competitive and relevant in today’s fast-paced market. An innovation culture is the bedrock of continuous improvement and can significantly impact an organization’s ability to generate new products, enhance processes, and ultimately drive growth and cost savings.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By fostering innovation in the workplace, you lay the groundwork for your organization to adapt, thrive, and dictate market trends. Several studies have demonstrated the direct correlation between innovation and business performance. Are there enough resources allocated for experimentation and development of new ideas?

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

When I write that "innovation is easy" what I mean is that innovation as practiced in many corporations is rapid, inexpert and quickly converges on a simple solution. Innovation rarely has the preparation, commitment or effort applied to it to really succeed. But commercialization is hard in this setting, for several reasons.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 15, 2017

But for most organizations, especially startups and smaller firms, distinguishing between the next Kindle and the next Fire Phone before they come to market can be the difference between survival and bankruptcy. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 2, 2017

But for most organizations, especially startups and smaller firms, distinguishing between the next Kindle and the next Fire Phone before they come to market can be the difference between survival and bankruptcy. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 10, 2025

How can innovation be effectively connected with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a structured and measurable way? By setting clear criteria at the outset, organizations can avoid misalignment and ensure sustainability is deeply embedded in their innovation processes. “Without it, youre flying blind.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

When markets shift and new technologies emerge, having a strategic blueprint becomes crucial for businesses aiming to thrive. Key to setting the pace is a well-defined innovation strategy. But what exactly is an innovation strategy, and how can it be developed and implemented effectively? What is an Innovation Strategy?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

Strange that the activity that should be the easiest, most natural activity in an innovation process is singled out as the most complex, difficult and dangerous. But fact alone highlights how poorly understood the entire innovation process is. What research or background has been developed? Everyone knows this.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 2, 2017

But for most organizations, especially startups and smaller firms, distinguishing between the next Kindle and the next Fire Phone before they come to market can be the difference between survival and bankruptcy. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 11, 2021

This also allowed organizations to grow, and created the need to create new forms of innovation - process innovation and organizational innovation. Tools I think as innovation becomes increasingly more democratized, consumer markets and other markets will fill with interesting but ultimately useless junk.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It almost sounds like an oxymoron, but with the help of generative AI systems like ChatGPT—OpenAI’s advanced AI language model that’s all the rage these days—you can take a lot of weight off your shoulders by streamlining your innovation processes, so you can have a bit more structure and creativity without the headaches.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

Diversity also leads to economic growth, and according to a study from Brown University “the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe.”

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With AI’s predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, leaders and innovators are unlocking new potentials in understanding user needs and market trends. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here. Canceling a project may frustrate the team members working on it but unlike in a startup, they still have their jobs, offices and houses and the company won’t close.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

L et our Intrapreneurship 101 give you a better idea of what it takes to set up a successful innovation process within your company. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. If your executives keep evaluating innovation projects in the same way as every other project, your intrapreneurs will not survive.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. What’s more, 90% anticipate ramping up their innovation budgets, with nearly all increasing by more than 10%!

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

You also need your internal champions for innovation - the coaches - to educate and guide teams on how to work in this new way, and the systems in place to support their continuous development. The second is to create and maintain channels of communication with sponsors of their team within the organization.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless. Many in the C-suite view these innovations as not only a way to maintain market share with consumers, but also usher in new eras of productivity, efficiency and customer engagement.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. They support systemic innovation.

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