IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product 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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Some of these challenges include: Aligning innovation with customer needs and market trends. Ensuring a timely and cost-effective product development life cycle. Coping with the rapid pace of technological change and its impact on product relevance. Balancing creativity with practical implementation and scalability.

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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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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 11, 2020

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. The post How to Speed Up Your New Product Development Process by 30% appeared first on Innovation360. This applies to both B2B and B2C businesses and across industries.

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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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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

An Innovation Roadmap allows your team to plan how and when to communicate each step of the innovation process to other relevant stakeholders in the organization. Innovation Roadmap ?tool tool is most often used to support innovation, product development and planning.?Here’s

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Sopheon

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

With this backdrop, it’s fair to assert that companies, no matter their product offerings, must make sincere and significant efforts to ensure their innovation processes include sustainability. A sustainable governance framework includes rules for managing unexpected situations within your innovation process.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers are integral to the product innovation process.?. Product innovation is all about new ideas from both your employees and your customers. Trying to develop a new product without input from your customers is akin to shooting arrows in the dark. Your customers are talking about your brand.

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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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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. Innovate Products Faster book: [link].

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 11, 2020

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. This applies to both B2B and B2C businesses and across industries.

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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. number of ideas and the next steps to be taken), opportunities, milestones, and celebrations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

What do companies that fail to invest in innovation miss? What the companies that make the decision to maintain cost containment will miss is the opportunity to put new products and services into the product development funnel. What work can be done to improve innovation and shorten time to market?

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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. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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InnovationManagement

MAY 7, 2020

Having a process for the front end of innovation is necessary but not sufficient. In this article, we'll look at how these aspects tie together, and how your company can support your full innovation lifecycle. It also requires proper levels of funding, and a governance structure to support it.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 29, 2016

Which sounds something like your product development process, and that's a problem. Now, this diatribe may sound interesting from a person and team that has argued for years about defining an innovation process. And that's the other side of the coin.

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Innovation Leader

JUNE 23, 2014

Moen’s SVP of Global Strategic Development describes the customer-focused innovation process behind a new line of motion-sensitive faucets…

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

Our position is that its time to step away from future stories about how the world will change and re-introduce some basic portfolio tracking methods into the innovation process. And the good news is that it is a problem that is tractable to solve.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

These companies might have an innovation team as part of each brand / business unit, responsible for researching and coming up with ideas and designs for new products. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product. We've even got separate names for the different activities: "fuzzy front end" where ideas are generated, and "new product development, or NPD" for the activities where the ideas are converted into products.

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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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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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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 2, 2019

I've been struck by the importance of two rapidly converging forces - digital transformation and new product innovation. As we've discussed, here and elsewhere, ad nauseam, there is increasing demand for new products and services, making stretching the capacity of tenuous innovation processes and teams.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 10, 2019

Adapting a product to the need of one person’s preference has been pushing the final adaptation to that persons need up the chain in production. “This for me will center around developing the complete suite of transparency between product development and manufacturing and communicating this “connected” story.

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 12, 2017

As your innovation campaign progresses, you must continue to instill excitement across all team members, and find ways to reengage them as advocates. In this case study, we’ll examine how Dick’s Sporting Goods engaged their employees in product development and effectively encouraged them to participate in their innovation community.

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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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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region. Last but not least, we can make innovation measurable using innovation accounting.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region. Last but not least, we can make innovation measurable using innovation accounting.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

Innovation practices that are in step with the speed, uncertainty, and volatility of the new economy are still a promissory note, in this day and age. Few if any can point to systematic practices that realize corporate innovation in a reliable and continuous fashion. Innovation becomes an answer to a set of strategic questions.

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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

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. Craving more on meshing business plans with innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The most significant activities for investing in innovation management software are presently for events, challenges and campaigns, idea assessments, especially at the early stage, and product development filters.

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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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InnovationManagement

JUNE 8, 2020

M-Pesa, a mobile-based financial service, did not follow a linear, step-by-step innovation process. In this article, Eivor Oborn follows M-Pesa's rapid trajectory to unearth how people who used it in Kenya, and how that helped the company adapt its product development.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The progression of AI technology has led to its adoption in several key areas of business strategy, including market analysis, customer service, operational efficiency, and product development. By integrating AI into new product development, you can enhance your company’s ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

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