Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2017

I love hearing how companies are creating successful products that provide customers value, which is the topic of this episode. Gordon Stannis, the Director of Design and Strategy at Twisthink shares their approach to developing innovative solutions for their Fortune 500 clients.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2019

True innovation requires diverse perspectives and confidence in everyone’s ability to add value to the innovation process. Define Roles and Processes. An innovation department needs a leader with a clearly defined role. Likewise, everyone else on the innovation team should have a defined role.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model. This is a great mode that I constantly refer back to with my clients, to convince them to think about innovation beyond product innovation. Product innovation is of course necessary for survival.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The purpose of the IJM is to realistically assess what is happening with innovative ideas within your organisation, to identify impediments and delays and to significantly improve the innovation process. The IJM would typically include: A flowchart or diagrammatic representation of the journey which the innovation takes.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Then innovation can finally play its true part in discovering, leveraging and delivering new value and impact. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. is the revolution that connects all the parts.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 2, 2021

As two intermediaries from Hamburg that foster open and cross innovation processes, Science Scout (an initiative of Hamburg Innovation) and Cross Innovation Hub (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft) joined forces to start a discussion around the stimulation and measurement of open and cross innovation processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Throughout the past couple of years, I have been constantly arguing about the need to put innovation management on a digital platform. These have come in different thoughts on digital platforms, ready for cross-industry and having in place, a rapid digital innovation process that scales and evolves on new technology and insights.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation. It gathers relevant data through educated opinions that can be used to formulate ideas that guide product development. Learn more about with sustainable innovation is and how you can create sustainability with your innovation strategies in this article.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches. The evolving innovation lab.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It's as if we are supposed to buy the products because of the really interesting advertising, rather than the benefits they provide. What's this diatribe got to do with innovation? So I have to tread the razor's edge here when I say increasingly corporate innovation looks a lot like Super Bowl advertising.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

This whole area has been rapidly modernizing into a product innovation platforms to support key elements of sustainable solutions that maintain, adapt, upgrade, integrate and keep multiple systems of record for designs that due to the platform approach can be easily shared within, across and outside the old environment.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

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. But eventually companies and individuals mature, and their innovation production should broaden and meet expanded needs.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 10, 2025

Just as importantly, the product development cycle helps ensure alignment with the companys product innovation charter. This is a strategic document that outlines the goals, boundaries, and success criteria for a new product initiative. High-value ideas can come from employees , customers, suppliers, and even competitors.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter. In developing or innovating a new product or service, we take inspiration from Marvel Comics , one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter. In developing or innovating a new product or service, we take inspiration from Marvel Comics , one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. We can loop, explore, connect, build scenarios, test assumptions, build digital twins to just the product and manufacturing impact.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Whether improving products, optimizing processes, or transforming business models , the right approach can drive efficiency, growth, and competitive advantage. Here are four key types of digital innovation. Product Innovation This involves using digital technologies to create new products or enhance existing ones.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It is for me, the combinations we can achieve from engineering the innovation value chain through connectivity, through increasing intelligence and feedback, and by constantly validating this, by automating this innovation process of design in this digital (virtual) world, as well as in its physical one. We then adapt our scale.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

So the innovation consultants needs to change – why? I get the distinct impression the focus of most innovation consultants is still locked into product innovation or improving the process of the pipeline / portfolio, the idea generation and project execution model.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

I want to dive into incremental innovation with you to unpack how and why it should be front of mind for your innovation program. We’ll explore examples, discover the key benefits of this type of innovation, and identify the best way of developing your own incremental innovation process. Let’s get started.

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hackerearth

JANUARY 28, 2018

There are three types of innovation: product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation.A process innovation is crucial for product innovation, and it facilitates business model innovation, especially with the changes that rapid digitization is bringing with it.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Terms for Sustainable Innovation While different phrases are often used, they generally describe the same broad concept: Green innovation A term that emphasizes environmentally friendly advancements, such as renewable energy, waste reduction, and carbon-neutral solutions.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 21, 2017

They needed a new product, in a hurry. From concept to packaging, they needed it all: RTB, packaging design, product name, name and product fit with top benefits, and fully baked complete concepts to test against legacy products and competitive products. Competitive pressures were high.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2016

From the data presented it's clear that "innovation" is still defined very narrowly, as improvements to existing products and services. In other words, most of these executives and their teams are just scratching the surface, when right underneath the surface a range of innovation options and outcomes is just waiting to explode.

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hackerearth

JANUARY 28, 2018

There are three types of innovation: product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation.A process innovation is crucial for product innovation, and it facilitates business model innovation, especially with the changes that rapid digitization is bringing with it.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

Organizations can use this mindset by leveraging co-creation, partnering with customers, and engaging employees at all levels in the innovation process. Businesses that continuously reinvent themselves whether through product innovation, new business models, or operational improvementswill maintain a competitive edge.

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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. What happened next were building large, continent spanning organizations (railroads) and production systems (mass production).

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

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Sopheon

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The food and beverage industry is one of the most interesting and competitive industries when it comes to innovation and new product development. I recently joined Stefan Gates on the Food Matters Live podcast to discuss the latest in food and beverage innovation and new product development.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

I am talking about Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 (transformative and disruptive innovations), which of course can come in a variety of types - Doblin identifies ten types of innovation. So we need people who can think about service innovations, process innovations, experience innovations, business model innovations, and so on.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Product innovation from discovery to market is still the biggest drag on industry performance. We see the industrial digital ‘twin’ but are there digital twins within the Chemical and Pharmaceutical industry to design products to be more effective? Building differently the pillars of innovation as essential.

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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. Scouting Scouting is a strategic form of innovation that involves searching for existing technologies and services to partner with or buy out.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Circle (Berenschot). Delft Product Innovation Model (Buijs). End-to-End Innovation Process (Furr). Citizen-Drive Innovation (World Bank). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Chain-Linked Model (Kline). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2014 more….

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In this context the persistence of innovation is sometimes referred to as the Innovation Marathon or Ultra Innovation which is derived from ultra running (running long distances past the marathon and often for several days in different sorts of terrain). Product innovation shows the most clear path-dependency.

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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. Scouting Scouting is a strategic form of innovation that involves searching for existing technologies and services to partner with or buy out.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to New Product Development Incorporating design thinking into your new product development strategies can significantly enhance the innovation process. Embracing this approach can lead to disruptive innovation examples that not only meet customer expectations but exceed them.

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