Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Business Model Canvas in Innovation In innovation projects, the Business Model Canvas serves as a foundation for building scalable and customer-focused solutions. The canvas fits into real-world innovation projects by helping to: Define how a new product or service will generate value. Are assumptions validated?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The framework supports innovation projects by: Highlighting when incremental improvements will no longer yield competitive advantage. Guiding portfolio strategy by balancing efforts across different phases of innovation. Heres a step-by-step guide to implementing it effectively in innovation projects.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. This process helps in minimizing risks and maximizing the chances of developing successful products or services. For more information on how AI can enhance your innovation management, explore our articles on ai in innovation management and ai for idea generation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2019

Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. Your innovation process will likely touch an enormous range of stakeholders, from internal departments to your biggest clients.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Get instant innovation processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Project Recommendations for Success Overestimating Initial Market Size Disruption often starts small. Align incentives to support long-term innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For more insights on how AI can be utilized in different stages of innovation, explore our article on ai in innovation management. Here are some key advantages: Enhanced Data Analysis : AI algorithms can process and analyze large datasets quickly, providing you with valuable insights that would be difficult to obtain manually.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By managing these stages effectively, you can streamline your innovation processes and enhance the chances of success for new initiatives. Introduction to Leveraging AI in Innovation Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how you manage the Innovation Lifecycle.

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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. There is a significant transformation of the value lying within this extended system of collaborators and organization design. The lifecycle becomes part of the design needs by all the partners within this ecosystem.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The real need is delivering a new integrated innovation engagement platform. We need not only a new innovation management system, we need a modern engagement platform. It is constantly adapting to the needs of the project, not to the system. So I have provided a concept v1 of how I visualize innovation to work.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes. So what can we do about it?

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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

This is a process I’ve taught businesses to implement for more than 25 years, helping some of the world’s biggest businesses develop their innovation processes. The Innovation Funnel Management Process helps narrow down ideas from an innovation process or project into a realistic plan of action and next steps. .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

In a turbulent marketplace, when complexity can add even more confusion, it is important to have a simple and straightforward innovation system. Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. Innovation Processes .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

In a turbulent marketplace, when complexity can add even more confusion, it is important to have a simple and straightforward innovation system. Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. Innovation Processes .

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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

JANUARY 28, 2023

Innovation management software is expected to continue to evolve and improve in the coming years. Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. More emphasis on data analytics and reporting to help companies better understand and track their innovation efforts.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally. An example of the dashboard of Idea Management Systems: Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 25, 2019

This is not to say that with open innovation, political and cultural barriers magically go away. Just like innovations that take place completely within an organization, innovations and ideas gathered from open innovation processes will bump up against turf wars, self-appointed “gatekeepers” and the like.

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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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2022

Much like an animal’s immune system cells which tries to kill foreign invaders, these individuals will try to kill your ideas. While some antibodies will just voice their disagreement with an innovation project, they will not have the ability to stop the project. Most innovation projects require a change.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 10, 2025

Martijn Antonisse Group Sustainable Director Portfolio Steering at DSM-Firmenich A Structured Approach to Sustainable Innovation Building a sustainable innovation portfolio follows a structured, multi-stage approach that ensures measurable impact at every step. It allows for streamlined data collection and strategic oversight.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From linear to systemic : Innovation used to be seen as a linear process where ideas were generated, tested, and implemented in a sequential manner. Today, innovation is recognized as a systemic phenomenon, where multiple actors interact and collaborate across different domains and levels 1.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Do you have a process in place to do that? Ideation is a necessary step in the innovation process , but it’s only one step. Too many people think innovation by nature has to be spontaneous and can’t be predicted or planned. Here’s one process: Ideate. Transforming Bright Ideas Into Value. It’s quite the opposite.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation? CB Insights recently released a report on the “State of Innovation” where they surveyed 677 corporate strategy executives. Now that is shocking!

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Divvy Up Resources : Make sure you’ve got the essentials covered—time, cash, and crew—to back your fiery projects. Check the Score : Put systems in place to see how your innovative ventures are paying off. The Feedback Loop : Set up a system to catch insights from your clients, team, and others involved.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. When these components are in place, your innovation process becomes predictable and encourages participation across the spectrum. These questions will show you opportunities for innovation. Implementation.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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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. What is an Internal Innovation Coaching System? Why Build an Internal Innovation Coaching System?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 10, 2019

The flow of insights, of information and knowledge, gets caught up in such a log jam as the innovation system is not designed for such a force of “flow-through” or set up for such co-innovation needed. We lack many innovation open and interoperable tools or systems to speed up the creation 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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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

In this article, we explore how to master innovation management from three vital perspectives: people, process, and platforms. You’ll discover strategies for bringing the right people on board, setting up effective reward systems, and establishing clear stage gates.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

The elements of the innovation stack are designed to support innovation’s core tasks, including learning, absorbing, assessing knowledge management, creativity, design, experimentation, and testing. We need to build our absorptive capacities into scalable learning.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

So, how do we undertake this need to think through and recognize a new innovative way of discovery. Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Despite having well-structured innovation programs, organizations often struggle to turn validated concepts into real market impact. Internal processes arent designed to support something new, your project gets deprioritized in favor of more urgent initiatives or leadership priorities change. Does this sound familiar?

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