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. Your team or project is exceptionally likely to fail.

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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. Oh, the horror! And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused. Their skill set?

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

An innovation pipeline acts like the lifeline of your company’s growth, channeling fresh ideas through a structured process to transform them into market-ready products. However, navigating the complexities of innovation processes requires strategic planning, expert involvement, and robust measurement techniques.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

Rather than leaving the creative process to chance, a well-crafted ideation strategy provides a roadmap for systematically generating, evaluating, and implementing new ideas. This approach not only streamlines the innovation process but also helps in harnessing the collective creativity of an organization.

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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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2019

I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects. As an innovation consultant who is a facilitator, team builder, idea person, and strategist, my need for hands-on engineering skills are minimal. This is a classic innovation mistake. Best to get projects started before a crisis. Innovation is Projects.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Spark uses a proven methodology to deliver a structured process to help you determine the best ideas in which to invest. This is why we created Spark. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Putting more resources behind the likely winners, rather than on projects that simply stay ‘blue sky’ or conceptual, then get picked up by others to commercialize. Suddenly it is down to a small team to tackle this execution stage and all it means. Peeling away and pulled away- why do we do that?

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Understanding the Innovation Management Process Innovation management is the systematic process of managing ideas, from inception to implementation, to foster innovation within an organization. This process is vital for companies seeking to maintain a competitive edge and adapt to changing market conditions.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. Instead, it is integrating new innovations into the business without affecting the performance of core business operations negatively.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. How AI Complements the Design Thinking Process AI augments the Design Thinking process by providing advanced data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive capabilities.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project. Many innovators take on a project without a plan to measure and revise the return on investment projection (and course-correct) as the product evolves. A Strategy Framework to Drive Innovation-- and ROI-- at Large Enterprises.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. This can lead to more creative and innovative solutions. What are the benefits of design thinking?

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. The right ecosystem makes innovation success repeatable and scalable.

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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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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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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” Most organizations don’t test their innovation ideas with quick experiments to generate real-world evidence. Here are four steps to include experimentation in your front end of innovation process : 1.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Corporate Innovation: A Victim of Remote Work? Corporate innovation will not be spared the troubles of adjusting to the “new normal.” One danger corporate innovation teams may be already facing is quite trivial: reduced R&D/innovation budgets, a measure that myopic managers routinely resort to in times of economic hardship.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Corporate Innovation: A Victim of Remote Work? Corporate innovation will not be spared the troubles of adjusting to the “new normal.” One danger corporate innovation teams may be already facing is quite trivial: reduced R&D/innovation budgets, a measure that myopic managers routinely resort to in times of economic hardship.

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Strategyzer Innovation

AUGUST 26, 2019

We started by discussing how managing an innovation funnel is different from managing a technology project portfolio, where the first key difference is uncertainty. In her digital transformation experience, I shared that ideas, initiatives and projects could be placed on a spectrum from relatively low uncertainty (e.g.

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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. To support this, its corporate culture is dominated by process, procedures and incentives. Customer Development versus Design Thinking.

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Yet2

MAY 24, 2017

Even before the popularization of the term “Open Innovation” (OI) in 2003, companies have been striving to build the best framework for harnessing external innovation; but yet2 is seeing a second phenomenon: Innovation Fatigue. Unfortunately, generating a list of external opportunities is often the easiest part.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 15, 2017

That’s why so many companies now spend sizable chunks of their research and development budgets on things like focus groups and market research. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges. Even the most innovative businesses usually contend with comparable ventures.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

It is true that having a process to make sure the organization is able to go beyond idea capture is necessary. The best place to start is the line of business (LOB) owner that has the highest level of interest and funding to launch the innovation initiative. Question 3: Where should we innovate first? .

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Leapfrogging

JULY 2, 2017

That’s why so many companies now spend sizable chunks of their research and development budgets on things like focus groups and market research. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges. Even the most innovative businesses usually contend with comparable ventures.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Essentially, the engineering organization was saying that innovation without a filter was as bad as no innovation at all. At least it succeeded in not distracting the developers.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Team Dimensions Profile. The DISC model was created by physiological psychologist Dr. The Everything DISC Workplace Profile Assessment can help your staff better understand their priorities, strengths, and weaknesses. The Big Five. StrengthsFinder (CliftonStrengths 2.0). Basadur Profile. Workplace Personality Inventory. The Big Five.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Colin Palombo, Managing Partner at Innovation Framework Technologies, explains how experimentation needs to be a key part of your innovation process. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.”. Use a rapid ‘sprint’ experiment process 4.

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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.”

Culture 52

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Leapfrogging

JULY 2, 2017

That’s why so many companies now spend sizable chunks of their research and development budgets on things like focus groups and market research. Smart management teams at new and mature organizations alike have started to recognize these challenges. Even the most innovative businesses usually contend with comparable ventures.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. The Proud Leader. Break the Rules.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Colin Palombo, Managing Partner at Innovation Framework Technologies, explains how experimentation needs to be a key part of your innovation process. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.”. Use a rapid ‘sprint’ experiment process 4.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. The difference between education and innovation is the added step of creation. The reason? Get in touch!

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