Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Employee Productivity Is your team firing on all cylinders? Innovation Rate Anything fresh on the menu lately? Peek at our innovation guide to supercharge your strategy for more drawn-out tricks. The big wigs should back innovation and make sure teams have what they need to tinker and push boundaries.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Financial modeling is particularly essential in innovation projects, where investments must be justified, resources need to be allocated wisely, and potential returns must be clearly understood before execution begins. Financial models in innovation projects help to: Forecast market penetration and customer growth.

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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. What is Six Thinking & Listening Hats?

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything. This means their focus is divided and their loyalties lie with their day jobs.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, consumer behaviors shifting, and new market entrants disrupting traditional industries, your ability to innovate determines your potential for growth and sustainability. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success.

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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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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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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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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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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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Innov8rs

MARCH 10, 2025

How can innovation be effectively connected with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a structured and measurable way? Stage 1: Implementing a Unified Project Management Approach Standardizing project management practices across the company ensures that everyone speaks the same language.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this article, well explore what implementing ideas truly means and how it fits into the broader innovation process. Without a clear system to manage, filter, and prioritize these ideas, teams can waste valuable time and resources trying to identify where to focus their efforts.

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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. Your team or project is exceptionally likely to fail.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This involves not only verbal encouragement but also the implementation of tangible policies and practices that empower your team to think differently and take risks. Effective leaders provide resources, create cross-functional teams, and ensure that innovation is aligned with business strategy.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By fostering an atmosphere where innovation thrives, you’re not only investing in your company’s future but also in the professional growth of your team. Understanding and nurturing this culture within your organization requires a deliberate approach, and this is where innovation culture assessment comes into play.

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Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2018

But just like any other large organisation, they need to continuously develop new innovations, which requires radical new ideas. It’s simple, it’s effective, and it directly addresses all Three Dimensions of Innovation which are often lacking in companies. Every idea looks like a bad idea to start with.

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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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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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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

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? Think of an innovation strategy as a gameplan for a sports team.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

In summary, on results gathered so far: “The results so far suggest that while innovation is a key strategic focus, it’s still taking time to filter down to a day-to-day activity, frequently losing out to other priorities. The front end in many companies is poorly defined and much of the innovation work is incremental.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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