Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Each phase reflects different levels of growth potential, innovation activity, and competitive pressure. The concept of the S-curve is rooted in the idea that all innovations follow a predictable pattern. In the early Incubate stage, growth is slow as teams experiment and refine the concept. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation, financial modeling serves as a foundation for pitching ideas to stakeholders, developing business cases, and iterating on product or service design. Innovation inherently involves uncertainty, and without proper modeling, teams may either over-invest in ideas with low returns or underfund high-potential opportunities.

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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. Blue Hat Process-oriented and managerial.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

By using this model, teams can: Prioritize projects based on impact and alignment with strategy. Justify innovation investments to leadership and stakeholders. Encourage a culture of innovation without overwhelming resources. What capabilities do we need to develop to remain competitive?

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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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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. Result orientation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

People must be free to create, but that doesn’t mean that necessary business processes and administration go away. Understand the Stages of Innovation. In a sense, innovation requires you to go back to the drawing board, but that’s not a bad thing. Use Innovation Management Software to Manage Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Today, I'm not going to write about "innovation theater" - that is, the concept of talking about innovation and moving some pieces around but failing to achieve any meaningful benefits. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 1, 2025

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideasand then discard the bad ones. Linus Pauling (Acclaimed American Chemical Engineer) Innovation isnt just about generating ideasits about identifying which ones are truly worth pursuing. The strength of an idea matrix lies in its flexibility.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

To travel the final ‘rugged terrain’ of innovation execution I believe requires fortitude, stamina, belief, a healthy dose of courage and as much commitment from the whole organization engaged in the innovation process as any ‘front end’ or driving it through the pipeline, yet we often fail to recognize that.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tips for building and sustaining innovation teams within your organizational culture. Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. This is an individual innovative mindset that also is alive in innovative teams.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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IdeaScale

JUNE 16, 2021

Innovation drives economic growth. The most innovative companies understand the importance of developing solutions that solve critical problems. In 2021, approximately $600 billion will go toward research and development in the U.S. ranking third on the Global Innovation Index. Measure Your Innovation Health.

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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

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

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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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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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Not to say that this is a bad thing necessarily, but it does make innovation much more difficult. Not only does this business model make innovation difficult, but it also means people aren’t used to innovating their workflow and the business as a whole becomes very poor at innovating new ideas.

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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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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

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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IdeaScale

MARCH 2, 2021

When building an innovation strategy, this takes the form of an innovation maturity assessment that examines your organization, your team, and your personal innovation approach. Here’s how an innovation maturity assessment works and how to use one. You’ll also need to develop goals from this feedback.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. Transparency has the added benefit of informing the crowd how best to contribute and helps keep the whole process on track for making an impact. Engage stakeholders and experts in the process from start to finish.

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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? By setting clear criteria at the outset, organizations can avoid misalignment and ensure sustainability is deeply embedded in their innovation processes. “Without it, youre flying blind.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

When I write that "innovation is easy" what I mean is that innovation as practiced in many corporations is rapid, inexpert and quickly converges on a simple solution. Innovation rarely has the preparation, commitment or effort applied to it to really succeed. But commercialization is hard in this setting, for several reasons.

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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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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 18, 2017

It turns out there are seven other skills that drive innovation business results. Mistaking creativity for innovation has two consequences: When we overly glorify creativity, we minimize the importance of the other seven skills in the innovation process. These consequences put innovation at greater risk of failure.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 15, 2016

There's an innovation analogy today Currently, many innovation teams are shaping up a lot like Henry Ford's company. Instead of cars, they are working on innovations. And you can have any innovation you like, incremental or disruptive, as long as it results in a tangible product. Of course we both knew the answer.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

Strange that the activity that should be the easiest, most natural activity in an innovation process is singled out as the most complex, difficult and dangerous. But fact alone highlights how poorly understood the entire innovation process is. What research or background has been developed? Everyone knows this.

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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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