Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

What is the Innovation Matrix? The Innovation Matrix is a strategic tool used to assess an organizations ability to generate and execute new ideas. The matrix provides a snapshot of an organization’s current innovation culture, helps identify areas for improvement, and guides resource allocation to support continuous innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

What is the 70-20-10 Innovation Rule ? The 70-20-10 Innovation Rule is a strategic framework that guides organizations in allocating time, budget, and resources across three categories of innovation: core, adjacent, and disruptive. This structured approach helps companies avoid innovation imbalance.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way innovation professionals approach product roadmapping and strategic planning. AI tools can process information at a speed and accuracy that surpasses human capabilities, providing you with insights that drive innovation forward.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your innovation projects. AI algorithms analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and provide insights that can drive decision-making processes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

What is the Innovation Horizons Model? The Innovation Horizons Model is a strategic framework that guides organizations in balancing immediate operational excellence with long-term innovation. Horizon 1 (Core Innovation) focuses on current business models, products, services, and customers.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

But heres the uncomfortable truth: you can never prove your innovation will succeed. The Futility of Proof in Innovation Why is it impossible to prove an innovation will succeed? Innovation requires the same humility. Innovation requires the same humility. Innovation is inherently uncertain, and thats okay.

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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. Make clear the different types of innovation, and demonstrate why it’s important.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. By capturing these dynamics visually, the canvas enables teams to anticipate challenges, uncover opportunities, and align innovation efforts with real-world conditions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Innovation Lifecycle Management (ILM) refers to the systematic process of managing the journey of an idea from inception to market release. For innovation professionals, understanding each phase is crucial to ensure that new products or services are successfully developed and launched.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. So how do you refine it?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Importance of Fostering Leadership Practices Fostering effective leadership practices is crucial for driving cultural innovation within your organization. AI can play a significant role in this process by providing insights and tools to enhance leadership development.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

What is Agile Innovation Template? Agile Innovation is a dynamic approach to project execution that breaks initiatives into small, manageable tasks, enabling organizations to rapidly adapt to market changes. Innovation is no longer optional in todays fast-paced business landscape.

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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. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your innovation processes, streamline collaboration, and drive more effective outcomes. This allows you to make more informed decisions and accelerate the innovation cycle.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you approach innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your creative processes, streamline idea generation, and foster a culture of innovation within your organization. This makes AI an invaluable asset in the realm of innovation management.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is the rallying cry of CBTW , a consultancy that delivers innovation technology solutions to companies around the world. It continuously seeks new ways to improve collaboration to deliver better and more innovative outcomes for its clients. “In a world motivated by self-interest, we choose collaboration.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 2, 2023

As businesses face an ever-changing landscape, it's crucial to have an agile innovation process in place. In this blog, we'll explore how the agile innovation process can revolutionize your business, and provide five key steps to get started. [.]

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing advanced tools and methodologies to enhance creativity and efficiency. As an innovation professional, you can leverage AI to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and predict future trends.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

Strategy AI Application Competitive Edge Custom Solutions Tailored AI tools Unique problem-solving Efficiency Quick analyses Speedy deliverables Strategic Insights Data-driven planning Superior strategies Positioning your practice as a leader in AI-driven innovation can elevate your reputation and attract high-value clients.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. The challenge s of centralized innovation. Let’s look into why that is the case. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

S-Curve Mapping is a strategic innovation tool used to understand the evolution and performance trajectory of technologies, products, services, or entire industries. Each phase reflects different levels of growth potential, innovation activity, and competitive pressure. What is S-Curve Mapping?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Corporations launching internal innovation programs.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. Innovation often involves uncertainty. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation, nonprofit planning, and product development. By enabling quick revisions and visual brainstorming, the Business Model Canvas encourages ongoing improvement and innovation. Follow these steps to apply it to your innovation project. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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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. They just wanted to know what the process should be, so we can’t change that.

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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. AI can also automate repetitive tasks, allowing innovation professionals to focus on more strategic activities.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency.

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HYPE Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Marketing specialists swear by it, manufacturers and service providers try to integrate it into their innovation practices, and researchers study it. No matter the industry, the co-creation of value is a hot topic.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so. But what do those words really mean?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Innovation isn’t just a shiny new product; it’s about jazzing up your services, tweaking those internal gears, and shaking up your business playbook. To truly make the thrilling leap with innovation, go bold—foster an atmosphere where creativity and a bit of daring flourish.

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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

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you manage innovation. By leveraging AI, you can streamline various aspects of the innovation process, from idea generation to product launch. Design Thinking : AI can assist in the design thinking process by providing data-driven insights and automating repetitive tasks.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s unique approach to innovation helps teams “work backwards” to create breakthroughs. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates.

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