Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A game plan that’s clear as day lets you tie your business dreams to innovative efforts. Take a look at our guide on using innovation to drive business strategy development for more golden nuggets. Understanding the Role of Innovation Innovation is like the magic sauce, turning cool ideas into real outcomes that make a difference.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

How can you assess how innovative your business is? The Innovation Sophistication Index is a list of just 24 statements. This is the Launch phase where the need for innovation is recognised but not much has been achieved so far. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One of the many problems with the “lone genius in the garage” view of innovation is that too often, the C-suite is stylized as the people who say “no” to a brilliant idea, only to regret it later. Innovation is really a team effort, and the c-suite is a valuable part of that team. A little outside-the-box thinking goes a long way.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Open Innovation.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

An important part of the innovation process is validating ideas. When done correctly, it is a powerful way of getting feedback from the market on what it would take to make the innovation a success. Validation that their innovation is attractive, and therefore it means that the person hasn’t wasted their time developing it.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2017

The product innovations that generate the most excitement and public interest are the disruptive innovations. However, these innovations aren’t that common. The most successful, innovative companies strike a balance between core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives.

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Exago

MAY 15, 2019

The post The 7 stages of NPD and how to effectively manage product innovation appeared first on Exago. NPD typically comprises 7 stages, from the initial idea through to its introduction on the market, and can be aligned with good idea management practices.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 21, 2025

How One Company Became the Theranos of Marshmallows GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Heres a head-scratcher when it comes to scaling innovation: What happens when your innovative product is a hit with customers, but you still fail spectacularly?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2019

Innovation is often presented as a mighty struggle between a lone inventor and a seemingly intractable problem. While this does occasionally happen, more often than not any great innovation is the result of people drawing from those around them for ideas and inspiration. The lone innovator can sometimes be useful.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Innovation and change destroy complacent, unchanging business structures and models. While they may be "carved in stone" these examples and others prove that stone can crumble, or smart companies can innovate their way around, under or through them. If product life cycles have decreased, so too have business model life cycles.

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Sopheon

APRIL 8, 2022

Product innovation is a difficult process, and it’s even more challenging when your path forward is based on inaccurate conceptions about the process. The post Five Product Innovation Misconceptions You Should Ignore appeared first on Sopheon.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Innovation should be a regular topic item on the agenda of company board meetings. If you have not had a fundamental conversation about innovation with your key corporate stakeholders and senior executives then these are some of the questions and topics to discuss at the first such meeting. How good are we at innovation today?

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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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Sopheon

JULY 13, 2022

Six questions every company should ask to innovate well and ensure a successful product launch. The post Six critical questions for successful product innovation appeared first on Sopheon.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The Innovation Journey Map (IJM) is a similar concept showing the journey that an innovation takes from initial conception through to final implementation. The IJM would typically include: A flowchart or diagrammatic representation of the journey which the innovation takes. These might include: Where do good ideas originate?

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

From new medical devices to new banking products, to new consumer appliances and more, I've worked on a number of innovation projects in a wide range of industries. Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 14, 2021

I've been asked several times lately to write about, or perhaps more specifically, to opine about, innovation strategy. If you are a somewhat regular reader of this blog or my work generally, you may know that I think talking about innovation strategy conflates two very important ideas that are related but not the same thing.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Almost every business leader will tell you that they value innovation and that it is a positive & important factor for their company. However, why is it then that approximately 96% of innovation efforts fail ?

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Morita and his partner wanted to break away from this approach and offer high-quality innovative electronic goods. Morita came up with an innovative marketing idea. In 1979 he created the Sony Walkman which went on to be the most successful personal electronics product ever with sales of over 250 million units. On Amazon.co.uk.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Innovation is the unlocking mechanism.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Some companies have an innovation strategy. Innovation. Innovation is the introduction of any significant, positive change. This can be changes in public policy, small improvements to a company’s processes, totally new, disruptive product offerings, and more. Some companies have a digital transformation strategy.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Social media can connect you to innovators of all stripes. That creates a truly powerful resource of creativity on which to draw for your innovation strategy. Here’s how, and when, to use social media as part of your innovation strategy. Here’s how, and when, to use social media as part of your innovation strategy.

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Sopheon

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

So as generative AI occupies massive mind space for most innovative companies, the question they must ask is, “Are we doing this the right way?” 'People believed their own hype,'' said S. Jerrold Kaplan, cofounder of one leading artificial intelligence company, TeKnowledge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I went to a meeting about innovation earlier this week with a former client and a discussion about digital transformation broke out. Where innovation and digital transformation meet Let's add in, of course, two really interesting management phenomena occurring before our eyes. It was both interesting and strange at the same time.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Throughout the past couple of years, I have been constantly arguing about the need to put innovation management on a digital platform. These have come in different thoughts on digital platforms, ready for cross-industry and having in place, a rapid digital innovation process that scales and evolves on new technology and insights.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2019

Nearly 80 percent of executives surveyed by The Boston Consulting Group’s tenth global survey on innovation considered innovation to be either the most important priority at their company or in the top three. They’re already overloaded and adding “innovate” to their task load may not get a good reaction.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. Innovation is one powerful catalyst ripe for leveraging in this 4th Industrial Revolution. We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace.

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Sopheon

MARCH 29, 2023

Here’s why: A product without a problem isn’t product innovation. A cool idea, perhaps, but not a product. Before the conversation goes a sentence further, I’ll ask, “What problem are you trying to solve?” If their response is silence or a puzzled look, the discussion’s over.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

Peter Berger is the Director of Innovation for EmbraerX, a Silicon Valley innovation unit of Brazilian aerospace company Embraer. Berger recently sat down for an interview with IdeaScale’s Jessica Day for IdeaScale Nation, the company’s innovation podcast. Innovation Units Should Be Separate from Business Units.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? You can follow their work over on innovation-3, where they help companies to set the Scaling-Up of a fully validated innovation concept up for success. The shedding of legacy can equally liberate innovation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Identifying Growth Opportunities Helps organizations explore new markets, customer segments, or product innovations. Enhancing Market Positioning Provides insights into how companies should differentiate their products or services. These could include: Technology advancements New innovations reshaping industry standards.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2025

Improves Innovation Encourages purpose-driven product and service development. This purpose not only drives Googles search engine innovations but also influences product development in AI, cloud computing, and digital accessibility. This highlights Nikes mission to empower people through sports and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 7, 2018

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. A virtuous loop.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The effectiveness of social media for outbound marketing activities, i.e. getting the news out about new products offerings, and interacting with customers, is well known. Social media is incredibly effective for conveying marketing messages and for receiving rapid customer feedback.

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