Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

Strategic Goals: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Strategic goals are long-term, high-level objectives that define the direction of an organization and guide decision-making. Strengthening its AI-driven productivity tools (Microsoft 365, Copilot). Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 130

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.

Product Innovation 100

Product Innovation Innovation Technical Review Disruption 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2025

Purpose Statement: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects A purpose statement is a clear and concise declaration that defines an organizations fundamental reason for existence beyond making a profit. Lead Successful Strategy Projects! Lead Successful Strategy Projects! What is a Purpose Statement?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2019

Here are a few examples of companies that set the “lone inventor on a hill” myth aside in favor of real innovation with the help of IdeaScale. But no product is built for just one person in mind, and the creativity and thoughtfulness of the crowd can be harnessed for effective innovation. Citrix is all about access.

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Product Innovation Examples Crowdsourcing Innovation 113

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Grasping innovation’s role in your game plan is your ticket to staying ahead. Key Bits of an Innovation Plan Crystal Clear Vision : Nail down a clear-cut vision for your innovation dreams and set specific targets that nod to your overall goals. Pilot Projects: Before going big, test the waters with smaller projects.

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Course Strategy Strategy Technical Review 113

Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

Things are really happening with innovation and you are starting to see real results and improvements in performance. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product. Innovation can now become a serious competitive advantage for you. If you score over 18 then congratulations.

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Innovation Open Innovation Brainstorming Entrepreneurship 253

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Talk to the project owners and draw a block diagram showing each step starting with the origination of the idea right the way through to implementation. Maybe take a major new product or service and also an important internal process or system innovation. Next examine a project which made some progress and then got canned.

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Innovation Tools Project Innovation Processes 212

Idea to Value

JUNE 11, 2020

00:03:30 – The tension behind building products for months and misalignment causing them to go nowhere. 00:05:30 – The power of Design Sprints to speed up project starts. 00:12:00 – How digital product innovation has changed over the past 10 years. Topics covered in today’s episode.

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Design Product Innovation Groups Project 197

IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2019

Allocating specific times for team members to work on ideas and projects promotes actual results. This may mean designating a specific project for team members to charge their time to while working with the team. Innovation management software also allows visibility into the process of taking an idea through to production.

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Innovation Software Survey Innovation Processes 198

InnovationManagement

MAY 3, 2021

The world of innovation has a very broad definition: It’s often referred to as an information technology innovation. How you select your best innovation project is undoubtedly a starting point! The post How to Select Your Best Value Innovation Project – The Secret is in a Well-Managed Product Project Portfolio!

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Project Management How To Innovation 76

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 1, 2019

Scenario: a product development team at a medical device company had a testing phase that ran far longer than expected. This delay rippled throughout the project and had serious implications downstream. After the project was complete, the team leader wanted to go back and figure out why the test phase had not gone as planned.

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Project Product Development Company Analysis 77

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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Innovation Agile Product Innovation Software 201

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Facilities & Locations: Project teams are provided with space, spaces, equipment, and tools to run their required innovation experiments.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 301

IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

Peter Berger is the Director of Innovation for EmbraerX, a Silicon Valley innovation unit of Brazilian aerospace company Embraer. The Components of a Productive Innovation Department. In other words, the quarterly updates that work for traditional business units are far too short a timescale for big innovation projects.

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Ideation Innovation Crowdsourcing Project 196

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 14, 2021

That action may be creating a new product, or developing a new channel or business model. Of course, innovation can span a range of impacts and outcomes, from very incremental product innovation to industry changing business model innovation. Strategy is not a momentary action or a project.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Chief Innovation Officers can expect to earn around $180,000 annually in base salary. Innovation Engineer. An innovation engineer is trained in advanced methods and tools for creating innovative ideas, accelerating projects, and solving problems that inevitably arise during innovation adoption.

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Innovation Leadership Crowdsourcing Training 164

IdeaScale

JUNE 12, 2018

Others will use it for sustainability ideation, employee quality of life, business model innovation, social change, and more, but these were some of the key use cases that IdeaScale sees over and over again.

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Ideation Video Project Product Innovation 133

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Goals and strategies align atop a foundation of trust, so leaders must be prepared to invest in building such a foundation before going full tilt on their innovation projects. How to Build Ecosystems as Part of an Innovation Strategy. How can leaders build ecosystems on trust that get results? Potential Outcomes.

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Management Innovation Collaboration Video 173

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

The evolving innovation lab. Growth challenges and organizations priorities are being immersed in this innovation ecosystem thinking. Overall project value grows as the complexity becomes more shared but grows in value creation. The lifecycle becomes part of the design needs by all the partners within this ecosystem.

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System Innovation Collaboration Design 159

Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

And they try to gain access to the startups, the university teams, and their innovations by acquiring them, or by making venture style investments in them. In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. new ventures) and/or technical projects in universities.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2019

Business model innovation is a fundamental restructuring of the beliefs that underlie existing ways that businesses create value. To a greater extent than product innovation, business model innovation forces rethinking of core beliefs about how businesses operate. What Is the Process of Business Model Innovation?

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Competition Video Innovation Disruption 174

Planview

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The judges particularly noted our advancements in Project Portfolio Management and our strong client testimonials , with one judge commenting, “Great to see advancements in project portfolio management! Nice problem being solved and have solid clients to back this is working.”

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Culture Innovation Software Culture of Innovation 59

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2017

Question: We’re a very large, well-known consumer products company, and our portfolio is actually quite complex, as we have many different types of initiatives included, all at vastly different stages. In fact, we often debate whether certain projects should be included at all.

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Project Innovation Company Product Development 56

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For the most part many of them were focused, when they were spending time on innovation, almost exclusively on product innovation. Thinking about concurrent innovation across several goals and horizons was really new and interesting for these participants. Second, from discrete to continuous and often concurrent projects.

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Innovation Disruption Product Innovation Exercises 113

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 27, 2015

But when we call on people to innovate, there are a host of unknowns and uncertainties. How do we prioritize existing projects and new innovation work? Other analysts have provided us with the "three horizons" to help determine the amount of change we hope to accomplish with innovation. How do we gain the skills?

Innovation 100

Innovation Project Strategic Thinking Product Innovation 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Task management systems, which help in tracking the progress of various tasks and projects. These practices are fundamental in creating a productive environment that not only supports the current project demands but also sets the stage for future innovative team collaboration efforts.

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Collaboration Technical Review Innovation Agile 113

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2015

His conclusion is that these results suggest that the transition to public equity markets leads firms to reposition their R&D investments toward more conventional and safer projects. They compared 207 consumer goods companies and a sample of over 40,000 new products between 1980 and 2011.

Marketing 100

Marketing Innovation Agile Project 100

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2023

ICL is a global leader in the minerals industry operating across every corner of the globe, and committed to driving sustainability through its activities in food technology, agriculture, and industrial production. Innovation is central to the company’s commitment to help humanity meet its sustainability challenges.

Ideation 105

Ideation Innovation Software Review Idea Management 105

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. By acknowledging the challenges and implementing strategic measures, you can navigate these waters successfully to uphold a productive and innovative virtual team.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. By acknowledging the challenges and implementing strategic measures, you can navigate these waters successfully to uphold a productive and innovative virtual team.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

Innovation Excellence

JULY 2, 2024

Kodak developed a digital camera in the 1970s, but its images weren’t as good as film images, so it ended the project. Blockbuster. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know the stories. Decades later, that decision ended Kodak. Blockbuster was given the chance to buy Netflix but declined due to its paltry library […]

Disruption 119

Disruption Technical Review Project Design Thinking 119

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 9, 2016

Investment activity in infrastructure and other major capital projects has regained its upward trend following the 2008 crash. The quantity and scale of mega capital projects is encouraging for the engineering and construction industries. Continue reading →

Project 40

Project Trends Industry Study 40

Gregg Fraley

JUNE 3, 2019

Hope — the cornerstone of innovation culture. Hope is inspired by successful projects; the lesson of Washington at Trenton. In the innovation space there is a great deal of discussion about mindset. Leaders and followers with the right mindset have a chance to create and succeed with innovation.

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Innovation Project Training Culture 77

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The new explore:exploit mantra, which is emerging and yet I believe incomplete , demonstrates that many companies are beginning to understand the importance of distinctions between the efficient practices that sustain current products and the divergent processes and methods that create new ideas.

Innovation 100

Innovation Brainstorming Disruption Exercises 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2017

What I liked about her thinking was suggesting to “ disentangle the ecology of complex innovation into distinct problems of discovery “ These were broken out into four: 1. the Project discovery Problem, 2. It concerns building and materializing the product, program, or service so that it works to actually resolve problems.

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Technical Review Project Technology System 80

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By 2027, global spending on digital transformation is projected to reach an astonishing $3.9 While digital transformation focuses on integrating technology into all aspects of a business, digital innovation goes a step furtherits about creating entirely new value through technology. Here are four key types of digital innovation.

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Tools Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation 59

Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

As Tobias and Oliver say, R&D budgeting is not merely about allocating funds to different projects. It's a nuanced process that involves balancing an organization’s aspirations for groundbreaking innovations with the practicalities of the bottom line.

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