Breakthrough Innovation

Breakthrough Innovation: A high-impact invention that significantly alters or creates markets, redefining industry standards and practices.

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Values

The ethical concept that provides direction and motivation to individuals, and society as a whole, guiding behavior.

The Six I's of Innovation

The six aspects that drive innovation culture and sustainable business excellence within an organization: Ideation, Insight, Inclusion, Inspiration, Implementation, Impact.

Scaling Innovation

It describes the steps needed to build out or establish an idea or product at scale in the most effective ways.

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Dedication to Innovation

Dedication to Innovation

Innovation is a tricky thing to get right, and there have been some notorious product flops. However, new best practices and solutions are being developed to help companies reduce their failure rates.

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Five Insights of Breakthrough Innovation

Five Insights of Breakthrough Innovation

Breakthrough innovation requires developing the capability to execute it successfully, capturing rising trends, and applying nonlinear thinking. Responding to true human need and fostering innovation culture will create significant opportunities for businesses.

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Forget Best Practice, It's All About Next Practice

Forget Best Practice, It's All About Next Practice

Best practices are highly individual and cannot be simply copied by others. Instead, we should shift to next practices that cater to digital transformation.

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Friday Shrimp Special - Creating HUGE Ideas from Tiny Ones

Friday Shrimp Special - Creating HUGE Ideas from Tiny Ones

Learn how the creative thinking exercise "Shrimp" can turn ho-hum, tiny ideas into bigger, more dramatic breakthrough ideas by pushing your team's creativity to an outlandish and dangerous point.

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How Challenge-Driven Innovation Works

How Challenge-Driven Innovation Works

Challenge-Driven Innovation (CDI) offers a systematic process for identifying specific problems and opportunities, formulating them into challenges and developing actionable solutions. This article provides insights into the benefits of CDI and offers a 7-step process for successful CDI Management.

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How leaders can create breakthrough innovation * Dr Ken Hudson

How leaders can create breakthrough innovation * Dr Ken Hudson

Improving breakthrough innovation success rate requires focus, challenging assumptions, harnessing mavericks, and looking at the never-evers.

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Is Your Innovation a Step, Jump or Vault?

Is Your Innovation a Step, Jump or Vault?

Innovation can be achieved in three ways: step functions, jumps, or vaults. To create real innovation, teams must have a clear idea of what type of innovation they want to achieve and be enthusiastic about it.

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Little Innovations Matter

Little Innovations Matter

Is it better to have a lot of small innovations or one big innovation? This article explores the benefits of both, with a focus on the value of small innovations for small businesses.

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Making Big Ideas Happen - Strategic Connections at #BigIdeas12

Making Big Ideas Happen - Strategic Connections at #BigIdeas12

The Big Ideas in Higher Education Conference features presentations on social networking, disruption, innovation, and strategic connections, with links to articles on creativity and strategic thinking.

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Red pill or Blue pill innovation

Red pill or Blue pill innovation

Innovation choices are like the Matrix choices: take the blue pill and stay in your comfort zone or take the red pill and create something new. Find the people who choose the red pill for your innovation team.

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Reducing our dependency on others' innovation best practices is essential

Reducing our dependency on others' innovation best practices is essential

Best practice may not always be the best approach for innovation management. Instead, focusing on good and emerging practices within your own organization can lead to success. Use the Cynefin framework to determine which domain your innovation falls into and use appropriate practices and actions.

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The Importance of B2B Marketers and Their Impact on the Company

The Importance of B2B Marketers and Their Impact on the Company

B2B companies need to prioritize their marketing department and strategies to achieve business growth.

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The Innovation Engine Podcast: Breakthrough insights from Rowan Gibson – Part 2

The Innovation Engine Podcast: Breakthrough insights from Rowan Gibson – Part 2

Rowan Gibson, author of The Four Lenses of Innovation, shares examples of companies that have challenged orthodoxies and harnessed trends in Part 2 of The Innovation Engine podcast. He also discusses the importance of leveraging resources in new ways.

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The Secret Sauce of Innovation

Innovation under duress can lead to success. This article explores how companies can transform challenging times into opportunities, citing examples of successful brands that emerged during recessions or economic transformations.

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The World of Work is Changing—Here’s How You Can Embrace It

Innovation management is evolving, with new approaches to how work is done, including traditional or Waterfall methodologies, iterative work management, collaborative work, and Lean-Agile Delivery. Planview FLEX can help organizations embrace the changing world of work.

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The yin yang of innovation understanding

Yin and yang are opposing yet complementary forces that play a crucial role in innovation. Recognizing this dual force can help manage the tensions and balance that innovation needs.

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Use This Template as a Calendar for Innovation

Innovation programs struggle to keep engagement due to lengthy processes, however, adopting a mixed-use format can keep innovation ongoing. Seasonal interests or thematic trends can be used as a template for shorter term innovation campaigns.

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Whitespace vs. Rightspace: How Quest-led Innovation Finds Right Space for Breakthrough Innovation

Whitespace vs. Rightspace: How Quest-led Innovation Finds Right Space for Breakthrough Innovation

Innovation often takes advantage of whitespace outside a company's core business. Companies that define themselves by their core mission or Quest tend to innovate in a more dramatic and iconic way by focusing on whitespace differently.

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Why Many Mid-Career Marketers Are Dinosaurs and Not Great Social Media Strategists

Why Many Mid-Career Marketers Are Dinosaurs and Not Great Social Media Strategists

Mid-career marketers need to adapt to the disappearance of traditional marketing roles in social media strategy to remain relevant and in-demand in the industry.

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Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.

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Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation

Read this handbook for visionaries and game changers to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

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Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

To date, the literature on innovation has focused on either radical, technology-driven innovation or incremental, market-pulled innovation.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant.

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Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Building ’step-function’ better things is going to be every innovator’s job the next few years. This book introduces the framework that can help you find those solutions simply and reliably

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Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination - Organizations need to offer customers breakthrough products, services, and solutions to effectively compete in today’s innovation-hungry economy.

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The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing Game-Changing Breakthroughs

The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing Game-Changing Breakthroughs

Read The Radical Innovation Playbook and discover how to successfully unleash and develop your breakthrough moment.

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New Ways to Improve: 7 Simple Innovation Tools

New Ways to Improve: 7 Simple Innovation Tools

Are your improvement initiatives feeling stale? Incorporating innovation tools will help you generate potential, novel solutions and ultimately improve your process, product or service.

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PA Consulting

PA Consulting

Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Growth strategy through disruptive innovation and strategic transformation

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Cross-industry transfer map

Cross-industry transfer map

Transfer cross-industry insights and come up with new ideas for your challenge!

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