Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, author, and inventor of lateral thinking who enhanced creative problem-solving in business.

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North Star Metric

A company's North Star Metric is its key measure of success and drives strategic decision-making.

Segmentation

Businesses use segmentation to understand potential customers and business operations. It’s the process of dividing potential customers into distinct groups, rather than treating...

Jeffrey Phillips

An authority on innovation who has expressed his passion for driving innovation and entrepreneurship in modern business.

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Can You Spare an Innovation Dime?

Can You Spare an Innovation Dime?

The scarcity of resources is the biggest roadblock for innovation, not money. In this article, we explore ways to solve the "people problem" in organizations and make innovation business as usual.

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Crossing the Chasm of Complexity

Crossing the Chasm of Complexity

Innovation is a U-shaped process that can be challenging in the middle. To get through, you need to rely on instinct, momentum, courage, faith, determination, and compassion.

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Digital Transformation won't help you innovate.

Digital Transformation won't help you innovate.

Digital Transformation is not the answer to innovation. Value Evolution, focusing on gradual improvements to add value to customers, is a better approach.

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Gray Space: How to Develop Valuable Ideas and Get Them Across the Finish Line

Gray Space: How to Develop Valuable Ideas and Get Them Across the Finish Line

The gray space is the period between selecting a winning idea and implementing it. Fully developing the core concept improves the chance of producing a positive outcome.

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Growth Through Adjacent Markets

Growth Through Adjacent Markets

Adjacent markets offer sales growth opportunities by exporting skills and capabilities, rather than products and services.

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How Planview CloudLift Makes the Transition from On-premises to SaaS Easy

How Planview CloudLift Makes the Transition from On-premises to SaaS Easy

CloudLift is a program designed by Planview to help customers migrate from on-premises installations to the cloud, offering a range of benefits and tools to make the process smoother and more successful.

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Innovation definition, strategy and process

Innovation definition, strategy and process

Innovation is creating new ideas and turning them into positive change. There are different types, benefits, strategies, cultures, and processes, and it links to an organization's goals and customer feedback.

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Innovation Trumped

Innovation Trumped

The surprising election of Donald Trump can teach innovators valuable lessons. Accuracy of market research, simple messages, and outsider success should be considered.

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Integrate Tricentis Tosca and Micro Focus ALM to improve software product quality

Integrate Tricentis Tosca and Micro Focus ALM to improve software product quality

Combining manual and automated testing tools through integration can lead to improved speed and quality in software products.

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Is Innovation Helped or Hurt by Self-Censorship?

Is Innovation Helped or Hurt by Self-Censorship?

Encouraging contributions of ideas from all quarters can be counterproductive. There should be an appropriate number of ideas. The article discusses the significance of emergence, filters and culture in Enterprise 2.0.

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Leading The Rat Race: The Hurdles Of Innovation

Leading The Rat Race: The Hurdles Of Innovation

Innovation is a fallacy if you cannot pass the design, moral, and market hurdles. Entrepreneurs need to think through the entire system to lead the rat race in business.

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Lessons in Innovation and Longevity from Hollywood

Lessons in Innovation and Longevity from Hollywood

How have movie studios like Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Studios survived and prospered in such a competitive and volatile industry for over a century? By pivoting and restructuring, experimenting, empowering talent, and having a global ambition and marketing strategy.

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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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M-Pesa: The story behind the biggest mobile money service in Africa

M-Pesa: The story behind the biggest mobile money service in Africa

Nick Hughes, while working at Vodafone, developed the mobile money solution M-PESA, which is now Africa's most successful mobile money service.

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More efficiency or more innovation?

More efficiency or more innovation?

Efficiency and innovation are essential for every company to grow, however, businesses tend to prioritize efficiency over innovation, which eventually leads to inefficiency.

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New Product Innovation Strategy - Go Opposite by Woody Bendle

New Product Innovation Strategy - Go Opposite by Woody Bendle

Consider going opposite with your new product innovation strategy. Find out how this innovation technique can spark innovation opportunities by exploring the opposite direction.

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Paul McCartney's Innovative Style

Paul McCartney's Innovative Style

The article discusses the creativity and innovation skills of Paul McCartney, using him as an example of the importance of diversity and adaptability in producing sustainable innovations.

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Relating to the New Innovation Era

We need to radically alter our thinking and redesign innovation to adapt to this new era of unpredictability and volatility.

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Responsible innovation

Responsible innovation

Responsible innovation has become a central point of good business design to create a better future. Frameworks that encompass responsible research and innovation can sustain businesses and products.

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RIGHT NOW or AS SOON AS?

RIGHT NOW or AS SOON AS?

Steady state is outdated. With the onrush of technology and social media, the world is changing so rapidly that any company that is not innovating constantly is bound to fail. The time to innovate is now.

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Scientific Management, Taylorism and how employees are prevented from innovating

Scientific Management, Taylorism and how employees are prevented from innovating

Scientific Management or Taylorism is a management theory that prioritizes efficiency by removing unnecessary steps in a process. However, it can hinder innovation and autonomy of employees.

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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 ongoing challenge is making change our constant

The ongoing challenge is making change our constant

Innovation and change require a more holistic approach to yield optimal value. Transformation aims to reinvent the organization, while change focuses on making the existing system better.

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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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Theory of Change framework made easier

Board of Innovation's re-designed Theory of Change model helps achieve social impact by simplifying the process and maximizing collaboration.

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Three Box Solution for Sustainable Innovation

The Three Box Solution is a strategy for leading innovation. It involves managing the core business, divesting practices that have lost relevance, and generating breakthrough ideas. The most challenging part of the strategy is divesting old practices and ideas.

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Too Much Innovation? Can a Company Over-Innovate?

Too Much Innovation? Can a Company Over-Innovate?

Companies can over-innovate, both internal and external issues play a role. Timing of innovation is important, and companies should be prepared to enter new markets.

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Too Much of a Good Thing

Over-innovating can sometimes have negative effects on an organization's growth.

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What is a Gap Analysis?

Gap analysis is a useful methodology for identifying underperforming areas of a business or project and improving them to reach desired goals.

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What is the 70-20-10 Rule of Innovation and How to Use It

The 70-20-10 model of innovation resource allocation can help businesses in managing and coordinating their innovation efforts. By investing 70% of resources and human capital in the core business, 20% in new developments, and the remaining 10% on new ideas, companies can spur innovation and drive growth.

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What Michael Jordan Can Teach Us About Big Data, Strategy and Innovation

What Michael Jordan Can Teach Us About Big Data, Strategy and Innovation

Big data can help predict the future of innovations, whether in sports, market opportunities or employees. It provides real-time updates and reduces cognitive biases.

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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 Following Someone Else's Success Can Lead to Your Failure

Why Following Someone Else's Success Can Lead to Your Failure

Following in the footsteps of successful companies may not always lead to innovation success as context and undersampling of failure can play a big role.

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Why Innovators Are Like Astronauts

Why Innovators Are Like Astronauts

Innovation and space travel have more in common than you might think. Astronauts learn to work effectively in a new and unusual environment with new tools and methods, just like innovators need to work outside the box with heightened risks and unfamiliar processes.

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Zero Budget - A Boon to Innovation

Zero Budget - A Boon to Innovation

Starting an innovation project with no budget can lead to more creative thinking and inventive solutions.

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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 Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

The Innovation Delusion: Innovation is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if its benefits have been exaggerated, and our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted?

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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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Business Problem Definition The Innovation Toolkit

Business Problem Definition The Innovation Toolkit

Articulating business problems with clarity and consistency is essential: it empowers people and teams to decouple problems from solution ideas and set the right focus

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