Experimentation

Innovation expert shares his top eight practices for effective innovation: communicate a compelling 'why innovate', have a formal innovation plan, adopt an experimentation mindset, reframe failure as an opportunity to learn, look inside and outside for ideas, focus on changing behavior first, create an idea-receptive culture, and learn and use a new toolkit.

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.

The Edinburgh Fringe festival's lessons in innovation are discussed in relation to start-up businesses.

Creating a sustainable culture of innovation in companies is crucial for success. Here are 7 ways to implement innovation in your organization.

An analytical prototype is an initial version or model of a product with essential functionalities to be tested, measured and observed.

A comprehensive prototype is a model of a product or system that contains most or all of the attributes of the final product, allowing it to be tested for functionality.

Innovation that focuses on the problems of the customers, and seeks to solve them in a way that brings the most value to said customers.

Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a new business venture, typically with considerable risk and effort. Entrepreneurship creates and extracts value and drives economic growth in society.

Experimentation is the process of testing ideas, concepts and solutions in order to measure their effectiveness and discover new insights.

A focused prototype is a prototype with only one or two attributes of the final product, which is used to answer specific questions.

Having a growth mindset means to believe that one can constantly develop own capabilities.

The Innovation Life Cycle is a framework for the stages of an innovation from its inception through to adoption and diffusion.

Innovation management process is the system of tools and techniques used to foster creativity and convert ideas into successful products, services or processes.

An MVP is a prototype of a product or service that contains basic features to test the product in the market without being fully developed y

A napkin sketch is the simple drawing of one single idea, explaining what the idea is about without going into details how it works.

A physical prototype is a tangible representation of an idea or concept, designed to help showcase, test, develop and evaluate its potential for use.

Product development is the process of creating a new product that is ready to be launched. It includes research, design, prototyping, testing, and production to bring the product to market.

Prototyping is the process of creating a physical or virtual representation of a product, system or service to evaluate its usability or performance.

Essentially a prototype of a service experience, the simulation may consist of role play or a full-scale example of a service delivery.

A wireframe is a two-dimensional outline of a website or app and thereby provides a clear overview of the layout, user flow and structure.

Why it’s so important to apply Lean Startup in the political arena and how it can be done.

Linda Thackeray, Director of The Garage at Microsoft, discusses how organizations can prepare for hackathons and how they can free up time for employees to innovate.

Stefan Thomke, professor at Harvard, says companies should focus more on experiments instead of intuition.

In this episode Magdalena Bibik is answering some interesting questions on Idea Generation that she got on Quora. Listen in!

Catalyzing inquiry, integrating improvisation, and elevating intuition will help you to discover true creativity and thereby drive innovation in any organization.

In this episode, experts from Elligo Health Research talk about how clinical research must change to adapt to a pandemic.

Innovation expert Ron Price discusses the six stages of innovation and how businesses should use them to have success.

During the ideation stage try to stay lean, use the Lean Canvas to get your ideas down and use lean principles to test your hypothesis by getting out the building.

This is a toolkit on how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results.

Capture insights from your experiments with the help of learning cards and thereby prove or disprove your hypotheses based on data

Use the test card to design experiments to test and validate your business hypotheses in a structured way.

Develop a thorough understanding of your customers, of what value proposition you offer them, and how the two parts fit.

What are 5 common myths about Digital Transformation Strategy and how can you avoid these pitfalls?

Ash Maurya, creator of the Lean Canvas, gave this talk at the Lean Product Lean UX Silicon Valley Meetup on June 9, 2016.

Want to learn by seeing how experts brainstorm? See brainstorming in action with IDEO’s Toy Lab. This brainstorm - about attracting more visitors to a zoo - was recorded as part of a course by IDEO

Design Thinking helps you break through your messiest business problems with a systematic approach to uncovering creative insights

By reforming harmful supranational regulations, Thomas Pogge is developing a complement to the patent system to stimulate pharmaceutical innovations that would be accessible, without delay, to poor and affluent patients.

Innovation made simple, that is Guidos passion. Elements of design thinking are the core of his idea.

Guy Kawasaki at TEDxBerkeley 2014: Rethink. Redefine. Recreate. His talk is titled The Art of Innovation.

Veteran TED speaker Taylor Wilson shares his thoughts on the future of energy.

Startups are NOT about coming up with a brilliant idea and becoming an overnight success as many articles might have you believe. Entrepreneurship in fact is much more about testing and learning...

Lean Startup is an approach that every aspiring entrepreneur should know about. In this video, 5 key takeaways are presented.

“Urban Innovation” showcases state of the art technologies and innovation being used to increase water supply and drought resilience.

If we do things the way they have always been done, nothing changes. In this inspirational speech, Mr. Harmeyer reminds us that true innovation happens only when we ask ’what if?’

This video describes the Lean Startup philosophy, what a minimum viable product is, how the build-measure-learn feedback loop works, and the advantages of the model.

This video gives an overview of the Open Innovation, including the models of Open Innovation.

Content ideas generated by A.I.

Use this startup guide for making a breakthrough pitch deck and a speech and building relationships with investors to get money.

The proven system that takes you from product idea to revenue in four stages.

Cities are like people. They live, they breathe, they grow. They reinvent themselves. Which city are you?

Collection of thinking tools & frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. Work smart, not hard!

Get validated business ideas once a week including information on the business plan.

Design and Innovation consultancy focused on service and product creation through design-led strategy

Growth strategy consulting firm focused on helping the leaders of Global 1000 companies to design and create the future, instead of being disrupted by it.

Global innovation firm that combines leading business experience, user research, and a design-led approach to help clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

IDEO is a global design company committed to creating positive impact. Human centred design based approach to innovation, being early leaders in the practice of desing thinking.

A design-focused innovation consultancy, LUNAR’s broad array of skills serve their clients all the way through the development process.

Innovation consultancy that emphasizes on de-risking innovative growth through identifying the human problem and then experiment to develop the right solution.

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

Emphasizing on the importance of business transformation, product/service innovation, and breakthrough communications.