Innovation Roadmap

An Innovation Roadmap is a strategic plan outlining the steps to evolve ideas into marketable solutions, aligning with business goals.

More Innovation Glossaries

Rapid Experimentation

Process to quickly test hypotheses and ideas by rapid prototyping and piloting. Used to gather customer feedback.

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining ideas, services, or content for a common goal by enlisting contributions from a large group of people, typically via an online platform.

New Products

A good, service, or idea that is perceived by some potential customers as new.

Top Innovation Roadmap Resources

Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

Calculating return on investment (ROI) for an idea is vital to understand whether it should be developed into a project, and evaluating the likely impacts and costs. One way to calculate ROI is to assess the benefits and costs, such as time saved, involved in the implementation of the idea.

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Connecting Strategic, Financial, and Operational Planning

Connecting Strategic, Financial, and Operational Planning

Planview Enterprise offers a solution to connect strategic, financial and operational planning by natively speaking each of these languages.

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Continuous Improvement Processes - Choosing the right one for your business

Continuous Improvement Processes - Choosing the right one for your business

Continuous Improvement (CI) Processes help companies improve their services, products or processes to drive positive change. This article explores the benefits and implementation of CI Processes.

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Daily, Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports: Why They Matter

Daily, Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports: Why They Matter

Project progress reports are essential for project managers to track progress, but how often should they be delivered? Here's a breakdown of what should be included in daily, weekly, and monthly reports.

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Designing Your Innovation Portfolio

Designing Your Innovation Portfolio

Designing the ideal innovation portfolio involves a three-step process: identifying the rate of external change, setting growth goals, and designing the selection process.

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Do You Know the Seven Stages of Innovation?

Do You Know the Seven Stages of Innovation?

IdeaScale has identified seven stages of innovation that successful organizations use to refine ideas.

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Doing the Right Thing vs. Doing Things Right

Doing the Right Thing vs. Doing Things Right

Being efficient is important, but executives should also take a step back and assess if they are doing the right things. Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) can provide insights into key areas that characterize a business and decision makers can use this to better understand which assets are required to operate and grow their business.

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Elements of a Successful Innovation Roadmap

Elements of a Successful Innovation Roadmap

Learn about the structured approach of Rapid Innovation Cycle for successful innovation management.

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Family, Harmony, and Greng Jai: The Culture And Innovation Challenge In ASEAN Organizations

Family, Harmony, and Greng Jai: The Culture And Innovation Challenge In ASEAN Organizations

Innovation culture can hold the power to impede rapid growth of an organization. William Malek highlights unique cultural and historical challenges southeast Asian organizations faces in order to stay relevant in a consistently revolutionizing marketplace.

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First Steps Towards a Successful Innovation and Portfolio Management Office with edison365

First Steps Towards a Successful Innovation and Portfolio Management Office with edison365

Successful innovation requires the right ideas, but often traditional processes and rules don't support innovative activities. An Innovation and Portfolio Management Office (IPMO) can help align business change with overall strategy, prioritize the entire portfolio, and encourage widespread involvement.

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Five Bottlenecks of Digital Innovation

Five Bottlenecks of Digital Innovation

Innovation is a management process with three phases: Discovery of problem or new ideas, designing a prototype solution, and ultimate delivery of a commercially astute outcome. The article discusses five digital innovation bottlenecks and how to break them.

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[Guide] How to define your innovation goals and innovation objectives

[Guide] How to define your innovation goals and innovation objectives

Setting innovation goals and objectives is crucial for any successful organization. But, how do you define them and turn them into reality?

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How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery

How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery

Measuring the success of digital transformation is difficult as each organization is different and has unique obstacles to overcome. Siemens has formed an Influencer Community to gain diverse opinions and perspectives on their transformation journey.

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How do you determine the true value of an idea?

How do you determine the true value of an idea?

The potential value of ideas is explored in this article, highlighting the importance of different types of ideas and how they can align with company goals.

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How Do You Turn Strategic Goals into an Executable Plan?

How Do You Turn Strategic Goals into an Executable Plan?

IT and business must work together to prioritize and integrate technology effectively. Planview Enterprise 12 helps organizations create a real strategic roadmap by tying outcomes and execution to strategy.

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Innovation Dashboard to manage innovation success

Innovation Dashboard to manage innovation success

Innovation dashboards help organizations track their innovation success. Learn why you need one and how to build one in this article.

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Innovation is Highest and Best Use for Social CRM

Innovation is Highest and Best Use for Social CRM

Social CRM can be a valuable tool for innovation, particularly for gaining insights and co-creating value with customers.

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Innovation KPI scorecard: Metrics framework for growth

Innovation KPI scorecard: Metrics framework for growth

Learn about the Innovation KPI scorecard and how it can help organizations measure and evaluate innovation performance through key indicators.

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Innovation Management Day 1: How to Launch Your Program

Innovation Management Day 1: How to Launch Your Program

Launching an effective innovation program starts with having a clear goal in mind and aligning the program with your organization's culture, skill sets, demographics, and geography.

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Innovation Maturity Matrix – A Model to Successful Innovation Transformation

Innovation Maturity Matrix – A Model to Successful Innovation Transformation

Transforming a business to become more innovative is difficult, but necessary for survival. In this article, the authors share lessons from their experience and introduce a new tool for organizations to use - an Innovation Maturity Matrix.

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Innovation Program 2019 Goals

Innovation Program 2019 Goals

Segment your innovation goals into revenue, cost, and culture categories, assign metrics, targets, and dates for each goal to achieve progress with your innovation program.

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Innovation portfolio management: what it is & why you need it

Innovation portfolio management: what it is & why you need it

Innovation portfolio management is essential to organize project pipelines and identify which ones are aligned with company goals. Here are three steps to implement IPM.

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Innovation Roadmap

Innovation Roadmap

An innovation roadmap is a flexible approach to manage uncertainties in innovation management. Innolytics® software makes it easier to define essential milestones for innovation teams.

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Innovation Roadmaps – The What, Why and How

Innovation Roadmaps – The What, Why and How

Visual representation of complex data is essential for decision-making. Innovation roadmaps are a powerful tool to align strategy and innovation activities.

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Innovation Strategy – What is it and how to develop one?

Innovation Strategy – What is it and how to develop one?

Developing an innovation strategy is crucial for long-term success. Here are five steps for developing your own innovation strategy and a few tools that can be used when mapping your strategic goals for success.

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Launching Idea Challenge 7 Easy Steps

Launching Idea Challenge 7 Easy Steps

Learn how to launch a successful idea challenge in just 7 easy steps, from aligning with corporate strategy to organizing marketing and communication.

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Measuring Innovation Culture

Measuring Innovation Culture

Measuring innovation culture is a complex process, but there is a way to measure the attributes of innovation culture and develop those desired attributes. Innovation maturity is a combination of how well-embedded innovation is as part of the organizational culture and the capability an organization has, which should be measured to set a starting point for building a culture of innovation.

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Metrics and Measurements for Open Innovation and Ecosystems

Metrics and Measurements for Open Innovation and Ecosystems

Learn about the different metrics and measurements used in open innovation and ecosystems.

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Multiple Use of the Business Model Canvas

Multiple Use of the Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas can provide significant value for large organizations, yet adoption has been limited. The tool can help discover new perspectives, define needs, investigate value propositions, and more.

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Open Innovation: How the United Nations is Changing the World by Collaborating with It

Open Innovation: How the United Nations is Changing the World by Collaborating with It

The United Nations uses Planview IdeaPlace to power their open innovation challenge aimed at solving complex and connected challenges in the developing world, like the relationship between access to education and water sources.

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Overcommitting and Underutilizing Resources is Risky Business

Overcommitting and Underutilizing Resources is Risky Business

Companies that overcommit and underutilize resources risk missing the market and impacting their profitability. However, top performers who have a clear view of resource capacity and conduct continuous capacity planning are better positioned for accelerated innovation and competitive differentiation.

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Product Portfolio Management: Connecting a Vision to Strategy and Budgets

Product Portfolio Management: Connecting a Vision to Strategy and Budgets

Managing early stage product concepts and selecting the best ones is crucial for successful product portfolio management. Here's how to effectively connect long-term goals to day-to-day management.

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Project Management - Dinner Table Analogy for Project Team Members

Project Management - Dinner Table Analogy for Project Team Members

Innovation expert Mike Brown introduces a strategic mentor's dinner table analogy to explain project management interactions.

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Project to Product: Mining the Ground Truth of Enterprise Toolchains

Project to Product: Mining the Ground Truth of Enterprise Toolchains

To better understand DevOps practices, we need system data from large-scale and enterprise software delivery, which is difficult to obtain. Value stream integration diagrams can provide a view into such data.

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Pushing innovation beyond: 9 effective ways of improving innovation success rates

Pushing innovation beyond: 9 effective ways of improving innovation success rates

Innovation is a numbers game and success comes in the form of ideas collected, projects executed, and value created. This article discusses ways to improve innovation success rates.

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Q&A: Exploring Siemens' Cost Savings Program

Q&A: Exploring Siemens' Cost Savings Program

Siemens' Markus Wegmann discusses the company's 3i program, which has been in existence since 1997 and has been continuously adapted. Wegmann explains that idea management is an integral part of Siemens’ corporate culture and is actively supported at Group level by the Human Resources Director.

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Return on innovation investment: The definitive guide

Return on innovation investment: The definitive guide

Investing in innovation comes with risks, but calculating the return on investment (ROI) can help optimize spending. Learn more about what ROI is and how to manage it for a higher return.

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Reports for the Business: Understanding Your Investment, Capacity, and Financials

Reports for the Business: Understanding Your Investment, Capacity, and Financials

IT PMOs need to focus on delivering high value projects that align with business objectives. The Top 6 Reports for IT PMOs ebook provides critical reports for investment and resource planning, financial tracking, and decision-making.

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The Impact of End-to-End Innovation Management Software on an Organization

The Impact of End-to-End Innovation Management Software on an Organization

Innovation management software is a powerful tool for connecting departments, aligning strategy, and increasing ROI. It enables data-centric and collaborative innovation processes.

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The Importance of Having a Long-Term Roadmap

The Importance of Having a Long-Term Roadmap

Project managers need to have a long-term roadmap that includes vision, goals, perspectives, strategies, actions, milestones, and risks in order to achieve success.

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The Innovation Matrix – A tool to define the Innovation Strategy that best fits your company

The Innovation Matrix – A tool to define the Innovation Strategy that best fits your company

Board of Innovation has created the Innovation Matrix, a tool to select the most suitable innovation initiative for your company.

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The Missing Portfolio

The Missing Portfolio

Product portfolio management may be the missing part of IT portfolio management for many service-based companies, as it has the potential to bring an important new dimension to understanding IT spend.

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The new extended innovation funnel

The new extended innovation funnel

The traditional innovation funnel process of idea generation, evaluation, development, and commercialization is being challenged by experts who see ideas as being in the middle of the process, not the beginning.

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The Right ROI of Innovation for Your Firm

The Right ROI of Innovation for Your Firm

Innovation as Investment is a three-step process that all organizations can implement to balance risk while creating a profitable innovation portfolio.

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The Role of Spreadsheets in a Long-Range Planning Process—Part 1

Spreadsheets are essential for financial planning, but can become cumbersome in complex organizational structures. A better tool can enhance their functionality.

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The Six Step Innovation Lifecycle

Innovation is a continuous activity that goes through six steps: Identifying a Problem to Solve, Identifying a Process that Works for You, Engaging Others in the Process, Empowering Groups of People to Build Ideas into Projects, Evaluate and Prioritize, and Idea Implementation.

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The Understated Back-End of the Business Model Canvas.

The Business Model Canvas (BMC) is well accepted for startups and entrepreneurs but struggles to gain the same momentum in larger organizations due to lack of attention on the back-end. This article calls for a new depth in the visual tools needed to capture this side of the canvas.

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The view from the Innovation Edge

Nesta recently hosted a successful large-scale event called Innovation Edge, featuring high-profile speakers and exhibitors. The event highlights included Tim Berners Lee, Bob Geldof, and even Gordon Brown. The conference also experimented with using Twitter to promote networking and participation.

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Top Innovation Assessments for Companies | Innovation Training

Take online innovation assessments to identify areas of improvement in your company's innovation processes and performance.

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Transform European activities around innovation ecosystems

Transform European activities around innovation ecosystems

The EU needs to transform innovation activities and be bolder in its innovation agenda to keep up with global competition. Innovation Platform Ecosystems need serious consideration to change the innovation dynamics.

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Understanding Flow Distribution – Getting Your Priorities Straight

Flow Distribution is a metric that helps development teams to have an important conversation with the business about how trade-offs impact the business, and how to prioritize business initiatives. It provides a common language between business and IT so you can make collaborative decisions around software delivery to achieve innovation velocity.

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Understanding Goals and Objectives in Business

Knowing the difference between goals and objectives is important in business. Goals are broader and inform what the company wants to achieve, while objectives are specific actions to reach those goals.

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Using Campaigns to Generate Ideas in Your Company

Only 40% of the most innovative companies have a structured idea management program in place. Campaigns are a more reliable way to build trust and momentum, and a campaign leader kit helps create a consistent approach.

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Using the Three Horizons Model for Balanced Innovation Portfolios

Innovation portfolios are necessary for business continuity and sustainability. The Three Horizons Model helps prioritize focus and resources across three defined horizons.

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What are the benefits of Gantt Chart in innovation management?

Gantt Charts are becoming increasingly important in innovation management. Here are 10 benefits of using them.

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What Innovation Funnel Should I Use?

IdeaScale shares five different innovation funnels and their unique characteristics, including product development, cost savings, process improvement, workplace experience, and customer experience.

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What is exponential growth in technology?

Exponential growth can lead to rapid improvement of technology. However, predicting which innovations will grow at an exponential rate can be problematic.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

The Ambition Matrix is a tool that helps companies identify their innovation portfolio and execute their strategy on where to play and how to win.

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What the hell is innovation culture?

Building a culture of innovation requires unorthodox thinking from everyone in the organization that brings about real change. Knowing what innovation means to your business and setting goals and timeframes are essential in fostering an innovation culture.

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What you need to know about Innovation Metrics

Learn about innovation metrics and why they are important for driving successful business growth in 2020.

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Why is no one doing what works?

Learn how to scale your innovation initiatives by leveraging past mistakes and successes, and applying a clear framework.

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Why You Need a Diverse Ecosystem to Drive Innovative Thinking

Open innovation is crucial for companies facing technological change. Fujitsu's ecosystem embraces academia, industry and customers to support open innovation; including the development of the BuddyConnect solution.

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Wish You Had a “Google Maps” for Initiative Execution?

Innovation and technology advance are the top threat faced by business leaders today. Planview AdaptiveWork Eagle is an initiative management platform that enables executives to better collaborate in real time and drive strategic objectives.

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Future Cities

Future Cities

42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups, Investors about the cities of the future.

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Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects

Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects

Actionable tools, processes and metrics for successfully managing innovation projects

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Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation is a major step towards evidencebased innovation policy making. It complements traditional “positioning”type indicators with ones that show how innovation is, or could be, linked to policy.

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Measuring Innovation in Education

Measuring Innovation in Education

The ability to measure innovation is essential to an improvement strategy in education.

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation

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Roadmap.space

Roadmap.space

Centralize and sort user feedback to turn it into actionable product innovations and give updates with a real-time roadmap.

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Free Innovation Scorecards

Free Innovation Scorecards

Complete this short scorecard to diagnose the Innovation Ecosystem in your organisation or your personal Innovation Thinking Score.

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Digital Innovation Playbook: Templates

Digital Innovation Playbook: Templates

Here you can find all the templates from the Digital Innovation Playbook.

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Innovation measurement framework to determine innovativeness of a company: Case of semiconductor industry

Innovation measurement framework to determine innovativeness of a company: Case of semiconductor industry

A good measurement model will help a company to understand its current capability and identify areas that need improvement. This paper develops a framework to determine the innovativeness of a company.

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Innovation project canvas

Innovation project canvas

Turn a good idea into a successful concept. Innovation project canvas can help you archieve that goal.

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The Corporate Innovation Canvas

The Corporate Innovation Canvas

This is a canvas a corporation can use to explore, organize, and, most importantly, focus their target innovation outcomes. The audience I’ve tested this with are corporations with a market cap $1B

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