Imaginatik
AUGUST 13, 2015
How many ideas fluctuate within your organization without enriching your portfolio or becoming business projects? The vast majority of them are never even voiced, why bother when nothing happens right? Engagement programs are a valuable path to change that dynamic. At Imaginatik, we have developed eight sustainable strategic processes to achieve engaging in ideas and taking them beyond idea to action.
Tim Kastelle
AUGUST 29, 2015
What’s the best way to change something? There’s no easy answer to this question – but if we’re trying to design changes in the way our organisations work, we need to have a deep understanding of what’s going on in them. Design thinking in business is a hot topic right now (see the excellent cover story of the current issue of Harvard Business Review by Tim Brown and Roger Martin for an example).
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Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 31, 2015
I had the opportunity to speak to a leadership team that is considering building an innovation capability in their business. I was asked a question I get infrequently, but one I enjoy answering. The question is: what keeps businesses from innovating effectively? The answer that I think most leadership teams want is: good ideas. After all, it's easier to explain away the lack of innovation if you can say that most teams lack good ideas.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 17, 2015
Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. We are moving towards a new management of innovation where ‘greater’ collaboration is fueling new business models built on platforms, formed around ecosystems of communities with vested interest, contributing and extracting value. Today and in the future, the value is created outside the individual company and not within.
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Matthew May
AUGUST 28, 2015
I started developing a visual tool for team facilitation of strategy development over two years ago, after I learned the Playing to Win framework from Roger Martin. I’ve always liked using good old paper and Post-Its, ever since I learned what was affectionately referred to as “the big paper process” when I was working with Toyota many years ago.
HYPE Innovation
AUGUST 3, 2015
"The world has never been as complex, dynamic and uncertain as it is today and the pace of change will only increase." We hear this consistently, our continual problem is trying to make sense of it. To attempt to keep up to date we all need to invest increasing time in acquiring a better understanding, a deeper knowledge of all the interconnected parts.
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Destination Innovation
AUGUST 23, 2015
Nine out of ten companies believe that they are too slow to market with new products. In the consumer goods category around 80% of new products fail. Since 2000 52% of the Fortune 500 have merged, been acquired or gone bankrupt. These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development.
Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 13, 2015
Did the headline of the post grab your attention? Did you think I was going to assert that dumb people are better innovators? Nothing of the sort. However, I think I can positively assert that bringing all of your knowledge to bear on a problem that needs innovation is often exactly the opposite of what you should do. Here's why. If you can solve a problem with all of the knowledge you possess, drawing on everything you know and expect to be true, you are narrowing your range of solutions and ca
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 7, 2015
Shifting Radically the Innovation Business Model. I have been spending some significant time on questioning the current innovation business model, from both the customers (clients) perspective and the innovation consultants’ one. Now we all know not all things are equal, many companies have invested significantly in improving their innovation capabilities.
Matthew May
AUGUST 10, 2015
There’s an interesting strategic play being made by Whole Foods Markets, in the midst of the company’s nearly $2 billion one-day drop in market value a few weeks ago, on the announcement of a shareholder lawsuit. Whole Foods had already come under legal pressure concerning claims of overcharging, but this new lawsuit claims securities fraud. Now, when shareholders file a lawsuit like that, it’s not a good thing.
Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant
AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.
HYPE Innovation
AUGUST 5, 2015
Summer is not only an ideal time to catch up on some reading (maybe you remember Tim’s list from March), but also a perfect time to catch up on some skills. Collaborative innovation skills to be precise. Because, as I hope you realise by now, the terms “innovation” and “collaboration” are not mutually exclusive. In the spirit of such practical initiatives, which are not only trending but also good karma for your organization – i.e.
Braden Kelley
AUGUST 5, 2015
We’d all like to be the best at everything and to make everything a priority, but that’s just not the real world.
Destination Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2015
The Business Proposal is an essential document not only for Sales people but also for anyone who wants to submit a serious proposition for internal or external approval. The process starts with a thorough understanding of the client’s needs, problems and priorities. If a Request for Proposal (RFP) document has been issued by the client then it must be read carefully.
Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 25, 2015
I was scanning through my Twitter feed when I came upon a tweet where someone was excitedly welcoming disruption in the financial sector. Strangely, it was from an individual employed in the traditional banking sector. This made me think of the old Simpson's show where Kent Brockman, the news broadcaster, is announcing that there are new alien beings taking over the earth, and that he, for one, welcomed the new overlords.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 11, 2015
The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. We are also witnessing such significant erosion of long-standing practices, established boundaries between suppliers and customers, you get this feeling that everything is blurring.
Digital Tonto
AUGUST 30, 2015
Look at any great enterprise and invariably its mission drives its strategy, not the other way around. And it all starts with a story. Related posts: Top-down vs. Bottom-up Strategy. How to Succeed. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
HYPE Innovation
AUGUST 20, 2015
Having organised a number of innovation management events for practitioners this summer it has (re)occurred to me just how strongly success ties into the psychology of winning. The idea is pretty simple: Do some creative thinking, ideally with a customers’ job(s)-to-be-done in mind, design the long red carpet of success, sew it flawlessly, roll it out enthusiastically, and start walking into the pleasant but eventually rewarding unknown.
Braden Kelley
AUGUST 2, 2015
What Matters Most Management (WMMM) is the Key to Success Most times you’ll see this posed as a question “What matters most?” as people grapple with finding the meaning of life.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Destination Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2015
A Negative Reaction is Better than No Reaction. South Park is a highly successful cartoon sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central TV network. The show was launched in 1997 and quickly became notorious for its rude language, minimalist characters and black, surreal satire. It was aimed at an adult audience and poked fun at a wide range of topical or taboo subjects.
Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 4, 2015
Many of you know that we are conducting a survey of innovation practitioners. If you haven't responded, please take ten minutes to provide us your insights. To encourage you and to provide a mid-survey report, I thought I'd reflect on a few findings to date. Remember that we are interested in what the people who are actually "doing" innovation think.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 26, 2015
There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming business case, for transforming the innovation management structure. The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. We will obtain increasing more powerful insights that have the real potential of being turned into new innovation outcomes, through the connected businesses we are presently needing to build.
Digital Tonto
AUGUST 26, 2015
As the cable business model starting to unravel, we can expect an explosion of creative energy that will usher in a new golden age of TV. Related posts: The Future Of TV Is Here. Can Cable Survive? [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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HYPE Innovation
AUGUST 5, 2015
The other day I was playing a board game with my kids and I honestly can say I had the time of my life. Later, I did some self-reflection that resulted in what I wouldn’t call a groundbreaking realization, but it definitely shook my understanding of how I want my life to be. Here it is – I am so much more creative and inspired when I am not at work!
Braden Kelley
AUGUST 17, 2015
Thank you everyone for your nominations for the Innovation category of the Thinkers50 Distinguished 2015 Distinguished Achievement Awards. The short lists for the eight categories will be announced in early September.
Exago
AUGUST 25, 2015
You may have the resources and the tools to move along your innovation journey, but if the outcomes seem irrelevant, so does the entire innovation initiative. How do you solve this? Simple but essential: pick the right fights, the ones. Read More. The post Your innovation journey, why is it relevant anyway? appeared first on www.exago.com.
Leapfrogging
AUGUST 1, 2015
. While you were watching Ant-Man or Jurassic World, a summer action movie-style battle went down between Amazon and Walmart. Both retail giants offered discounts and promotions to rival those only seen during traditional Black Friday sales. The retail battle royale created the kind of hype associated with summer blockbusters and put the marketing punch for the new Terminator to shame. < > It’s all about business model innovation.
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Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 5, 2015
disruptive innovation pathway options. Option pathways are those viable alternatives available when you are suddenly confronted with the need to change. By being proactive, anticipating and structuring the options ahead you can be more prepared for disruption, you can respond with more thoughtful reactions. Have you ever considered option pathways?
Digital Tonto
AUGUST 5, 2015
The true value of philosophy in business life is not only that it leads to valuable self reflection, but that it can help us think more clearly about the practical issues we face everyday. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
HYPE Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2015
I never seemed to have a shortage of ideas but getting the business support necessary to actually drive them through to implementation was at times struggle. We have heard many times over that a tangible and impactful innovation program requires alignment of strategy, vision, leadership, culture, processes, systems and communication. Easy right? We all know it is not that simple, and the truth is, in many cases we find ourselves faced with a business that wants ‘Innovation as a core pillar for g
Braden Kelley
AUGUST 18, 2015
I did my MBA at London Business School in the United Kingdom and one of the benefits of studying at a top school and being an alumni is seeing all the really cool things that the entrepreneurial alumni coming behind … Continue reading →
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