Innovation Theater

Innovation Theater refers to superficial activities that give the illusion of progressive innovation without leading to real business impact.

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Trend Scouting

processes & methodologies to assess how trends will unfold to help you shape & inspire your future products, services and customer engagements.

Democratization

Democratization: Making tools, data, and resources accessible and usable to all, fostering inclusive participation and innovation.

Weak Signals

Weak Signals are early signs of potential major changes, threats, and opportunities with weak or no branding recognition.

Top Innovation Theater Resources

Forest Blog: Six Books Every Innovation Leader Should Read

Looking for some good innovation books to read? Check out these six top picks that cover the most fundamental concepts of innovation, including strategy, portfolio management, culture change, and more.

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Innovate on Purpose: What's remarkable about innovation

Innovation success factors are rather unremarkable, yet difficult to achieve due to passion, vision, and intestinal fortitude.

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Paving the Path for Innovation Purpose and Closing the Alignment Gap

Defining organizational purpose and promoting alignment are critical factors for creating an innovation culture, and involve engaging all employees and establishing challenging goals to inspire and motivate everyone to contribute.

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[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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Protecting Your Creativity in a Culture that Doesn't Value It

Need to cope with a non-creative workspace? Use Plan A: find out what the organization values and introduce creativity. Plan B: find new outlets and start writing your future.

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The Key to Success In 2021: Building a Creative and Innovative Culture

Building a culture of creativity and innovation can lead to success in 2021. Jeff DeGraff presents the four types of innovation cultures and best practices to achieve it.

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Urban innovation labs, hubs, coworking spaces… Which one to choose to boost your innovation?

Finding the right innovation intermediary can be challenging. Urban innovation labs, hubs, and co-working spaces are a few examples. This article provides recommendations for corporates to select the right intermediary depending on the stage of the innovation process.

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Debunking the myth of the lone innovator

Innovation often comes from large companies, but they struggle to harness their own potential. Intrapreneurs face obstacles getting their ideas exposed to senior management. Nosco's collaborative platform for ideas supports companies in connecting creative minds and bringing ideas to the right people.

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Designing a culture of innovation: The behaviours of successful innovators

To create a successful innovation team, you need four critical roles: Generator, Conceptualiser, Optimiser, and Implementer. Without a good balance of these roles, your team may struggle to achieve success.

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‘Die Meister! Die Besten! Les Grandes Équipes! The Champions!’

The Innov8rs Madrid summit is bringing together 33 innovation leaders to discuss ways of driving innovation in large organizations.

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How the 70-20-10 rule of innovation applies in business

The 70-20-10 rule is a guideline embraced by large corporations for innovation investments. This article explains what it is, how it can be applied, and the benefits of using it.

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Innovation Labs: Flying, or Failing? | Intrapreneurship Conference

Innovation labs are failing due to a lack of integration, focus on tweaking rather than transforming, internal versus external innovation, focus on PR rather than commercial viability, and a lack of strategy.

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Our 10 most popular articles from 2016 - with summary

This article presents the top 10 most popular innovation management articles from 2016 including topics on digital transformation, the skills of innovators, and the lean startup methods.

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Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle - are they relevant to innovation?

Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle still impact innovation today, hindering re-engineering, digitalization, and meritocracy.

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Peter Thiel’s 7 Questions for Product Innovation

Peter Thiel lists seven fundamental questions that companies must be able to answer in order to succeed in innovation management.

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The Strategic Management and Innovation

Learn how strategic innovation can help businesses reinvent their corporate strategy and drive growth through strategic management and innovation courses.

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The value of experimentation in innovation

Experimentation is key to successful innovation. By testing assumptions and gathering data, companies can make evidence-based decisions to avoid product failures.

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What Are The Different Source Of Innovation?

Innovation is essential for development and better living conditions. Here are seven sources of innovation proposed by Peter F. Drucker in his book ''Innovation and Entrepreneurship'': unexpected, incongruity, necessity, demographics, market structure change, changing perception, and new knowledge.

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What does Innovation mean in the Business World?

Innovation is vital for businesses to grow and generate loyal customers. It involves creating new products, ideas, and processes, and modifying existing ones. MIT ID Innovation offers courses to help businesses improve their innovation strategies and increase revenue.

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What Is Open Innovation 2.0 and Why Does It Matter?

Open innovation 2.0 is a more open version of open innovation, emphasizing diverse collaboration beyond traditional organizational boundaries.

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What is the Most Important Function for a Company?

To scale your business successfully, ask what function creates the most value for customers and how to measure ROI. Core value proposition and scalability are crucial.

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When Innovation Goes Wrong, We Shouldn’t Blame Technology, But Ourselves

Technology can unleash forces beyond our control, but social issues are our greatest challenge. We should learn to ask hard questions to build a better future.

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When Fosbury Flopped: Three Lessons for Disruptors

Innovation often follows a pattern with three counterintuitive lessons: stop trying to do what others can't do, seek cognitive entrenchment, and embrace concepts instead of technology.

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Why a common language matters for innovation

Executives must create a common innovation definition and language, and communicate the importance of innovation consistently and broadly to avoid chaos in the organization.

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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 Your Organization Needs to Invest in Innovation Capital

Understanding innovation capital is crucial for value creation, but it often lacks focus. Innovation capital includes various assets, and by leveraging them correctly, organizations can achieve success.

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Clarity accelerates and sustains innovation

Clarity is important in innovation, but often lacking. The article suggests that executives, managers, and employees need to work together to define the innovation process, budget, rewards, and recognition.

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How Open Changes Everything

Open innovation is revolutionizing the way organizations work; from what to who, discovery to detection and ownership to access. It requires new skills and structures and a shift towards shared knowledge and incentives based on reputation.

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Making Innovation More of a Science And Less of an Art

Innovation professionals are striving to turn the practice of innovation into more of a science than an art. Innova-Con 4 is a conference promoting this scientific approach to innovation.

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The Ultimate Guide to Innovation Management

Innovation management is crucial for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. This guide explains what it entails and its various aspects.

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Innovate on Purpose: Org Chart for Innovation

Organizing for innovation can be challenging, but a shared model where corporate provides infrastructure and resources and business units provide ideas is the best approach.

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Organizational Innovation Examples

Learn how innovation leaders fight bureaucracy and rigid processes through organizational innovation. Examples from Samsung, Apple, McDonald's and Microsoft.

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To Improve or Revolutionize? Observation, Measurement, and Sustainable Innovation

Prioritizing sustainable innovation can make the difference between a successful and struggling business. These guidelines promote innovation by considering the type of innovation, customer feedback, visionary leadership, ROI metrics, and team rewards.

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Forest Blog: Why Do People Take Jobs in Innovation?

Corporate innovation is crucial to succeed in today's market. Several reasons motivate innovative leaders, including their desire to make a lasting impact, build partnerships and bridges, and challenge themselves intellectually.

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Good Business Is the Best Art

Businesses should embrace the concept of being an artist in order to provide their customers with exceptional experiences with their products or services.

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Harvesting Innovation from the Desert

Back End of Innovation 2018 conference in Phoenix highlights the importance of having a language for management teams to redirect efforts when things go off track, as well as the need to treat Entrepreneurship as a core capability of the company.

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Innovation Leaders Creating a Culture of Innovation - 15 Practice Trends

Learn from 100 innovation leaders on how to innovate and create culture by reading, experimenting, and acquiring ideas. Use business model canvas, design thinking, lean startup methodologies, and other approaches.

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Knowledge management system: Definition and examples

A knowledge management system helps store and retrieve knowledge for quick access and distribution. It is essential for companies to establish a systematic process to document, store, and organize knowledge useful for future innovation projects.

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Etymology of Innovation

Innovation is not just about something new, but renewing or changing what already exists. It is different from invention which creates something new, and improvement which does things better.

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Pros and Cons of Becoming an Innovation Consultant

Choosing between working in a large corporate organization or a small consultancy can be a difficult decision for innovators. This article explores the pros and cons of each.

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Proposed Certificate Program in Innovation

Certificate programs offer focused training and are ideal for professionals seeking advanced training. However, few institutions offer full degree or certificate programs in the field of creativity and innovation.

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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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The Only Way to Understand (Innovation) Success is by Measuring Failure

Organizations need to measure and analyze both success and failure to understand what drives innovation, says Laurence Van Elegem from nexxworks.

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The right innovative business solutions to use for a powerful innovation toolset

Embracing innovative business solutions can simplify processes, enhance competitiveness, boost adaptability, productivity, and growth. Here are some business solutions that you can use for a powerful innovation toolset.

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Innovation Lessons from Rome’s Greatest Enemy

Learn innovation lessons from Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals, as we look at how his battle strategies apply to innovation today.

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Innovation Management Software Solutions To Try | Innovation Training

Looking to improve your innovation processes? These top 10 innovation management software solutions, including Sprintbase and IdeaJam, may help you through a structured approach.

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Innovation Programs & Entrepreneurship: Busting Myths

Successful innovation programs require debunking common myths. Entrepreneur Deepak Syal shares personal experience to bust five common misconceptions, from waiting for the perfect idea to innovating in secret.

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Innovation should change your perspective

Innovation should be viewed as a way of life, not just a transactional activity for emergencies. It's about becoming indispensable in the roles we fill in our customers' lives, rather than just filling their needs.

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Innovation Storytelling

Effective storytelling is crucial in generating excitement and support for new innovative ideas. It captures the hearts and minds of your target audience, making your innovations stand out.

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Innovation Strategy Lessons from Moneyball

Learn 8 innovation strategy lessons from the movie Moneyball, where the Oakland A's GM Billy Beane implemented a statistically-oriented, sabermetrics approach to assembling a winning baseball team.

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Innovation Theater Explained – What Is It and Why Is It So Bad

Innovation theater can harm a company's innovation efforts by prioritizing activities over outcomes. This article explains how to recognize and avoid it.

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Urgently Wanted: The Design Driven Manager

Design Thinking skills are necessary for managers to navigate the complex challenges of the 21st century. It involves empathy, co-creation, learning by doing, and holistic thinking.

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Is it necessary to have a dedicated innovation team?

Is it necessary to have a dedicated innovation team?

Innovation is everybody's job but leadership and guidance is still required. An innovation team can facilitate company-wide involvement and provide necessary structure to achieve a balance.

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The Myths of Innovation

The Myths of Innovation

Learn about where ideas come from the true history of ideas, why most people dont like ideas, how great managers make ideas thrive and the importance of problem finding.

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The Ten Faces of Innovation

The Ten Faces of Innovation

IDEOs Strategies for Beating the Devils Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization

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Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

This book challenges some of the ‘ingrained truths’ of innovation and suggests a different approach.

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Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

Open Innovation Results offers a cleareyed view of the challenges and realities that limit the ability of organizations to create and profit from innovation.

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Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations

Bring meaning and inspiration into your organization with this practical tools for contemporary forms of organizing and leading.

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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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Doblin

Doblin

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

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Landor

Landor

A global innovation consultancy focused on brand consulting, design and creating brand-led growth.

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The Innovation Toolkit Business Idea Template

The Innovation Toolkit Business Idea Template

Describing a business idea with clarity is not an easy task. This provides a simple, yet powerful model for Idea Definition

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