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Translating Unseen Needs into Innovations

The world is changing, yet people constantly assume, incorrectly, that tomorrow will be like yesterday. When business leaders make this mistake, the outcomes are generally bad because opportunities are lost. Competitive advantage is gained with the ability to transform insights into useful innovations by seeing the unseen. In this chapter excerpt of Agile Innovation, Langdon Morris explains how ethnography drives better innovation at a top-five U.S. financial services company.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:23-07:00February 5th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Leadership|Tags: agile innovation, agile project management, banking, Collaboration, education, empathy, ethnography, hidden needs, Innovation Culture, motivation, soft skills, Teamwork, training, unmet needs, Wells Fargo|

Transforming How We Work

The essence of agility is the ability to respond to new and different conditions. You cannot continue repeating the same old operating formula long beyond its utility or you will be left behind. Are you prepared to adapt to the profuse variety of new circumstances with new tactics and strategies? The principles of Agile that we examine in the next three chapter excerpts of Agile Innovation will help you understand what you need to do.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:24-07:00February 2nd, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, brainstorm, Change Management, co-creation, culture, design thinking, disruptive innovation, education, ethnography, Ideation, Innovation Culture, Intel, Product Development, R&D, serialized book, Teamwork, training, unmet needs|

Adaptability and Collaboration for Sustainable Business Growth

The four simple axioms in the “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development” express the core values for getting work done efficiently. In the last chapter excerpt of Agile Innovation we looked at individuals and interactions as well how to create a rapid working prototype. Today we’ll continue discussing the next elements: collaboration and carrying out change in a corporate setting.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:48:03-08:00January 29th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, Change Management, co-creation, Collaboration, Competition, culture, education, ethnography, Ideation, innovation, Innovation Culture, serialized book, Teamwork, training|

3 Ways To Scale Up Your Business In 2015

In 2014, you did all the right things and your business began to take off like a Harrier Jump Jet. However, now that you’ve been cruising at a high altitude for awhile, you can either choose to stay on course or go to a new level of elite performance.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:25-07:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, crisis, Employee Engagement, gamification, innovation training, market research, sacling, scaling up, skills, talent management, Technology, training|

Intrapreneurs, Catalysts, Champions, etc: The Changing Needs Within Innovation Development

In part three of this series Anthony Ferrier considers why organizations are seeking ways to identify, engage and drive their employees towards innovative activities, with titles such as Intrapreneaurs, Innovation Catalysts, Innovation Champions, etc.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:49:06-08:00December 18th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Communication, company culture, Employee Engagement, employee support, entrepreneur, idea development, incentive, incentives, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, intrapreneur, knowledge, motivation, partnership, skills, talent management, training|

Activities To Support Your Employee Intrapreneurs

In part two of this series looking at ways organizations can support intrapreneaurs, Anthony Ferrier suggests a list of strategies and approaches to improve the effectiveness of intrapreneurs in your organisation.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:49:14-08:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Communication, company culture, Employee Engagement, employee support, entrepreneur, idea development, incentive, incentives, Innovation Culture, intrapreneur, knowledge, motivation, skills, talent management, training|

Boosting the Brain’s Creative Powers & Creating the Best Environment for Innovation

Creative thinking can be trained, and an environment for innovation can be purposefully built. Often plagued by a sense of urgency and pressure the modern office does not appear to be the ideal incubation opportunity for innovation – and yet there are strategies that can be used to defy the odds. So just how do we maximise the brain’s neurological capabilities in the midst of the busy contemporary working environment?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:32-07:00April 30th, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Creativity, Innovation Culture, innovation training, knowledge, lateral thinking, multitasking, neuronal innovation, talent, training|

Innovation Networks in Action – A Case Study

In this fourth and final installment in this whitepaper series, we examine a live case study of where both innovation training and network development have been actively managed and sustained within Intuit, an IT organization based out of Silicon Valley.

Ideascale2021-12-05T20:51:54-08:00April 21st, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: case study, education, innovation networks, innovation training, learning program, network, training|

Taking Innovation Training to the Next Level: Integration With Employee Networks

In the previous two whitepapers of this series we examined both the benefits of innovation training and areas of innovation skills that mid-to-junior level employees can be taught. In this installment we will address an important topic that is often missing from innovation training / education programs: How to build effective employee networks that support employees who have been trained with new innovation skills.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:51:31-08:00April 16th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture, Training & Education|Tags: company culture, culture, education, Employee Engagement, employee network, employee networks, HR, Innovation Culture, innovation skills, innovation teams, innovation training, knowledge, learning program, network, training|

Can Innovation Be Learnt?

The first whitepaper in this series focused on the benefits generated from training employees in innovation skills. A natural extension of that approach is to now focus on what innovation training really means to an organization. In other words, what actually is innovation training, and more importantly, can innovation be learnt?

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:52:04-08:00April 9th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: business plan, company culture, culture, education, HR, Ideation, Innovation Culture, knowledge, learning program, Stakeholders, training, whitepaper|

Why Bother? The Value of Training Your Employees Around Innovation

Many successful innovation programs are extending their offerings to include training efforts for employees around the skills of innovation. This whitepaper (the first in a series of four) examines the benefits of such an approach for companies, innovation program leaders, and the employees who participate.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:52:17-08:00March 31st, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: culture, education, Employee Engagement, employee training, HR, Innovation Culture, innovation team, learning program, network, ROI, training, whitepaper|

Learning by Doing

New forms of learning by doing seem to be emerging. Technology could play a role in finding innovative ways to enable skills development and greater understanding of personal actions, reactions and decisions.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:05:47-08:00January 25th, 2012|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: hands-on learning, innovation psychology, learning, skills management, Teamwork, Technology, training, trend|

5 Steps to Increase Innovation Skill Sets

"This company needs to be more innovative!" Sounds familiar, doesn't it? But what happens next? Because a true change in how innovative a company is must also reflect a change in the skills of employees that are related to innovation. Which, of course, begs the question: Is innovation a skill set that all employees can acquire? Can employees that are not innovative learn how to be? And, if so, what are these skills? How are improvements in them measured? In this article Dr. Mark Juszczak attempts to provide HR practitioners with some guidelines and a background into the competencies linked to innovation and the extent to which such competencies are teachable.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:39:45-08:00December 8th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: HR, human resources, innovation competency, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, skills management, skillsets, sourcing methods, team building, tracking innovation, training|

Coaching SMEs to Innovate

In this article Dr Rowan Gilmore shares lessons from the AIC’s Innovation Coaching program which was first introduced to help Queensland (Australia) SMEs in 2009. The program works with SMEs in a number of industry sectors, helping company management to “think outside the box” to grow their business or develop new products and services.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:55:07-08:00July 18th, 2011|Categories: Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: business growth, case study, in-depth article, innovation coaching, Innovation Management, innovation training, knowledge transfer, lessons learned, measuring success, Open Innovation, skills development, SME, smes, startup, Success, training, value chain|

What is Lens Shifting and How Can it Help You Shape Your Innovation Strategy?

Measuring innovation is tough on most counts – unless you happen to be lucky enough to create new blockbuster products. One way to make strategy easier to frame and guide is to have a set of leading indicators telling you if your innovation efforts are working out. Deb Mills-Scofield looks at how to set up the lead indicator process through 'Lens Shifting'.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:17:05-08:00May 18th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: innovation metrics, Innovation Strategy, leading indicators, lens shifting, measuring innovation, process improvement, team development, Teamwork, training|