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What 1% of Business Owners know that you don't
Diagnose Your Innovation Quotient (IQ)
How Strong is Your Innovation Culture?
How Strong is Your Disruptive Innovation Quotient (DIQ)?
How Strong is Your Disruptive Innovation Quotient (DIQ)?
Do your employees contribute ideas on a regular basis? And do you implement the best ideas to generate new clients and grow your business?
Answer these 25 questions to establish Your Ideas Management Baseline
How Strong is Your Disruptive Innovation Quotient (DIQ)?
How Strong is Your Disruptive Innovation Quotient (DIQ)?
How Strong is Your Disruptive Innovation Quotient (DIQ)?
How good are you at generating ideas that question the status quo of your industry and enable you to outinnovate your competitors?
Answer these 8 questions to establish the Disruptive Innovation Quotient of your Business
How Strong is Your Personal Innovation Quotient?
How Strong is Your Disruptive Innovation Quotient (DIQ)?
How Strong is Your Personal Innovation Quotient?
Do you have a continuous flow of new business ideas that comes through observing the world?
And are you always willing to admit it when you make a mistake?
Answer these 15 questions to discover Your Personal Innovation Quotient
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How to get Innovation right
Where do Great Ideas come from?
What Business Leaders have to Say
The Three Pitfalls of Innovation
What kind of environment fosters the development of new ideas? And what sparks the flash of brilliance?
How does ground breaking innovation happen? Find out below
The Three Pitfalls of Innovation
What Business Leaders have to Say
The Three Pitfalls of Innovation
Discover the three ways most companies get innovation wrong - and how you can do it right.
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What Business Leaders have to Say
What Business Leaders have to Say
What Business Leaders have to Say
61% of CEO's surveyed say there is a high premium placed on the ability to regularly pioneer new ideas and innovation is a primary business driver.
The Benefits of Ideas Management
Saving $100 Million Costs
Saving 98,000 Lives Each Year
Saving 98,000 Lives Each Year
One of the most compelling examples of how ideas management can transform the bottom line is the story of Toyota’s North American Parts Operation (NAPO)
Saving 98,000 Lives Each Year
Saving 98,000 Lives Each Year
Saving 98,000 Lives Each Year
Dr Peter Pronovost came up with a simple idea that has since been revolutionizing the intensive care ward
an idea that went back a long way to the day when his father died as a result of an error made ...
Beating the Market Leaders
Saving 98,000 Lives Each Year
Beating the Market Leaders
Reaching 2 million vehicle sales in a short 15 years, Lexus has become the top-selling luxury nameplate in the United States
How the Ideas Management System works
The 5 Phases of Ideas Management
The 5 Phases of Ideas Management
The 5 Phases of Ideas Management
To make Ideas Management work, you need to properly project manage the following 5 Phases, from the Needs Analysis all the Way to the Ideas Management App
The Ideas Management Blueprint
The 5 Phases of Ideas Management
The 5 Phases of Ideas Management
Discover the 10 Steps of implementing an Ideas Management System - and the 10 Principles that are key to making your Employees buy in and actively use the IMS
The Ideas Management Scorecard
The 5 Phases of Ideas Management
The Ideas Management Scorecard
The IMS Scorecard enables you to monitor the success of your Ideas Management System and is the base of your IMS Dashboard
Ideas Management Success Stories
More Ideas & More Profitable than Apple
Imagineering Brand Loyalty over three Generations
Imagineering Brand Loyalty over three Generations
How Lego used Ideas Management to turn the company around from the brink of bankruptcy and become more profitable than Apple
Imagineering Brand Loyalty over three Generations
Imagineering Brand Loyalty over three Generations
Imagineering Brand Loyalty over three Generations
How Disney uses Ideas Management to keep creating unique customer experiences and build brand loyalty across three generations
One Million Ideas a Year (Every Year)
Imagineering Brand Loyalty over three Generations
One Million Ideas a Year (Every Year)
How Toyota generate a million employee ideas per annum and are more profitable than any other carmaker (even despite their recall issues in recent years)
The Innovation Sprint: Turning BIG Problems into GREAT Ideas
1. Set Your Ideas Challenge
1. Set Your Ideas Challenge
1. Set Your Ideas Challenge
Determine an area of strategic importance that you want to improve within the next 100 days, such as
- Customer Satisfaction
- Quality of Work
- Cost Savings
- Grow the Business
- Identify New Sources of Revenue
- Create New Products & Services
2. Map Your BIG Idea
1. Set Your Ideas Challenge
1. Set Your Ideas Challenge
Develop Your MAP
- List customers and key players on the left
- Draw the ending, with your completed goal, on the right.
- Finally, make a flowchart in between showing how customers interact with your product.
- Keep it simple: five to fifteen steps.
Ask the Experts
- Interview experts on your sprint team
- Ask about the vision, customer research, how thi
Develop Your MAP
- List customers and key players on the left
- Draw the ending, with your completed goal, on the right.
- Finally, make a flowchart in between showing how customers interact with your product.
- Keep it simple: five to fifteen steps.
Ask the Experts
- Interview experts on your sprint team
- Ask about the vision, customer research, how things work, and previous efforts
- Pretend you’re a reporter
- Update long-term goal, questions, and map as you go
Construct ‘How Might We’ Notes
- Reframe problems as opportunities
- Start with the letters “HMW” on the top left corner
- Write one idea per sticky note. Make a stack as you go
Credit: Sprint The Book: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
3. Sketch Your BIG Idea
1. Set Your Ideas Challenge
3. Sketch Your BIG Idea
Lightning Demos
- Look at great solutions from a range of companies, including yours.
- Three minutes per demo.
- Capture good ideas with a quick drawing on the whiteboard.
Divide or swarm
- Decide who will sketch which part of the map.
- If you’re targeting a big chunk of the map in your sprint, divide it up and assign someone to each section.
Credit:
Lightning Demos
- Look at great solutions from a range of companies, including yours.
- Three minutes per demo.
- Capture good ideas with a quick drawing on the whiteboard.
Divide or swarm
- Decide who will sketch which part of the map.
- If you’re targeting a big chunk of the map in your sprint, divide it up and assign someone to each section.
Credit: Sprint The Book: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
4. Storyboard Your BIG Idea
4. Storyboard Your BIG Idea
4. Storyboard Your BIG Idea
Draw a grid
- About fifteen squares on a whiteboard.
- Choose an opening scene. Think of how customers normally encounter your product or service. Keep your opening scene simple: web search, magazine article, store shelf, etc.
- Fill out the storyboard. Move existing sketches to the storyboard when you can. Draw when you can’t, but don’t write
Draw a grid
- About fifteen squares on a whiteboard.
- Choose an opening scene. Think of how customers normally encounter your product or service. Keep your opening scene simple: web search, magazine article, store shelf, etc.
- Fill out the storyboard. Move existing sketches to the storyboard when you can. Draw when you can’t, but don’t write together. Include just enough detail to help the team prototype. When in doubt, take risks. The finished story should be five to fifteen steps.
Credit: Sprint The Book: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
4. Prototype Your BIG Idea
4. Storyboard Your BIG Idea
4. Storyboard Your BIG Idea
Pick the right tools
- Don’t use your everyday tools. They’re optimized for quality.
- Instead, use tools that are rough, fast, and flexible.
Divide and conquer (assigning roles):
- Maker
- Stitcher
- Writer
- Asset Collector
- Interviewer
You can also break the storyboard into smaller scenes and assign each to different team members
- Stitch it together
- With the
Pick the right tools
- Don’t use your everyday tools. They’re optimized for quality.
- Instead, use tools that are rough, fast, and flexible.
Divide and conquer (assigning roles):
- Maker
- Stitcher
- Writer
- Asset Collector
- Interviewer
You can also break the storyboard into smaller scenes and assign each to different team members
- Stitch it together
- With the work split into parts, it’s easy to lose track of the whole
- The Stitcher checks for quality and ensures all the pieces make sense together
- Do a trial run
- Run through your prototype. Look for mistakes.
Credit: Sprint The Book: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
5. Validate Your BIG Idea
4. Storyboard Your BIG Idea
5. Validate Your BIG Idea
Five-Act Interview
- Friendly welcome
- Welcome the customer and put him or her at ease. Explain that you’re looking for candid feedback.
Context questions
- Start with easy small talk, then transition to questions about the topic you’re trying to learn about
Introduce the prototype
- Remind the customer that some things might not work, and that you’
Five-Act Interview
- Friendly welcome
- Welcome the customer and put him or her at ease. Explain that you’re looking for candid feedback.
Context questions
- Start with easy small talk, then transition to questions about the topic you’re trying to learn about
Introduce the prototype
- Remind the customer that some things might not work, and that you’re not testing him or her. Ask the customer to think aloud
Tasks and nudges
- Watch the customer figure out the prototype on his or her own. Start with a simple nudge. Ask follow-up questions to help the customer think aloud.
Debrief
- Ask questions that prompt the customer to summarize. Then thank the customer, give him or her a gift card, and show the customer out
Credit: Sprint The Book: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days