How to Become a Successful Intrapreneur Within your Organization
Want to learn about intrapreneur training or our intrapreneurship workshops? Email us at intrapreneur@innovationtraining.org. Intrapreneurship What do the PlayStation, Gmail, and the iPod all have in common? You’d be forgiven for assuming the similarity which ties those everyday products together is that they were all created because of the advanced thinking of some of the…
An Innovation Primer: What Is Innovation and Why Does it Matter?
This guest article by Kenneth H. Smith is from his book Selling Innovation: A guide to structuring a complete start-up revenue capture process. Insight and Innovation There is a difference between an innovation and an invention. An invention is a new technological breakthrough. An innovation is a better way of doing something, a way to break…
A practical application of the Unified Innovation Methodology to new product development or business problem solving
This article about applying the Unified Innovation Methodology is written by guest author Jenny Sankovsky. Summary When you are given a business problem or you are looking for ways to develop and launch a new product or service and don’t know where to start, review the innovation methodology developed by iVia to learn how this…
Innovation Conferences
Are you an organizational leader, innovator, design thinker, or entrepreneur looking to connect with others and see the latest trends at an innovative conference this year? Check out these innovation events for 2018. In addition, here are 20 innovation conferences we’ve found that seem to happen every year that may be helpful for those focused…
11 Things I Learned Building an Innovation Program
This innovation program article is written by guest author Eric Potter. “The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don’t react to it decades later. You can’t fight innovation.” – Ryan Kavanaugh Taking the plunge into setting up an innovation lab seems like a no brainer for our brethren in the technology space and…
5 Questions Innovators Should Ask
This article is written by invited guest author Jolie Huang. Over the course of 2016, I interviewed several innovation pioneers to find out the most important questions that every innovator should ask in 2017. Since “innovation” has become an overused buzzword, organizations are putting more attention into forward-thinking strategic planning. Yet, as the pace of…
Design Thinking Training Workshops
Get started with design thinking! Learn the basics in our design thinking training workshop, and start on your own innovation project step-by-step. Create and validate an innovation for and with your clients, customers or users. Use some of the most effective tools and techniques to design your concepts. About Design Thinking Training Interested in learning more…
Don’t forget to sweat the SMALL stuff.
This article is written by invited guest author Mike McDowell. When it comes to innovation, the biggest is not necessarily the best, especially when it comes to ideas. Over the course of my professional life, I’ve spent large chunks of time invested in pursuing both large scale, disruptive innovations along with extremely small scale, sustaining…
Utilizing Performance Improvement (LEAN/SixSigma) and Human Centered Design to Improve the Healthcare System from the Patient Perspective
The healthcare ecosphere is rapidly evolving with hospitals and health systems trying to keep up. Reimbursements are dropping, value based care is becoming a reality, and consumer (i.e. patient) expectations of services have risen and evolved over the last several years. Given these and other challenges, it is no wonder healthcare leaders are turning to…
Healthcare Innovation Resources
We want to help you innovate to help patients, our healthcare systems, and medical products with our healthcare innovation training resources. View my favorite healthcare innovation slideshares to help you learn quickly and visually through clicking through well designed presentations. Identify trends for transformation in healthcare, and see new technologies you may be able to apply…
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