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Uxlivinglab Shows How Managing Innovation Is a Competitive Necessity

 

Promote New Ideas

The fact that there is an innovation laboratory where employees work in different rooms on their core business shows how to promote new ideas. Design Thinking informs people-centered innovations and starts with developing an understanding of the unarticulated needs of customers and users. It minimizes uncertainty and innovation risk by involving customers and users in a series of prototypes to learn, test, and refine concepts.

Companies from all industries, including Walmart, Citibank, H & M, and Starbucks, have opened innovation laboratories to monitor new products, understand market trends and develop solutions for their customers. The focus of innovation has shifted from engineering to design, product-centered to customer-centered, marketing focused to user experience. Creative processes such as brainstorming and design thinking drive ideas and the development of innovations.

Optimize the use of Design Thinking 

Innovation laboratories have the task of developing new ideas, implementing them, iterating them, and integrating them into the company. More and more organizations are opening innovation laboratories dedicated to the dream of new ideas. Design Thinking is an iterative, non-linear cycle that involves developing a deep understanding of customers, users, and unmet needs in a given situation, capturing data, discovering insights, questioning assumptions, exploring different perspectives, reformulating problems and opportunities, creating creative ideas, criticizing and selecting ideas, testing, prototyping, experimenting, refining solutions and implementing your innovations.

Take advantage of technology use

A key element of an open innovation strategy is to use the Internet effectively to match the technical needs of innovators around the world with technological solutions that are ready-to-use products that P & G can use. Ford's original Greenfield lab brought together many elements to create the conditions for innovation, and some of them can take you in the right direction. Innovation laboratories are spaces that play a major role in involving employees, shaping them creatively, and giving them energy.

The laboratories that produce new ideas, and the creative cultures that produce such ideas, are looking for different cultures that can be built and optimized. One company that uses Open Innovation, as it is called, is IT Connect, which develops strategies around IT. The company brings technology seekers together with non-obvious disruptive innovations by employing knowledgeable and skilled program managers, chemists, web-based tools, and global database solution providers.

Founded by MIT Media Lab, Accelovation provides software that uses text mining and natural language processing to empower innovators to scour the Web for insights into unmet needs, innovation trends, and market activity.

One of the greatest advantages of open innovation is the greater variety of thought processes and solutions used. Shared heads-up workspaces are needed to delve deeper into the tough issues. Instead of company logos, photos of real people using the new service or product are shown.

Makers and designers need uninterrupted time to think and design. If you allow everyone to fail and celebrate together, you will learn that people are more likely to take the risks necessary to drive innovation.


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