Idea to Value

MAY 12, 2020

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. To get to one, you have to be curious and approach the problem with a beginner’s mind , or shoshin as it’s known in Zen Buddhism.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 23, 2022

It helps you accomplishes two main things: 1. It makes any organization run more efficiently and faster because it focuses on creating prototypes and testing to check their effectiveness, after a lot of listening to people and defining the problems. Customer success starts only after knowing people’s problems that you are solving.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 9, 2022

As a company, you shine best when you focus on doing things great and striving for excellence vs. perfection. As a leader it’s important to create an environment where you humbly serve others , and the organization is inspired to replicate this behavior. Certainty makes you turn the impossible into “I am possible.”.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 28, 2022

Developing a well-organized structure and collaborative approach to achieving goals is the key to creating a great company. Society 2045 has an ongoing series of interviews with change-makers seeking to improve the way society works. In an interview with George Por , we talked about enlivenment that can change society.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 30, 2018

For those of you familiar with design thinking, you might already know the process associated with growing meaningful ideas and solutions. As we’ve discussed in a previous blog post, design thinking is a six-phase process that puts people in focus. You can even reach out to your community and have them share knowledge.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Society 2045 has an ongoing series of interviews with change-makers seeking to improve the way society works. The goal is to connect with leaders of emerging communities and movements across society and come together to co-create a better future. It Starts with You. What do we want it to look like? The Vision.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. Businesses and organizations who want to stay ahead must evolve and learn from and with their customers to create better solutions to life’s challenges. These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I'll let you, gentle reader, be the judge. What we want to do in this blog post is to speculate on the coming year. I'll let you, gentle reader, be the judge. What we want to do in this blog post is to speculate on the coming year. What do we know about the state of innovation? We'll explore.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Often you hear the request made: “Can you give us a best practice snapshot; we would like to get a sense of where we are”. The trouble with best practice is you are looking at someone else’s practices and these are highly individual, made up of different groups of methodologies, processes, rules, theories, values, and concepts.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 18, 2021

To give you an idea of what Xerox lost for failing to act on its innovations, as of this writing, Apple’s market value is $2 trillion, according to the Fortune 500 , and Xerox’s is $4 billion. Overview: Companies that fail to innovate can go out of business, yet there are even worse fates that can await them. National Geographic.

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Planview

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Should you follow suit? The change also brought a massive shift in the way companies view, use, and manage data. At the beginning of the cloud craze, companies like Planview began to store customers’ data. Many cloud companies approached customer data as a storage unit: you keep it, but you don’t touch it.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

After all, how can an activity that can disrupt an industry, create compelling new products or services and reap significant riches be simple? To drive all of this change, certainly innovation must be difficult and complex, right? Those two activities create context and content.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

And this dissonance between noise and activity is beginning to impact senior people in significant ways. And this dissonance between noise and activity is beginning to impact senior people in significant ways. While there is a lot of noise about innovation from all quarters, it appears from my discussions that there is little activity.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

For those of you who remember the Hitch hiker's guide to the Galaxy , the actual number is 42. Of course, with that and a towel, you can accomplish almost anything. I've written before about the conflict this creates, since the vast majority if not the entirety of a person's evaluation and compensation is tied to their day job.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

JULY 9, 2023

He brings together over 25 years of business and leadership experience and extreme curiosity to elevate leaders and equip them with the tools to navigate through change and unlock their true potential. In this edition, we speak with Tony Martignetti, Chief Inspiration Officer at Inspired Purpose Coaching.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 1, 2023

As a matter of fact, some of the most transformative ideas that have gone on to change the world have been from a lower- to mid-level employee. Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that! Great ideas do not always come from the top down. What Are Some Company Pain Points Innovative Employees Can Solve?

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

That’s why receiving the appropriate guidance from a reputable source may help you get your succession planning process right the first time. That’s why receiving the appropriate guidance from a reputable source may help you get your succession planning process right the first time. Why Should SMBs Have a Succession Plan.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Unrealistic targets, low confidence, and poor planning can all hamper success, yet each of these problems is easily resolved once you have learned to identify it. Here are a few of the most common barriers to success, and the steps you can take to overcome them. You may be a young entrepreneur who wants to get rich.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In last month’s blog , we shared how consciousness , imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. In a LinkedIn blog , David Miller shares that: “Leonardo Da Vinci taught us that curiosity is the basis for creativity and innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Chances are you’ve been swept up by the Squid Game craze that’s taken the streaming world by storm. As someone who’s plugged into innovation, I just couldn’t help but wonder: What if you could “squid game” your innovation program? This article originally appeared on Forbes. Red Light, Green Light.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2018

I have a somewhat (cough) vested interest in writing a blog post about why you should work with an innovation consultant. Of course if you happen to select this particular consultant you'll be exceptionally successful, but there are some other perfectly acceptable consultants out there. OK, here comes the pitch. But I digress.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

People tend to resist change when change means altering or replacing existing norms of doing things. At the same time, an inefficient system might create value among users if users decide to adopt it. At the same time, an inefficient system might create value among users if users decide to adopt it.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2022

For those of you looking for new and better ways of assessing and developing the innovative potential in your team, this blog post offers you my first-hand view of Innovation Mindsets TM – the new diagnostic instrument from Prof. Jeanne Liedtka and Treehouse Innovation. Based on a decade of research.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2017

Sorry I've been a bit lax about keeping up the blog posts. But it was something I saw at our conference, and something I read today about Target that prompted this blog post. Because I'm becoming convinced that you can't impose innovation from the top, it only gets exposed through internal cultural beliefs.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This dramatic change we will all be undergoing will have a significant impact on organizations innovation management design and it requires new connected thinking” I believe innovation is in a need for change and is coming very quickly to a refraction point in how it’s going to be managed. The looking back is important.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

As the story would have it, Steve Jobs decided to create the Macintosh with its graphical user interface after an inspiring visit to Xerox PARC where they had working prototypes with all of the key features that the Macintosh would eventually feature. We’ve all heard the story of Newton and the apple. The question is, are they true?

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

All businesses aim to create a successful product or service that will sell and meet customer expectations. Numerous business metrics can be measured, but the indicators you choose must depend on your company’s culture, industry, and goals. KPI business metrics provide you with a pulse on the health of the business.”.

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Cris Beswick

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You might think that’s the job of the executives. Don’t get me wrong; without executive sponsorship and ownership, without the C-suite living the changes they want to see in the organisation, change rarely happens. They could be line managers, middle managers, or team leaders; in a way, the title is immaterial.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Have you recently lost a job or suffered personal loss? Learning to become a manifesting machine might be just what you need right now. Often many people think all you have to do is dream it, desire it, and magically things will just manifest in your life. Step 1: Have Clarity in Your Want. Step 2: Write It Down.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You can repaint your house, install new windows and switch out the floorboards, but unless you rebuild it from scratch, you cannot change its foundation. Turning your house upside down is your best shot at creating a sturdy and reliable base — and even then, you still need to make sure it is properly maintained.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag. The first one shown, you could argue is more introducing the concept of mapping not explaining how to go about it and point to a recognized authority on this. Let me know.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Change is an unstoppable force that visits you often and when you least expect it.”. What matters is how you choose to tackle them. Being busy causes us to often forget who we are, what we want, and what we have been working for. Under such circumstances, we can begin to feel like victims.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 17, 2022

I think as we begin to look forward and really begin to work towards an equitable recovery, the field really has to take a closer look at the outcomes that are being produced by the training and workforce and education system,” said Tameshia Bridges Mansfield, JFF’s vice president for workforce innovation. “I Click To Tweet. “I

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Yet2

JUNE 21, 2023

The Rolling Stones knew an important scouting truth: “You can’t always get what you want , but if you try sometimes, you’ll find you’ll get what you need.” Our scouting and expert advising leads clients to understand their wants and needs and how to achieve them.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When you are in an entrepreneurial venture , the paydays aren’t on a predictable schedule. Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. That line always gets a laugh.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Oh, the horror! That’s a frightening 9.7% What in the world is going on?! Their skill set?

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