Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the Christensen Institute the Global Prosperity team researches how businesses, governments, and nonprofits worldwide can leverage innovation theories and frameworks to create prosperity in their communities. We also had older content that remained popular tools for innovators looking for proven strategies to make an impact.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 12, 2023

Understanding the Power of Collaboration Over Command It’s a daunting task for a new leader to step into an organization and enroll the executive team in a way that creates more engagement and commitment. A leader’s lack of emotional intelligence can create an environment where team members feel under-appreciated and misunderstood.”

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s article, we’ll share some of our favorite templates that you can use with FigJam to build out your own innovation or design thinking events, workshops, and meetings. This template helps you create a persona of your user or customer. Learn more about building user personas on our blog. Empathy Map Template.

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Planview

MARCH 8, 2024

I felt as if my journey as a woman professional is a continuation of her journey to boldly claim a space in a male-dominated world. These programs have allowed me to appreciate the rich experiences that women from diverse backgrounds bring to the table, sparking creativity and innovation in our team. Here’s what they said.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. Innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2022

Learn how to generate more and better ideas in this blog. As the name would suggest, this template uses four different sections: eliminate, reduce, raise, and create. In the final section, “create,” ask your team, “Are there factors that we have never offered before and should be created? Disney Create Strategy.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation. Design Thinking and Innovation. Takes a Holistic View of Problems.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ibbaka is a consulting and technology development company focused on helping companies bring innovations to market and to help them to scale. One is we help companies understand how they create value and who they create value for and how that value is different from the value that other organizations may be trying to create.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

These entities were created during the same period that business guru Rita McGrath described recently in her post, “ The Rise, and Fall, of the Direct-to-Consumer Model ”: There was a brief period in the early 2010’s when a new business model – dubbed “direct to consumer” – emerged and threatened to upend established incumbents.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They often don’t create the right innovation structure to implement their opportunities. Most organizations struggle with innovation. I had the chance to take a look at the new book “Built to Innovate” by INSEAD professor Ben Bensaou.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This blog explores how Design Thinking, with its human-centered, creative problem-solving approach, can be pivotal in capturing and sustaining attention in a world where it is increasingly scarce. This shift marks a significant departure from traditional economic models, where tangible resources were the main currency.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2019

It is when you have those spaces within your daily work you must take a view, a break, consider something that builds your energy up some more, to make it more resilient. Well, I had a reflective moment on some points I consider within innovation that need re-emphasizing. There is always a time to reflect.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the last two centuries, these tools have been central to the classroom and the innovation process, but there was once a time before they existed. . While classrooms and education are where whiteboards were created, the main purpose for using them was to learn and explain new ideas. Why are Whiteboards Linked With Innovation?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Today we continue our discussion of the opportunities presented for innovation in the nonprofit sector, by looking at two other ways to influence innovation capabilities. Promote innovation as an organizational value. Clear communication within the organization.

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ITONICS

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Innovation requires engagement, collaboration and diverse thinking. However, organizations can face many challenges in creating an open space for employees to contribute ideas. In this blog, we introduce how to leverage nudging and gamification to encourage participation in the innovation process.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2022

This year and into the future, our hope is to continue to expand and diversify our audience to accurately represent the education space as it continuously expands and diversifies. When we asked respondents for “Any suggestions for how we can improve the relevance of our blogs or research for you?” Your biggest work challenge?

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Design tool Canva launches online whiteboard designed for innovation projects and teams. Online whiteboard tools are fantastic ways to collaborate and communicate with teams in the innovation and design thinking space, and there’s many great options out there. Canva’s Online Whiteboard. Conclusion.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As I’ve recently highlighted in my latest blogs , there is great entrepreneurial opportunity in Africa’s electricity market: Africa’s mass nonconsumption of electricity is ripe for market creation. A brief history of the market-creating organization.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Can innovative, future-ready models of schooling be built from the schools that are common across the education landscape today? The three of us share an unpopular view—that both history and innovation theory demonstrate that existing schools are incapable of transformation. Is it possible to transform existing K–12 schools?

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2022

In this article, we will outline four innovative exercises that help provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specific virtual whiteboard instances. To maximize their potential, however, you need to properly implement innovative exercises to engage your team. Exercise #1 ? Implement Structure. Exercise #4 ?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

I'm often asked how many people should be employed in innovation work in larger organizations. But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question. But the question about staffing for growth, new products and innovation is an important and interesting question.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s a path that leads not only to enhanced productivity and innovation but also to a more fulfilled life for people and an engaged workforce. Freedom fosters a culture of trust and respect, essential ingredients for innovation and growth.” An organization that cherishes free will is like a fertile ground for innovation and growth.

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Yet2

APRIL 9, 2024

Our aim here is to broaden the perspective on sustainability, uncovering innovative solutions that might not always steal the spotlight. From optimizing routes to reducing idle times, there’s a plethora of innovative approaches that can significantly minimize carbon footprints in this sector.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

APRIL 18, 2024

Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, interviews, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today ! Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In my region of the country, the high cost of housing combined with inadequate funding for housing assistance has created a growing homeless population, with “tent cities” sprouting up in vacant lots and along bike paths. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 29, 2024

By being present, leaders can better listen and empathize, creating an environment of trust and open communication. Creating a safe space for conversations around mental health can destigmatize these issues and foster a supportive culture. This can seem like a simple concept, yet its implications for leadership are profound.

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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. What if we, as humans, could compete with, and perhaps even complement, AI-based creativity and become successful innovators?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

As an innovation strategist at IdeaScale, I focus on helping our clients think creatively about how best to engage their crowd and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to source ideas for new products and services and improve processes. — This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. Want to learn more?

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Innovators Alliance

APRIL 24, 2024

I went to work creating a simple flyer, printing several copies on our dot matrix printer, and then drove around doing exactly what the dealer suggested. Studies have repeatedly shown that buyers, particularly those in the B2B space, want less interaction with sales. Frustrated, I asked the dealer principal how I could find more.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Our August blog, “Reconnect and Reset in a Chaotic World” was the first in our series of three, on the theme of reconnecting and resetting, to create, invent and innovate in an increasingly chaotic world. Right now, it is neither a time to panic, stall nor to languish in the face of change fatigue and mental lethargy.

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100%Open

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s competitive business environment, organisations aspire to cultivate high-performance cultures that champion team innovation, agility, and the realisation of strategic objectives. Before delving into the imperative for innovation within a High-Performance Culture Development Programme, let’s first define our terms.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. In the last piece, we shared 7 critical success factors for a three-horizon approach to innovation management.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. Education is never going back to ‘normal’ or at least one would hope not.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I recently had an opportunity to meet with a group of sustainability leaders who wanted to effectively combine Sustainability and Innovation. That's actually a very powerful way to drive your strategy & develop an innovation capability at the same time. Where is value being created? Where is money leaving your market?

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

The report highlights innovators in the field, including deep dive case studies that highlight what separates new approaches from traditional models. In this piece, I highlight another innovator, Strengthening Indiana Families (SIF), providing a deep dive into their approach to enhance well-being.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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