Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. But what happens to the culture of teams and organizations in a virtual world? Find Problems to Fuel Ideas.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A theory is an understanding of causality, of what causes what, and why. Theories, on the other hand, teach us how to think, not what to think. So this year, I suggest we revisit my favorite multi-purpose resource to pull out three new resolutions for 2024. What will business management theories teach us for 2024?

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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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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 10, 2022

Society 2045’s Teamwork Based Innovative Work Culture. Today, many organizations have an individualistic approach to their culture and concentrate primarily on revenues and profits. What if we concentrated our efforts on creating teamwork-based cultures, whereas the focus is on enabling the collective best in each other?

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 2, 2022

They are secure in their own leadership, so they can promote and equip others for success. They don’t need any recognition at all, and they do what they do for the sake of being a special force in other people’s lives. Authentic Leaders Humbly Serve Others. The most powerful and effective leaders are servant leaders. Build Communities.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While all of these are still extremely desirable assets, they no longer guarantee a sustainable competitive advantage for most companies. So, what can you then do to build a lasting position as a successful business? You might then ask what that means in practice and how to accelerate your pace of innovation.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

With many companies launching one-off initiatives, products, and propositions, it’s become a marketing department’s dream to profess that the company is now innovative. The challenge is that our world requires us to repeat those one-offs continuously.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Why Humility Is Key to Being a Successful Leader. Humility can be an important quality for a leader to have, especially CEOs. This can be particularly important for building a strong team, as it allows the CEO to surround themselves with individuals who bring a diverse range of expertise and experience to the table.

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Idea Champions

JULY 24, 2022

We both know you're not going to read this blog post. It's too long and you have more important things to do. What follows are 101 other reasons why you won't read this blog post. You're late for a very important date. You don't like blog postings with clever, little titles. You don't want to.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. But what happens to the culture of teams and organizations in a virtual world? Find Problems to Fuel Ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

One recurring development that has really troubled me over this period is the uniformity of feedback about innovation, about growth and about large companies' willingness to embrace the evolving future. It's strange to see so much frustration at a time when we hear that business is doing so well. The result is flow.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Employee engagement refers to the extent to which a company’s staff are invested in their roles and in the success of the business as a whole. In this blog, we will explain why all organizations should be prioritizing employee engagement. It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more.

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Idea Champions

MAY 11, 2021

We both know you're not going to read this blog post. It's too long and you have more important things to do. What follows are 101 other reasons why you won't read this blog post. You're late for a very important date. You don't like blog postings with clever, little titles. You don't want to.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Employee engagement refers to the extent to which a company’s staff are invested in their roles and in the success of the business as a whole. In this blog, we will explain why all organizations should be prioritizing employee engagement. It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 24, 2023

In the previous Thursday Theory Tips blog we mentioned that when processes get repeated enough times and are followed by assumption rather than explicit decision this becomes an organization’s culture. Cultivating company culture is crucial to management. These decisions are made based on culture.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 26, 2021

What these rock stars and others help us realize is that change is constantly confronting us, as people, as society and as institutions. So the questions we should be asking ourselves about our businesses are: are we ready for change? So the questions we should be asking ourselves about our businesses are: are we ready for change?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. So what can you do about it? Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. 40 principles of TRIZ.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

With apologies for the use of a tired phrase, there is a new game in town and it will dramatically impact how, why and where you do innovation work. The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

There's an old joke about perspective and laziness I love and have used before on this blog, because it illustrates many of the challenges (and opportunities) of corporate innovation. Curious, the guy just leaving the bar goes over to the drunk and asks "what are you doing?" The drunk answers "I'm looking for my keys".

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

So, in this post, we’ll talk about where they come from, what the actual reality is, and point you to resources where you can learn more about the topics behind them. This will be quite a long one, so if you’re just looking for a quick summary, you may want to check this infographic first. You just have it, or you don’t.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I've been writing a series of blog posts focused on some of the most fundamental building blocks. Let's first talk about why diverse voices and perspectives are so rare in many corporate innovation teams, and then look and what a little more diversity can do. In many ways, innovation teams are often built this way.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But what is innovation management , exactly? What does it entail, how expensive is it, and how is it any different from simply collecting ideas from employees and customers? In this, the first entry in our innovation management FAQ blog series, we provide answers to these burning questions – and much more!

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For more than a decade now, the fundamental challenge around driving real growth and value from innovation is tied to many companies low focus on organisational design and culture. So, let’s go back a few decades to understand why we are where we are.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Why Should SMBs Have a Succession Plan. Picking successors, and managing the transfer to minimize the impact on a company. Above all, it’s about ensuring a brighter future for the company and its people under new leadership that will have the required skills and experience to propel the company forward. Entrepreneurs?—?the

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

So, what does this all mean exactly? But what are you doing to source these ideas? So trust them, because they know what could positively — or negatively — impact your organization’s future. These innovation case studies will uncover a secret weapon that your organization might not be leveraging to its fullest!

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Without it, our companies would fail to grow and evolve with the ever-changing markets that we are serving. While innovation is pertinent, it is often misunderstood and as a result, many companies fail to reap the benefits of it at its best. Which in theory, can be an effective way to continue profiting off what is working.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 28, 2021

There are several reasons why employees might choose to do this including?—?limited A study conducted in the recent past says 49% of millennials never think that they are going to last in one organization or company for more than two years at a time. Attrition impacts the efficiency and productivity of an organization.”.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 26, 2021

Why Create Employee Opportunities for Career Advancement. People usually work for companies where they see growth opportunities. This is even more important right now during what is being called “The Great Resignation” economy. As a leader you must make sure that you know what your employees want out of their careers.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

So, the process itself must be carefully tailored to your organization’s culture, needs, and fit seamlessly within your business to ensure employee adoption. So, the process itself must be carefully tailored to your organization’s culture, needs, and fit seamlessly within your business to ensure employee adoption.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 24, 2021

While each approach has its own unique advantages and disadvantages, this blog will share the best practices we have witnessed first-hand as being vital to the success of any innovation program. The definition of an innovation program can sometimes differ, so before we dive in let’s clarify what we mean when we use this term.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 18, 2021

Overview: Companies that fail to innovate can go out of business, yet there are even worse fates that can await them. These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. Circuit City.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Why Executives Need Coaches. What is workplace coaching? . How can coaching be utilized to help companies grow? Importance of Coaching. they are human beings, so a different more sustainable method is required. Defining Your Company’s Coaching Requirements. Executives are like athletes. How does it work?

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 3, 2023

Capitalizing on the unique strengths of each generation does so much more for both your organization and the world. So, what does each generation bring to the table? What does each contribute to the overall team, and where is that sweet spot where they align and all work together?

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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. The real purpose of this blog is to answer the question: why should I work with an innovation consultant? In many organizations this isn't someone's job so it doesn't get done. But I digress.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? What Exactly is Business Innovation? However, what’s important to consider is how businesses go about finding new ideas and methods.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 7, 2016

Why is it that organizations shy away from innovation implementation? As discussed in Chapter 2 of Robert’s Rules of Innovation II , innovation implementation is frequently impeded by an organization’s deep-rooted culture of fear and subsequent innovation assassination. So what’s the opposite of predictability and repeatability?

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 16, 2020

We both know you're not going to read this blog post. It's too long and you have more important things to do. What follows are 100 other reasons why you won't read this blog post. You're late for a very important date. You don't like blog postings with clever, little titles. You don't want to.

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