Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. My value proposition is to work together to create something that shapes innovation for a meaningful change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders. Developing Strategic Thinking Skills The evolution of your strategic thinking skills is pivotal in enhancing your leadership capabilities.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders. Developing Strategic Thinking Skills The evolution of your strategic thinking skills is pivotal in enhancing your leadership capabilities.

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CMOE

JUNE 6, 2022

Studies show poor communication between team members can cost businesses dearly. This translates to $12,506 per team member. Simply put—communication is critical to your team and the overall organization’s success. The Importance of Team Communication. The Top 5 Signs Your Team Faces Communication Problems.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

People are inherently visual learners, and visualizing information is known to be the best way to understand and retain knowledge. When presented with visual formatting, people can comprehend large amounts of new information, making their ability to understand and synthesize new ideas much easier. Let me explain.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The first stage of the innovation lifecycle is brainstorming. While there are many ways to manage brainstorming sessions, the bottom line is that they are necessary to get the cycle started. Regardless of when you identify problems, a brainstorming session is where the seeds of ideas first appear. Begin Development and Testing.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Allowing poor communication to jeopardize their essential work can have dramatic impact: Poor communication causes an average loss of $62.4 Information silos on the production floor can also lower team morale and engagement and introduce safety hazards to operators and maintenance professionals.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ideal for various scenarios, it enhances team competitions, brainstorming sessions, and company-wide events, bridging the gap in remote team interactions and driving peak innovation engagement. Collaborative Voting: Engage your team with voting on canvas cards, highlighting the most impactful ideas for progression.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

While the visit unquestionably left an impression on him, the theory was actually only developed through the many conversations he had years after the visit with people who had also done research on the topic. The exchange of information forced Darwin to publish earlier than he had originally planned]. The Post-It note.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The application of artificial intelligence in design thinking equips practitioners with sophisticated tools that can extract actionable insights from complex data sets, paving the way for more informed and strategic decisions. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the most common and the most popular ideation technique in almost every industry. It’s also one of the best ways to generate many ideas as a team than what you can achieve sitting and thinking alone. Brainstorming is all about the quantity of ideas and not the quality. Source: ImageThink.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It’s impossible for a team to innovate, stand out, or add superior value without superior teamwork skills. If you’re leading a team and want your team members to practice excellent teamwork, how would you define it for them or explain how to demonstrate it? What Are the Skills of Great Team Players?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Technology improves; companies grow and tap into new resources; new people are hired and incorporated into the team; the standard of innovation and best practices for entire industries can shift dramatically.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. This will ensure you have a comprehensive team that is equipped to support every facet of the marketing needs of your SaaS company. . 5 steps to structure a high-performance SaaS marketing team.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Companies must be organized into two parts: an extremely large execution army, ostensibly focused on pure execution activities, and a small exploration team, focused on breakthrough innovation. What has your innovation team been up to if not digital transformation? Brainstorm issues you and your teams are facing.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

People need these essential services and products during the good and bad times as well. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design. It is deeply rooted in questioning, generating ideas, and developing the creation of innovation. Recession-Proofing Business. Process Of Design Thinking.

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IdeaScale

MAY 11, 2021

Truly new, world-changing, radical ideas can seem outlandish when they’re first proposed or developed. Develop Both Top-Down And Bottom-Up Engagement. Those metrics should be easy to collect and offer useful information, but the focus shouldn’t be on numbers past a certain point. The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 24, 2015

It's interesting to me how little we appreciate the depth of knowledge and discipline that has been developed over the years where innovation is concerned. This first principle also suggests that introducing random information, objects or experiences as an individual or team starts to generate ideas may offer more potential combinations.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. Back: You focus on the needs of your team members. You provide team members the opportunity to speak up and share their ideas.

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

There is good news and bad news in this. The bad news is how many internal functions don’t think strategy applies to them. Sam realizes his team is all over the map, essentially firefighting without focused priorities. The team doesn’t find the outsourcing route attractive, as it builds no long-term capability.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

The end result was an adhesive that was very weak but reusable as it peeled off without leaving stains. Sometime later, the team realized that they could apply the adhesive directly on the paper. After the team persisted, they were finally given green light to launch the Post-It a mere 9 years after the initial failed experiment.

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The Human Factor

AUGUST 19, 2021

Therefore, after brainstorming ideas, you should begin to set out a concrete plan of action that will help you to seamlessly roll out your ideas to the company as a whole. While some creativity and flexibility is beneficial, you risk poor implementation and uptake of your system if you stray too far from your plan. Strategic Roadmaps.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It was only later on when brainstorming the challenges around our platform that the connection between the concepts hit me. This unlikely connection between the worlds of technology and art has always stayed with me, and continues to inspire my work and inform my approach to innovation in R&D. Where Do We Go From Here?

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etventure

MARCH 9, 2018

On the one hand, there is an enormous amount of information surrounding us. The following five biases are particularly relevant for the ideation process: The Anchoring Bias describes the influence of already known information on our decision-making. Mental abbreviations are not always bad. Overcoming biases.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Board members and executive teams can also have significant power. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable.

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 29, 2022

For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. Google reportedly lets its employees use 20 percent of their time to develop new ideas. The objective of each tip is to get you and your team thinking.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. I often get derailed by the obstacles and can jump to the conclusion that something new is a bad idea. Good ideas often look bad.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Avengers teamed up with the squad from Guardians of the Galaxy to face down Thanos. A 2016 study conducted by FierceTechExec found that 71% of workers spent over two hours a week accessing company information via mobile devices. designers brainstorming with post-it notes) is being rapidly replaced by digital methods.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. To foster a strategic mindset among your leadership team, consider the insights from 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. So I rise today to neither praise nor bury brainstorming, but to place it in its proper context. Brainstorming is a group technique to generate, socialize and evaluate ideas. Everyone knows this.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

If you don’t innovate, your company is likely to take this route: development → introduction → growth → maturity → decline. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. “Innovate or die” has become the catchphrase of the decade.

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