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The Future of Design Thinking: Integrating Artificial Intelligence for Success

Leapfrogging

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. At the core of design thinking lies a commitment to putting users’ experiences and feedback at the forefront of product and service design.

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Why I have a problem with the Global Innovation Index

Idea to Value

I spent 8 years as a management consultant, and a number of my projects were referred to as “Strategy Consulting” Here, we would be asked to make predictions for a specific topic, such as the likely growth rates for an industry segment based on trends. This is why consultants are paid so much.

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Why Companies are Turning to Innovation Centres

Destination Innovation

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. A recent study by Capgemini Consulting, entitled The Innovation Game , charts the rise of corporate innovation centers (or centres as we would say in Europe).

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How to make our planning process purposeful?

Be-novative

To uncover the techniques that connect individuals, teams and organisations with a sense of purpose we involved best practices from our partner organisations. Card game builds on chronic large-scale organizational problems and in a gamified way it encourages teams to talk about likely and unlikely situations to solve meaningful problems.

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How to deal with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion issues in an authentic way?

Be-novative

Or even more, what if you are part of the minority group as a consultant or as team lead? The challenge: The protagonist of our session this time was a young female professional in the consultancy business. Both leaders and consultants need to understand their team, clients, people they work with.

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When past experience doesn't matter anymore

Jeffrey Phillips

How will relatively stodgy companies compete when customer demands shift to expectations of interesting new products and experiences that are more like consumer goods expectations than automotive industry product development cycles? There's a sports analogy that's applicable here.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.