Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The answer doesn’t lie in any specific strategy or initiative, but in how people are able to internalize the need for change and transfer ideas through social bonds. So change doesn’t have to start at the top. What is true is that culture starts at the top. What is true is that culture starts at the top.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I'm diverging a bit from my normal focus on innovation and strategy to write a brief piece on planning. You see, planning is vital for strategy and for innovation, and is so ubiquitous that no one in corporate America believes that they lack for planning. Likewise, planning is important for strategy. First, Ben Franklin.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Strategic planning offsites can be pivotal moments for your company, shaping the trajectory of your business and setting the tone for future growth. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2022

I recently interviewed Prof Angus Fletcher, whose team is studying how narrative creativity is built in the brain, for an upcoming episode of the Idea to Value podcast. Interestingly, the motor cortex is best known for its involvement in planning and controlling our muscle movements. Touch your elbow to your foot.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 6, 2021

A common high-level example of this sequence for software development might be as follows: Backlog: All new ideas where there is not yet capacity to start are put in a backlog. In Progress: These are all of the ideas which are currently being actively worked on. It can help teams plan out resources for current and upcoming work.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 4, 2023

The simple truth is that change rarely, if ever, starts at the top because it is people with power that create the status quo. The answer doesn’t lie in any specific strategy or initiative, but in how people are able to internalize the need for change and transfer ideas through social bonds. You have changed me. Now I understand.”

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Digital Tonto

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

We need to stop thinking in terms of how many levels of bureaucracy there are and start working to network our organizations. It is no longer merely to plan and direct work, but to inspire meaning and empower belief. It is no longer merely to plan and direct work, but to inspire meaning and empower belief.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 9, 2021

When do you have your best ideas: Right at the beginning of creative work, or later on when you are exhausted? Consistently, people expected their creative performance to start out above average, but then decline as time goes on, they get tired and they run out of new ideas. Lucas and Loran F.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2022

It could be the cancellation of a project, the closure of a plant or a round of redundancies. You will have carefully considered all options, discussed them with the executive team and arrived at a plan of action. Here is a plan for that meeting. Here is a plan for that meeting. Start with the facts. You owe them that.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2022

Some ideas just don’t want to die! What I found were several projects which were still receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds of budget each year, but which appear to have started years ago, had made no progress since, and nobody was responsible for delivering them. It may even start life as an innovation project or pilot.

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Idea to Value

MAY 4, 2022

Sometimes, before you start generating ideas, it makes sense to slow down and ask some more questions. It is normal to want to solve problems, and come up with solutions and ideas from the beginning. Make a plan of action and get to it. But how do we know that we are solving the right problem? Ask questions only.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Testing those assumptions is an important step in the Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) process. Discovery Driven Planning, a five step process developed by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. The name comes from the idea that the potential of a new venture is discovered as it is developed.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2024

You have an idea for a new service ( like personalised healthy meal plans tailored to your career and health goals ), and you have already validated that there is demand for such a service (so you are not starting completely from scratch). As an example, let us imagine that you are part of a startup or small innovation team.

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Planview

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether you’re just entering the AI arena or it’s your umpteenth time returning, you’ll need a framework in place to gather ideas and prioritize the best ones, minimize the risk you’ll face, and continually assess your opportunities. Crowdsource ideas. To accelerate your decision-making process, start with a full basket of ideas.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 31, 2022

You see, back in 2005 I started work with one of the largest management consulting firms in the world. You see, back in 2005 I started work with one of the largest management consulting firms in the world. Not just the standard, boring advice that has been around since the 1950s, like how to generate more ideas.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For some types of projects, it is indeed possible to mitigate, and in some cases even prevent, failure from happening through extensive planning and experience. It is impossible to plan out exactly what is required for success, and as a result many innovation projects cannot produce a business case for project approval.

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Idea to Value

MAY 28, 2021

Classic examples include the development and installation of hugely complex IT solutions, which begin but keep missing their deadlines and budget, yet continue to be funded even though it would be more effective to start again from zero and invest the money elsewhere. Result: 17% said yes. Result: 85% said yes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sadly many innovators are simply happily working away with no specific guidelines, apart from the general remit of “we need to be more innovative”, and this lack of coherence merging from the boardroom, failing to cascade down the organisation leaves this strategic part that innovation should plan as far to vague.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 31, 2022

Because most of the time, the reasons why people are so afraid to share their ideas, launch their new product or start that new creative project, is because they are afraid of “failure” Yet in reality, there are hardly ever situations that are truly pure failures. This crash cost someone $200 million. Of course not.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation. We started with Divergence and Convergence as our framing part.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If you use the right brainstorming tools, you’re more likely to get better ideas. It’s coming up with different and novel ideas that will hopefully lead to a better solution to your problems. How to Start the Process. This isn’t always a good plan. This isn’t always a good plan. It’s more than that.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 1, 2022

The ideas were generated. And the implementation plan was polished. The classic example here is an idea developed by a team of “innovation specialists” based on Design Thinking, tested with potential customers to validate demand, and then given to a development team to code and ship. The options were prioritised.

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Flying Fish Lab

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At FFL we leverage our clients’ category expertise in a few ways, and we often have a particularly strong focus on it at the start and the end of a project. That’s only possible if we understand the starting point and the rational. As we’ve mentioned, Category Expertise is what enables you to make things happen.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The ideas were taken to an extreme by Rhonda Byrne who claimed in her best-selling book, The Secret, that thinking positive thoughts was the supernatural ingredient which would guarantee success in almost any situation. It stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. You should start by articulating your dearest wish.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Getting your best ideas brewing can be difficult, especially if you don’t have the right tools for the job. No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. A product team uses Instant Coffee to brainstorm ideas for the next quarter.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2021

In most traditional business cases in large companies, a project must plan out its potential total costs from start to finish. However, innovation projects are almost impossible to plan in the same manner. So how do you allocate budget to innovation projects if you cannot provide a business case?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Traditional project management and financial management processes and principles are designed to produce robust plans for exactly how a project should run, and select only projects which are likely to succeed. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Don’t wing it; refine your plan for progress.?. Loosely speaking, if your team has come up with some ideas that either make or save money — and you’ve successfully implemented them — you’re on the right track. Often, the hardest part of completing a task is getting started. Many viable ideas have died slow deaths this way.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2023

Is it to share information, to make a decision, to brainstorm ideas, to build team spirit or to review and update status? State the Start and End Times in Advance. Start on time. Everyone gets a detailed brief at the start of the meeting and reads it in silence. What can you do to enliven and improve your meetings?

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2017

They use project planning tools and stage gate processes. So maybe corporations should copy some of the ideas and methods used by tiny start-ups. So the basic philosophy of the start-up entrepreneur is risk mitigation. Here are some other key precepts; The initial idea is the least important part. Who needs this?

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Destination Innovation

MAY 17, 2017

If you want to make your organisation more agile and innovative where should you start? You could launch a big initiative with grand statements, training classes and an ideas scheme but you tried all those last year and they fizzled out. Then we generate ideas to overcome some of the most important impediments.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan. Maurya’s text is great for any plan, including an innovation strategy. Pisano Pisano looks at how established organizations can draw lessons and ideas from start-ups, allowing them to become more creative and nimble as they move forward.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 29, 2019

The sight of a blank page is enough to prevent many people from ever getting started. While there is little research on the topic apart from a few books and academic assessments , we can piece together the puzzle through our understanding of how the mind finds and builds new ideas. Forming new ideas. But why is this?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Here’s the secret to identifying & prioritizing ideas in a virtual world. But all sessions are focused on the same thing: generate, prioritize, and develop great ideas to create a big impact. But all sessions are focused on the same thing: generate, prioritize, and develop great ideas to create a big impact.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

From being able to manage bureaucracy to coming up with ideas in the first place, here are the 6 Most Important skills you need to be an effective innovator: 1. Innovation relies on the implementation of a creative idea. But not all ideas are good ideas. Psychological Safety. Innovation requires working as a team.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 19, 2024

Next, processes include things like how teachers plan their lessons and manage their classrooms, how central offices set schedules and adopt curriculum, and how schools communicate with families. In this video, I’m going to distinguish between what schools can truly change, and what remains beyond their reach.

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