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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

The work undertaken is often seen as a drain, not repeatable, and poor on the efficient definition of understanding we have in place today as the work undertaken, not yielding the returns if the concept is more radical due to time horizons or business model constraints. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. What is Design Thinking?

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

This definition risks making innovation an end unto itself rather than an output serving the organisation’s strategic interests. A fresher narrative of ‘A Culture FOR Innovation’ treats innovation as the desired outcome enabled by thoughtfully combining various cultural elements and initiatives.

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How To Build An Innovation Capability That Lasts

Innov8rs

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Training on the Future of Work

InnovationTraining.org

Design thinking workshops can help your organization gain empathy, definition, alignment, and ideas from your own colleagues who make up the future of your workplace – in whatever form that may take. Contact us online to get started designing your training session, or browse through our online courses today.