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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

As you may know, as a noted (ahem) blogger and voracious reader, I am sometimes asked to review books on strategy and innovation. Even after choosing some books to review, I often find myself asking - did the book actually meet my criteria? All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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Where can you get Fresh Ideas?

Destination Innovation

Do you need some novel ideas for the problems and challenges you face? Here are some places and methods to help you find them: Read Widely : Books, magazines, and online articles are great sources of inspiration. Different perspectives can trigger new ideas. Visit art galleries and museums for inspiration.

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Scaling Innovation Training: How to Start, Maximize, and Scale Innovation Training

IdeaScale

Organizations engage their people in submitting ideas without any training on how to generate ideas. Next time try a 15 minute long training on idea generation tools and techniques and see how this affects the quantity and quality of ideas you receive. This post is a guest post by Darin Eich.

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IdeaScale Launches a Successful Self-Paced Course on: Excelling at Innovation

IdeaScale

IdeaScale has launched a full series of these courses in partnership with Teachable, laying out the platform and how to get started using it. With 25 years of consulting and training expertise working in Silicon Valley, Gyorffy was uniquely suited to teach our customers how to get the most from an innovation platform. is the V.P.

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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. You may want to consult resources on how to design and run a strategic planning offsite to ensure you’re on the right track.

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Design Thinking Tools: how to use them to solve complex problems

mjvinnovation

Knowing how to use DT tools can transform even your daily routine into a problem-solving strategy. We can define Design Thinking as: “A structured, human-centered approach to innovation which seeks to generate solutions that align user’s desires and needs with business value generation.”

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). But, we got started, getting some initial training from Tim Hurson , who wrote Think Better, a great book on innovation thinking, creativity and facilitation. I think a re-introduction is in order.