InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a short design sprint exercise advanced by the team at AJ&Smart that has since gained popularity across the design thinking and innovation space. This format is great for internal design processes, organizing events, keeping up with the competition, and improving sales flow processes. No problem!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Introduction to Experiential Intelligence in Executive Teams Understanding Experiential Intelligence In today’s competitive business landscape, it’s important to recognize that the traditional metrics of intelligence such as IQ or even EQ (Emotional Intelligence) are no longer sufficient on their own.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

An innovation keynote speaker might emphasize the significance of this culture and how it can be the driving force behind sustainable growth and competitive advantage. These can range from strategies for brainstorming to methods of implementing a new idea within a corporate structure.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it” - Steve Jobs famously talked about how investing in an innovative workforce was one of the biggest factors that led to Apple’s phenomenal success in the face of heavy competition from industry-leading giants. Jobs made that quote in 1998. Conclusion.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. Level III: this is a major meeting with a critical need for very big ideas capable of being dramatically better than the competition or what you’re currently doing. In many exercises, you will want to work in pairs so four is a great number.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. There is a sense of understanding market trends and competitive actions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Understanding this evolution is crucial for businesses that wish to stay competitive in an increasingly automated and data-driven landscape. By incorporating AI into the brainstorming process, teams can overcome cognitive biases and explore a broader design space.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 6, 2015

There are competitive issues, regulatory issues, market issues, and of course the financial markets are a roller coaster right now. And the dogged pursuit of these concepts has led us to increasing sameness, commoditization and fierce competition, with few really new or interesting products or services, and little real innovation.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Use breakout rooms with exercises, so that people can apply what they heard. One creative example was a mobile phone company that had a competition to create a new iPhone app. Bonus idea: To keep the conversation going, create a friendly competition where participants get points and there is a leaderboard that shows progress.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Your employees’ ideas have the potential to have long term impact on your business, leading to new products, services, and processes – and ultimately providing you with a killer competitive edge. Here you can select members who you think have the best experience and knowledge to form and develop the idea.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Making Price Promise a Reality This type of innovation had not been achieved before; it was a highly ambitious undertaking to aggregate vehicle MSRPs, True Market Value ® prices, correlate VINs with real-time inventory, and develop a method of allowing consumers to obtain a guaranteed price in the highly competitive automobile marketplace.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem. At the end of that exercise you get an appreciation of the nearly infinite field of innovations available to you.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem. At the end of that exercise you get an appreciation of the nearly infinite field of innovations available to you.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

1st S-curve – Energizing the core business To stay competitive in their core business, legacy companies have to digitize their core processes and functions. Recommended tool: The BMI Ecosystem map is a useful framework for this exercise. Karolin Frankenberger and her colleagues visualize these parallel efforts as two s-curves.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a concept generally known. Wargaming – Wargaming seeks a robust, flexible strategies that enable your product to anticipate and outmaneuver competitive, or other, threats that can have devastating consequences. What is the idea’s competitive advantage or unique value proposition?

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Your employees’ ideas have the potential to have long term impact on your business, leading to new products, services, and processes – and ultimately providing you with a killer competitive edge. Here you can select members who you think have the best experience and knowledge to form and develop the idea.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Without making yourself wrong, simply note the ones that show up the most for you, then try the simple "go beyond excuses" exercise at the end of the list. First, we need to benchmark the competition. Brainstorm each question -- alone and with your team. Chances are good your reasons why are on the list below. No problem.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. Exercising. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. Exercising. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. Exercising. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Without making yourself wrong, simply note the ones that show up the most for you, then try the simple "go beyond excuses" exercise at the end of the list. First, we need to benchmark the competition. Brainstorm each question -- alone and with your team. Chances are good your reasons why are on the list below. No problem.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. This podcast covers important “must haves” in planning idea generating exercises so that you have fun, not fear in the session. While wild and wacky ideas might not be the winning ideas coming out of a Quantum Idea Generation 2.0

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition. Nintendo’s new disruptive innovative strategy involved engaging non-gamers rather than trying impress “bored” gamers, outselling its competition.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This is one of the most difficult exercises, but it’s also one of the most powerful. Depending on the nature of their jobs, this could be as simple as a brainstorming task. Trainees can study in isolation but still be motivated by friendly competition with their peers. It’s only then that the social component is achieved.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

They have found that in brainstorming sessions, focussing on quantity of ideas led to more quality ideas as well. So what are some of the reasons there might be a link between quantity and quality of ideas: An effective exercise in many ideation workshops is to start by suggesting or writing out the very worst ideas possible.

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Technology Created

DECEMBER 23, 2015

You can exercise. Most companies have a well-rehearsed list of the attributes of successful innovation: brainstorm, think outside the box, fail fast, be agile, follow a lean startup approach, build a minimum viable product, ready fire aim, pivot, etc. Seuss, “Oh the places you’ll go!” [2] You can show off (“Look Mom!”).

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100%Open

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The benefits of this could be that you have a different view of your organisation, identify a competitive edge or you may find yourself in a more creative and enjoyable work environment. Try this exercise from the Hyper Island Toolbox which asks team members to build on ideas by saying “yes, and…” instead of “yes, but…”.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

When you’re trying to come up with new ideas, you can use brainstorming techniques such as mind mapping, free association, and ideation exercises to help you generate a broad range of ideas. The benefits of innovation include increased revenue, profits, brand recognition, market share, competitiveness, and productivity.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

In terms of “stopping in a place where you know what will come next,” this approach to avoid writer’s block in a novel can also be helpful for an innovator leading a brainstorming session which, inevitably, has to end at some point and resume later. Peter’s Square with Obelisk (Pixabay.com).

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

After enjoying almost total market domination, Intuit finally was beginning to face some competition. Kazaks started with a ten minute PowerPoint presentation followed by an exercise where the managers worked through a design challenge that involved prototyping, feedback, iterating, and refining. And everyone has a seat at the table.

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