Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. Strategic planning offsites are a significant investment in your leadership team’s development and your company’s future.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 10, 2023

Leveraging Design Thinking for IT-Business Alignment in Prioritizing Mission-Critical Needs In the 21st-century business world, the role of IT has transitioned from a support function to a strategic driver of business success. The Power of Design Thinking Design Thinking provides a beacon of hope to bridge this IT-business gap.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

As you plan your next conference or leadership program, understanding the value of these speakers is crucial. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Leadership in Innovation The role of leadership in innovation cannot be overstated.

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Artificial Inteligence Case Study Leadership Design Thinking 100

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming. There have been many studies of brainstorming and articles written. Many of these studies start with an outdated notion of what brainstorming is, and usually don’t study real working teams. The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Guidelines Study 111

Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. By following these steps, you can create a successful sales environment that will help your start-up grow, but you can go deeper and truly differentiate yourself by applying Design Thinking to key steps to help your startup thrive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They share insights that can reshape the way your organization approaches creativity and problem-solving. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team. Ideation and Creativity Ideation is the heart of innovation, where creativity blooms.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Culture 113

Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As AI and sophisticated systems become the norm, it’s essential for organizations to retain their creative spirit, agility, and grit. However, they lack the empathy, curiosity, and creativity that humans possess. Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Agile 118

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Advice for planning and facilitating successful corporate, executive, and leadership retreats. That’s where leadership retreats come in! This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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Leadership Design Thinking Design Training 61

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. Ensure everyone in the organisation still feels creative. Everyone is born creative. Get alignment and clarity about your success criteria.

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How To Training Project Innovation 278

Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Design Thinking: Sculpting Business Personality A business’s personality is like an iceberg. By integrating Design Thinking, businesses can ensure that their personality isn’t just authentic but also resonates powerfully with their audience. Ideate Time to get those creative juices flowing.

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Design Thinking Tips Design Training 118

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

They outperform their peers in productivity, creativity, and overall results. This strategic approach enables teams to apply experiential learning towards creative problem-solving, thus driving the organization forward. But what distinguishes these teams from the rest?

Leadership 100

Leadership Culture Collaboration Meeting 100

InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This MURAL template is a quicker, more creative approach to mission statements and vision planning. Enlist your leadership team in the development process for these critical, organizational-defining ideas and bring this clarity downward to every aspect of the organization. Design Thinking Workshop Resources.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The root of Design Thinking is empathy. Design Thinking is a customer-centered approach to problem-solving that can be applied to a wide range of fields, including marketing and sales. Design Thinking can help to drive sales because it is centered on leveraging empathy. Drive More Sales with Design Thinking.

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Design Thinking Design Tips Meeting 62

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. The two thought leadership pieces I have chosen. Beyond Design Thinking.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Design Analysis Learning 100

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 2, 2023

Design thinking can be a useful approach to conduct market research and understand the target market’s needs, competitors, and market trends. Here are some key steps to use design thinking when conducting market research: Empathize: Understand the target market’s needs, pain points, and challenges.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Software Review 62

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Analysis Design Learning 100

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. There is no innovation without creativity.

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Innovation Creative Thinking Culture Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire. .

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. Design thinking in action.

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Design Thinking Culture of Innovation Culture Design 52

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Acquiring knowledge across many domains is about broad-based learning, and it’s often where big “I” innovation comes from.This allows creative combinations of ideas and concepts from one area — with ideas or concepts from another. The key is to get creative with how your organize your innovation projects.

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Ideation Learning Innovation Exercises 85

Betterific

MAY 31, 2017

But that campaign, and other ideation campaigns like it, didn’t require any creative problem solving. To gather new ideas, his team traditionally holds brainstorms, listens to end users and talks with cross functional teams. They used these meetings to brainstorm around how to make the ideas, or adjacent ideas, a reality. .

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Crowdsourcing Product Development Brainstorming Design Thinking 51

Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

The 4th sign of the ever-evolving mindset and practice of Innovation is the expansion of innovative thinking from just “brainstorming” to eliciting the uniquely different ways that people prefer to think innovatively. For me to be a successful leader in pushing the envelope of what’s possible, I need to have x% of failures.

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Innovation Agile Design Thinking Innovation Processes 52

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They may know frameworks, like Design Thinking or Agile, and a few tools, but very few have the extensive training and experience at hands-on facilitation required to make a difference. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed. Do any of the following Seven Fails ring true?

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Meeting Project Training Brainstorming 67

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. While this works sometimes, it’s a lot better to gain air coverage from leadership to carve out some funding on the side and get a multi-year investment.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Thinking about things is not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation.

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going. Transformational leadership is often practiced by those in the startup space.

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Learning Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 81

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

How To 83

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities. You have to understand how this stuff works in order to think creatively about how to use it.

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Technical Review Ideation Big Data Innovation 55

mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

Leisure is creative. High performance has a lot to do with creativity, and we know that it takes time to exercise it. Promote remote decompression and brainstorming meetings. Horizontal leadership develops the team so that it can make decisions in an agile and conscious way. This is a great excuse to reframe productivity.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Culture Collaboration 40

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. You can bring the facilitation power to your own brainstorming session!

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Meeting Examples Design Brainstorming 106

Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

Creativity. Innovation relies on the implementation of a creative idea. It takes special skills to come up with an idea that is truly creative , as this requires finding out what will add value for the customer. But not all ideas are good ideas. Psychological Safety. Innovation requires working as a team.

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