Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you invite an innovation keynote speaker to your event, you’re not just getting a presentation; you’re accessing a wealth of knowledge shaped by real-world experience and success. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. MW: How do you ensure that internal brainstorms lead to positive outcomes?

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Discover what to expect at a creative problem solving workshop and when your organization could benefit from a training session. Creative problem solving is an innovation framework focused around better ideation and brainstorming sessions. About Creative Problem Solving Training Workshops.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This, in turn, can lead to the development of groundbreaking products, services, and processes that drive the organization forward. Recognizing these individuals early allows for targeted development, aligning leadership growth with the strategic imperative of fostering an innovation culture.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2021

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. In this article, we will outline some important exercises that help both provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specified virtual whiteboard instances. Especially when working virtually these markers are very important.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Betterific

AUGUST 8, 2016

In this installment of “Brainstorming with an [innovation] expert” we invite Matt Nelson from Hyundai. He just finished up his role as the Innovation and Technology Planner at Hyundai and is now returning to the University of Michigan to get his masters in Design Science. company (size, culture, structure, etc.),

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

With the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this process is undergoing a profound transformation. AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation is not just an endless succession of blue-sky concepts. Brainstorming and even daydreaming may play a role in innovation, but practicality is required to bring innovative ideas to life. ?. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions. As organizations strive to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving marketplace, the integration of AI into the design thinking process offers a compelling advantage.

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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. For teams who want to collaborate, innovate, and build better together, this format can be incredibly effective – and even fun!

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You can’t innovate without an exploratory learning process. Deliberately embracing learning — as part of the innovation process — can lead to better ideas and improved innovation results. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite. How Scaffolding Applies to Innovation.

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 29, 2022

In fact, I’ll teach you why the key to innovating successfully involves innovating efficiently. The popular press and innovation gurus alike often provide well-worn examples that muddy the waters on how to approach the innovation process. These tips are designed to help you innovate differently.

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Values Centered Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Over the last 75 years, the field of corporate innovation has dynamically evolved from the 1950s-60s’ NASA innovation process models and the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving process to today’s popularity with Design Thinking and Agile Development. Yet, as the saying goes, “There’s still more East to go.”.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Values Centered Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Over the last 75 years, the field of corporate innovation has dynamically evolved from the 1950s-60s’ NASA innovation process models and the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving process to today’s popularity with Design Thinking and Agile Development. Yet, as the saying goes, “There’s still more East to go.”.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative. 3 rd sign: The emergence of emotional intelligence and good character values to balance the historical bias towards the mental side of innovation. Design Thinking’s emphasis on empathy when determining key factors and issues is another example.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One up-and-coming innovation framework is human-centered design, an approach centered around the end user and their unique problems and needs. This evolving framework is a wonderful way to view the innovation process and develop custom solutions that match up with what the end user needs to be successful.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Jobs' fervent belief in organization-wide creativity helped Apple to stand apart from its early competition.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Jobs' fervent belief in organization-wide creativity helped Apple to stand apart from its early competition.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

The quotes above are all from larger company high level managers who already have highly defined innovation processes in place. This post is to make a simple point about innovation. You need to embrace Different, and also it’s cousins, Risk and New to enliven innovation projects. Are you lost?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks. Projects change culture.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This requires a talented ‘innovation team’ – the right synthesis of strategists, technologists, and communicators - to lead this fundamental change and operate at the core of the ‘innovation machine’; to introduce the new culture , to inspire teams and drive innovation by example. To innovate by example.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records. The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Inside your organization you are but an email or phone call away from people with the kinds of capabilities and expertise your innovation needs. You can pick up the phone and speak to experts on production, technology, operations, markets, and industries for example. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Inside your organization you are but an email or phone call away from people with the kinds of capabilities and expertise your innovation needs. You can pick up the phone and speak to experts on production, technology, operations, markets, and industries for example. Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. Whether you call it Open Innovation, Idea Management, Innovation Management Systems or Crowdsourcing, the concept is pretty similar.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

Providing structure to the innovation process does not need to be difficult. Example: The Educator Canvas : www.startupteacherpln.com. An example of the Canvas in Action: [link]. It also makes the innovation process feel less personal and more practical. Innovation is never a one and done process.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Uses Visual Elements.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. As you remove typical decisions steps, make sure to enforce this simplified process throughout the development cycle. What Else Do You Need?

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Between the two, we’ve seen some successful and some not-so-successful attempts to institute innovation programs on small teams, but when it works, it really works. Desiree’s blog post last week about innovation tools throughout the 20th century was interesting in this regard. Here’s why: Moving faster means dropping more stuff.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 4, 2016

In my view, great innovators combine the principles of brainstorming/ideation with good practices of constructive conflict. At other times in the creative process, they engage in healthy dissent and debate. I’ve found that pairs can also play a key role in the innovation process at established organizations.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

I'm just not not the creative type. No one, besides me, cares about innovation. We don't have an innovation process. I'm not in a creative profession. For example, if your excuse is "That's R&D's job," you might ask "How can I make innovation my job?" I'm juggling way too many projects.

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Qmarkets

MAY 2, 2024

This digital platform is rapidly becoming a critical tool for enterprises seeking to tap into collective creativity and transform great ideas into tangible results. An idea portal, also known as idea management software, is a digital platform designed to collect, organize, evaluate, and manage innovative ideas within an enterprise.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Sometimes it seems like organizations, even large enterprises, live and die by their ability to implement innovations that completely redraw the market landscape, putting them at the forefront. But do these disruptive innovation examples reflect the strategy that all companies should adopt?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 26, 2024

This digital platform is rapidly becoming a critical tool for enterprises seeking to tap into collective creativity and transform great ideas into tangible results. An idea portal, also known as idea management software, is a digital platform designed to collect, organize, evaluate, and manage innovative ideas within an enterprise.

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