Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. In contrast, Design Thinking takes a collaborative and iterative approach that involves empathy, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

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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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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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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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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 Many of these studies start with an outdated notion of what brainstorming is, and usually don’t study real working teams.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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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way. With some strategic Design Thinking methodologies, you can protect your business from falling apart and improve it so you can grow. What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking assists organizations in creating value for people.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 9, 2020

In today’s post, we’ll explore how design thinking for the future of work can help businesses and organizations struggling to adapt to new workplace requirements and needs. . Design Thinking At Work. Design Thinking Workshops and Training. A Changing Landscape.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Innovate your virtual meetings through our design thinking-inspired Zoom facilitation training workshop. With many workshops, classes, events, and sessions being held online, it’s more important than ever to have the right virtual meeting and facilitator skills to effectively engage in your virtual session.

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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. They discuss the challenges of implementing innovation in business and the role leadership plays in driving change. Leadership in Innovation The role of leadership in innovation cannot be overstated.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Meeting Mapping Template. Template for Meeting Legos.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In our day-to-day life, we often ascribe personalities to the people we meet — the cheerful neighbor, the meticulous colleague, or the compassionate friend. Design Thinking: Sculpting Business Personality A business’s personality is like an iceberg. It’s more than just their products. Does it align with your core vision?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Learn more about the synergy of these concepts in our comprehensive guide on high performance leadership teams through psychological safety & experiential intelligence. In the context of leadership, it involves tapping into personal and professional experiences to make informed decisions, foster innovation, and guide teams effectively.

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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. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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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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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. And at the organizational level, leadership has a clear roadmap for achieving ideal outcomes even faster. But what happens next?

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 2, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through key steps that a sales leader should take to establish sales in a new market, including conducting market research, designing a sales plan, building the right sales team, and establishing key partnerships. Encourage brainstorming and out-of-the-box thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings take up precious time, and, are dead essential to moving the ball downfield. How that is handled will determine the outcome of your meeting.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Betterific

MAY 31, 2017

To gather new ideas, his team traditionally holds brainstorms, listens to end users and talks with cross functional teams. This was an interesting decision from the outset, as most of Betterific’s clients give a rigid set of guidelines to try and direct Betterific’s design thinking member base. Testing, validating and Roll Out.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

Fortunately, entrepreneurial thinking is something we can all develop, but we need to overcome the hurdle that this skillset is just for those in business. Most teachers already practice entrepreneurial thinking to some degree (and often on a daily basis) to meet the ever changing demands of the classroom and their students.

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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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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, I’ll review 3 other signs that innovation is still being innovated: the transformation in how we treat innovative thinking, innovation ROI, and the innovation process itself. That’s because the only way to be 100% successful is to set very safe, ‘low-bar’ goals, and we would lose any semblance of industry leadership.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

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. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

In preparation for the first offsite meeting I would have with my senior leadership team, I asked them to read the first chapter of the book so we could discuss it as a group. Kindling is incredibly flexible, meets our need for customization, and it is available on every platform we use (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android).

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

We launched each of the Prepare, Explore and Converge phases with an applied learning workshop that introduced new approaches in design thinking, strategic market fit and business commercialization. With that in mind, we alternated between teaching and collaboration with the innovation team.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

We launched each of the Prepare, Explore and Converge phases with an applied learning workshop that introduced new approaches in design thinking, strategic market fit and business commercialization. With that in mind, we alternated between teaching and collaboration with the innovation team.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

Promote remote decompression and brainstorming meetings. In order to gain space, leadership has to allow it’s positions of decision making to be assumed by team members and other collaborators with the scope for decision making. Horizontal leadership develops the team so that it can make decisions in an agile and conscious way.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Meeting and workshop facilitation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

While many innovation experts focus on helping individuals learn techniques to come up with more ideas, like brainstorming or design thinking, the most valuable skill is being able to select which ideas to focus on based on the value they will deliver. Psychological Safety. Innovation requires working as a team.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

We help organizations discover how to build innovation and design thinking strategies into their workplace environments, start and lead innovation teams, and keep up the process of innovating every day. Leadership is also a key factor in successful innovation teams. What makes a successful, innovative team?

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

They also have statistical skills, being able to assess qualitative and quantitative data to drive decisions about how they meet those customer needs. And they need to have design skills, the ability to see how to craft solutions that are simple, elegant and useful.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Innovation Facilitation Training is more advanced, and would make every meeting you have more effective. Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming. And that’s a good thing. END OF BLOG POST.

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