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Creating Roadmaps for Success: How to Design and Run a Strategic Planning Offsite

Leapfrogging

Collaborative Activities : Exercises that require teamwork and creative thinking to solve problems or develop new ideas. Implement collaborative activities such as brainstorming sessions and group problem-solving. This visioning exercise is critical as it will serve as the foundation for the strategies you develop next.

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Reversing your thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

I told him that there are many types of innovation - product, service, business model, as well as innovations that impact society and politics. The innovation I am familiar with, and can happen in a reasonable time frame, is service and product innovation.

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8 Ways Your Physical Environment Can Impact Productivity and Innovation

IdeaScale

Productivity, Innovation, And Work. Any discussion of productivity and innovation needs to begin with a reminder that we only have so much to give in a day. It’s also part of the reason morning exercise is so effective at improving focus throughout the day. Ergonomics.

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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. In my experience working with dozens of organizations and executive teams around the world, here are the success factors.

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Innovation and Maturation

Jeffrey Phillips

So many companies make so many claims about innovation, and yet so few are really, deeply engaged in innovation. In the next decade we'll say goodbye to some of the firms who are talking about innovation but aren't exercising the muscles. Disruption and market transformation will occur (will?

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

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. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

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How internal innovators win the game

Innovation Excellence

That said, mathematically, you further multiply your options for innovation if you also fall in love with other problems. 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.