Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Managers and leaders are recognizing that fostering team collaboration practices can yield a more agile and responsive organization. For more insights on how to cultivate this environment, managers and leaders can explore team collaboration best practices that have been proven to yield high performance and drive business results.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The innovation management landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological advancements like AI-enhanced self-service and emerging frameworks like ISO 56000. But what exactly constitutes “must-have” features for innovation management in 2024? The Most Collaborative: Collaborative Canvas (duh!)

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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

Enter the Innovation Funnel Management Process, one of my favorite tools to help manage business process innovation. The Innovation Funnel Management Process helps narrow down ideas from an innovation process or project into a realistic plan of action and next steps. . The Innovation Funnel Management Process ?requires

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Online collaboration tools serve as the cornerstone for virtual teams, fostering communication, project management, and a sense of community among distributed colleagues. Accelerate project timelines through streamlined processes and real-time communication. Integrate seamlessly with other tools and systems already in use.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 23, 2019

Ideas are more than brainstorming. It’s easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. But does your idea management software help your team when the hill begins to slope upward? Effective innovation management software is transparent all the way through.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. In other words, neither brainstorming nor ideation workshops can produce meaningful or useful ideas.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 20, 2022

Unlike Horizon Planning where projects are prioritized based on “level of innovation” and “time to ROI”, Visibility Planning is based on evidence. Moves The Needle’s Project Prioritization board is a 2×2 poster that helps you visualize where to invest resources based on impact and evidence.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2023

A study by Steven Rogelberg, of the University of North Carolina surveyed 182 senior managers in a range of industries: 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work; 71% said meetings are unproductive and 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking. They will manage the discussions, keep to topic and keep to time.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Leaders and managers play a pivotal role in fostering team collaboration that aligns with these evolving trends. Leaders and managers should integrate these elements into their team collaboration best practices to ensure the success and resilience of their teams. Agile Teams Adopt iterative processes and frequent communication.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Further, while most corporations will pay lip service to innovation, and would enjoy new revenues and profits, they view innovation as a project or an activity that is discrete. It is not a capability or a project that you switch on or off, any more than you switch on or off a highly efficient supply chain. I am not joking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Here are some of the key benefits: Increased Efficiency : Collaboration allows for workload sharing and helps streamline processes, leading to quicker and more efficient project completion. Managers and leaders play a pivotal role in this process, as they set the tone for how team members interact and work together.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. As the drawing suggests, please, let’s redefine brainstorming. Brainstorming is all group work.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The important aspect of the theory which most discussions ignore though is that while it is happening, management at the established companies think they’re making the right decision to let the new companies take over the low-end of the market. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Source: Pixabay Kellogg Insight recently featured some very useful advice on how to project self-confidence in the workplace by Ellen Taaffe, Clinical Assistant Professor of Leadership and Director of Women's Leadership Programs at the Kellogg School of Management. Her focus on the language people use is very constructive.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

In order to succeed as a professional innovation manager, you need a variety of skills. From being able to manage bureaucracy to coming up with ideas in the first place, here are the 6 Most Important skills you need to be an effective innovator: 1. Psychological Safety. Innovation requires working as a team.

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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. To drive outcomes, you need disciplined portfolio management, as Rachel Kuhr Conn , Founder and CEO of Productable, outlines below.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

” I feel “explicit instructions” need to be carefully managed. Recently, I have been looking specifically at the way the (traditional) innovation management process will change. I constantly recognise the fundamental shifts working in AI-driven projects will bring. So, my suggested opening structured process.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

For leaders and managers, understanding these benefits is the first step in implementing team collaboration best practices that will set the stage for high performance and business results. Communication Method Purpose Face-to-face meetings In-depth discussions and brainstorming sessions.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

One approach is to use the Prosci ADKAR Change Management methodology as advocated by Jeffrey Hiatt and Tim Creasey. Smart managers understand the differing motivations of their individual reports. How can we facilitate effective brainstorm sessions? It consists of five key stages. Awareness. How can their desire be developed?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2019

If one or two people dominate every brainstorming session or innovation meeting, there’s no point in having a team. Allocating specific times for team members to work on ideas and projects promotes actual results. This may mean designating a specific project for team members to charge their time to while working with the team.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others. A product team uses Instant Coffee to brainstorm ideas for the next quarter. Brainstorming.

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

In today’s flat, lean organizations, many individual contributors assume that they don’t need to be led or managed. So why is management still relevant? Because individual contributors are working so hard on their own tasks, they might not be able to see the big picture like a manager would. How do they see their manager (you)?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Here's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate brainstorm sessions: When they are led by upper management, department heads, or project leaders, they usually get manipulated. That's why brainstorm facilitators need to remain neutral. There's a HUGE difference between facilitating and leading a brainstorming session.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the most common and the most popular ideation technique in almost every industry. Brainstorming is all about the quantity of ideas and not the quality. The intention of a brainstorming session is to think collectively. However, freestyle brainstorming might not lead to substantial ideas.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Post-merger integration plans typically require creating lengthy checklists, project plans, activities, and tasks basically focused on estimation upfront. The most common reasons for failure are: People struggle to work with long checklists since it is difficult to manage the details. There is a better way. That’s coercion.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Look for ways to turn challenges into advantages with virtual whiteboarding, more accessible brainstorming, and shared touchpoints. Virtual libraries, innovation management platforms, and videoconferencing tools went from interesting and useful tools to office necessities. Remote Work And Innovation Culture. Use The New Tools.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. That thing is innovation projects. Those experts are all about projects.

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Betterific

JULY 25, 2016

” This is the first in our “Brainstorming with…” series. Below is an interview we had with Dan, where we ask him about his techniques, some insight into how he brainstorms, and for some suggestions on how to make Betterific even better! Dan is a Manager in North Highland’s Strategy Division.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We all want to be the first to market, but no one wants to burn gas on an idling project — nor have an explosion. Are you making promises to senior management about getting this done?’ And I would say, ‘OK, I’m not starting the project.’ I would ask them a question. ‘Is Is this in your long-range plan?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

These platforms can include project management tools, shared workspaces, and virtual meeting spaces. Virtual Collaboration Events: Organize virtual events, workshops, and hackathons that leverage technology to bring stakeholders together for brainstorming, problem-solving, and innovation.

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