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. What can we do?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Some of these benefits include: Enhanced Problem-Solving: Collaborative teams can approach problems from multiple angles, leading to more creative and effective solutions. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. And, yes, in this light there is a fair amount of investment and some change required.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

When communication is effective, it fosters a sense of community, reduces feelings of isolation, and empowers your team members to collaborate more openly and effectively, leading to enhanced project outcomes. This document should be easily accessible and regularly updated to reflect any changes in tools or procedures.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. They are the catalysts who: Champion Change : High potential leaders are often at the forefront of advocating for and implementing new ideas and processes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

As business leaders, it’s essential to understand and integrate this component to drive change and encourage a thriving environment of creativity and risk-taking. Adaptability : An ability to pivot and respond to changing market conditions and business needs.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. They also see how simple it can be to get out the box with the right kind of nudge.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. They discuss the challenges of implementing innovation in business and the role leadership plays in driving change. Design Thinking Design thinking is not just for designers.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 4 Encourages Change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. Innovation, willingness to embrace change. Team disagreements, project challenges. Brainstorming Methods Generate new ideas, foster creativity. Aspirational drive, belief in potential.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Having a robust strategy helps you anticipate and respond to changes, whether they come from emerging technologies, evolving customer preferences, or competitive pressures. Dive deeper into this topic with our article on creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? That could be a new product, of course, which is what people usually think of. I think the biggest mistake is to fall victim to innovation theatre. I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”?

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If you’ve been listening to this show for any length of time, you’ve more than likely come to realize that learning creativity takes time. Becoming more creative will change every aspect of your life for the better. I also explain how it’s used in our creative thinking and creative output.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. That’s my creative advice. Mike Brown.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Thi nk of something that is impossible to do, but if it were possible to do, would change the nature of your business forever? IDEA: The idea they settled on was to use projections of real disabled people to ward off people who try to take disabled spaces. What are you doing? I’m not just a sign on the ground.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems. There is no innovation without creativity. Individuals and teams need to be creative in order to solve focused innovation challenges. Still, curiosity, freedom of expression, and creative thinking are essential to success.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Role of a Keynote Speaker in Corporate Innovation A keynote speaker can be a powerful catalyst in corporate settings, sparking innovation and inspiring change within an organization. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. We might begin with a requirements gathering process in order to understand resources and parameters, and stay within the scope of the Project Charter that emerges from that process. Responding to change over following a plan.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Constraints create the need for questions, creative thinking, and experiments. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Innovation thrives within constraints. But as real as constraints are and as helpful as they can be, don’t simply accept them. Instead, question them, push on them, and explore around them.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Solving an innovation culture problem isn’t easy, but your solution had better include interesting, compelling, and fun, Projects. Projects are how cultures actually change. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Follow up includes: -- Review two Insight & Ideation Reports -- Two Reality Check Debrief calls (for the Team Leader) -- Coaching and consultation with your team's Point Person -- Project champions do their due diligence 18.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I see three take-aways from this story: The benefit of creative structure to generate LOTS of ideas, because the winner may be cool product name number eighty-three. The power of strategy-focused creative thinking questions to help generate a high proportion of on-target ideas. More about that customer experience fail.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 17, 2018

Even with video conferencing, you lose many of the verbal and physical cues available when you are sitting across a table planning who is going to do what and when on a project. The situations and acronyms for this collaboration strategy approach may change. This collaboration strategy idea is still in the Brainzooming R&D lab.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

Her learned reluctance to push bold creative ideas now creeps into other situations where she does have tremendous latitude to introduce bold ideas. It takes the creative joy out of side projects she does. An Objective Creativity Metric. She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

If the conditions are right, meaningful change can evolve from the smallest seed of inspiration; an observation, a discussion, or even just an interesting question. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Utilitarian in its principles, seeking real-world use and implementation through a more creative, collaborative environment, leading to more discoveries that distinctly ‘blend’ the lab application with the customer discovery of unmet need. It is constantly adapting to the needs of the project, not to the system.

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IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2018

But with our educational institutions stumbling a bit in the face of new technology and change making, what is the state of innovation in education? If you think about it, universities and educational institutions are almost always breeding grounds for new ideas, prototypes, and creative thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 10, 2017

Without a big change in thinking customer service challenges are going to be like Wach-A-Mole. You get on the plane and if you don’t conform to every little rule they have (which are always changing, and are always changing to make life more miserable for you), you are a dunce until you comply. Just up the ante.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute. They need time to warm up and get the cogs churning.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute. They need time to warm up and get the cogs churning.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Is it just a biological process (nature) or is it caused by changes from the society around us (nurture)? From a natural change perspective, there are some changes which happen in our brains as we age. Therefore, the older brain’s preference will always be to use safe memories instead of creative new ‘risky’ solutions.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

You've got other projects, outside of work, and have no energy left to think about anything else. They don't pay you enough to think creatively. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. Constantly changing priorities. You're a new parent.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Understanding your external context and the global key drivers impacting your organization prepare you for change. In fact, thinking much more broadly produces the most value. PESTLED illuminates current influences, but more importantly, it alerts you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries.

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