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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Advice for planning and facilitating successful corporate, executive, and leadership retreats. That’s where leadership retreats come in! This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking?

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

Being able to react quickly to changes in the market or customer needs ensures that opportunities are not lost to more agile competitors. The principle behind this exercise is simple yet profound: if team members are hesitant in their personal buying decisions, how can they expect to act differently with prospects?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 28, 2019

Storytelling has become a powerful approach for leadership, innovation, and design thinking. In an era of accelerating change, storytelling has become a constant approach to make and share meaning. In our workshop we will lead you through activities and exercises to help you find, create, make, and share your own stories.

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Wazoku

APRIL 27, 2020

Wazoku is a tech company with a big mission – To Change the World, One idea at a time. Through its core product, Idea Spotlight, the business embraces the principles of design thinking and challenge lead innovation, to help its clients crowdsource ideas from anywhere.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. But somehow the project doesn’t go as smoothly as the exercises and cases studies you read through. How organizations innovate should be as unique and game changing as the innovations they create.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I began to introduce as part of the workshops an exercise by which participants could asses the health of their organization’s culture of inquiry. With feedback from the participants, the assessment as an exercise improved. For those that score themselves highly, the consistent reason why comes down to leadership.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article will change that. This is why project management and the processes which support it (such as multi-year planning, business cases, risk management, change management and financial governance) form the backbone of most management frameworks in large companies. The exercise is also a valuable reality check.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Connecting people virtually to co-create in a purpose-driven way accelerates positive business outcomes and unites people in finding meaning in transformative change, that is why Purpose & Co-creation projects are trending in 2021. When the environment changes, we are looking to redefine our answers to our deepest questions.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

That’s where you start thinking about what you might do, or change, in some area of expertise or knowledge. Learning and exploration come first, then interactive exercises and tasks that have people playing with the data points, leading to concept blends and brilliant, new, fresh ideas. How might you do more Scaffolding?

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. It could also be a third-party software or consultant running a workshop on design thinking, culture, digital transformation, or more.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

MIT asserts problem formulation is the single most underrated skill in management Use some of the design thinking tools in Jeanne Liedka’s book, “ Designing for Growth ” and the accompanying “ Designing for Growth Field Book ”. Take an introductory design thinking course from Stanford’s d.School, IDEO or Acumen.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry. The founders saw something that the executive leadership did not see or chose to ignore. They foresaw that customer preferences were changing. They chose another path. In 2011, customers were saying “Wow.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s a long and difficult journey to implement this mindset change. They may be design thinkers, agile developers, or people who have worked in startups before. Some, design thinking, human centered design, or lean startup. In other words, even establishing the new mindset is an exercise fraught with uncertainty.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Change the culture. Re-design the organization. Context is all-important, and global CEOs are defining a specific context for this convergence: large scale, transformative change must take place in virtually every facet of their companies in the coming years. Revitalizing the organization design in terms of teams, not silos.

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Be-novative

MAY 27, 2021

Best practices from our Be-novative Partner Hub Designing a process together with your client’s leadership team, and then getting feedback that this planned process answers their needs and fulfills their best hopes, is a wonderful experience. With this, you teach them to fish, learn from an inverse exercise?—?and

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

All companies need to make this change, there is no other solution! High performance has a lot to do with creativity, and we know that it takes time to exercise it. 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.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

What I have found in visiting a number of large organizations—organizations with thousands of employees—is that each organization has within it agents of change. Sometimes these agents are designated to effect change on behalf of their peers. They approach that day job in a way that effects change, however.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

What I have found in visiting a number of large organizations—organizations with thousands of employees—is that each organization has within it agents of change. Sometimes these agents are designated to effect change on behalf of their peers. They approach that day job in a way that effects change, however.

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Innovation Architecture

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

What I have found in visiting a number of large organizations—organizations with thousands of employees—is that each organization has within it agents of change. Sometimes these agents are designated to effect change on behalf of their peers. They approach that day job in a way that effects change, however.

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Idea Drop

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

So the confluence of forcing us to change the way that we do business. We’re taught that this is the way you always do things, and therefore, you are discouraged from thinking differently, and outside of the box. And, that’s increasing pressure on price as well as competition for work. And, we ran them all concurrently.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And it’s been focused on the one hand coaching and advising leadership, how to develop innovation strategies, how to measure what they’re doing within the organisation, sort of the beginning of an innovation accounting system, etc, processes and so on and so forth. No, I don’t personally know about it. The ownership aspect.

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