Destination Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2017

Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. Resistance to change. Managers and staff are often risk averse and reluctant to change. Lack of innovation. Small firms in the UK are leaders in innovation but many large firms are sluggish.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Recognizing Workplace Morale The vitality of your team’s spirit can be the driving force behind your organization’s success. By identifying signs of low morale and understanding its impact on productivity, you can begin the journey of transforming a potentially toxic workplace culture into a high-performing, collaborative team.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Volkswagen.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that is adaptable, innovative, and collaborative can better withstand market fluctuations and respond to challenges swiftly and effectively. For strategies on leading this change, delve into lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In innovation projects, we often hear about companies resisting a change to the status quo. As a result, many innovation projects fail at the final hurdle, when they are asked to actually implement the change they were designed for. How then should we ever hope to achieve change in ourselves, our teams and our companies.

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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. The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 24, 2022

As an innovator, it would be awesome to pop into a completely different meta-world to understand the hidden workings of the metaverse I just left. You don't need a pill, you need a team. Why you should consider a red team Let's imagine, instead, that your innovation team, the people with the great new idea, are the blue team.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 20, 2020

How to Effectively Manage Change as a Team. Change is a constant phenomenon. Small changes occur every day. In the workplace changes are efficiently catered to by an active leadership environment. From time to time organizations have to adapt to major changes. both good and bad?—?and

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2024

Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Times have changed. The need for a socially appropriate goals and actions of a corporation has given rise to corporate social innovation where companies form partnerships with NGOs. What Is Social Innovation? These innovations can be an idea, whether that is a new business model, a product or a service.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Companies that survive do both.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 21, 2024

Innovation languished. He made it possible for the nearly century-old firm to become a pioneer in open-source development, artificial intelligence and genomics. Wise leaders act in the service of something bigger than themselves, poor ones for their own aggrandizement. Jeffrey Immelt, quite famously, ran GE into the ground.

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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. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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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. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? Additional Tips to Help Your Team Prioritize Innovation Roadmap Features.

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TechEmpower Innovation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 30, 2023

Magnetize Your Team: How CEOs Can Attract the Right Leadership by Being the Right Leader It’s been often said that a CEO’s success depends on hiring the right team, but this blog isn’t about that. Being a successful CEO is about more than just hiring the right team.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 25, 2023

All good stories need a protagonist and an antagonist, the "good' character and the not so good character to develop tension. Eventually, in any story, the tension is resolved - the protagonist wins (in the happy ending stories) or the antagonist changes sided, or the antagonist wins (unhappy resolution).

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 20, 2020

How to Effectively Manage Change as a Team. Change is a constant phenomenon. Small changes occur every day. In the workplace changes are efficiently catered to by an active leadership environment. From time to time organizations have to adapt to major changes. both good and bad?—?and

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Whether you think that is a compelling line of reasoning for a jury trial or not, it might not be a bad way to think about innovation. You see, many companies cannot adequately define innovation for their employees and teams. The second has the innovation team dreaming up its own activities and defining its own outcomes.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. How can corporations work with startups?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

By fostering strategic thinking, leaders can better adapt to changes, identify opportunities for innovation, and prevent potential setbacks before they occur. Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging forward-thinking and calculated risk-taking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

By fostering strategic thinking, leaders can better adapt to changes, identify opportunities for innovation, and prevent potential setbacks before they occur. Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging forward-thinking and calculated risk-taking.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

In our last blog , we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate, to take advantage of living in a globalised world, interconnected through technologies and values and within an interrelated structure of reality. Strategy #1. Strategy #2.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Innovation processes can be complex. Most companies today make innovation a priority — or at least they say they do. However, innovating is an inexact science. So how do you know if your innovation process is working? It’s true; a lot of them will be bad. Thinking is a critical part of the innovation process.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

As organizations recognize the value of emotionally intelligent leaders, the focus on integrating emotional intelligence into leadership development has intensified. Leaders with high emotional intelligence are adept at understanding and managing their own emotions, which in turn allows them to inspire and influence their teams positively.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Signs and Symptoms of a Toxic Work Environment A toxic work environment can manifest in various ways, and being able to identify the signs is key to initiating change. You might notice a lack of enthusiasm among your team, increased absenteeism, and a decline in productivity and quality of work.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 14, 2019

Creativity is the true driver of innovation. In order to develop your business and always stay on top of the game with innovative ideas, promoting and preserving creativity in your team is of vital importance. More often than we’d like to admit, even the most innovative minds get stuck in a rut.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Creativity is how we get great innovation, but encouraging creativity in a structured environment, like work, can be a bit tricky. Here are a few ways to encourage creativity as part of your innovation strategy. So, think of challenges you can issue to your team. Creativity is about more than just art. Issue A Challenge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A bias against "failure" We're taught from an early age that failing at anything demonstrates weakness and unreliability. Then the educational system does all it can to reinforce norms and standards, which is important if you are cracking the genome or building a bridge, but limits creativity and innovation.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 16, 2021

Are you among the most highly innovative organizations? Innovation drives economic growth. The most innovative companies understand the importance of developing solutions that solve critical problems. In 2021, approximately $600 billion will go toward research and development in the U.S. Risk Tolerance. Confidence.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

These two aphorisms are thrown around constantly when discussing innovation strategy, and at first, they seem contradictory. However, as you innovate, you learn that they’re both true; you need both the global view and a granular view. Yet these two forms of thinking need each other, especially on innovation teams.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 8, 2024

Innovation has often been treated as a cyclical phenomenon, eagerly embraced during prosperous times and relegated to the sidelines during economic downturns. More than 70% of senior executives regularly acknowledge that innovation will be among their companies’ top three growth drivers in the next three to five years.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. According to BCG in a recent article, “To Drive Innovation with GenAI, Start by Questioning Your Assumptions.”

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