Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Utilizing customer feedback loops to stay aligned with market needs.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Case Study Leadership Design Thinking 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Your choice of technology should align with your team’s specific needs, ensuring that every member can connect and collaborate with ease.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Channel : This is the creative thinking part.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Crowdsourcing Ideation Exercises 52

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. They can include logos, office designs, company slogans, and even the jargon used within the workforce.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Innovators, particularly those engaged in constant exploration and opportunity spotting, can indeed benefit from a heightened awareness and sensitivity to their environment. Drawing out different experiences in cognitive abilities, domain expertise, and collaboration opportunities also play significant roles.

Innovation 162

Innovation ChatGPT Trends Creativity 162

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems. Share instances where timely knowledge acquisition has led to breakthroughs or market leadership to strengthen ecosystem thinking and design further.

Change 173

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By engaging in CVC, corporations can also contribute to the development of startup accelerator programs , which are designed to support early-stage companies as they grow. Business Model Innovation Adopting novel approaches to business operations and customer engagement.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. Any energy transition takes a long time, and it requires a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.

System 180

System Innovation Collaboration Technology 180

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. Extended Cognitive Effort: Innovators may exhibit perseverance and a willingness to engage in extended cognitive efforts. Creativity and Innovation: Description: The ability to generate novel ideas, solutions, and perspectives.

ChatGPT 182

ChatGPT Creativity Data Learning 182

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making. Inspire Collaboration : They foster a collaborative culture that encourages the sharing of diverse thoughts and perspectives. Decision Making Making choices that drive business success.

Culture of Innovation 113

Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. Thursday included working with a local non-profit to develop the strategic foundation for an important initiative, along with developing initial themes from the Carbondale community collaboration workshops.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We need to do better, we need to design a completely new innovation process that takes into account all that has evolved in our understanding and experiment in recent years. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. A new cycle of innovation.

Innovation 160

Innovation Design Innovation Processes Agile 160

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Large-scale product runs are being adapted to meet more specific opportunities; response rates and customer engagement are being hugely advanced by technology and constant exploring the full customer journey with data and analytics helping the understanding. Hierarchy and delegation are flattening out and seeking engagement.

Innovation 222

Innovation Software Review Design Engagement 222

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages.

Exercises 81

Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

Change 52

Change Technical Review Agile Creativity 52

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. The Results eBook makes our case for collaborative strategy planning among your organization’s employees (and even, in many cases, your customers).

Exercises 94

Exercises Tools eBook Strategic Thinking 94

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity.

Creativity 79

Creativity eBook Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking 79

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. If your meetings aren’t accomplishing organizational goals or building collaboration, it’s time to take them in an entirely different direction. This 12-minute activity is designed to generate better ideas and more of them faster.

Training 52

Training Meeting Brainstorming Guidelines 52

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. What do our customers care about?”

Agile 74

Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 74

BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Analysis, outreach, and design thinking combine to make in-person innovation productive and ROI-driven – after completing the pre-work.

Analysis 66

Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Strategy 66

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

Engagement 205

Engagement System Innovation Design 205

Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement, Manuel Hellendorff (Head of Customer Success at Novable ) provided an overview of the main AI tools currently in use and shared practical advice on how to incorporate these tools into your work to enhance productivity and success.

ChatGPT 59

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Change Trends 59

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around. We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team!

Exercises 74

Exercises Strategic Thinking eBook Roadmap 74

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

Technical Review 173

Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’ll share some general advice for organizations and companies designing, developing, and implementing leadership retreats. Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

Leadership 61

Leadership Design Thinking Design Training 61

Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. In our final installment, we’ll show the importance of a positive workplace culture, and the role of engagement, support, and reliability. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

Culture 89

Culture Meeting Engagement Leadership 89

IdeaScale

AUGUST 28, 2018

Some companies have success due to collaboration, sometimes it’s due to someone’s singular vision, sometimes it’s because of dogged persistence and sometimes it’s luck. Why We Like It: This type of in-depth psychology gives us ideas for how to better engage the crowd, inspire creativity, and drive innovative thinking.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Case Study Innovation Study 82

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Meeting Design Examples Brainstorming 106

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. The mix varies from pure creativity to pure planning, with usually some mix in between. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop.

Exercises 67

Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Developing the 21st-century leadership superpowers necessary to reimagine, reinvent, design, and deliver innovative solutions to complex and challenging problems. It enables leaders and coaches to connect to, explore, navigate, and discover new territories to catalyse and harness people’s collective genius and shift perspectives differently.

Leadership 59

Leadership Technical Review Innovation Learning 59

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to MaRS – North America’s largest urban innovation hub, “a culture of innovation is an environment that supports creative thinking and advances efforts to extract economic and social value from knowledge, and, in doing so, generates new or improved products, services or processes”.

Culture 98

Culture Company Culture of Innovation Technical Review 98

ImagineNation

MARCH 3, 2024

Closing leadership blind spots A coach empowers, enables, and equips a leader’s capacity, confidence, and competence, to identify and close their leadership blind spots, be in charge of their minds , and think and act differently.

Leadership 40

Leadership System Learning Disruption 40

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

And I don’t mean the creativity that we only see artists do so well- I am referring to our ability to “toggle between wonder and rigor to solve problems”. Companies must hire for creativity and incentivize creativity by dedicating budget, time and people resources. Podcast Link: Natalie on the Idea to Value Podcast.

Innovation 246

Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 246

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

What a moonshot project yields, ideally, are near-term benefits through collaboration and smaller discoveries and innovations along the way. Business Impact: Executives typically think about current competitors and ways to outsmart them. While ultimate success would be beneficial, it’s not essential. The Similarities Are Striking.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72