Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Over the last 25 years, I have led hundreds of design thinking sessions for international organizations and startups including brands like Red Bull. These sessions allow product designers and senior executives to work together to co-develop ideas which align with larger business strategies and innovation initiatives.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management. Benefits This approach leads to increased engagement and motivation.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Beyond the Daily Grind: How Design Thinking Can Illuminate Your Life’s Purpose In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it’s easy to get caught up in the routine, to lose sight of what truly matters to us, and to wonder if there’s more to life than the daily grind. This is where the concept of “purpose” comes into play.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Design Thinking in Education: Shaping Creative Minds for the Future In a world characterized by rapid changes and complex challenges, the traditional education model, which primarily focuses on the dissemination of knowledge, is increasingly proving to be insufficient.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 10, 2023

Leveraging Design Thinking for IT-Business Alignment in Prioritizing Mission-Critical Needs In the 21st-century business world, the role of IT has transitioned from a support function to a strategic driver of business success. This discordance can lead to a lack of collaboration and a rift between IT and the rest of the organization.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. In contrast, Design Thinking takes a collaborative and iterative approach that involves empathy, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 9, 2020

When bringing people together to solve problems with design thinking, there may be more benefits to going remote than you think. Face-to-face design thinking workshops can be amazing. The fast-paced, collaborative buzz of an in-person workshop can be exhilarating. Greater team and individual creativity.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article we will: Explore how we can use VR (virtual reality) during the different steps of the design thinking process. Teach you how to design a VR workshop using an app called Zoe Immersive. Design Thinking Process & VR. You can think of “ Digital twins “ or less realistic VR spaces here.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. McKinsey & Company research shows that “Design-led organizations realize 10% more revenue than ones that aren’t.”

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Many weeks ago I saw the first social media post from someone being “suddenly remote” due to COVID-19 and wondering what tools they should use for online collaboration. This seemed like a design thinking challenge emerging. We took this on as a design thinking project and used a Miro online whiteboard.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way. With some strategic Design Thinking methodologies, you can protect your business from falling apart and improve it so you can grow. What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking assists organizations in creating value for people.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 28, 2021

Learn more about this classic Double Diamond design thinking framework and find resources, tips, and more to apply it to your own projects. Developed and popularized by the British Design Council, the double diamond framework has been around since 2004. Design principles that double diamond relies on.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. By following these steps, you can create a successful sales environment that will help your start-up grow, but you can go deeper and truly differentiate yourself by applying Design Thinking to key steps to help your startup thrive.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 19, 2020

Discover how this innovation tool can be used for your design thinking workshop or design sprint. In our recent post on remote working software tools , we shared some top tools that can be used to innovate and collaborate with your virtual teams. One of these ideation and visualization tools was Mural.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Zoom is a robust virtual meeting and collaboration software tool that offers many unique and handy features all in one place, including their newer Whiteboard. Found under: Brainstorming and Ideation, Design and Research. Found under: Brainstorming and Ideation, Design and Research. Problem Analysis Template.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 28, 2021

Learn design thinking in this new virtual course from the Stanford D School. The Stanford D School have recently released a new Starter Kit designed for teams looking to host a virtual design thinking workshop or training session. Virtual Design Thinking Course: What to Expect.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2020

Online collaboration tools for innovative work remotely. If you and your teams have found yourselves working more remotely, you may be interested in this collection of top remote working, meeting, communication and facilitation tools that can increase your collaboration, impact, productivity, and ease while working virtually or from home.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. This post explains this thinking, and validation and provides the way I envisage this. I believe we need to leverage technology, concepts, and design thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Design tool Canva launches online whiteboard designed for innovation projects and teams. Online whiteboard tools are fantastic ways to collaborate and communicate with teams in the innovation and design thinking space, and there’s many great options out there. What is Canva? Canva’s Online Whiteboard.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs. Whether you’re leading a team of software developers or healthcare professionals, understanding human emotions and motivations remains consistent.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. 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. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 24, 2022

Society 2045’s Radically Collaborative Organizations. If we are individuals who crave and thrive in collaborative environments, we will want to influence more collaboration. Ultimately, we want to be part of radically collaborative organizations. How can we evolve radically collaborative organizations?

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. Beware the Lure of Sophisticated Systems In an effort to match larger competitors, some startups integrate complex software systems and infrastructure too early. Foster a culture of trust and horizontal collaboration.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG, “Digital Darwinism is unkind to those who wait.”. 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. What is Design Thinking?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 27, 2020

At Sprintbase , we help businesses bring remote teams together to tackle the challenges they’re facing remotely using design thinking to find truly innovative solutions. Here we share five reasons why now’s the time to bring your team together for a remote design thinking project. and get in touch.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 17, 2020

Learn about the Miro collaborative whiteboard software tool and find tutorials to use it here. With more work being done remotely, it’s more important than ever for teams to be able to successfully communicate and collaborate together. One such tool is Miro , who we feature on our design thinking software guide.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 3, 2021

Learn about human-centered design in this introductory course from Acumen and IDEO. Throughout the online course, you’ll be guided through a four-step process for designing breakthrough ideas to address problem-solving for real life challenges your organization may be facing. Design Thinking Mindsets for Human-Centered Design.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2023

After a series of posts introducing and explaining the thinking and design behind the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, I thought it would be a good idea to put this into a sequence of visuals that should take you through this to provide a decent understanding of its make-up and logic.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 20, 2023

From India to Vietnam: The Changing Landscape of Offshore Software Development Outsourcing software development services to offshore vendors has become an increasingly popular way for businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Other emerging offshore destinations for OPD services include the Philippines, and South Africa.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed. Innovation software management continues to be sold piecemeal, so often just bolted onto the other parts already in place, not being optimized.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. The ability to build the context and show its (ongoing) value makes the difference.

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Betterific

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Paul Kim , is a teacher at Colorado Academy and Co-Director of the Redi Lab, and is best known for using the design thinking process to teach History. He is our design thinking guest blogger. Below, Paul lays the case for using design thinking in school. Differentiation by Design. by Paul Kim.

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