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4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy

BrainZooming

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. ” Yes, the role is different.

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

Resource allocation: The innovation mandate should outline how resources, including funding, personnel, and technology, will be allocated to support innovation initiatives and where these will be drawn down from and the “equity of resources” shared so this is a collaborative endeavour. Addressing both makes good sense.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

Vision and Strategic Thinking The Universal Need for Direction: Regardless of the industry, every organization seeks a brighter future. Their strategic thinking ensures that actions taken today align with a brighter tomorrow. Brown’s impact is a testament to the universality of Design Thinking principles.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. It’s about leadership, organizational structure, knowledge management, corporate purpose and values, norms regarding collaboration, and strategic foresight processes. The Innovation Pathway.

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

BrainZooming

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. I disabused them of the idea, however, that their narrow job descriptions were synonymous with narrow strategic thinking roles.

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Innovations linkages to Strategy is vitally important

Paul Hobcraft

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. The establishing of innovation within any Strategic thinking is becoming even more important today than ever. Taking action in designing your innovation alignment.

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