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Try Nook and Cranny Strategic Thinking Exercises for a Huge Impact!

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That meant more than forty perspectives from which to generate ideas for potential behaviors. Someone asked if, after the small groups completed all the idea generation, we would leave them with all these cells worth of ideas. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions.

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Design Thinking Tools: how to use them to solve complex problems

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To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. Ask: who encounters this problem, and why?

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Why Do Some Brainstorming Sessions Suck?

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Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” such as solitary list-writing.

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Invention vs Innovation – 4 Must-Have Skills

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Finally, they need to be great collaborators, because above all else, innovation is a team sport. Here are some ways to build innovation skills in yourself and your team: The next time you brainstorm, focus on problem discovery rather than idea generation. Download the Human Centered Innovation eBook.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process. Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival?