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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams and departments.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Example: Kodak, a once-dominant player in the photography industry, struggled to innovate and adapt to the digital age. One famous case is the dismissal of the digital camera concept by an engineer in the 1970s. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era

Tullio Siragusa

However, over-engineering can make simple processes tedious. Test products extensively before launch, collect first-hand customer feedback, brainstorm with engineers — don’t lose touch with the details. This hands-on approach fuels innovation. The cross-functional collaboration and austerity mindset rekindles agility.

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Data Innovation in Manufacturing Requires Integration

Tullio Siragusa

Engineering and manufacturing are complex fields where there is an intersection of people and technologies. When companies want to collaborate with other companies with data that were created 25 years ago, they need a system on the cloud to bring it all together. This is because manufacturing cannot be done alone or separately.

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Redefining Conflict Resolution: The Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

It prioritizes empathy, collaboration, and iterative testing to reach innovative solutions. By emphasizing collaboration, Design Thinking fosters a holistic view of conflicts, ensuring a more comprehensive resolution. The ‘Project Fusion’ at TechCorp led to a harmonious collaboration, which was only improved upon with feedback.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.

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Innovative Leadership in Circular Economy Initiatives: Paving the Way for Sustainability

Tullio Siragusa

Leveraging Technology and Collaboration Invest in Technology: Utilize digital platforms and technologies to facilitate product tracking, sharing, and recycling. Collaborate Across the Value Chain: Work with suppliers, customers, and competitors to create a closed-loop system.