IdeaScale

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Creativity is about more than just art. Creativity is how we get great innovation, but encouraging creativity in a structured environment, like work, can be a bit tricky. Fortunately, with a little creativity of your own, you can get the ideas flowing. So, think of challenges you can issue to your team.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It also provides a framework for decision-making that aligns with your company’s long-term objectives. The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. As a leader, your vision sets the direction for the company’s future.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Common indicators include consistent negative attitudes, a culture of gossip, high employee turnover, and a general atmosphere of disrespect. You might notice a lack of enthusiasm among your team, increased absenteeism, and a decline in productivity and quality of work. Explore further on building a positive work culture.

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Idea to Value

JULY 24, 2023

And there are many examples of students who have a “gift” identified by a teacher, whether it be for creative pursuits like art, music, dance or other areas such as sports, debate or science. So there is the scope to improve creativity in the workplace to a degree. Unfortunately, the Pygmalion effect is not only positive.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Providing a Range of Insights : Objectives : Foster a diverse and creative mindset to generate a variety of perspectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Strategic planning offsites can be pivotal moments for your company, shaping the trajectory of your business and setting the tone for future growth. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 4, 2022

If there is one chemical in our body which can impact our well-being and creative performance, it might just be cortisol. How does this feeling of stress impact our creativity in teams? So why am I going on about hormones and monkey stress when I should be speaking about creativity and innovation?

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporate venture studios offer innovation teams the freedom to operate with the spirit, passion, and resilience of entrepreneurs, all while leveraging organizational resources. However, building successful innovation teams in this context requires careful consideration. What are the key ingredients?

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What impression would your workplace give to a newly hired team member? The workplace culture is the organization’s character or personality. The culture is conveyed and shown through the collective attitudes, behaviors, systems, and values. What Is a Negative Workplace Culture?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 16, 2021

The most innovative companies understand the importance of developing solutions that solve critical problems. In 2021, approximately $600 billion will go toward research and development in the U.S. Knowing which ones your organization possesses will help you build upon your strengths and improve your weaknesses.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

Diversity also leads to economic growth, and according to a study from Brown University “the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe.” Organizations are now becoming attuned to this.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything. Lack of training/skills or experience Another problem with innovation as a discrete project is a lack of training.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s about seeing the bigger picture and aligning your team with the core objectives and values of the company. To delve deeper into enhancing this crucial skill, consider reading our insights on strategic thinking for leaders and developing strategic mindset in leaders.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s about seeing the bigger picture and aligning your team with the core objectives and values of the company. To delve deeper into enhancing this crucial skill, consider reading our insights on strategic thinking for leaders and developing strategic mindset in leaders.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Conformity smothers creativity.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rural Development Hinges On The Creative Class. Attracting the Creative Class is About Culture, Tolerance, and Quality of Life. Where Creative Workers Locate is Where Innovation and New Businesses Happen, Site Locations Follow. Just how does a community encourage creative workers to locate there?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

This, by far, is the most common challenge faced across companies. It reflects a mix of culture, motivation, and misunderstanding that can weigh down innovation processes like a stone. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Challenges in “Buy-In”.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If diversity of thought is lacking, you’re left looking outside the company for varying perspectives — a likely reason why accelerators have grown in popularity. The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies.

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 24, 2021

What are autonomous teams? Autonomous teams refer to workgroups that are given the freedom to create work practices, and goals. It’s about giving teams independence, empowering employees, and benefitting from more successful project outcomes. To create more autonomous teams, try focusing on the following areas.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions.

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Qmarkets

MAY 18, 2021

Diversity also leads to economic growth, and according to a study from Brown University “the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe.” Organizations are now becoming attuned to this.

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CMOE

JUNE 1, 2021

Being a leader of any type can be a daunting responsibility, but as you adopt a leadership mindset and incorporate a few actions into your day-to-day activities, you can be a highly effective leader who inspires team members to do their best work. Trust is pivotal to your team’s success. Sharing your leadership values with the team.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Another study by PMI unveils that poor project management leads to a staggering $97 million wastage per $1 billion invested. Now, this begs the question: what if the PMO and the Innovation Team were not extraterrestrial to one another?

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Phil McKinney

MAY 31, 2023

On the other hand, when my match quality was high, I felt fulfilled in my role and saw results such as increased innovation impact along with team and company success. The opposite is also true: if there's poor match quality; it leads to dissatisfaction, lack of motivation, and low career success.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Michel van Hove is the co-owner and partner of Strategos , a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps companies grow. We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how to successfully foster a culture of innovation within a company. Tell us a bit about your background. What drew you to Strategos?

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 10, 2023

Groupthink is defined as “the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.” "Groupthink is the silent killer of innovation, rendering even the most promising teams stagnant in a sea of conformity." When Are Leaders Falling into Groupthink?

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”. Leading innovative tech companies, no matter whether it was Google, Intuit, Microsoft or Apple, all benefited from coaching. Three key business nutshells.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture?

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Fortunately, his rabble rousing caught the attention of another division within the company, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) which wasn’t interested in efficiency, but inventing a new future and they eagerly welcomed Starkweather into their ranks. Here’s how you create an innovative culture.

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CMOE

JULY 31, 2019

However, because the focus tends to be on individual performance, the EQ of teams as a whole can easily be overlooked. First, the average EQ of employees on a team affects that team’s performance. We’ll also provide steps for building the emotional intelligence of teams, which you can cascade down to your frontline managers.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a daily exercise and how to make it more actionable and productive. Topics covered in the episode: 00:01:30 – What the Daily Creative is about.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader. Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025.

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