Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking. It also provides a framework for decision-making that aligns with your company’s long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Maximizing Venture-Backed Company Success: The Importance of VC Investment in Operating Partners Venture capital (VC) firms have long been a key source of funding for startup companies, providing the necessary capital to help these businesses grow and succeed.

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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. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

How often I have heard that statement from teams when we have discussed potential new innovation ideas. These reasons might include: Once the idea was suggested, no resources were allocated to develop it. The leadership team at the time wanted to keep the status quo. The market wasn’t ready.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. Additional Tips to Help Your Team Prioritize Innovation Roadmap Features. In addition, it is also important to note here that solutions should be developed as a response to users’ needs. Kano Model. Customer Journey.

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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. Share instances where timely knowledge acquisition has led to breakthroughs or market leadership to strengthen ecosystem thinking and design further.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yet for a company to succeed, it needs to grow. The challenge comes from the fact that nobody on the project teams wants to be one of the 9 which could fail, often leading to investment in projects which have no risk, but also no opportunity for significant innovation or growth. You’re just wasting time and resources.”

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

As automotive companies navigate this transformative landscape , the need for end-to-end visibility in production processes becomes increasingly evident. Acquiring such comprehensive skills presents a formidable and resource-intensive endeavor. This integration serves as a bridge between software and physical manufacturing processes.

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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. Plus, innovation as a project demonstrates some investment in innovation but controls for cost and risk.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Most companies say that they are investing in innovation. Many of these companies don’t understand why their innovation failure rates are so high. Unfortunately, many companies won’t even realise that they have this problem. None of this is actual innovation. And innovation needs to actually end up delivering value.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was reviewing the website of a strategy consulting firm recently, and their focus on strategy and team alignment felt like the same old, same old. I also want to shift from the idea of "change management", which I think is an oxymoron, to change acceleration, which is where I think companies need to be. Like change? Dislike change?

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 27, 2022

I'd like to borrow this idea from the entrepreneurial community and turn our gaze to mid-sized and larger firms, and think about how much time, if any, companies spend on two critical aspects of their business: strategy and innovation. I'll provide a definition of what I mean by in strategy and on strategy. That is, if you have a strategy.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . There is so much to consider yet so few resources that can ensure success. This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. In this post, we dive deeper into the5 step framework that can help you structure your marketing team for success in 2021. .

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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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CMOE

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Team members are the heart of any organization. Therefore, tracking team performance is key to keeping people engaged and motivated to achieve excellence daily. Below is a detailed guide on how to monitor team performance. For questions related to this topic or others, reach out to the CMOE team. Establish accountability.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Previously, NGOs and companies “co-existed.” A good corporate image is now reflected in the environmental and social issues a company corresponds with. Hence, companies are investing their time and energy in thinking about the impact of their actions on both the community and climate. Being socially innovative is much harder.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

At the time I was writing this post, I was concerned that too many companies were under too much pressure to speed up their innovation activities and generate some interesting new ideas. The problem with that speeding up concept was that most companies were starting from zero. Otherwise, speed can kill an innovative idea.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation. The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? But we are asking the wrong question.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Hiring new talent is a key function of Human Resources, so the time it takes to find a suitable candidate for an open position is an important performance parameter for the HR team. And closing vacancies quickly does wonders for the company’s reputation in the job market. 1) Set Up a Structured Hiring Process.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With AI’s predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, leaders and innovators are unlocking new potentials in understanding user needs and market trends. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Through your research, what are some effective tools or resources you have found to improve employee wellbeing? Years ago, companies didn’t do much about their customers, until they figured out it was cheaper to keep a customer than it was to find a new one, which drew them toward customer loyalty.

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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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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. Please find out more about our work at ImagineNation.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources. Through this process, senior management can lead innovation, implement strategy, and empower their teams to create new sources of growth.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies issue arrived Saturday. It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. It does not include product development.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 31, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak to a leadership team that is considering building an innovation capability in their business. The answer that I think most leadership teams want is: good ideas. After all, it's easier to explain away the lack of innovation if you can say that most teams lack good ideas.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

L et our Intrapreneurship 101 give you a better idea of what it takes to set up a successful innovation process within your company. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. In practice, this means providing room for iterations of the idea, accepting tests, and developing a learning mentality as well as quick failures.

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CMOE

JULY 31, 2019

Sheraton’s EQ program for its employees helped grow its market share by 24%. 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. Absolutely.

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Planview

JUNE 6, 2022

Our goal is not only to empower our customers to focus on the work that matters most, but also our own teams and there is no denying that when working within a sales organization, collaboration, focus, and communication is crucial to success. I am the SVP of Sales for Mid-Market North America. Which leads us to our employee spotlight!

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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