Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to build a strong case, stay informed, and think critically is the key to unlocking success and driving innovation. Here, market trends evolve, new technologies emerge, and consumer preferences shift lightning-fast. For me, this landscape is marked by its dynamism.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategic Thinking eBook 61

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

As you plan your next conference or leadership program, understanding the value of these speakers is crucial. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Utilizing customer feedback loops to stay aligned with market needs.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. Voice novel ideas: Diverse perspectives are shared freely, leading to innovative solutions.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Here are some key advantages: Alignment : Ensures that all members of the leadership team are working towards common goals.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

An innovation strategy is a key business asset, and innovation leadership is no longer nice to have, but necessary. Innovation leadership can make the difference between an innovation strategy that actually produces results and one that languishes on paper. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.”

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Leadership Innovation Training Crowdsourcing 164

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Another base principle is that most companies desire innovation in the form of new product and services to create new revenue and new market share. An established corporation with existing products and market share, with a responsibility to the market and shareholders, cannot operate in a culture purely focused on innovation.

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Culture Culture of Innovation Innovation Disruption 252

Rmukesh Gupta

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I read this post by Kevin Roberts (founder of Red Rose Consulting; business leader and educator; author and speaker; adviser on marketing, creative thinking and leadership) where he shares his insight on the current state of affairs, which in summary is “Everyone is talking and no one’s listening” In his post he also shares that there (..)

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition. They should have a proven track record of success in driving innovation within organizations or contributing to the field of innovation through thought leadership.

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Technical Review Trends Innovation Engagement 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CVC is often characterized by its dual focus on achieving both strategic returns, such as fostering innovation or entering new markets, and financial returns, similar to those sought by traditional venture capitalists. Market Expansion Entering new markets or segments through partnerships.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Present case studies where a variety of perspectives resulted in creative solutions or market differentiation.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

This synergy is particularly crucial when navigating the challenges presented by disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, and shifting market demands. Using techniques like mind mapping or the SCAMPER method to stimulate creative thinking. Creating an inclusive environment where all ideas are welcomed.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Creativity Software Review 113

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It encourages creative thinking, interconnected strategies, and a resilient mindset, which is crucial for staying ahead in dynamic and volatile markets. Total Transformation and Future Leadership: Single Organization: The Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs is a roadmap for total organisational transformation.

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ChatGPT Collaboration Design Leadership 52

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Fabienne Jacquet.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Michael Michalko is the author of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques; Cracking Creativity: The Thinking Strategies of Creative Geniuses; Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck , and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work.

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Brainstorming Creativity Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Redesigning markets and behaviors. ? Manage social and market changes. ? Design Thinking promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration where creativity, logic, and talent are not boxed. Therefore, it is crucial to facilitate Design Thinking by collaborating with different departments to achieve novel innovation.

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Design Thinking Design Innovation Creativity 118

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. Marketing strategies. Industry and market dynamics. That is not yet completely clear yet.

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Strategy Strategy Exercises Disruption 87

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

Alex was astonished to find that only a few industries offered innovation compared to the pet markets in the U.S. We also learned how they make sure to pursue marketing and advertising efforts to move the sellout to their retail partners. Thirdly, marketers also need tools for automating campaigns on Facebook and other platforms. .

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Data Creativity Technical Review Innovation 118

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This could be in a new plant, in where production should be situated, so it can be allowed to scale at a later date, in resources able to achieve scale or more importantly you scale according to the type of goods or demand so they can be readily available, closer to the market they are needed. The scale has to respond accordingly.

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Innovation Software Review Design Engagement 222

The Human Factor

MARCH 1, 2019

With the rate of change in today’s world, learning how to counteract these brain foibles has become a very important leadership skill. When we get stuck in “what is” or “what was” we shut the door on tomorrow – not a good strategy when markets and entire industries can change in the blink of an eye.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Often it is misused as a framework for assessing a specific market or even an organization itself. In fact, thinking much more broadly produces the most value. PESTLED illuminates current influences, but more importantly, it alerts you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries.

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Radical Innovation Artificial Inteligence Data Analysis 69

Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments and has often seen it misused as a framework for assessing a specific market or even the organization itself. You must think much bigger than that to produce something of value. It illuminates connections in the data so you can begin to defend your market value.

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Radical Innovation Artificial Inteligence Data Industry 52

BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts.

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Strategic Thinking Agile Disruption Strategy 40

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Quantum innovation is the name given to the kind of innovation characterized by bold and creative thinking designed to take an enterprise into a lucrative new paradigm – even if that means going beyond the bounds of the existing business model. Shift from IQ to EQ Emphasis in Innovation Leadership.

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Trends Disruption Technical Review Innovation 60

KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Optimize for Serendipity. Let Your People Make Decisions.

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Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing Creativity 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. The Death of Marketing Strategy – Killer Article! Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In this post, we’ll give you some irrefutable proof of leadership traits that can come from popular CXOs and a few “surprise” sources. You need to create an environment that can adapt, experiment, and respond to be the first to market to survive in this age of rapid technological advancements. Challenge the status quo.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Creativity 40

Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

These lenses can encompass key trends impacting your business, clients, markets, industries and maybe even the world. Develop weak signals ranging from your customer needs, market dynamics, competitive pressures and evolving technology landscape. How does this compare to your organization’s core assets and capabilities?

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Creativity Competition Data Resources 52

Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Stimulate #Innovation: Think from your customer's perspective. Thinking from the customer’s perspective is another great way to shift your framing. In the age of social media and content marketing, it’s become incredibly important for companies to think as their audience and tap into their world to meet them.

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