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. How are today’s companies embracing a more innovative culture?

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 7, 2020

So he had them join in a set of team building exercises – one of which involved climbing a 30’ pole with a safety harness on, and then standing on a 12” disk at the very top (with nothing to hold on to!). . Later in this blog I’ll present 5 dimensions of such a culture. Just out of reach was a trapeze bar suspended 30’ off the ground.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

Empathize: We will conduct empathy exercises to help the organization better understand the problem they are trying to solve. This could include exercises such as conducting a stakeholder analysis or mapping out the organization’s value chain. We will encourage them to create a prototype or mock-up of their idea.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 6, 2021

Guess who’s more creative – men or women? . Well, neither is more creative than the other because both are equally creative. They just have different roles in terms of their creative output. At the end of the day, men and women can both knock it out of the park when it comes to creative ideas. .

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can decide to become creative if you want to right in this very moment. What is Creativity? Creativity is just combining two things that previously had nothing to do with each other and mashing them together. . Putting Creativity to Work. Creative idea #1: Imagine a kitchen table light that looks like a coffee cup. .

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. Businesses have recognized its potential for fostering innovation and tackling complex challenges. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION? Without accepting failure, you squash the generation of innovative ideas.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you think innovation is only for adults, well, you’re wrong – because kids can just be as innovative as adults are, even more sometimes. . Here are 5 ways to teach your kids to be more creative: Function Follows Form. An example of this is the Ruined Product Exercise where you have your kid take any product around the house.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A timed “drill-down” crowdsourcing exercise on some promising improvements, hosted virtually, live, or a mix of both, would likely build out these dimensions effectively. Channel : This is the creative thinking part. Can we break apart the components of the innovation to make it easier to create? Ideas – The “What Could We Do?”

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For more than a decade now, the fundamental challenge around driving real growth and value from innovation is tied to many companies low focus on organisational design and culture. Our core challenge when we need innovation as a company is building an ecosystem where innovation can thrive.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Corporate innovation is a discipline that could easily take a turn for the worse with improper, overdue, or undersized investments. Unfortunately, many organizations fall prey to the theatrics of innovation, which often amount to nothing more than an exercise in futility with little or no value generated for the business or society.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

Click to play the full session recording The Evolving Role of Innovation Departments Innovation departments maintain a company's competitive edge through continuous reinvention and adaptation. Most of us now engage in activities ranging from internal process optimization to the development of new business models and revenue streams.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. Design thinking in action.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 29, 2021

How Rejection Breeds Creativity. Having our ideas rejected actually motivates us to be even more creative. Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that having our ideas rejected tends to boost our creative output. In the paper, titled Outside Advantage: Can Social Rejection Fuel Creative Thought?

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

Your organization embraces a culture of quality. You convened your first value stream mapping exercise with a group of “friendlies.” At some point you were surprised to learn that, in the past year, your team and you had facilitated a couple hundred value stream mapping exercises. You seek continuous improvement.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Without making yourself wrong, simply note the ones that show up the most for you, then try the simple "go beyond excuses" exercise at the end of the list. We're not in the kind of business likely to innovate. I'm just not not the creative type. No one, besides me, cares about innovation. We're a risk averse culture.

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Planview

JANUARY 15, 2018

At Spigit, we help some of the most successful companies in the world drive their innovation agenda and create cultures of innovation through ideation. There’s a myth about innovation and ideation that people will be more creative when there are no boundaries or limits, but that can be overwhelming for the average employee.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Now you’re ready to innovate with your team. But somehow the project doesn’t go as smoothly as the exercises and cases studies you read through. And they delved into how to discover, ideate and prototype a solution, running through exercises to practice what they learned. Ready to Inspire Your Team to Innovate?

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 28, 2015

New research published in Harvard Business Review suggests that we tend to underestimate our creative ability and that we give up too early. Lucas and Loran Nordgren, shared the following: "In a series of experiments we observed that people consistently underestimated the number of ideas they could generate while solving a creative challenge.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Without making yourself wrong, simply note the ones that show up the most for you, then try the simple "go beyond excuses" exercise at the end of the list. We're not in the kind of business likely to innovate. I'm just not not the creative type. No one, besides me, cares about innovation. We're a risk averse culture.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2016

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the exercise files for this course, you’ll find a handy checklist and definitions for all of these factors. Another trait that can affect how reistive they are is their own ability to generate highly creative ideas. The poorer they are at innovating, the less likely they’ll be open to new ideas.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. And now, we are back to finding ways to use our creative energies to build something of value.

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PlanBox Innovation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Hackathons, and other time-based and themed innovation activities of this kind, provide a perfect outlet to unleash your employees’ creativity and help it flourish. The vibe has to be infectious and inclusive early on so that everyone feels like they can speak their mind and share their creativity. Make a Mad Dash to the Future.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

"Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife." -- Jonathan Schattke, scientist. Innovation and invention are often used interchangeably yet they are two very distinct practices. Innovation Culture Shift. Invention is the discovery of a new process or device.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Organizing the types of innovation can help streamline your processes and boost results. The pool from which innovation emerges is filled with big ideas and endless creativity. Thus, in a way, innovation is infinite, bound only by the depth of thought processes. A few examples include: Innovation Type 1: TRIZ.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

So, you need to put that into process you need to measure what you’re doing, you need to incentivize, right, so that how you build your culture over time, then you have a principle called exploiting insights, one about managing uncertainty. Just certain circle out maybe would be culture and insights. I was wondering.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Where to help me cope with the massive amount of stress, I initiated a serious exercise schedule & a daily meditation practice which I have continued to sustain on a daily basis. Join the next free monthly webinar in our Making Innovation a Habit Series – “Leading a Culture of Innovation.” Register Now.

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