Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. This shift allows design thinkers to focus on higher-level creative and strategic activities. What is Design Thinking?

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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. We usually find pockets of innovation success in every organization.

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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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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Innovation consultants provide innovation leadership primarily by helping client companies pursue innovation goals. They can help client businesses construct strategies and business plans that realign goals around a culture of innovation. Innovation consultants earn around $97,000 per year.

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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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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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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Any work team that has a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity and the commitment to explore it in creative ways. Can we still use Free the Genie? Yes, but only four people can participate at one time. Why only four?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. Colruyt Group is a great case in point. Qmarkets: That’s awesome!

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. There is also a lot of yakking about culture. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. The best innovators organize their efforts around projects.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It aligns all facets toward value creation by addressing foundational creativity, interconnected solutions, dynamic resilience, and collaborative prosperity. Innovation and Agility: Single Organization: Within an organization, the hierarchy fosters a culture of innovation. For me, this is a co-evolution effect.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While hard numbers are compelling, remember that softer metrics—such as culture change, employee engagement, and skill-building—also play a significant role in measuring the impact of your innovation platform. As a bonus, softer metrics can be reported on easily, as well as early, in the life of your innovation program.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 3, 2022

Innovators present creatively disruptive traits, disrupt old ways, and inspire better ways to do things. Being innovative is a growth mindset and a proactive attitude. They are passionate to connect, to learn, and to explore by understanding commonalities and appreciating uniqueness.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. If you want an organization to survive, you must innovate. But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. Gregg talks specifics about: How to quickly assess your current innovation culture and process.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this? Dyson engineers are never satisfied.

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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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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

Social enterprise networks may engage large and diverse groups, but like email, online forms and brainstorming, they lack purpose and don’t offer any direction or workflow for evaluating and implementing shared ideas. If you view innovation as just an idea generation and capture process, divorced from business execution, you won’t succeed.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

The recently published Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation , provides practical techniques to break down many of the barriers to innovation in business. Innovation requires more than just idea generation. Do you like insights into innovation like this?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity. What is your definition of “innovation”: The application of ideas that are novel and useful. Make a long-term investment in innovation culture. David Burkus.

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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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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Even though it is especially there that creativity is so crucial! This post explains why it’s so important to be open minded to new ideas, because they might end up being revolutionary. In fact many great ideas, which today are widely accepted, were violently opposed when first expressed. And changing perspective is hard.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement. Founding a sustainable innovation culture – a space where new ideas could be proposed confidentially, employees would be accountable, and participation encouraged ?

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Innovation is one of the most popular terms used in the corporate world. It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. For those that can foster the trait, however, the incentives to become an innovation leader are obvious.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Innovation is one of the most popular terms used in the corporate world. It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 10, 2018

Consider tracking ideas, as in, who contributed, and the level of contribution. If you are interested in building a broader culture of innovation. If people know this is being done you will broaden participation. Check out these services.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. For those that can foster the trait, however, the incentives to become an innovation leader are obvious.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Even though it is especially there that creativity is so crucial! This post explains why it’s so important to be open minded to new ideas, because they might end up being revolutionary. In fact many great ideas, which today are widely accepted, were violently opposed when first expressed. And changing perspective is hard.

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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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whereas, Gartner says it is a business discipline that aims to drive a repeatable, sustainable innovation process or culture within an organization. Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way. Culture/Country.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whereas, Gartner says it is a business discipline that aims to drive a repeatable, sustainable innovation process or culture within an organization. Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way. Culture/Country.

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