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Announcing Momentum Creative Problem Solving (MCPS)

Gregg Fraley

A highly creative new method for solving difficult problems. Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Three Oaks, Michigan, Wednesday April 21st, an announcement on International Creativity and Innovation Day. More focused creativity means more Momentum. Everybody is creative.

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Lead Scoring in B2B Sales: Transforming the Process with Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Be creative and think about what would be most relevant and valuable for your target audience. In a B2B professional services environment, lead scoring can be used to prioritize leads Conclusion It’s important to remember that lead scoring using Design Thinking is not a one-time project, but an ongoing process.

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Understanding the Origins of Innovation

IdeaScale

One potential problem is of a crowdsourcing project turning into a “popularity contest.” One popular way to establish ROI for innovation is to begin with a smaller, lower-risk innovation project and see it through to completion. If so, a great place to start is by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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Conditions for innovation to succeed

Jeffrey Phillips

This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas. Starving the teams to get more creative solutions isn't necessarily wrong, but failing to invest small budgets when the potential payoffs are huge is simply misguided. That's because they are wedded to the existing products and processes.

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Why is Diversity Important to Innovation

IdeaScale

Of those, they have funded 10 winning ideas, which have included a web and mobile platform that aggregates data on development projects in Ghana and a project to reduce infant mortality in Indonesia, among others. Are there still projects where smaller groups are more efficient?

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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Here are a few ways COOs can encourage cross-functional teams: Clearly define roles and responsibilities: Make sure that each team member knows their role and how it fits into the larger project. By fostering a culture of experimentation, COOs can encourage team members to think creatively, take risks, and learn from failure.

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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

Good creativity thinkers like Keith Sawyer are referenced, but a lot of the references are from academic journals and research sources. I do think the book falls a bit short in providing tools and frameworks to actually use this in a real activity or project, and should have been accompanied by a more rigorous assessment tool.