InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story is linked to a series of events that take a character from one state to another. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. It has shaped my thinking. Let’s drawdown on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

Planview

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Large companies have a harder time creating a culture of innovation than startups – how many times have you heard this? billion dollar company with more than 3,800 employees – bucks conventional thinking. Established enterprises are transforming their cultures. Define what “innovation” means to your business.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I began running workshops around “building a culture of inquiry.” ” The workshops are designed to help people explore what it means to embrace a spirit of inquiry in meaningful ways within their organization and, ultimately, within themselves. Design thinking. After the publication of Great Question!

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. Contact Us.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

However, for every Steve Jobs or Elon Musk who has famously steered their companies through the maelstrom of change, countless unsung leaders, often within the more traditional corporate structures, want to cultivate the culture that innovation requires within their organisation. It’s for those that I write this article!

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Planview

APRIL 28, 2019

It starts with creating a culture of innovation from within by tapping into the wisdom of employees. Premera Blue Cross developed its culture of innovation that motivated 3,200 employees to produce more than 400 new ideas to improve its products and services. Ingredients included issues like consumer pain points or business problems.

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Be-novative

MAY 27, 2021

How to empower leaders to build a better Culture of Collaboration using virtual facilitation techniques? Building a better Culture of Collaboration can be a challenging topic, especially when you are a consultant, hired to work with the leadership team of a company. LET THEM CHOOSE THE TOPICS TO COLLABORATE ON.

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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. Inspiring action.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 2, 2023

Design thinking can be a useful approach to conduct market research and understand the target market’s needs, competitors, and market trends. Here are some key steps to use design thinking when conducting market research: Empathize: Understand the target market’s needs, pain points, and challenges.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Software Review 62

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 12, 2021

Stand-up meetings and huddles have become popular formats in agile culture and design thinking -centered spaces, and with good reason. These daily, short meetings provide a fresh and more effective approach than a typical round-table discussion by pushing your team to get thinking in a fast-paced and efficient manner.

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Meeting Software Review Agile Design Thinking 52

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Clear strategy leadership, a different organisational culture but with an emphasis more on partner engagement. The end result needs to be robust, dynamic and holistic in its dimensions, it has to be systematically designed and implemented, knowledge-driven by events and process design, and driven by dynamic interactions.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 208

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 15, 2020

In the first blog I wrote about the importance of defining an innovation bias in your culture. It will require deeper observation, using ethnographic and design thinking skills to uncover unmet needs. I'm going back to basics for a handful of blog posts - back to what I call the innovation building blocks.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story is linked to a series of events that take a character from one state to another. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. It has shaped my thinking. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story is linked to a series of events that take a character from one state to another. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. It has shaped my thinking. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 10, 2023

Companies should also embrace a culture of lifelong learning and encourage employees to develop skills in areas such as data analysis, programming, and digital literacy. Additionally, businesses should focus on developing a symbiotic relationship between AI and human workers, promoting a culture that values the unique contributions of both.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Guidelines Design 62

Wazoku

AUGUST 15, 2019

A key pillar and differentiator to their existing strategy has been the introduction and investment in an Innovation team, whose mission is to drive and cultivate a culture of innovation. The Prince’s Trust employees taking part in a Design Thinking workshop. The Awards.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Tell me what I should be thinking about.” We were at a social event. Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! Then he popped the question.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

We have seen too often that a department or a group of people is sent to an innovation training session or event. To work according to the most effective innovation management principles, both the structure and the culture of an organisation need to support innovation. A company culture in which innovation is supported and encouraged.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. Stories about the unique culture or values of an organization. Stories about the people or events that have shaped the company. Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas.

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Artificial Inteligence Ideation Brainstorming ChatGPT 83

Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

The boundaries between work and life were suddenly removed, health and safety became a critical concern, and cultural turbulence was everywhere. MENTORS & FEEDBACK CULTURE. Priszcilla Varnagy added how important it is to design the way people get feedback not just yearly in a survey or 360 evaluation but for their work-in-progress.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

The change to an innovation mindset and culture can bring many benefits to companies willing to commit. Creating and establishing an innovation culture can be a difficult task for companies that are starting this endeavor. Only in this way is it possible to implement a sustainable innovation culture. What results can we achieve?

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Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Analysis 52

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

The time is ripe to go beyond talking about innovation to actually creating a culture of innovation. In The Startup Teacher Playbook we provide the tools needed to bring startup principles into education to promote innovative teaching and create the culture of innovation we all strive to achieve. That’s where lean methodology comes up.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

Ensuring Management Buy-in We have seen too often that a department or a group of people is sent to an innovation training session or event. To work according to the most effective innovation management principles, both the structure and the culture of an organisation need to support innovation. What has happened here?

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Wazoku

APRIL 27, 2020

Through its core product, Idea Spotlight, the business embraces the principles of design thinking and challenge lead innovation, to help its clients crowdsource ideas from anywhere. When thinking about leadership, Simon likes to develop talent from within and gives a lot of autonomy to his teams.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 26, 2021

These processes are generally supported by problem-solving methodologies, process review approaches, and research methods of consumer habits and behaviors, such as Design Thinking and Jobs to be Done. A deck of solutions that includes everything from Strategic Planning , Change Management to Cultural Transformation.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

This would be a company where only a small number of people are trained in innovation capabilities, and their remit is primarily around finding a market, such as through ethnographic research and design thinking. For decades, many large companies began building their own innovation labs.

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Underperforming Technical Team Resources Innovation Project 283

Innovation Architecture

MARCH 5, 2018

The International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP) sponsors Innova-Con as the capstone to their annual cycle of events. however, I did meet IAOIP members from as far away as Lithuania and Bahrain, who had flown in specifically for the event. A link to the Innova-Con event site can be found here.

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Culture of Innovation 40

Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Leaders can use their awareness of this common barrier as one of the cornerstones for creating a culture where everyday innovation takes place. E.g. a wall decorated by employees, interactive lunches or team building events, flexible project teams. Let’s go over one of them?—?it’s So what’s the barrier? Uniformity.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 22, 2019

4 Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team. Networking events or an online employee forum may help participants feel more comfortable around their coworkers. Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team. Check out our design thinking and innovation resources blog for more L&D articles, tools, and tips.

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Underperforming Technical Team Learning Tips Culture 41

InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2019

This Harvard Business Review article posits that organizations need to be more forward-thinking with identifying and growing leaders in the everyday. Rather than keeping leadership development as a separate entity in an organization’s culture, it needs to work with and connect to larger business objectives and goals.

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Leadership Design Thinking Tips Resources 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Training, a skilled facilitator, and frequent practice are essential to effective ideation sessions and creating a broad and systemic organizational innovation culture. Knowledge of frameworks like CPS and Design Thinking are essential. Knowing how to adapt and blend frameworks to your needs is advanced practice in innovation.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Clear strategy leadership, a different organizational culture but with an emphasis more on partner engagement. The end result needs to be robust, dynamic and holistic in its dimensions; it has to be systematically designed and implemented, knowledge-driven by events and process design, and driven by dynamic interactions.

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Design Innovation Artificial Inteligence Collaboration 52

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

Your annual event brings your people together to establish culture, showcase your company vision and set out the priorities for next year. Interested in connecting with a Design Sprint expert to discuss an upcoming event? Are Design Sprints the fix? Bringing brains together to create change. Get in touch now.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Embedding a Culture of Innovation In order for innovation to thrive, you need to build an environment within an organization where it is safe to experiment and fail. Within these, you want to find your early adopters and start inviting them to events like a Q&A. It's sort of slow going, but this is what starts culture change.

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Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN Culture 52

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Focus on innovation not changing others – They were not expected to “make everyone innovative” or change company culture. Chandy showed that companies whose chief executives speak about future events and external activities innovate more than those whose chiefs don’t. “By They reported directly to the CTO. A 2007 study by M.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. There is a great deal to say about the 10 Commandments listed above. I could write a book on problem framing, #2, alone.

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