IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

Templates to help you conquer this innovative meeting format. The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a short design sprint exercise advanced by the team at AJ&Smart that has since gained popularity across the design thinking and innovation space. Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

Representatives from research and development, marketing, operations, and IT departments can contribute their insights and collaborate to define the framework’s structure, design, and implementation strategies. For example, a series of workshops that draw out the diversity of opinions and points of value helps this cross-functional work.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

We cannot afford to avoid changing our innovation processes as we deal with a far more complex and challenging world. We seem to be keeping innovation as a disappointing and often frustrating outcome for many leaders of organizations. Indeed our existing innovation processes are doing an (adequate) job. Why change?

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Planview

APRIL 28, 2019

Premera tasked Nielsen and his innovation team to come up with new ideas that put their customers at the center of Premera’s universe. This meant allowing everybody within the company to participate in an innovation process. Recipes were developed over time covering areas like design-thinking frameworks, pilots and market scans.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. This is an individual innovative mindset that also is alive in innovative teams. This article share some basic tips to help your organization innovate through an important dynamic – teams.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2022

Professor Jeanne Liedtka (author of Designing for Growth among other excellent books on design thinking) is one of the most respected researchers, teachers and practitioners of design thinking out there. It’s very qualitative and allows for a more nuanced look at what makes for successful innovation.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Most innovation toolkits these days have roots in design thinking, and draw inspiration from one of the original freely available toolkits from the Stanford Design School called the Bootcamp Bootleg. Creating a culture of innovation involves more than just making a toolkit available on the corporate intranet.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Most innovation toolkits these days have roots in design thinking, and draw inspiration from one of the original freely available toolkits from the Stanford Design School called the Bootcamp Bootleg. Creating a culture of innovation involves more than just making a toolkit available on the corporate intranet.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Using human-centred design approaches, an array of research techniques, stakeholder engagement and facilitated sessions, Dom focusses on understanding problems, and identifying insights, pain points and opportunities before developing concepts or prototypes, and engaging in customer testing. Innovation Processes.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Innovation Management. Design Thinking. Areas of expertise.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Innovation Management. Design Thinking. Areas of expertise.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Leadership Innovation Programs 40

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. When you design innovation sessions: Use a variety of experiences. Do Improv games. Get in touch!

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Does it matter if our customers don’t use the word innovative but are completely bowled over by the solutions we create for them? If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc. Take the Double Diamond of Design Thinking for example.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis. What’s an Innovation Sprint? ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Some companies use gamification to show most engaged users, ideas with the most comments or most active conversation. This could be the innovation leader launching the programme into the business, by getting everyone aligned on what innovation means to each person or team versus what it means for the company as a whole.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The ‘innovation team’ must have creative members, engineers and technologists to showcase real innovation, at pace; the team needs to clearly connect the theoretical, abstract notions of innovation with the commercial context of your company; it must demonstrate how innovation can bring concrete commercial results, fast.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999). An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” Reduces processing time.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999). An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” Reduces processing time.

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