Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 31, 2024

At a Glance Gijs van Wulfen, Keynote Speaker, Innovation Institute Focus Areas : Innovation, Design Thinking, Creativity. This, now proven, methodology combines design thinking and business thinking and structures the start of innovation.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In this interview, I shared with him on how Design thinking can be used to build new products or services that fall in the intersection of Desirability, Viability and Feasibility. Practical Design Thinking for Product Managers – Mukesh Gupta from Institute of Product Leadership on Vimeo.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Design Thinking Grows Up — Welcome to Experience Thinking. Design Thinking is an incredibly powerful way to approach the design of just about anything that involves an interaction with people (or other intelligent creatures). We call it "Experience Thinking" , or XT. Powerful indeed!

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2019

HBR resources focused on leadership development and growing the next generation of leaders. Another leadership development challenge is to foster employee growth and leadership across the organization at all levels…and to develop the next generation of leaders to guide the organization into a changing future.

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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. Let’s drawdown on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 28, 2021

We use an innovative design thinking framework to help you develop your mission and communicate it in an engaging way for your stakeholders, colleagues, and the people that you serve. This is designed for teams to focus on what their purpose is related to the organization’s mission statement. Contact us online today.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Innovate your virtual meetings through our design thinking-inspired Zoom facilitation training workshop. With many workshops, classes, events, and sessions being held online, it’s more important than ever to have the right virtual meeting and facilitator skills to effectively engage in your virtual session.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We use design thinking to design and facilitate storytelling workshops. Our focus is helping people to take on a challenge to reflect on their life and work to create and design their own stories, and then prototype and test their stories out on their fellow workshop participants. Thanks for a great event this morning!

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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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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Whether you are a company that wants to attract top talent or an individual who is trying to land your dream job, or create a new business, it’s becoming clear that the future of work is both human and technology centred and involves the development of new leadership capabilities. Leadership as a way of life.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Conclusion: Design More Effective Meetings Today with a Meeting Planning Template.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. The two thought leadership pieces I have chosen. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 5, 2016

I was recently invited to deliver a talk on “Practical Design Thinking for Product Managers” at an event held by the ‘Institute of Product Leadership” in Bangalore. Practical Design Thinking for Product Managers – Prof. I also share my thoughts on how this can be avoided.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And learners agree – these virtual workshops (when done correctly) can be just as engaging and effective as an in-person event. Keep reading our innovation and design thinking blog for more critical insights during COVID-19 and beyond. Insight #3: Focus on Reinforcing Key Behaviors.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

As you know, the current environment has caused the cancellation of many public events, including workshops and conferences, as well as most non-essential travel. This is, obviously, causing a massive disruption to global economics and gives rise to massive amounts of uncertainty.

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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. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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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. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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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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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Despite the “shortened” length of the event itself, this year is no different. We’ve planned out several events to enhance your Lean Startup Conference experience, all around the theme of digging deep to uncover new value for those who your organization aims to serve. >>Register here Leadership Development AMA with Aaron Eden.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I say ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ instead of the usual narrative of ‘Innovation Leadership’ because it’s not about making the leaders themselves ‘innovative’ but about leaders being able to build and lead an organisation where genuine innovation (not innovation theatre!)

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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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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Design Thinking Still the Most Popular Framework. Design Thinking is still the most popular innovation framework, with 46% of participants stating that they believe in and practice it within their own organization. Find more design thinking and innovation resources on our blog.

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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. Lead change.

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Be-novative

MARCH 30, 2021

The problem: The protagonist of our session is an expert in Leadership team effectiveness offering Dialogic Team coaching solutions to teams of all-size organisations. A study from the Leadership Quarterly found that as few as 15% of teams are considered effective, compare this to 80% of teams with ineffective leaders.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

These types of events become something of a disappointment if I do most the talking. For those that score themselves highly, the consistent reason why comes down to leadership. The organization’s leadership wants the employee to continuously challenge the current way of doing things. Design thinking.

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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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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights. Prabhu, & R.

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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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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

We need to understand and act on what people are saying, thinking, feeling, doing, and how they are connecting with an organization’s purpose. Dan Riley stated that organizations need to move beyond traditional employee engagement, performance management, and leadership development that happens only once a year.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Promising to help you find insights into leadership, initiative, and innovation, this personality assessment may be another good option for your organization. Find more design thinking and innovation resources on our blog.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS). He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going. Transformational leadership is often practiced by those in the startup space.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. While this works sometimes, it’s a lot better to gain air coverage from leadership to carve out some funding on the side and get a multi-year investment.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 4, 2022

People think that investors take away power and are not collaborative. Funding is not an event; it’s a process.”. She feels that she created a beautiful puzzle that takes shapes in different ways. We hope to have a better mechanism to manage the flow of capital. We need to help people through more collaborative ownership.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 22, 2019

Networking events or an online employee forum may help participants feel more comfortable around their coworkers. Employees look up to senior management for leadership and direction. Check out our design thinking and innovation resources blog for more L&D articles, tools, and tips. Read the full article here.

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