InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Learn how to gain empathy when practicing design thinking. Empathy is an important element in design thinking and human-centered design. In this guide, we’ll cover what empathy for design thinking means as well as how to learn empathy to apply to your innovation- and design thinking-focused projects.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 9, 2020

When bringing people together to solve problems with design thinking, there may be more benefits to going remote than you think. Face-to-face design thinking workshops can be amazing. There is a certain energy, human connection and buzz that is pretty hard to reproduce in a virtual format. Increased accountability.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 28, 2020

Design Thinking Coaching: 1on1 or Group. We can connect you to an excellent design thinking coach who can help you apply design thinking in your own work, with your teams, and within your organization. Just send us an email at coaching@innovationtraining.org to learn more about the options.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. Strategic planning offsites are a significant investment in your leadership team’s development and your company’s future.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves understanding the needs and perspectives of users, prototyping, and testing potential solutions, and iterating until the best solution is found. .

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 9, 2021

How to facilitate a design thinking workshop for digital transformation. Digital transformation is a significant and common challenge for organizations and thus a great design thinking project. Leaders, facilitators and design thinking project leaders also have to be creative about working virtually.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 26, 2023

Redefining Leadership: The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence In an increasingly digital world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. From healthcare to e-commerce, and now to leadership, AI’s influence is reshaping the way we function.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Understanding the Leadership Balance Stepping into a leadership role is akin to becoming a gardener.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

As you plan your next conference or leadership program, understanding the value of these speakers is crucial. They discuss the challenges of implementing innovation in business and the role leadership plays in driving change. Offering continuous learning opportunities to keep team members sharp and engaged.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes. Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

This strategic approach enables teams to apply experiential learning towards creative problem-solving, thus driving the organization forward. Learn more about the synergy of these concepts in our comprehensive guide on high performance leadership teams through psychological safety & experiential intelligence.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. However, human ingenuity and thinking-outside-the-box remain indispensable. Nurture a culture of healthy questioning, risk-taking and continuous learning. Set up internal incubators for passion projects.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

While many innovation experts focus on helping individuals learn techniques to come up with more ideas, like brainstorming or design thinking, the most valuable skill is being able to select which ideas to focus on based on the value they will deliver. Psychological Safety. Growth Mindset.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking?

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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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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. Gartner has found that business leaders underfund transformational projects by ~33% due to ineffective innovation project evaluation methods.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip. I always suspected there was a closer connection.

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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. LEARN BY EXPERIENCE?—?BY

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We could encourage more ‘unconference’ style learning to share new ideas.

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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. Storytelling for Transformation.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 15, 2024

Fractional executives are seasoned professionals who offer their expertise to multiple organizations on a part-time or project basis, allowing businesses to access high-level skills without the full-time expense. Generative AI refers to algorithms that can learn from data and generate original content, be it text, code, or strategic plans.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 8, 2015

As part of my job, advising others on all things swirling around innovation, I invest significant time in researching, learning and applying what I feel is important to others, so as to understand or at least to raise their awareness to changing practices, thinking or approaches. But not all thought leadership is equal.

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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. Human-Centered approaches to innovation like design thinking are trending (and needed).

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management. Outcome orientation : Cross-sector innovation collaborations require a strong focus on outcomes and impact.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

Showcase success stories and case studies : As you learn you can justify. Highlight their positive outcomes, such as increased innovation efficiency, improved customer satisfaction, and market leadership. Using the suggested building blocks and learning components are all common today.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Thinking about things is not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. That thing is innovation projects.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. In this guide, you’ll learn how to figure out what customers want (even when they can’t express it), sort valuable insights from less useful data, dig into the “why”, develop solutions that work, spot emerging trends, and more.

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Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

We voted which story to work with based on the most learning potential for ourselves. However, purpose projects are not possible to be surfaced nor implemented with silo-thinking and without fostering a collaborative space among the senior leadership team. Here is a collection of our best practices: A.)

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Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

We voted which story to work with based on the most learning potential for ourselves. However, purpose projects are not possible to be surfaced nor implemented with silo-thinking and without fostering a collaborative space among the senior leadership team. Here is a collection of our best practices: A.)

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. This is a great one for those who want to help others learn and develop.

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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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