IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about brainstorming, and we have found that whiteboard sessions are some of the best exercises to conduct to get the most out of your brainstorming session. .

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

I also set out to discover how I could influence culture at IdeaScale to better support design methodologies and best practices necessary in building successful products. . Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far. — Being the only designer can be rough.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Takes a Holistic View of Problems.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 16, 2020

Use this design sprint template to effectively facilitate sprints with your virtual team. The design sprint is a popular fast-paced innovation approach that’s rapid and interactive. While many design sprints are held in-person, you can also complete the process virtually using a design thinking software tool like Miro.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more. By identifying these traits, organizations can pinpoint the individuals most likely to succeed in roles that require innovative thinking and leadership. Encouraging a Mindset of Continuous Learning Continuous learning is the bedrock of innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization. Here are some strategies you might learn about: Encouraging risk-taking and learning from failure to drive progress.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs. We will guide them through the learning and doing of innovating with ChaptGPT as a professional.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. “Turn Ordinary into Extraordinary: Learn the Art of Storytelling!” “Share Your Stories with the World: Learn the Craft of Storytelling!” “Bring Your Stories to Life: Learn How to Tell an Engaging Tale!”

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

AI can revolutionize the educational landscape by tailoring learning experiences, automating administrative tasks, and providing insights into student performance. AI-powered coaches can guide leaders through exercises that focus on delivering feedback in a constructive and empathetic manner, as well as receiving feedback with an open mind.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

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. An activity like this could also be an engaging part of a design thinking workshop. Design thinking software tools.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

The principle behind this exercise is simple yet profound: if team members are hesitant in their personal buying decisions, how can they expect to act differently with prospects? Bridging the Gap between Thought and Action: This exercise pushes team members out of their comfort zones, forcing them to act rather than overthink.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 13, 2023

Leaders can encourage their teams to practice mindfulness by offering training sessions or incorporating mindfulness exercises into team meetings. Encourage Continuous Learning Sales and marketing leaders can elevate their consciousness by encouraging their teams to engage in continuous learning.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 28, 2019

Storytelling has become a powerful approach for leadership, innovation, and design thinking. A business storytelling training workshop can help us to learn this craft and develop our communication skills. In our workshop we will lead you through activities and exercises to help you find, create, make, and share your own stories.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’ll share some general advice for organizations and companies designing, developing, and implementing leadership retreats. Icebreakers are useful beginning exercises even for teams who know each other quite well. A great executive or corporate retreat facilitator is also a designer. Conclusion.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. At first glance, creative facilitation and narrative building exercises may appear silly or frivolous. First, they force the team to think beyond what is already known or can be proven.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This perspective encourages learning from experiences, including failures, and viewing challenges as opportunities to grow. Regular exercise, adequate rest, healthy eating, and mindfulness practices can enhance your ability to cope with stress and maintain focus during challenging times.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 13, 2022

Genuine leaders know that the secret to designing a winning culture is to inspire leadership in others.”. I go through this exercise yearly to check in with myself. Simply put, the secret to my career success is tied to a combination of good design in strategy and developing leaders.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. But somehow the project doesn’t go as smoothly as the exercises and cases studies you read through. You conclude that perhaps the things you learned won’t work with your organization or in your industry.

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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. Design thinking in action.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Properly used, a business case embodies the essential learning and planning derived from Lean, Design Thinking, and similar approaches to product development. It is not a documentation exercise, but a tool for collaborative learning and communicating the justification for a product concept.

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Fehmida Kapadia

AUGUST 22, 2019

Reimagine your learning experience I taught my first design thinking class this week. Design thinking challenges us to set aside all our pre-conceived notions, put the user at the center of the innovation process and empathize with them to really identify the problem. We combined Prof.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Trying to get everyone to consensus is an exercise in cat herding in a room full of rocking chairs. Identify new training or educational opportunities to learn new skills or new methods. Enrich your own portfolio of innovation techniques, design thinking techniques, open innovation methods or a host of other capabilities.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Systems thinking is a powerful methodology focused on understanding how parts interact and work together within a whole system. Learn more about this methodology and discover systems thinking training techniques, activities, courses, and articles below. . What is Systems Thinking? Image Source: Disruptive Design / Medium.

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Be-novative

MAY 27, 2021

Best practices from our Be-novative Partner Hub Designing a process together with your client’s leadership team, and then getting feedback that this planned process answers their needs and fulfills their best hopes, is a wonderful experience. Her questions were around: Should the leaders design their own workshops?—?where

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Walk down the list and spend ten minutes thinking. Local economic development leaders could do this same exercise, listing local assets on one side, and new technology (or trends) on the other. MoshPit templates and exercises work within the ideation step of any innovation process. I can almost guarantee you’ll have ideas.

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Innovationship

JUNE 20, 2018

The annual KFAS Innovation Challenge is a four-month blended learning program hosted by a prestigious university in which teams from Kuwait’s private-sector companies are incubated with support and resources as they work on a project from their own business.

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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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Wazoku

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Wazoku, inspired by Future Shaper, Richard Copland’s series of thought pieces, including Innovation and entrepreneurship in the age of the 100 year life and The New Old , recently ran a challenge for design thinking leaders from across the world to submit ideas for products and services that will be relevant and demanded. Don’t worry!

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Concepts are taught using interactive exercises and challenges, which make for rich debrief discussions, learning, and integration into real world team habits. Momentum starts with a validated thinking style assessment (using the Foursight Online measure) and it ends with a team action plan. What’s Covered in Momentum.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Participants learn classic pitfalls and how to avoid them using best practices and emerging advanced practices. It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management.

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Planview

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Here are 4 way lessons you can learn from CSAA’s culture efforts as highlighted by Harvard Business Review. Its program provides tools and applied exercises based on design thinking, and makes it clear that everyone can—and should—contribute creative ideas for improvement in business processes, customer experiences, and product offerings.”.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Lean Startup is an innovation paradigm exercised by the most successful startups from Silicon Valley. In a nutshell, it is based on three core principles: Build a Minimum Viable Product that allows your team to test your design hypotheses with the least effort possible. What’s Your Big Idea?

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

One of the most common excuses we hear from folks who are reluctant to embrace innovative thinking is that they "are not creative" or not "right-brain thinkers." We like to gently remind them that the ability to think innovatively is in fact a learned skill, and can be improved with rigorous practice.

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