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IdeaScale Launches a Successful Self-Paced Course on: Excelling at Innovation

IdeaScale

The course focuses on his value-driven approach to innovation, drawing on lessons learned from the CO-STAR methodology he helped develop. Self-paced learning is one of the key innovations of the last twenty years. What You’ll Learn. Overview: IdeaScale’s Laszlo Gyorffy M.S., What Is A Self-Paced Course?

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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? The following are seven principles that I’ve learned during my lifetime of work in the field of creative thinking — things that I wish I’d been taught as a student. 2 Creative Thinking Is Work. It’s producing a result.

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Top Jobs to be Done Books (JTBD)

InnovationTraining.org

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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Are you coming to the Innovation Virtual Summit?

Paul Hobcraft

For me utterly worth the time and effort to learn at my own pace, where I choose, when I choose. I am wanting to tune in to many of their sessions to learn from their experiences and exchanges with the experts. This comes with your own playbook called the Innov8rs Handbook 2018. Hopefully, I’ll see you there.

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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

Read Next: Agile Transformation: 10 Lessons Learned (so far) on our Agile Journey. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook. Many executive leaders don’t need to learn all the theory behind Agile. Identify and Train Key Business Owners. Focus on selling Agile to executives by showing them how they can succeed with the approach.

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THE EXQUISITE CORPSE

Michael Michalko

Some of the words they came up with were people, cruises, creative, furniture, charity, designer, custom, art, thin air, and celebrities. They planned an elaborate, sophisticated evening and looked for unusual items they could auction. They tried the “exquisite corpse” technique. One of the connections was: create—-art—-thin air.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Ask, “What can we learn?” Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Recognize and quickly adopt new ideas within your own team or business unit. when projects do not turn out as expected. ask “Why?” “Why

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