Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. Planning and Preparation For leading executive team offsites for business strategy, meticulous planning and preparation are essential.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success. Some of the common obstacles faced in managing virtual teams include: Communication barriers due to lack of face-to-face interaction.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. We need to resolve that issue within any innovation activity, it needs a “tight” linkage to strategy. Making that real alignment of strategy and innovation provides a good base.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. What is Design Thinking? It encompasses five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2024

Implementing and Building Ecosystem Designs While ecosystem-based approaches offer numerous advantages, there are also challenges and potential barriers that organizations may face. Barrier: Lack of clarity or misalignment in innovation strategies among ecosystem participants may hinder the coherence and impact of innovation initiatives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights on orchestrating successful offsites, consider exploring leading executive team offsites for business strategy , which delves into best practices and effective leadership approaches. To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Greater Flexibility and Adaptability : Collaborative teams are better equipped to respond to changes and pivot strategies when necessary. Embracing team collaboration strategies is essential for managers and leaders aiming to navigate the complexities of today’s business environment effectively.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For a deeper dive into how you can lead your team to strategic success, explore leading executive team offsites for business strategy. For guidance on designing a successful offsite, refer to our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. Step Description Define Objectives Set clear, S.M.A.R.T

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. For deeper insights on leading such initiatives, explore our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Operating sustainably is not only good for the environment but also good for business.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. Most of the failures point to a lack of design and alignment with people’s needs. This is where Design Thinking can be of tremendous value. It is people centric.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Companies continue to struggle to design and implement a post-Covid return-to-office strategy that works for employees. To find the most workable alternative, they should focus on four factors: the needs of the work, the needs of the people, how work gets done, and the new managerial muscle required to manage a hybrid workforce.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

They can also help you to identify shared values that can help you communicate more effectively and also design dilemmas that will send people your way. The post Self-Righteousness Isn’t A Strategy first appeared on Digital Tonto. It’s more important to make a difference than it is to make a point. You Need To Learn It.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We designed team-building processes that we ran using technology like teleconferences and screen sharing. The challenge is that many managers haven’t actually been trained on what’s needed to lead virtual or distributed work teams.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Design expert Eric Quint. As a former Chief Brand and Design Officer at 3M and Head of Design Management and Consulting at Royal Philips, Eric has extensive experience in understanding what it takes to get design embedded within large businesses.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? But they are manageable. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We designed team-building processes that we ran using technology like teleconferences and screen sharing. The challenge is that many managers haven’t actually been trained on what’s needed to lead virtual or distributed work teams.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. IS: What’s an example of an open competency model?

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 5, 2023

Orchestrating Design Thinking and AI for a People-Centric Business Future The tapestry of business evolution tells a remarkable story. Products were no longer simply created and sold; they were designed to meet customer needs and solve their problems. From the onset of marketing in the 1950s to today, we’ve seen clear transformations.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 30, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations. Reorganizing a company to solve complex problems, introduce innovation, improve business operations, and identify market opportunities requires design. Design Thinking can be used as a tool to transform or reorganize a company to identify innovative solutions to current problems.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

That’s why SMEs can benefit from taking three actions: designing controls proportionate to the risks at stake, analyzing the lessons from success (not only from failures), and using risk management to boost and protect business performance. They are one large potential incident away from bankruptcy.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 25, 2020

Since 2015, the Innovation Management Awards, presented by IdeaScale, have sought out the best innovation strategists, designers, and approaches. 2020’s field was a tough one to narrow down, as innovation management has spread from the smallest businesses to the biggest conglomerates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

And how harnessing the power of design shaped the company’s global strategy.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2020

Are your employees engaged with your company’s innovation strategy? You can also devise other surveys or questionnaires for employees to answer that will reveal how they feel about your organization’s innovation strategy and whether they feel their contributions are important. Do some employees feel innovation strategies don’t matter?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As an overwhelming 80% of founders believe innovation to be the heart of organizational growth, employing an innovation strategy that promotes, facilitates, and feeds innovation is essential. GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson To innovate is to survive.

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Cascade Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Ansoff Matrix is a popular strategic framework for decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and business managers tasked with evaluating opportunities for business growth. Pros : Simple to use and easy to understand, helps stakeholders understand the level of risk associated with different strategies. What is Ansoff Matrix?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By engaging in CVC, corporations can also contribute to the development of startup accelerator programs , which are designed to support early-stage companies as they grow. Risk Management : Developing a framework for risk assessment and management, tailored to the unique challenges of investing in startups.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For 2021, IdeaScale has three new winners of the Innovation Management Awards: TriHealth for engaging nearly 80% of their workforce; Grant Thornton for pioneering work in automation; and Graybar for an exemplary innovation process. Best Engagement Strategy: TriHealth. Best Innovation Process: Graybar.

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