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. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

You might notice a lack of enthusiasm among your team, increased absenteeism, and a decline in productivity and quality of work. If you observe these signs, it’s crucial to act promptly to prevent further erosion of your team’s well-being and performance. Explore further on building a positive work culture.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It equips leaders with the tools necessary to connect with their team members on a deeper level, foster a collaborative environment, and navigate the complexities of workplace dynamics. Here are the core components of emotional intelligence that are crucial for leaders to develop.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation comes to businesses in many ways, yet one thing is for certain: It relies on a diversity of thought. After all, differing viewpoints have been known to encourage greater innovation. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So you can imagine my trepidation in using FOMO - the "fear of missing out" - when writing about innovation. However, rather than simply expand on innovation FOMO, I'd like to introduce another, even more important issue - FOMAD. In the innovation context, FOMAD is the "fear of making a decision". FOMAD What is FOMAD?

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 9, 2023

Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition and meeting the ever-changing needs of customers. To be successful, organizations must be able to effectively manage their innovation processes, from idea generation to commercialization. The process should entail a natural grading of your current innovation ranking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I've been thinking a lot about why innovation fails. Not about why supposedly innovative new products fail, because there are multiple reasons for the failure of a new product. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. This is the bad side of failure.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Innovation, as practiced today in most corporations, is far too "easy" and commercialization is far too difficult. What if innovation was challenging and difficult, and commercialization were easy? Innovation is easy, commercialization is difficult Now, let's get our language straight. What if that statement were reversed?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups. Plan If You Can.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

Orient – Take advantage of your diverse leadership team to assess where your business is (or could be) potentially losing competitive advantage. Decide – Regularly asking and answering a set of strengths- and weaknesses-oriented questions to help identify important strategic drivers and priorities.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. Doing this misses a huge opportunity for innovation. Innovate the experience rather than simply automate it. WHAT INNOVATING VIRTUAL LOOKS LIKE. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The authors report four characteristics that set top CEOs apart, According to the article, “roughly half the strong candidates had distinguished themselves in more than one of the four essential behaviors, while only 5% of the weak candidates had.”. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions. Quick Decision Making.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. I described why we advocate trend spotting and scenario planning as a component of innovation, especially as the expectations of an innovation activity are more disruptive.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 13, 2022

There is power in unity and in developing a critical mass of like-minded individuals voluntarily working toward common goals and purpose. 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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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It’s impossible for a team to innovate, stand out, or add superior value without superior teamwork skills. If you’re leading a team and want your team members to practice excellent teamwork, how would you define it for them or explain how to demonstrate it? What Are the Skills of Great Team Players?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2017

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. Turn bad ideas into good ideas. Some ideas might be funneled to partners.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation by definition is very different from typical business processes, and it should be in a constant state of flux.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers. This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

In past posts we've looked at the origin of explore and exploit , the emergence of true innovation explorers like Edison, Bell and a host of others. Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. While this series of blog posts may seem like a thought exercise, this shift is happening.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2021

The word "innovate" can be traced all the way back to 1440. Exactly what innovations actually happened in 1440 (rounder oxcart wheels?) These days, the "innovation thing" is something of a no-brainer. Every company worth its low-salt lunch has identified innovation as a core competency needing to be developed.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 9, 2020

Corporate innovation teams are taught in their organizations, and in the media and classes, to act like entrepreneurs navigating risk in a new venture or idea. So why do we expect our corporate innovators to tackle risk alone? So why do we expect our corporate innovators to tackle risk alone? Investing > budgeting.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Michel van Hove is the co-owner and partner of Strategos , a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps companies grow. We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how to successfully foster a culture of innovation within a company. Working on innovation in industry roles can be very demanding.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. What are the principles of design thinking?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. That happiness, however, is short-lived when upon closer inspection, I find them blank, not up to date, or a list of problems invented to justify the solution the team is already committed to building.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. 3 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Spot Emerging Competitors. Mike Brown.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. That happiness, however, is short-lived when upon closer inspection, I find them blank, not up to date, or a list of problems invented to justify the solution the team is already committed to building.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. We developed this specific list of topics based on feedback from participants on a pre-workshop survey. Creative Thinking Exercises – Ask a Different Question.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a daily exercise and how to make it more actionable and productive. 00:10:00 – The book is designed to help people develop the process and cadence of creativity instead of just getting by on skill. So, for example, hey, do this exercise to spark an idea.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. We’ll see if they take the advice.

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