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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Promote a culture of active listening, where participants are encouraged to listen to understand, not just to respond.

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Shared innovation language accelerates innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

For the most part many of them were focused, when they were spending time on innovation, almost exclusively on product innovation. Thinking about concurrent innovation across several goals and horizons was really new and interesting for these participants. Further, the narrow definitions extended to outcomes.

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Creating Roadmaps for Success: How to Design and Run a Strategic Planning Offsite

Leapfrogging

Collaborative Activities : Exercises that require teamwork and creative thinking to solve problems or develop new ideas. This visioning exercise is critical as it will serve as the foundation for the strategies you develop next. Ensure that each session is timed appropriately, with ample opportunity for discussion and reflection.

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Reversing your thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

I told him that there are many types of innovation - product, service, business model, as well as innovations that impact society and politics. The innovation I am familiar with, and can happen in a reasonable time frame, is service and product innovation.

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8 Ways Your Physical Environment Can Impact Productivity and Innovation

IdeaScale

Productivity, Innovation, And Work. Any discussion of productivity and innovation needs to begin with a reminder that we only have so much to give in a day. It’s also part of the reason morning exercise is so effective at improving focus throughout the day.

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What Is An Innovation Sprint And Why You Might Need One?

Innovation Excellence

With new, faster timelines for product innovation, many companies don’t have as much time for the rigour of conventional market research, but they still want to find a way to keep the consumer at the heart of everything they do. The Innovation Sprint format gives a way to focus the attention on the team on a very specific problem.

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Innovation and Maturation

Jeffrey Phillips

So many companies make so many claims about innovation, and yet so few are really, deeply engaged in innovation. In the next decade we'll say goodbye to some of the firms who are talking about innovation but aren't exercising the muscles. Disruption and market transformation will occur (will?