Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 29, 2022

And of the engineers, who were given an hour to brainstorm, those working face to face generated more ideas, and more creative ideas, than those using videoconferencing. This indicates that when it comes to divergent generation of ideas, there are benefits to being in the same room.

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Collaboration Creativity Brainstorming Study 239

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As the customer advocate, you work closely with employees to keep customers at the forefront of innovation. You want your employees to innovate with the customer in mind. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

My client enrolled in an online innovation learning program to learn to innovate by acquiring the fundamentals of mindset and behaviour changes to shift their thinking and act differently. According to BCG in a recent article, “To Drive Innovation with GenAI, Start by Questioning Your Assumptions.”

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Michael Roberto

MAY 2, 2022

Brucks & Jonathan Levav have published a new paper in Nature titled, "Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation." The researchers found that remote collaboration hampers idea generation. Naturally, more research will be need to be conducted to see if others can replicate these findings in other contexts.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. AI complements human creativity, enabling teams to translate complex data into meaningful insights and innovative solutions.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Since innovation is a difficult and often misunderstood word, or perhaps just because it is used to mean different things in different contexts, it can be difficult to understand why innovation at an entrepreneurial company or a startup is different from innovation in a corporation. First, let's just get the record straight.

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Innovation Project Tips Marketing 271

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation activity is at an all-time high. From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. But what happens next? Here’s how.

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Software Review Innovation Programs Project Innovation 105

Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What if you pilot test your innovations? But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter. So, “what if” you take this path of exploration when innovating your products and services?

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Innovation Processes Marketing 96

Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

There have been times I sat down with a client and I told them, “your organization is very innovative”, but they don’t believe me. I tell them, if you don’t perceive yourself as innovative, then you’re not. Leaders must help employees see innovation in practice as a regular part of how the company does business.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What if you pilot test your innovations? But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter. So, “what if” you take this path of exploration when innovating your products and services?

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Innovation Processes Marketing 95

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve created a number of demonstration videos and even a short online ChatGPT AI innovation course. 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.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Remember, half of any group is likely to be somewhat introverted. Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Guidelines Study 111

Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples. Invision Craft Sketch Photoshop Let's talk Intermediary platforms.

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 16, 2020

“Being seen as a group that is purely visionary and focused on idea generation can make your group vulnerable to cuts,” writes Michael Perman, a former innovation and marketing leader at Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss. Perman explains how to avoid that fate when recessions, or other organizational stressors, are.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ideas are vital to innovation. They are the seeds from which every innovation grows. When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them. Let me know.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Impact of Culture on Performance and Innovation Your organizational culture exerts a powerful influence on performance and innovation. As you lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth , you will notice a surge in novel ideas and solutions that can propel your company forward.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Whether you are working together in person or remotely, design thinking software tools such as Miro can help make the innovation process easier than ever. Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming. The Idea Napkin.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Innovation Processes 100

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Innovation Innovation Processes 100

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Innovation Innovation Processes 100

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Innovation Innovation Processes 100

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. This 12-month campaign incentivizes participants to contribute innovative ideas that have potential to impact the company’s key strategic priorities in positive ways.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

While wild and wacky ideas might not be the winning ideas coming out of a Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Creative Session you may not get those winning ideas unless they start as wild and wacky ideas. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 I ask them how they created the idea.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. To assess the alignment of your company’s values with its daily operations, consider conducting regular surveys or focus groups.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seven Idea Generation Fails. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. Classic innovation teams, and leaders, don’t know how to handle it.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 18, 2021

There is no reason for the Outer Circle to claim Innovation, as if there is no Innovation in the Inner Circle. For me this picture presents the scope of Innovation Management. Both Inner and Outer Circle create Innovation. Just before the pandemic there was a DTIM conference in Berlin about several Innovation themes.

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Innovation Management Management Conference Innovation 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 18, 2021

There is no reason for the Outer Circle to claim Innovation, as if there is no Innovation in the Inner Circle. For me this picture presents the scope of Innovation Management. Both Inner and Outer Circle create Innovation. Just before the pandemic there was a DTIM conference in Berlin about several Innovation themes.

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Innovation Management Management Conference Innovation 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 18, 2021

There is no reason for the Outer Circle to claim Innovation, as if there is no Innovation in the Inner Circle. For me this picture presents the scope of Innovation Management. Both Inner and Outer Circle create Innovation. Just before the pandemic there was a DTIM conference in Berlin about several Innovation themes.

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Innovation Management Management Conference Innovation 52

Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

To make innovation happen takes time. I don’t mean the time it takes for your innovative ideas to mature into their full revenue-generating glory. I mean the time it takes employees to develop insights, generate ideas, and elaborate and test business models. Recognize that innovation is a social process.

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Idea Generation Innovation Programs Innovation Groups 60

InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. Conclusion.

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