Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To harness these benefits, it’s essential to develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change and leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience. Leadership is Proactive : Leaders are prepared to guide and support their teams through change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. An innovative culture encourages risk-taking, values fresh ideas, and supports collaboration across the board.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In this post, serial entrepreneur Faisal Hoque flags the trends that professionals in every field will have to adjust to, and how to do it. Whether you’re in a leadership role, focused on innovation, running your own business, or all of the above, here are six traits and trends that will impact your work today and for years to come: 1.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In this post, serial entrepreneur Faisal Hoque flags the trends that professionals in every field will have to adjust to, and how to do it. Whether you’re in a leadership role, focused on innovation, running your own business, or all of the above, here are six traits and trends that will impact your work today and for years to come: 1.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You can take an innovation test to self-assess your own leadership for innovation with the Innovator Scorecard. you do need a balance of problem finding, idea generation, evaluation and. How good are you at embedding problem solving skills? Support How good are you at nurturing a culture of action? implementation.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Thousands of grassroots innovators are continuously developing ideas in line with those goals, confident in their next steps. And at the organizational level, leadership has a clear roadmap for achieving ideal outcomes even faster. How do you move from idea generation to rigorous idea development the right way?

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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 15, 2018

Managers who attended a leadership course at Eckerd College in Florida were tested to determine whether they were good innovators (those who do things differently and break the rules) or good adapters (those who do things better within the rules). But is this always the right structure? And the answer may not be what you expect.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 12, 2020

Knowledge management improves organizational processes through a variety of different practices, and enhances learning, which can increase both follower engagement and personal development. This article presents the two key steps of successful knowledge management that can be implemented by company executives.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Almost always. People really want to do good work.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. How to Connect with Customers. Field visits : Consider visiting a few of your customers at their location to see how they use your products and services every day. Set the expectation that creating customer value is everyone’s job.

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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. It might be a juicy opportunity you don’t know how to seize.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

We need to encourage bottom-up innovation, those close to markets, the raw ideas and who can make more connections than those far removed. We need to convey throughout the organization and encourage a closer alignment on not just what to do but also to support the how to do it and where to do it.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. The question then arises, how can corporates open up the strategy-making process without losing control? Are You Ready To Open Up Your Strategy?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 9, 2021

How to facilitate a design thinking workshop for digital transformation. How to navigate from onsite to digitally transformed virtual workshops. They’ve got a whole section on how to kickstart digital transformation with different sections in the book and examples. Using guided idea generation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. This is a really interesting and important question, with a distinction. The real challenge in what I've written is in culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

We need to encourage bottom-up innovation, those close to markets, the raw ideas and who can make more connections than those far removed. We need to convey throughout the organization and encourage a closer alignment on not just what to do but also to support the how to do it and where to do it.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In the recent blog Innovation through collaboration some important conditions were presented how people with different expertise can work together to develop innovative ideas, such as being open to innovative work, respecting others and willing to learn. It is also important to understand how to create such an environment.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This team shared their insight, based on years of combined first-hand experience on what makes a culture innovative, how to cultivate it and use it to enable transformation. The leadership team needs to enable change & drive the initiative as people are the priority.”. WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

Hint: We know how to do this. Months before your event, we'll identify a mix of in-house successes and coach selected attendees how to present these successes, in story form, from the main stage. The missing piece? STORYTELLING: We know there's a lot of bright spots in your company — best practices, lessons learned, and past successes.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many companies have leap frogged ahead during down cycles because they planned not only how to survive, but more importantly on how to thrive. The idea generation phase involves various possible solutions, then the designers start prototyping, gaining feedback, and ongoing iterations. What Is a Recession?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first one shown, you could argue is more introducing the concept of mapping not explaining how to go about it and point to a recognized authority on this. It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2015

They want more innovation so they spend money on training their younger staff in how to do it. There is no point in committing resources to idea generation – whether in suggestions schemes, brainstorms or innovation training – unless you are prepared to commit significantly more resources for the implementation of the best ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

It will focus on how to get initiatives started and how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes that impede project success. The goal of the event is to introduce innovation concepts to organizations looking to improve. This is an intensive short training program for those seeking to innovate and grow.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices. The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business. There are many innovation options to choose from but how do you make the right choices?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

They are also often overlooked for leadership positions. I am here to teach you that you can get even more value out of these people if you understand how to get the best out of them from the start. It can make a huge difference to the quality of innovative ideas your organisation can get. Inspiration. Verification.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

I get the distinct impression the focus of most innovation consultants is still locked into product innovation or improving the process of the pipeline / portfolio, the idea generation and project execution model. The one real change that is occurring is in thought leadership from consultants.

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Strategos

JANUARY 11, 2017

Defining the Challenge (the innovation issue to be addressed), providing effective stimulus for innovation (the new perspectives and insights) and coaching employees to give them confidence about how to draft an idea are things that the software platform alone is unlikely to manage. Unlocking the hidden potential.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I personally find this solution has not worked as well as intended, as they, the internal consulting team, over time, get sucked into issues detracting them from being the internal force of change, desperately trying to influence the leadership but eventually ending up as being allocated specific projects as project overseers or implementers.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

They know the business and how to improve it better than consultants. The issue has always been how do you pro- vide an open forum for those ideas? In Asia the companies are mainly managed in a restricted and dictatorship way rather than as a place to encourage new ideas. Comments on the survey results.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

Even amongst the group of industry insiders here who teach and author books on innovation methodologies, case studies and thought leadership, there was a huge variety between the responses. Nick is the chief editor of Idea to Value and also the CEO & Founder of Improvides Innovation Consulting. The results surprised me.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

They observe that the transfer rate from the promising ideas generated in the vehicles mentioned above into substantial business is too low. Open Innovation helps to understand how to look for external, missing pieces of technology, capability and knowledge, including how these should be integrated.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Organizations engage their people in submitting ideas without any training on how to generate ideas. Next time try a 15 minute long training on idea generation tools and techniques and see how this affects the quantity and quality of ideas you receive. This post is a guest post by Darin Eich.

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IdeaSpies

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

They know the business and how to improve it better than consultants. The issue has always been how do you provide an open forum for those ideas?”. When respondents were asked how they contributed ideas in their organisations 76% said direct to their boss and 62% said through a team.

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