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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Whether you refer to this as the "creative hat" as de Bono did, or refer to it as a naive or uninformed opinion, or think about it with the wonder of a child, your teams need this perspective. If you want new, fresh and radical ideas, get new perspectives and don't shout them down.

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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

Idea Generation Sessions: Encourage blue-sky thinking with sessions dedicated to generating new ideas without constraints. For a comprehensive guide on designing and executing these events, refer to how to design and run a strategic planning offsite and discover critical success factors for executive team offsites.

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Unleashing the Power of AI in Innovation Management

Leapfrogging

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. To delve deeper into how AI can modernize the innovation pipeline, refer to next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes.

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Get Better Ideas with this Starter Exercise

Destination Innovation

So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. They then make gestures following your instructions as follows: “We will be open to ideas.” “We want big ideas.” ” People stretch out their arms as far as they can. “We want many ideas.”

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Creative Problem Solving Process

InnovationTraining.org

While divergent thinking, or brainstorming, generates lots of potential possibilities, convergent thinking involves evaluating and choosing the most promising one. Oftentimes, we suffer by combining these two processes into one, stifling idea generation. Four principles of creative problem solving.

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Revolutionize Your Team: Creating Psychology Safety with Experiential Intelligence

Leapfrogging

Experiential intelligence, on the other hand, refers to the ability to use one’s accumulated knowledge from diverse experiences to make sound decisions and solve problems. These experiences, both successes and challenges, serve as a reference point for navigating complex situations and leading teams with empathy and understanding.

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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

What the authors have defined is a useful framework for digging into opportunities and needs and creating new ideas. Why I struggle to review this book While this book presents a useful framework for idea generation and innovation, it's not clear "who" this book is for, or if the insights are really all that new.