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Cultivating Success: Exploring the Link Between Organizational Culture and Business Performance

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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. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Innovation as a project Of course, almost all innovation is a project - starting with a specific need or desire to create a new product or service, or to generate new revenues or gain new market share.

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Working "in" versus Working "on"

Jeffrey Phillips

In strategy is the work of executing a viable strategy, developing an organizational structure that reflects what the strategy is trying to achieve. It means coming up with a value proposition, market segmentation and clear differentiation, and then communicating the strategy to the team, so that they can understand it and act on it.

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The Future of Design Thinking: Integrating Artificial Intelligence for Success

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This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed. It encompasses five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Innovate your processes before innovating your products

Jeffrey Phillips

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. What will the world look like when we are ready to finally release a product based on an idea from the past? Usually, blank stares result, for good reason.

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Intrapreneurship 101: How To Master Innovation Within Your Company

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Many intrapreneurship programs put the major emphasis on creating ideas. The good news is, the idea is very often the starting point. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. Make sure that you put your focus on turning ideas into valuable products. Intrapreneurship is about teams.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Insights gained inspire ideas to create something new.