Christensen Institute

AUGUST 9, 2022

The article, “ Latin America’s Vicious Circle is a Warning to the West ”, claims that Latin America is stuck in a development trap, citing lack of opportunities for educated youth, corrupt and unstable governments, and not enough innovation. Or the lack of opportunities and innovation? Is it the extreme politicians?

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 30, 2023

The circumstances that motivate change Through our interviews, we uncovered four Jobs that motivate teachers to change their instruction: Job #1: Help me lead the way in improving my school. Teachers with this Job were eager to demonstrate their value as contributors to broader school improvement efforts.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 26, 2017

You have wrestled with it for a while and now you have to make a decision. appeared first on Destination Innovation. Let’s say you are faced with a tough problem. One approach is to use what I call the three by three method. You start by considering many options. You narrow this down to three choices. A sound realistic alternative.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. We need to draw on insights, creativity but most importantly have a growing sense of the context we are thinking through to search for new ideas, concepts, and eventual new innovating solutions.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The team was wrestling with a concern voiced by the organization’s senior leader that its complete innovation portfolio wasn’t capable of yielding the financial impact he is seeking. via Shutterstock. Enjoy this article?

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Manager Requirements Fittingly, building a product management organization that can help lead this effort, perhaps with support from the innovation team is key. Product Management is a vital component of organizations undergoing digital transformation. The Origins of Product Management The story goes like this.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JUNE 14, 2020

Innovative and inventive. The majesty of sumo wrestling, the beauty of Mt. I am obsessed with Japanese culture. I love how weird it is. How unique and quirky. The freedom of Otaku culture, the creativity of Manga. I love it all. Everything and anything from Anime to Zen Gardens. But all that may be about to change.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 4, 2023

So, I think we must wrestle with this simple question: why do people hire corruption ? But as companies such as Samsung, Kia, Hyundai and others invested in innovations that made products more affordable to so many more people, even while the country struggled with corruption, South Korea became prosperous. What causes it?

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Planview

AUGUST 25, 2017

The thrashing in turn delays ideation—applying the collective intelligence of the organization to advance its charter—because the people who want to pursue collaborative innovation wrestle with (a) identifying the problems worth solving and (b) innovating within the context of the highest priority business challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers.That is plainly wrong, it is one of the principle causes of innovation failure.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers. This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

But one can never get to this point without first asking – and wrestling with – the toughest of questions. Companies that jump to answers prematurely without this journey of wrestling very often miss the mark in one way or another and end up as followers in their markets. The process finishes with Creating Inquiry.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

We have designed innovative reflection workshops and training to guide your participants through reflecting on themselves and their experience. It was this finding that motivated us to design, develop, and lead programs and workshops to help professionals and leaders reflect to learn and innovate.

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Wazoku

MARCH 23, 2020

As businesses and governments around the world wrestle with the multi-faceted challenges they’re facing, workplaces are closing and people are self-quarantining. Innovation doesn’t stop , nor does the need to innovate. These are Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) times. Be prepared for the unprepared.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

The general manager at an industrial manufacturer wondered about how to effectively engage the hourly workforce as innovation strategy participants ? He is hoping to figure out a practical way to include hourly employees in innovation activities comparable to those management has undertaken. via Shutterstock.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 20, 2020

Back in May 2019, when MJV Innovation took a group of C-level executives to visit China on a strategic mission, no one could have foreseen the devastating outbreak of COVID-19. As part of our visit, our client approached us with the following challenge: The company had a high demand to get to know the Chinese innovation and market ecosystem.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 22, 2016

We cannot get away from the reality that in most of our organizations we have a disconnect going on around innovation. The cynicism around innovation has turned it into nothing more than a buzzword for many, not taken with the seriousness that it really deserves for sustaining growth within organizations.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

A Small Innovation Team Is the Way to Introduce Innovation. What the prospective client wants to achieve: “We think the answer is to get an innovation team together and have them come up with new ideas.”. What they need to achieve: They clearly need to wrestle with major issues only appropriate for a small top management group.

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Planview

JANUARY 11, 2017

In a recent issue of Healthcare IT News , Adventist Health – whose innovation program is powered by Spigit – was profiled for its ability to unleash their employee’s entrepreneurial spirit to drive innovation. Innovation isn’t always about the breakthrough ideas that revolutionize industries, or the entire world. Conclusion.

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

the costs – whether economic, social or political – are too great to be borne by any particular organization; this is where public goods requires private sector innovation), or non-consumption (e.g., He recognized that the “same old, same old” methods of engaging with his customers were changing. Well, that got my attention.

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Mike Shipulski

JULY 1, 2015

I think the fear of being judged is enemy number one of creativity, innovation, and living life on your own terms. Be true to your heart’s intention and just courageous as you need to be to wrestle your fears to the ground. I will show my work anyway.” It’s vector of unpleasantness is huge. Be skillful and afraid and do it anyway.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Engaging front-line employees in collaborative innovation was a very natural extension of the regard in which they held their staff. Life comes full circle, sometimes. Call center employees. Services employees. Retail employees. The employees in whom the organization entrusts the customer experience, day after day. Their recipe for success?

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2019

"We need to look hard at the stories we create, and wrestle with them. How storytelling can spark innovation. Storytelling helps create the innovation mindset. Retell and retell them, and work with them like clay. It is in the retelling and returning that they give us their wisdom." - Marni Gillard. Storytelling at Work.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

It's Time to Move⃜ Beyond the Culture of Innovation. These are all very real questions that business leaders must wrestle with each day. A "culture of innovation" is the sort of misnomer that sounds great in a company speech, but in the end does not deliver the goods, at least not on its own. Don't believe me?

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 16, 2024

At the root of this is the fact that schools today aren’t demanding solutions that deepen connection–if anything , the edtech market has evolved around clear demand for efficiency innovations that require less cost-intensive human interaction, not more. The shift was seismic. Banning phones in schools could help. The answer?

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Mills-Scofield

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Support aspiring leaders with learning environments that provide opportunities to wrestle with this tension as teams and individuals. His blog posts on education and social change have been featured on Forbes, Ashoka, and Innovation Excellence. Provide mentors who can support them in their highest and lowest moments.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 4, 2016

"We need to look hard at the stories we create, and wrestle with them. How storytelling can spark innovation. Storytelling helps create the innovation mindset. Retell and retell them, and work with them like clay. It is in the retelling and returning that they give us their wisdom." - Marni Gillard. Storytelling at Work.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? So often client solutions and their needs have considerable lag.

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Idea Champions

MAY 13, 2016

In his long history in business and life, he has not only been innovative, but to the point. Give yourself a gift and read this book and you will see the world with new eyes." -- Michael Michalko. Here's a little gem about storytelling. And, told with a kind of impish humor that sometimes reminds one of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I love this book!

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 17, 2016

In his long history in business and life, he has not only been innovative, but to the point. Give yourself a gift and read this book and you will see the world with new eyes." -- Michael Michalko. Here's a little gem about storytelling. And, told with a kind of impish humor that sometimes reminds one of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I love this book!

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In this post, I’ll try to address a handful of tips that could hopefully give new or even seasoned innovation managers a fresh perspective on how to optimize engagement. Here are some examples of what to consider when planning a campaign.

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Idea to Value

JULY 14, 2016

Although many people will know only his distinctive German accent from his many narration sequences, he is widely recognised as a visionary filmmaker, writer, author and actor, having created such masterpieces as Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo, Little Dieter Needs to Fly and the upcoming Queen of the Desert. It’s almost like copying.

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Idea Champions

MAY 1, 2021

Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down." - Twyla Tharp. Your resistance comes with the territory of trying to birth something new and wonderful. Like YOU, for instance. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 30. " - Goethe.

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CorporateIntel

MARCH 18, 2015

I also wrestle with people on whether we are blowing hot air when we say we want to hire the very best talent we can. If you DBC when you identify a human change agent, you will open your doors to innovation and allow change to happen. I often get into the discussion of whether corporate mission statements matter. It happens.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

As interaction designers, we have the ability to devise innovative systems to combat common, everyday problems, and Thackara urged us to consider our impact far beyond the computer screen. From February 5-8, 2009, IxDA hosted their second annual conference, Interaction 09 , in Vancouver, BC.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

There’s a hidden force at play—an intricate web of connections and influences—that shape the destiny of educational innovations. Value networks matter to innovation because certain innovations just can’t happen in the context of most conventional schools’ value networks. What is a value network?

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In recent years, as more states and districts have wrestled with the definition of “college- and career-ready,” alternative postsecondary pathways have multiplied, and career-connected learning has gained steam, a new term has popped up in education: navigation. Innovations grow along the metrics we hold them to.

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