Innovation Workshops

Innovation Workshops: Interactive sessions fostering creativity and problem-solving to generate actionable business innovations.

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Innovation Audit

Innovation Audit

A systematic review of an organization's innovation processes, capabilities, and outcomes, often with the aim of identifying areas for improvement.

North Star Metric

A company's North Star Metric is its key measure of success and drives strategic decision-making.

Remote Work

Remote work is a working style that allows professionals to work outside of a traditional office environment.

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Can Everyone Be Innovative?

Can Everyone Be Innovative?

Can everyone be innovative? The answer is not so simple. Innovation requires more than just creativity and vision, and not everyone has the desire or patience to explore novel ideas.

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Courageous Cultures: How To Build Teams Of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers And Customer Advocates

Courageous Cultures: How To Build Teams Of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers And Customer Advocates

A courageous culture encourages employees to share their ideas, yet many employees hold back. Leaders must navigate the narratives, create clarity, cultivate curiosity, and respond with regard to empower their team to contribute.

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Encouraging Employee Creativity Meet Innovation Goals

Encouraging Employee Creativity Meet Innovation Goals

To foster innovation, companies must encourage and retain employee creativity. Design thinking workshops, allotting time for collaboration and learning, and including employees in decision-making processes build a culture of innovation.

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Executing Internal Projects

Executing Internal Projects

Internal innovations drive 70% of the world's most transformative innovations. However, only a few employees feel their ideas matter. Overcome seven barriers with the IN-OVATE Framework and understand the context to manage environmental factors skillfully.

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Exploring and Exploiting for Innovation (Part 1)

Exploring and Exploiting for Innovation (Part 1)

Exploring and exploiting has been a part of corporate success for centuries. However, companies need to rethink their explore/exploit intention and balance based on new competitive realities.

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Find Your Innovation Rheticus

Find Your Innovation Rheticus

Innovation practitioners can learn from the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and his revolutionary theory, which was published thanks to the intervention of Georg Joachim Rheticus.

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Harvard Business Review Leadership Development Articles

Harvard Business Review Leadership Development Articles

Learn about the latest Harvard Business Review resources for leadership development and fostering employee growth, including personalized programs and focusing on innovation and shared experiences.

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How do you learn a new skill? - Dr Ken Hudson

How do you learn a new skill? - Dr Ken Hudson

Learn a new skill with these five principles: set a specific goal, have a plan, step out of your comfort zone, practice regularly, and get feedback.

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Innovation Culture – The Ultimate Guide

Innovation Culture – The Ultimate Guide

Creating an innovative company culture is essential for driving organizations to constantly get better and move forward. It starts with understanding what an innovation culture is, why it's important, the critical characteristics that make up one, and how to create it within an organization.

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Innovation Internships

Innovation Internships

Business schools and companies should offer more non-technical innovation internships to infuse organizations with innovation techniques and processes.

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Innovation is the Means, Not an End in Itself

Innovation is the Means, Not an End in Itself

Successful innovators outperform other companies by a wide margin, but many innovation attempts fail because organizations focus too much on individual ideas instead of refining them for maximum value. Innovation is a tool for solving problems and driving business results, but there isn't a single approach to success.

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Innovation Stigma

Innovation Stigma

Executives have a bias against innovation and believe it is soft and frivolous compared to other business activities, which prevent them from investing in serious innovation initiatives.

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Innovation Workshop in Action - Innovation Training | Design Thinking

Innovation Workshop in Action - Innovation Training | Design Thinking

Client snapshots from various innovation workshops and design thinking training events showcasing collaboration, creativity, and communication among participants.

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Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples

Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples

Innovative innovation meetings can increase engagement and creativity. This article provides tips and approaches for hosting effective, impactful meetings that accomplish organizational goals.

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Interview: Schneider Go Green student program

Interview: Schneider Go Green student program

Schneider Electric's Go Green challenge has attracted a record-breaking 25,458 students worldwide to participate in its sustainability competition.

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Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise [interview]

Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise [interview]

Peter Cook's book "Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise" discusses the shift from BrawnBasedIndustries to BrainBasedEnterprises and the importance of creativity and innovation in staying ahead. The book features interviews with Sir Richard Branson, Sir James Dyson, and other thought leaders in the field, and offers opportunities to practice the strategies and skills presented.

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Leading Innovation Through Questions – Why You Should Ask Questions and Not Provide Answers

Leading Innovation Through Questions – Why You Should Ask Questions and Not Provide Answers

Asking questions is crucial for promoting creativity and critical thinking, yet many organizations focus on efficiency rather than effectiveness. Managers should communicate through questions to empower employees and nurture innovative thinking.

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Lessons in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Fringe

Lessons in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Fringe

The Edinburgh Fringe festival's lessons in innovation are discussed in relation to start-up businesses.

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Me, We!

Me, We!

Brexit has led to disconnection from Europe and legitimation of racism. It's a mindboggling turmoil inflicted on global markets and only a start.

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Reflecting on our Innovation Practices

Reflecting on our Innovation Practices

Innovation management has changed rapidly and new frameworks have come into play. However, it is important not to forget the basics of building engagement, leadership and involvement in creating a culture of innovation.

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Sacrificing jokes for innovation

Sacrificing jokes for innovation

Barack Obama urges young people to reject cynicism and take an optimistic view of the future to foster innovation.

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The Significance Of Innovation Workshops For Your Organisation

Innovation workshops are an effective tool for achieving business success, providing an opportunity to problem-solve, generate ideas and improve products and services.

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The Super-Power of Smiling

Studies show that adults smile only 20 times per day compared to 400 times as kids. Discover the power of smiling and its benefits in improving health, reducing stress and boosting creativity.

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Three Insights for Innovators from Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur with a big vision for space exploration and clean energy. He has set out to make a big impact and bypassed conventional channels.

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Top 10 Sources of Innovation: Why Your Accelerator Barely Makes the List

Employees, not formal R&D efforts, lead the way in innovation according to a recent study by CB Insights. Companies should invest in unlocking their employees' potential to effect real change.

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Trends in Training & Development | InnovationTraining.org

Learn about the latest training trends and practices that can help attract and keep top talent.

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Understanding The 7 Types of Innovators In Your Innovation Ecosystem

Learn about the seven types of innovators and their roles in the innovation process.

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Understanding the Innovative Mindset: Can it be learned?

The innovative mindset can be learned and honed, according to Hal Gregersen. Five key skills—associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting—are integral to the innovation formula, and two-thirds of these skills can be learned.

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Unique Venues to Hold Your Next Innovation Training Event |

Consider taking your innovation event or conference off-site to a unique location that promotes creativity and collaboration. Here are eight places to consider.

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What Are The Different Source Of Innovation?

Innovation is essential for development and better living conditions. Here are seven sources of innovation proposed by Peter F. Drucker in his book ''Innovation and Entrepreneurship'': unexpected, incongruity, necessity, demographics, market structure change, changing perception, and new knowledge.

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What companies today can learn from Exponential Organisations

Digital disruption will cause 40% of S&P 500 companies to disappear in the next 10 years. Exponential Organizations (ExOs) are those that leverage accelerating technologies with new organizational techniques. Adopting their attributes is the key to success.

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What if innovation was the norm?

What if we made innovation the norm in business instead of the exception? A truly innovative firm would prioritize understanding customer needs, experimentation, and constantly renewing itself.

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What to Blog About - Getting Outside Help from Hubspot

What to Blog About - Getting Outside Help from Hubspot

A blogger tests out the Hubspot Blog Topic Generator and finds mixed results in generating blog post ideas.

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Which is the Innovator? Kroger or Amazon?

Kroger is already experimenting with Amazon's innovative ideas.

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‘Why’ Are You Innovating?

‘Why’ Are You Innovating?

Understanding your company's why is the most important question a business leader should be able to answer. Without a clear purpose, employees and customers cannot align their values and beliefs, which results in a lack of innovation.

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Winning hearts and minds for innovation

Innovation requires winning both hearts and minds. While innovation methodologies can be logically taught to win minds, engaging people and building enthusiasm requires winning hearts as well.

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You are what you innovate

You innovate what you already are, rather than being what you innovate. Innovation requires openness to change in familiar and unfamiliar areas.

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Zero Budget - A Boon to Innovation

Zero Budget - A Boon to Innovation

Starting an innovation project with no budget can lead to more creative thinking and inventive solutions.

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The Art of Innovation

The Art of Innovation

A story about a wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

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The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths

The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths

The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths stirred up much-needed debate about the role of the state in fostering long-run innovation led economic growth.

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Doblin

Doblin

Global innovation firm that combines leading business experience, user research, and a design-led approach to help clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

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