InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

It is the driving force behind the competitive edge that allows companies to stand out and meet the ever-changing demands of their customers. By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the First Mover Advantage To successfully capture first mover advantage, organizations must plan meticulously and execute with agility. The following steps outline a structured approach to harnessing this advantage: 1.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. Increase online sales conversion rate by 5% through improved website UX design. Solutions: Ensure every metric meets the SMART criteria. Stay agile and adjust SMART Metrics based on real-time performance data.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

Even extensive surveys and data analysis only capture a snapshot of opinions and trends, which may not translate into actual behavior when your idea meets the real world. Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. What works in one context may fail in another. Take scientific theories as an analogy.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

AI Meets Design Thinking: Crafting a People-Centric Business Future Imagine this — a customer service agent can deeply empathize with a frustrated customer because an AI assistant analyzed the customer’s tone and background to provide insights ahead of time. The agent knows just how to console them — that’s the future we can build.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. Spot emerging trends and opportunities to inform product or service design. Reference it during innovation planning meetings. What is Context Map Canvas?

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MARCH 27, 2025

As a change management professional, you can leverage AI to analyze vast amounts of data, predict outcomes, and tailor strategies to meet the unique needs of your organization. By leveraging AI for upskilling, you can create a more tailored and responsive training environment that meets the unique needs of each employee.

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APRIL 3, 2024

The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience. To leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience, it’s essential to align the cultural dynamics with your company’s vision and operational tactics.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 22, 2021

These top agile and scrum sprint retrospective templates can be used during remote meetings with your team. Facilitating Agile Retrospectives Workshop. This board is directly from a Miro team member and is designed to help facilitators of retrospective sessions to guide their agile team effectively through the process.

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Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. Senior leaders are a significant driver in the success rate of an Agile transformation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. Facilitates Agility and Adaptation Allows businesses to pivot based on performance insights. Steps to ensure accountability: Designate KPI owners within relevant teams. Establish regular performance review meetings.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Align internal strengths with market needs Ensuring company expertise meets customer demands. For example, Apples core competencies include innovative product design, seamless software integration, and a strong brand ecosystem. Core competencies should meet three key criteria: Unique Not easily replicated by competitors.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process. This agility is particularly important in fast-paced markets where consumer preferences can change rapidly.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. We all need to seek out that badge of “agility”.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

This leads to faster validation cycles and more agile decision-making. For best practices on integrating AI with human expertise, read our article on ai in design thinking. To explore more about AI’s role in innovation, check out our article on ai for idea generation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Organizations have learned what can work remotely and what can’t and are applying those lessons to post-pandemic work design over the last year. Perhaps there’s no better sign of this than the rush to secure meetings after the practice of “Zoom-bombing” began grabbing headlines in early 2020.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Here are some shocking statistics about project management and delivery: It is estimated that around 70% of projects fail to meet their original scope, schedule, or budget. process automation, and agile methodologies can drastically improve success rates. Having worked on largescale programs, Ive seen firsthand how A.I., Leverage A.I.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. This agility allows them to seize new opportunities, stay ahead of competitors, and effectively navigate uncertainties and disruptions in the business landscape.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystem co-operations can allow you to align with others, totally outside your existing relationships, so you can enter new markets, explore new concepts and design, that would have been impossible as an individual organization. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them. No easy task.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2020

Time takes on a different meaning; we are cutting out those (unproductive) meetings, the train, car, and flight times, and we have the luxury to do what? I was pondering some thoughts around the quest for growth, the demands for change, and the need to become nimble, agile, and more dynamic in what we do. We still seem to be trapped.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Agile: you do not make Agile; you become Agile.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The annual business plan has become increasingly adaptive to meet today’s operating conditions. It requires us to reflect and possibly make the change, then we can move forward to meet the new challenges within this emerging vision of the possible futures. Agility Innovation. There will be constant disruption along the way.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Those of dealing with greater ambiguity, of building in the needs of agility, higher levels of flexibility, curiosity and the willingness to explore and experiment and take increasing risk. It needs to be more agile and flexible. It is being forced back in the production process to meet rapidly changing demand.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 17, 2022

It needs a ‘fitness’ that knows where it has to focus and why so you can meet these constant challenges in a flexible, coordinated, well-balanced way with speed and combined strength….the the art of building Agility into your innovative thinking and approaches.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 21, 2023

Completing transitions through innovation, ecosystems and sustainability thinking Today, our innovation activity needs to transition through collaborating and co-creating, applying ecosystem thinking and platform designs for business. We need a greater exchange environment and this is where ecosystem thinking and designs emerge.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The strands that give me my personal energy and passion lie in work around agility, energy, and digital transformations, the work-still-to-be-done, often termed the future of work, the need for us to promote more dynamic environments and the constant desire that organizations and their people have to be fit for purpose.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

I always enjoy selected parts of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos and in this year’s #WEF18 agenda , it certainly had its good points. I certainly felt the WEF theme for this meeting, of “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World” showed through, actually more re-affirmed. That holds exciting promise.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Benchmarking Analysis is a structured framework designed to help organizations evaluate their processes, performance, and strategies against industry best practices and competitors. Driving continuous improvement Ensuring that businesses remain agile and adaptable in dynamic markets. What is Benchmarking Analysis?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are using agile methodologies to rapidly test and iterate on ideas, keeping up with the pace of change and market demands. Design thinking: Design thinking is another methodology that is gaining traction in innovation.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The challenge is that for all innovation projects, it is impossible to know what the final solution or target KPIs will be once all the investigation, design and iteration is complete. Therefore, it does not make sense to have the success criteria be a specific design, budget, business case or set of KPIs at the beginning.

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