Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a way of problem solving that evolved out of applying the scientific method to the process of design. But design thinking alone is not enough.

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

Of course, we could do that – hold a brainstorming session and off we go. But how can we know whether a solution developed in line with this principle would ultimately be used by the target group? We’ll ask the sales team what the customers would need. And, if they didn’t use it, why didn’t they?

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. To bring D4D to Intuit, Cook turned to a gifted in-house design director, Kaaren Hanson. Hanson, in turn, put together a team of nine people to help her. This core team would become known as the Innovation Catalysts.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Bad experience. Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. Brainstorming Alignment diagrams serve as an excellent stimulus for a workshop or brainstorming session. Designers have the skills to creatively brainstorm and lead such sessions.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. But how does one lead effectively, ensuring team growth while also achieving the organization’s objectives? Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

A well-structured innovation pipeline ensures that new ideas are systematically developed, refined, and brought to market, transforming potential opportunities into tangible results. It can involve brainstorming sessions, crowd-sourcing ideas from employees or customers, and conducting market research to identify unmet needs.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. 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. The reason? Get in touch!

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. I often get derailed by the obstacles and can jump to the conclusion that something new is a bad idea. Good ideas often look bad.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Although GGRC’s staff often develop great empathy for individual clients, going to heroic lengths to help clients navigate the administrative maze, the system was not designed to make life easy for clients or staff members. Elizabeth and Saul facilitated GGRC brainstorming sessions about how to improve the process.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

The teams are all already distributed – some were already, but most were still sharing the same table in some office out there. Why transform distributed teams into a motivated community? Managing distributed teams is not about a geographic issue – this is just a small component. Optimism saves teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

To survive and thrive with the conflicting demands of performance excellence and constrained resources, SFO has developed a highly structured organization. Zena and Madhav’s first step was to take the SFO team working on the d.school project to meet with people from outside the world of opera.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

But the bad news is it happens all the same. The good news is if we can find ways to foster mental flexibility and allow the boundaries between compartments to become permeable, we can develop more creative solutions and leverage better information. Next, think about how you respond to similar challenges in different settings.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Avengers teamed up with the squad from Guardians of the Galaxy to face down Thanos. As part of their broad scoping InGenius innovation accelerator program , the company developed an assortment of mobile apps to increase employee offers, as well as promote networking and talent-finding across virtual teams. Phygital Advances.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 20, 2025

Whether improving an existing product or developing something entirely new, structured ideation increases the likelihood of success. Product ideation is the structured process of brainstorming, evaluating, and refining new product ideas. However, coming up with great ideas is only the first step.

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