Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Agenda Design for Maximum Impact Structuring a killer agenda isnt rocket science but needs some finesse to keep heads in the game and not in the clouds. The post Crafting Powerful Strategic Offsite Meeting Designs first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops. Logistics : Nail down the where and how.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Designing the Retreat Agenda Planning a killer agenda’s your ticket to a memorable leadership retreat. Interactive Workshops : Dunk your folks into sessions where they get to move and groove. For more down-to-earth tips on spicing up your sessions, hop over to our guide on strategic offsite meeting design.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For teams which are struggling to overcome risk-averse behaviour, organise a workshop to help them identify the biases and behaviours which may be holding back their creativity. 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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the activities and skills which are required for a team to ideate, design, test, iterate and pilot a new innovation. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. These 23 capabilities are as follows: 1. Delivering innovation Capabilities.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. McKinsey & Company research shows that “Design-led organizations realize 10% more revenue than ones that aren’t.”

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Learn about this brainstorming technique and find resources below. Sometimes called “negative brainstorming”, “ reverse brainstorming ” is one approach to problem-solving sessions that can be a useful way to explore different options in an innovation or design thinking project.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. It’s amazing what you can achieve when a bunch of brilliant minds come together like a brainstorm in a teacup.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Encourage brainstorming sessions that prioritize defining the problem first. Involve product managers, engineers, designers, and marketing teams early in the process. Hold collaborative workshops to refine and validate the problem statement. Focus on understanding the full scope of the problem before proposing fixes.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 17, 2022

Design thinking in the classroom has exploded in the last few years! In this blog, we’ll walk you through design thinking with resources, videos, guides, and more designed specifically for teachers in the educational space. What is Design Thinking? What exactly is design thinking? Process Skills.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article we will: Explore how we can use VR (virtual reality) during the different steps of the design thinking process. Teach you how to design a VR workshop using an app called Zoe Immersive. Design Thinking Process & VR. VR & Design Thinking Limitations. A group of happy participants.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings. What are your goals?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs. Ultimately, we like to design our workshops for our clients and can go in many different directions.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Find out what the round robin brainstorming technique is and how to utilize it below. We’ve talked about brainstorming and ideation many times before, and that’s because it is an essential part of the innovation and design thinking process. What is Round Robin brainstorming? . Brainstorming rules.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Steps to Designing a Top-Notch Offsite Retreat Getting an offsite up and running takes some thought and elbow grease. Mix intense brainstorming with chill-out time and just-for-fun chats. Include Varied Activities: Mix it up with workshops, breakout sessions, and team games. Set clear goals to keep everyone on the same page.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? What happens to the list of great ideas from the workshop?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. Here’s how design thinking breaks down: Empathize: Get cozy with your customers’ needs and woes. Using combos like design thinking and SWOT ensures that innovation isn’t floating by itself.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 26, 2020

These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room. Interested in templates for brainstorming that you can even use with a team online? In this guide we will share some of the most popular brainstorming frameworks. Blue Ocean 4 Actions Framework. 5 Whys Template.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 11, 2019

Most “innovation” and “creativity” training and workshops (even the most expensive ones) don’t actually produce any tangible results! Brainstorming sessions , where a facilitator will help you fill an entire wall with post it notes of “Great Ideas!” (but but then disappear when it comes to trying to execute any of them).

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? What happens to the list of great ideas from the workshop?

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Are you interested in learning about the steps of design thinking so you can take action on applying the process? What is design thinking ? Design thinking is a popular approach to getting started with innovation that begins with empathy and understanding the needs of your users or customers. Design Thinking Step One: Empathy.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Design Thinking for Naming. Virtual or Onsite Naming Workshops.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2022

This article is part 5 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Vague statements such as, “Customer X likes cars,” don’t do much to inform your design thinking. The Blue Ocean 4 Actions Framework is a very simple option for keeping brainstorming sessions focused and productive. Disney Create Strategy.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We have actively collaborated and designed tools and frameworks over the years that we believe had some of our insights “baked” into them to offer valuable reference points to help us all work through connecting innovation in hopefully better ways. Jeffery and I go back within the innovation space a long way.

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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. Please contact us to learn more about the reflection workshop or session we can lead for your group virtually or onsite. This is a great session for a leadership program.

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Svava

MARCH 1, 2022

Brainstorming workshops are powerful tools for ideation, collaboration and innovation as a team and company. Pre-pandemic most brainstorming sessions were hosted in a conference room, using a whiteboard and several post-it notes. In 2019 most of us learned how to make due brainstorming in fully digital meetings.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reviewing innovation metrics and KPIs to apply for design thinking stages. In this article, we take a look at creating simple design thinking metrics or KPIs that may be applied to your scenario. A simple 3-stage design thinking process innovative thinking coaching model we use includes the stages of Challenge, Ideas, and Action.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Innovation : Brainstorming new ideas and creative solutions to drive the company forward. Preparing for a Successful Offsite The foundation of an effective strategy offsite design lies in meticulous preparation. Decision Making : Making critical decisions that will impact the organization’s future course.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s article, we’ll share some of our favorite templates that you can use with FigJam to build out your own innovation or design thinking events, workshops, and meetings. Brainstorming Template. This template is a open brainstorming board that provides many places for ideas, thoughts, questions, and more.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s review the three stages of this design thinking framework. This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking and Part 2: Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them. . Stage 3: Action.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. In contrast, Design Thinking takes a collaborative and iterative approach that involves empathy, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 14, 2022

Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. Here at Innovation Training, we’ve spent over a decade studying and applying design thinking techniques to help organizations and individuals create real, innovative change. As you may know, empathy plays a critical role in design thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We offer our design thinking certificate programs in partnership with an organization, university, or other institution. Our design thinking certificate courses are designed and delivered for varying lengths, settings, group sizes and can be a combination of in-person and virtual experiences for different purposes.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 19, 2020

Discover how this innovation tool can be used for your design thinking workshop or design sprint. Time and time again we have seen this tool mentioned as one of the best collaborative brainstorming and virtual whiteboard tools available. We’ve also featured on our list of top design thinking software tools.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If you haven’t implemented design thinking or creative thinking exercises into your workspace, it’s time to start. Especially when working remotely it can be very difficult to stimulate creative thinking and get people involved with the workshop you’re conducting. . Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An exploration of resources and advice for design thinking in education. Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. The five main stages of the design thinking process can create better experiences for our stakeholders.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions. Creative Design Academy 2.

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