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Thirty Ways to Develop your Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

Read Widely: Read books, articles, and content from different fields to gain a broader knowledge base. Brainstorming Sessions: Organize brainstorming sessions with colleagues to generate a multitude of ideas. Read fiction and nonfiction. Don’t be afraid to try new things and take calculated risks.

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Three principles to help you generate better ideas

Jeffrey Phillips

Note that Young's advertising concept - combining specific knowledge with broad general knowledge - is what we now describe as "T-Shaped". Ideo and others have acknowledged that good innovators are often very deep in a specific skill set or knowledge base, but very networked with a broad range of people or experiences.

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How to Avoid Information Overload in Your L&D Programs

CMOE

Look at the results of training sessions you’ve conducted in the past and ask yourself these questions: Was your team able to apply the new knowledge to their daily tasks? Did you check their knowledge base beforehand to remove topics that they already know well? Adapt on the Move.

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Cultivating a Culture of Innovation: The Path to Transformation

Leapfrogging

One effective method to encourage this practice is to hold regular innovation workshops or brainstorming sessions where individuals from different functions come together to share ideas and insights.

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30-Year Perspective: Seven Traits of Successful Digital Marketers

Brunner

You don’t need to know code to imagine, dream, talk to people, brainstorm in the shower, or look outside the industry for analogous examples and inspiration. Continuous Learning Waiting for someone else to figure something out won’t build your personal knowledge base.

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5 Steps To Structure A SaaS Marketing Team In 2021

The Human Factor

Brainstorm your ideal team structure. Does your best marketing idea come in one shot or is it the production of a few quality brainstorming sessions? This is exactly why brainstorming your team structure is critical. Using a knowledge base software here can be a very profitable tool here. . Think again.

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How to Turn your Employee Engagement Problem into a Continuous Improvement Solution

Qmarkets

We know from recent studies that employees in knowledge-based roles are much more likely to be engaged than employees in routinized, clerical, or manual jobs. While previously this might have been accepted as an inevitability, this is not not an attitude that companies can afford to maintain.