Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. So I rise today to neither praise nor bury brainstorming, but to place it in its proper context. Brainstorming is a group technique to generate, socialize and evaluate ideas. Everyone knows this.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Use brainstorming or team workshops to surface hidden assumptions. Educate leadership on the DDP process and its value. These may include: Customer behaviors or preferences. Market demand or pricing models. Technological capabilities or scalability. Cost structure or supply chain feasibility.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

This involves: Collecting ideas from brainstorming sessions, customer feedback, market research, and internal teams. Gaining leadership approval and alignment with company objectives before moving forward. Ensuring criteria are measurable and consistently applied across all concepts. Grouping similar concepts to eliminate redundancies.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Encourage brainstorming sessions that prioritize defining the problem first. Ensure alignment between leadership and frontline teams for unified execution. Jumping to Solutions Too Early Clearly define the problem before developing solutions to avoid misaligned efforts.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Brainstorms are important and an easy way to get everybody together to collaborate, discuss, debate, and ultimately, innovate. But sometimes, you come out of them feeling as if you didn’t get the ideas that you needed, or that the same ideas were being rehashed, or that it was a complete waste of time. So, why.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 23, 2021

Brainstorming is the first step to idea-sharing. Research shows 82% of Millennials support brainstorming meetings. They needed it to align with strategic priorities, require strong clinical leadership and benefit from the ideas of a diverse group of VCH stakeholders. It is also a great way to bring generations together.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

While many innovation experts focus on helping individuals learn techniques to come up with more ideas, like brainstorming or design thinking, the most valuable skill is being able to select which ideas to focus on based on the value they will deliver. Psychological Safety. Innovation requires working as a team.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Fostering Innovation Through Leadership In the rapidly changing business landscape, fostering innovation is no longer optional but a necessity for survival and growth. This strategy begins with leadership that exemplifies innovative thinking and a willingness to embrace new ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking is a critical element in the leadership toolkit, essential for steering organizations towards long-term success. By integrating this approach into your leadership style, you can expect to: Enhance decision-making capabilities, ensuring that every choice aligns with long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking is a critical element in the leadership toolkit, essential for steering organizations towards long-term success. By integrating this approach into your leadership style, you can expect to: Enhance decision-making capabilities, ensuring that every choice aligns with long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 9, 2024

Importance of Trust in Leadership In the realm of leadership, trust is not just a soft skill—it’s the very foundation upon which successful teams are built. Why Trust is Vital in Leadership Trust in leadership is the cornerstone of team cohesion and effectiveness.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Power of Innovation Leadership In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the ability to innovate is not just an advantage; it is a necessity for survival and growth. Role of Leadership in Fostering Innovation As a leader, you have the unique capability to shape the mindset and culture of your organization.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

To dive deeper into making these brainy talks happen, hop over to our section on facilitating leadership team offsite. By grasping the importance and nailing down clear goals, you’re setting yourself up to pull off a strategic offsite meeting that’s a smashing success and gets your leadership team all fired up and in sync.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

I love the association of the “fuzzy front end” with ideas, brainstorming and all those creative energies bringing ideas to life, but sadly unless that final ‘rugged terrain’ at the back end is not traveled we never see the innovation come to life in the market place. Offer true leadership that is leading from the front.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

Regular brainstorm meetings are held with diverse teams, clear objectives and expert facilitation. Training is carried out for the senior executive team and for innovation ambassadors. An internal suggestions scheme is in place with adequate resources to evaluate ideas and implement the best. Resulting ideas are implemented.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. Typically, a group will begin a brainstorming session recommending that everyone should feel free to share whatever ideas they can think of. But there is a huge problem with this.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 17, 2017

There is no point in running supercharged brainstorms in order to fill the funnel with ideas if there are blockages which prevent good ideas from being implemented. It is better to begin with a brutally honest assessment of what is preventing innovation from happening today.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

The phrase is a core principle of improv that has become the “magic” brainstorming phrase. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Yes, and….” You know it. You love it. You may even use it.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Improve innovation leadership. 2 Brainstorm multiple uses for things: I like to look at objects and imagine how I might use it differently in a situation. Company Innovation priorities for 2017 (in order of importance): Building a culture of innovation. Improve employee engagement. Gather more ideas. Implement breakthrough ideas.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Introduction to High Performance Leadership Teams Defining High Performance Leadership Teams High performance leadership teams are those that not only achieve outstanding results but also sustain these levels of success over time. It’s the bedrock upon which innovative and collaborative teams are built.

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CMOE

JULY 26, 2019

A leadership-development plan is a detailed blueprint of the professional development and learning activities you’re going to engage in during a certain period of time. Its goal is to improve your leadership abilities. Below, you’ll find a simple process to teach you how to create a leadership-development plan.

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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. Strategic planning offsites are a significant investment in your leadership team’s development and your company’s future.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This title may sound like an oxymoron, but you can in fact teach innovation as you would any other skill, like communication or leadership. Leadership training can help inform you about the latest practices to push issues like innovation within your organization. It is all about the approach. It is an approach worth taking.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in project portfolio management , process improvement , change leadership , and stakeholder management. Then, we brainstorm ways to address it. Equip managers with tools to support their teams, as research shows effective change often hinges on leadership support.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

So how do you level up the entire brainstorming capacity of your workforce? A speaker series can feature subject matter experts who are passionate about a variety of topics, including creativity, ideation, culture, innovation leadership etc. How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? G et Out of the Building.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Brainstorms, away-days, offsite meetings and other activities will generate many great ideas but unless there is concrete action to implement the best ideas then these sessions become demotivational. It might be smarter to just stop making some of the common mistakes which inhibit innovation.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Leadership : Bold leaders, step up! Weave these innovation ideas into your business targets, making them vital parts of your big picture. Training and Support : Hooking your team up with training and the right tools makes it easier to roll with changes. They’ll be more pumped and ready to get on board with new stuff.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Advice for planning and facilitating successful corporate, executive, and leadership retreats. That’s where leadership retreats come in! This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Wazoku has grown steadily in the past few years into one of the big players in the idea management space, enabling companies to gather ideas from across the entire company and track their progress much more efficiently than with traditional brainstorming or idea suggestion schemes. Co-creating innovation with customers (14:40).

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Bring on Virtual Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a simple process that includes generating lots of ideas, prioritizing them, and the selection the best of the best to pursue. Get a tool specifically designed for online brainstorming, like Mural, Lucidchart, or Ideaboardz.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For a deeper dive into syncing up your leadership inner circles, check out our other piece on executive team & board of director collaboration strategies. Appreciate different views to make better calls and dream up clever fixes. Get more on how to line up ideas by checking out our article on aligning the execs and board.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership The contemporary leadership environment requires a meticulous balance between quantitative evaluations and genuine human connection. With Design Thinking as the tool, a new paradigm is set to emerge, merging metrics-driven and empathy-driven leadership.

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 10, 2019

Leadership styles are critical to innovation efforts, especially when working with uncertainty. Among the most interesting results from that work was that managers who used a wider variety of leadership styles, and applied them simultaneously, were best able to guide the development of radical innovation to a growth conclusion.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 19, 2019

Having an optimistic approach to your industry is fundamental to proper leadership, and it’s also key to innovation. Few leaders are happy resting on their laurels, and even in staid, quiet industries, you’ll find leadership tends to seek out challenges. To learn more about innovation leadership, join our newsletter today!

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