Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Over the last 25 years, I have led hundreds of design thinking sessions for international organizations and startups including brands like Red Bull. These sessions allow product designers and senior executives to work together to co-develop ideas which align with larger business strategies and innovation initiatives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. Spark creativity in process design or service enhancements. What is SCAMPER? Fuel idea generation for product updates or extensions.

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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. Breakout Sessions : Break it down into smaller groups to tackle focused topics. Group Discussions : Come back together to share golden nuggets from the breakout sessions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core concept from the Lean Startup methodology, designed to help organizations test new ideas quickly and learn from real customer feedback. Its especially useful in digital product development, service design, and business model innovation. What is the Build-Measure-Learn Loop?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The Six Thinking Hats method reduces the influence of cognitive biases, prevents groupthink, and increases the quality of both analysis and collaboration. In practice, Six Thinking Hats improves: Group dynamics by reducing personal conflict. The facilitator plays a key role in keeping the group on task.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

Explore how AI can help in ai in workflow design. Automation can also be applied to more complex tasks, such as performance management and workflow design. Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing : Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among employees by creating forums, discussion groups, and internal networks.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

By integrating AI into organizational design, you can streamline processes, improve decision-making, and optimize resource allocation. Benefits of Incorporating AI in Organizational Design Incorporating AI into organizational design offers numerous benefits that can significantly enhance your organization’s efficiency and effectiveness.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 9, 2020

When bringing people together to solve problems with design thinking, there may be more benefits to going remote than you think. Face-to-face design thinking workshops can be amazing. For instance, for time and cost reasons, a face-to-face workshop generally just brings one fixed group of people together for the entire time.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For more personalized program designs, explore leadership development design ai tools. Offering training modules specifically designed for managers is a great way to start. Check out our guide on leadership development design ai tools.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 13, 2023

Increased collaborations and co-creation through innovation ecosystems can foster the greater potential for collaborations and co-creations between associated parties that can “trigger” innovations that feed from these growing cooperations forming between the parties Greater scalability and speed.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 30, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations. Reorganizing a company to solve complex problems, introduce innovation, improve business operations, and identify market opportunities requires design. Design Thinking can be used as a tool to transform or reorganize a company to identify innovative solutions to current problems.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

Exploring Complexities of Business Ecosystem Collaborations Why should “we” step into the realm of ecosystem collaborations? Collaborations are challenging but exciting and potentially rewarding, but they radically differ in how you conduct business. I offer here many distinct aspects and strategic advantages.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The main technique of collaboration on whiteboards is using sticky notes to express your ideas and move them freely around the board. In order to avoid group-think within your brainstorming session, you might need to prepare some prompting questions to help people think independently and work on the board organically. Design Thinking.

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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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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. Enjoy… -Ash) As a product design manager and portfolio owner, I have found myself endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Understanding Team Collaboration Collaboration within a team setting is a cornerstone of modern organizational success, driving innovation, problem-solving, and efficiency in today’s complex workplace. Higher Employee Engagement Teams that work collaboratively often report higher levels of engagement and job satisfaction.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

So as I read about the solution that Aras provides to the designers within Manufacturing to manage PLM complex systems and products, you have to wonder why this cannot be extended into all innovation’s management. The whole momentum of collaboration becomes accelerated. A truly open innovation platform.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

For instance, AI can analyze communication patterns within teams to identify areas where collaboration can be improved. This ensures that cultural initiatives are tailored to the specific needs of each group. For more insights on using AI in organizational design, visit our article on ai in organizational design.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation, financial modeling serves as a foundation for pitching ideas to stakeholders, developing business cases, and iterating on product or service design. They offer a shared language for innovation and finance professionals to collaborate, ensuring that creativity is matched with commercial discipline.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Networking : Engage with a diverse group of people in your industry or interests. Collaboration often leads to the generation of novel ideas. Technology and Online Tools : There are various online platforms and tools designed to help you generate ideas, such as idea generation apps, creativity exercises, and brainstorming software.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

It includes both the development of new products and changes in the design of established products. Incremental innovation is research and development to design and implement a series of smaller changes over time, by improving performance, upgrading materials, or lowering manufacturing costs. Product Innovation. Incremental Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Problem Solving : Addressing complex challenges that the company faces in a collaborative manner. Preparing for a Successful Offsite The foundation of an effective strategy offsite design lies in meticulous preparation. 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Breakout Groups Small groups tackle specific strategic issues.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems.

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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. Creative thinking exercises are sometimes done with a group and sometimes individually. This connection is very important and provides increased potential for their visual collaboration exercises down the road.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 6, 2024

Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Evolution and Revolution My definition of innovation ecosystems is that they, “innovation ecosystems are dynamic, interconnected networks of diverse actors and resources that come together to collaborate to drive innovation opportunity and create a more compelling value.”

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

No one organization can keep pace, has enough resources or can cover off solutions that solve “universal” problems or even ones in a diverse, huge Corporation collaborating across a global business where functional groups involved are far more diverse than ever before. The IM software market is stirring. Take Aras and its solutions.[1].

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve been interested in the growing space of self-assessments for design thinking and innovation. I was curious to see if our AI tool could create a self-assessment people could take to assess themselves on their design thinking behaviors, mindset and practices. How well do you communicate your ideas and insights to others?

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Designing the Retreat Agenda Planning a killer agenda’s your ticket to a memorable leadership retreat. Think group puzzles, skits, or tackling real-world problems to light the spark in your retreat. 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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Virtual team building activities play a pivotal role in fostering communication, collaboration, and a cohesive culture within distributed teams. Benefits of Virtual Team Building Activities Virtual team building activities are designed to bridge the gap between remote team members, creating a sense of unity and shared purpose.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Pioneering companies employ online innovation platforms to harness the genius of the group far beyond teams that meet in the same place or at the same time. It allows you to gather feedback from any group anywhere in the world. These groups often fund proposals in sequential stages. Organizational Alignment .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Pioneering companies employ online innovation platforms to harness the genius of the group far beyond teams that meet in the same place or at the same time. It allows you to gather feedback from any group anywhere in the world. These groups often fund proposals in sequential stages. Organizational Alignment .

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

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