Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Leading a design thinking workshop can completely transform your company for the better. According to the 71% of brands that champion design thinking, making a shift to a design-centered mindset will dramatically improve productivity and … Continue reading →

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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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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. Decision Making : Making critical decisions that will impact the organization’s future course.

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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. How to Run a VR Design Thinking Workshop.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Explore examples of how design thinking and human-centered design has led to innovation in healthcare. Healthcare is one industry among many that can benefit from innovative thinking and human-centered design principles. Applying Design Thinking to Schizophrenia Care. Using Design to Create Better Healthcare Spaces.

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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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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. Structured collaboration is one of the most effective ways to brainstorm and through using online whiteboards you can utilize a ton of unique templates that enable your brainstorming success.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. I have used it many times in different workshop environments; here is a post of mine on this to bring opinions together and give a collective focus to build out a more collaborative future. Source: Nesta UK.

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ITONICS

MARCH 27, 2020

This leads to a couple of difficulties, especially when you are scheduled to hold an interactive and Design-Thinking-inspired workshop format that could neither be postponed nor be executed at the client facilities. Here is our “How to” for a digital collaboration solution that I would like to share with you.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2020

Online collaboration tools for innovative work remotely. If you and your teams have found yourselves working more remotely, you may be interested in this collection of top remote working, meeting, communication and facilitation tools that can increase your collaboration, impact, productivity, and ease while working virtually or from home.

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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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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 20, 2018

” That was the question from the person in charge of Talent for a big bank at a workshop we ran with them recently at UQ. Which brings us back to my answer in the workshop: “The first thing we need to do is give them projects to do where we can’t know what the right answer is in advance.”

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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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CMOE

AUGUST 19, 2021

Successful organizations are those that foster a collaborative work culture, but fully 86 percent of leaders and team members believe a lack of teamwork leads to project failure and team conflict. Collaboration is crucial to your team’s success but how can you increase collaboration at work? 3. Streamline Technology.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Fusing” human engagement with technology enablement involves creating a harmonious integration of human collaboration and technological tools to enable an ecosystem’s successful development and operation. Human-Centered Design: Begin with a human-centered approach. Is that possible?

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

The Essence of Team Collaboration Team collaboration is the bedrock of modern organizational success, fostering an environment where ideas can flourish and goals can be achieved through collective effort. Benefits of Effective Team Collaboration The advantages of implementing team collaboration best practices are manifold.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

It is likely that many of you have heard of, worked with or are experts in design thinking. Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology brought to the forefront by IDEO at least two decades ago (read: it’s old). I started to work with Rinat and Johan on co-design projects back during pre-iPhone days.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Future of Team Collaboration As the professional landscape evolves, team collaboration has been rapidly transitioning to the virtual realm. Online collaboration platforms have become the backbone of this transformation, enabling teams to work together seamlessly, irrespective of their physical locations.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

How can we realize the power of ecosystem thinking and design and its growing value to enterprises? Ecosystem thinking and design require continuous collective learning. Interactive Application: Application in Workshops or Discussions: Suggest applying the insights in workshops or group discussions.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 28, 2021

Learn design thinking in this new virtual course from the Stanford D School. The Stanford D School have recently released a new Starter Kit designed for teams looking to host a virtual design thinking workshop or training session. Virtual Design Thinking Course: What to Expect. Day in the life mapping.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the time of this writing, a search for UX design jobs on job finder Glassdoor reveals almost 20,000 open positions in the United States alone. Onward Search provides a useful overview of the UX design job market in infographic format. If we go by the stats, the market for UX designers could not be hotter.

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Guide 4 Innovating

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Building the workshop ready for innovation is deliberately designed to help you think through many productive innovating and creative opportunities. Look constantly outside your organization to ‘see’ and collaborate from the values of applying open innovation principles and techniques. For example: 1.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Dynamic Ecosystems build future ecosystem resilience and including participation as the core to thinking evolution and discovery, to exploit and expand to what is possible, through ecosystem-centric thinking and design.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves understanding the needs and perspectives of users, prototyping, and testing potential solutions, and iterating until the best solution is found. .

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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. Enhanced Problem Solving.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2022

This article is part 5 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Anyone can come up with ideas, solutions, or begin collaborating with others to come up with a viable solution to a challenge. Vague statements such as, “Customer X likes cars,” don’t do much to inform your design thinking. Conclusion.

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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. In our recent post on remote working software tools , we shared some top tools that can be used to innovate and collaborate with your virtual teams. We’ve also featured on our list of top design thinking software tools.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Keynote speakers also serve as catalysts for change, motivating teams to embrace new methodologies and collaborate more effectively. Through engaging stories and actionable insights, they can instill a sense of purpose and drive teams towards embracing collaborative innovation.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2018

The power of collaboration beyond the confines of a conventional organization are leading many to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding innovation – so independent parties work together to design, produce and finance new things. He also offers workshops and change management consulting for private businesses, NGOs and public organizations.

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HYPE Innovation

AUGUST 5, 2015

Taking it one step further in the process, the current post will look at designing a simple and effective communications session with topical presentations and/or workshop, approaching participants and managing the follow-up.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. To ensure your offsite is as productive as possible, it’s essential to design it with intention. The right atmosphere can foster engagement and collaboration.

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