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Charting the Course: Linking Business Strategy to Innovation

Leapfrogging

To spice up your planning process, including getting creative with design thinking, pop over to how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process. Check out our piece on design thinking for planning. Know your game plan, know the innovation mojo — and you’re cooking with gas.

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Chart Your Course to Success: Leadership Retreat Facilitation Insights

Leapfrogging

Think about these when plotting your course: Strategic Alignment: Make sure the retreat’s got its compass aligned with company goals. Designing the Retreat Agenda Planning a killer agenda’s your ticket to a memorable leadership retreat. Problem-Solving: What bugs need squashing? Know the challenges you’re gunning for.

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The limitations, criticisms and new pathways for Design Thinking – Part One

Paul Hobcraft

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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Inspiring Innovation: How People Stories Can Spark Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

Shigeru Miyamoto : The Japanese video game designer who created iconic franchises like Mario , The Legend of Zelda , and Donkey Kong. Of course, always get their permission before highlighting their achievements but public praise can be a powerful motivator. Share their story! Additionally, share a personal story of your own.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. IS: What’s an example of an open competency model?

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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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