IdeaScale

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Here are a few ways to encourage creativity as part of your innovation strategy. So, think of challenges you can issue to your team. As long as it’s friendly, competition is no bad thing, and encouraging friendly competition is a good way to get ideas. Issue A Challenge. Encourage Both Cooperation And Competition.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 10, 2025

These aren’t failures of creativitytheyre often the result of fragmented processes, misaligned teams, and unclear execution across the product development cycle. Yet, many organizations still rely on outdated, linear methods that treat product development like a checklist. What is the Product Development Cycle?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. They are real. It’s a virtuous cycle.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Components of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is generally broken down into four or five core components, each playing a distinct role in leadership development: Self-Awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one’s own emotions and how they affect thoughts and behavior.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A strong innovation strategy, therefore, includes office design. Thus, the more that workers bump into each other and have conversations, the better the chances of developing and advancing more and better ideas. Holding innovation strategy meetings are useful within their structure and context. Innovation + Peace & Quiet.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the 3 As of Strategic Thinking Every leader and team member desires the ability to think strategically; however, the process of building your own strategic thinking skills can be difficult, as can encouraging strategic thinking in your team members. Do I (we) understand our companys current strengths and weaknesses?

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Positive Effects of Strategic Thinking: Operational Benefits for Your Business Effective leaders use strategic thinking to approach team building and operational action. Companies that develop comprehensive growth strategies are 97 percent more likely to achieve above-peer profitability.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. When is it time to stick to an idea, and when is it time to listen to others and change course? When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It encompasses the leader’s capacity to navigate social complexities, remain calm under pressure, and inspire and motivate teams through understanding and empathy. Empathetic leaders can foster loyalty and trust within their teams, leading to improved morale and reduced turnover.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. For strategies on leading this change, delve into lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Technology improves; companies grow and tap into new resources; new people are hired and incorporated into the team; the standard of innovation and best practices for entire industries can shift dramatically. Uncertain Strategy.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. If this doesn’t work, it is going to make me look bad.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Businesses that have leaders who are committed to their strategies grow faster and are more profitable than their counterparts. The results of this lack of investment cascade down to leaders in the middle, leaders on the front line, and the workforce: 95 percent of employees do not know or understand their organization’s strategy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Lead from the front.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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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. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The simplest way to try to categorize these approaches is to use a matrix that categorizes the strategy of the innovators based on two axes: Push – Pull. The first point, and maybe the most important one, is to understand that the best innovators don’t rely on a single R&D team or innovation lab for their results.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This insight, collected from what’s been described as the most comprehensive study conducted on social capital (Chetty and his team examined data from 21 billion Facebook connections covering 84% of U.S. adults ages 25 to 44) makes for striking headlines. It specifically aims to equip low-income and first-generation college students.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Retaining your team is crucial to your organization’s success. Morale: With people leaving, team members might become overworked to compensate for the lack of workforce. Avoiding these repercussions requires a robust retention strategy that encourages team members to stick around long term. Why Is Retention Important?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

As organizations recognize the value of emotionally intelligent leaders, the focus on integrating emotional intelligence into leadership development has intensified. Leaders with high emotional intelligence are adept at understanding and managing their own emotions, which in turn allows them to inspire and influence their teams positively.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Leaders with high emotional intelligence can inspire trust, motivate their team, and foster a positive work environment, thereby enhancing overall organizational performance. Leadership development professionals recognize the significance of emotional intelligence as a foundational element of effective leadership.

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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. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Leaders with high emotional intelligence are adept at connecting with their teams, understanding and managing group dynamics, and inspiring trust and loyalty. Leaders who exhibit emotional intelligence foster environments where creativity and productivity thrive, and their teams tend to have higher morale and lower turnover rates.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2024

Most strategies carry with them a failure rate of 60-90%. This isn’t a revelation: Organizations have been dealing with failed strategies for decades. If leaders want their AI bets to pay off, they need to transform strategy implementation from organizational weakness to core competency.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

I wrote a piece last week introducing the idea that change is strategic, and that strategy should consider change competency as a core competency. Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. A Great Innovation Skillset is Not Enough. And I found one.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

You might notice a lack of enthusiasm among your team, increased absenteeism, and a decline in productivity and quality of work. If you observe these signs, it’s crucial to act promptly to prevent further erosion of your team’s well-being and performance. Explore further on building a positive work culture.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders. Developing Strategic Thinking Skills The evolution of your strategic thinking skills is pivotal in enhancing your leadership capabilities.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders. Developing Strategic Thinking Skills The evolution of your strategic thinking skills is pivotal in enhancing your leadership capabilities.

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