BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Addressing Project Planning with a Zoomference. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits. – Mike Brown.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Strategic Thinking 40

The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Done the right way and in the absence of a pandemic, a proper mix of WFH and in-office can increase productivity AND creativity AND reduce stress levels. more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). Document preparation. Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck. User testing.

Innovation 64

Innovation Technical Review Software Review Ideation 64

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

They are the day-to-day manifestations of your company’s culture, seen in everything from how meetings are run to the way projects are managed. Culture and Innovation In an era where innovation is indispensable, the culture of your organization can either nurture creative thinking or stifle it.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. For the hottest project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons? Is it working?

Ideation 41

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 41

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

The constraint might be real and insurmountable, but the innovator should take the time to document it nonetheless because it may help him or her see an alternative pathway that was not apparent before. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.”

Innovation 98

Innovation Technical Review Software Review Creativity 98

Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. For the hottest project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons? Is it working?

Ideation 89

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 89

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

Every good project or organization starts in the same place: someone has a great idea for something they can make, provide, or do. This post isn’t a creative guide to coming up with a show-stopping idea, that’s all up to you. Intimately Knowing Your Team and Your Product Portfolio.

Strategy 48

Strategy Strategy Management Brainstorming 48

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Both mediocre and excellent strategies begin with a series of experiments and investments leading to data projects. After a few years, some of these projects work out and are on their way to production. In the mediocre strategy, one or two of these projects may even have a clear ROI for the business.

Project 13

Project Data Artificial Inteligence How To 13

Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. Your team doesn't actually know what your customers want, no one is responsible for writing new project briefs, or no one is actually reading/understanding the briefs. Unfortunately, this is all too common. The reasons?

Ideation 27

Ideation Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 27

The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Before this point, projecting forward from the present works well; what has happened in the immediate past is a pretty good indicator of what will happen next.

Technical Review 45

Technical Review Trends Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 45

Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. For the hottest project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons? Is it working?

Ideation 30

Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 30

Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. For the hottest project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons? Is it working?

Ideation 20

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

At Google Creative Lab, for example, executives demand brilliant, creative thinking and insights at the core of any campaign. Instead, they deliberately champion post-launch testing, expecting that the creative content will be refined and perfected based on a data-driven analysis of live feedback from the marketplace.

Creativity 15

Creativity Marketing Analysis Training 15

Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. For the hottest project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons? Is it working?

Ideation 22

Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 22

Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. For the hottest project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons? Is it working?

Ideation 20

Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

It is by now an obvious statement that companies compete on the strengths of their knowledge workers – people who “think for a living” by applying convergent, divergent, and creative thinking skills. Poppy hands over the exceptions to her human teammates for processing.

Case Study 14

Case Study Software System Study 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

When we talk about the problem of driving innovation, we often focus on how to foster creative thinking. In addition to tagging each thought with the word “idea,” tag it with the project or subject it relates to, or take a few minutes once every few days to file all your latest ideas in the appropriate project notebook.

Creativity 10

Creativity Software Review Project System 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

On the other hand, incorrectly constrained innovation efforts carry well-documented risks. New growth businesses generally take longer to mature than even the most optimistic projections. Unconstrained efforts of the “let 1,000 flowers bloom” variety feel good, but often lead to diffused progress. Set these guidelines carefully.

Guidelines 9

Guidelines Innovation Disruption Marketing 9

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. We might begin with a requirements gathering process in order to understand resources and parameters, and stay within the scope of the Project Charter that emerges from that process. Step 4 – System Testing : TEST!

Agile 74

Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 74