Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 18, 2024

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack The impact of disruption, hyper-connectivity, and uncertainty, coupled with the pace of change, is causing many people to feel fearful and anxious. They become defensive and reactive and ‘go under’ emotionally and ‘go inwards’ cognitively by ruminating about their past and what bad things may happen in the future.

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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. It challenges conventional thinking and encourages exploration by shifting the lens through which problems are viewed. What is SCAMPER?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

How about Creative Thinking Questions? To prepare for the in-person planning, Tara forwarded creative thinking questions that looked out from today to more than a decade into the future. While the document was daunting, working with a fresh set of questions forced me to think about completely new opportunities and issues.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2017

Creative wave makers display both the creative thinking skills and the boldness to improve ideas and situations in dramatic, unexpected ways. Some people are born as creative wave makers. Being More of a Creative Wave Maker Yourself. Creativity and Idea Magnets – 11 Vital Creative Characteristics.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? The post Harness the Random with this Method appeared first on Destination Innovation. The Random Word method is very good. Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. Innovation needs organizing but it also needs a better understanding of its contributing parts. So what is your capacity for innovation really like within your organization?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2021

We speak about her new book Unblinkered: The quirky biases that get in the way of creative thinking…and how to bust them , about how biases manifest themselves in our workplace and what we can do about them. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:20 – Rachel’s history coming to innovation through marketing.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the big challenges to innovation is that many people think of it as a big program, like implementing the quality programs of the 1980s, or rethinking everything, like the re-engineering programs and right sizing programs of a more recent vintage. But innovation and design thinking have something to offer here.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Struggling to be creative? Think about reigniting your creativity as a day at an amusement park. All the ways you have been creative up until now are the amusement park rides. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Related posts Creative Thinking Right Now?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. Forms Instant Relationships: Automatically connects ideas and demonstrates their relation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to build a strong case, stay informed, and think critically is the key to unlocking success and driving innovation. But how can you empower those responsible for innovation to not only navigate this terrain but thrive within it? My 2nd offer point.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. Berkun clears the ground for more effective innovation by blowing up a few myths.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 6, 2024

This results in resistance to the creative changes using Generative AI might bring because they lack the vital creative and emotional energy to generate creative thinking with AI; they will typically resist innovation-led change and stay ‘stuck’ in their habitual, safe and conventional roles, capabilities and identities.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. The task of searching to resolve more complex problems allows Design Thinking to step up and become a far more visible component on how we can go about this. It provides the innovation marching orders.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? You can follow their work over on innovation-3, where they help companies to set the Scaling-Up of a fully validated innovation concept up for success. I am thinking scale differently here, So let me explore this, it is only emerging for me.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What was an incredible innovation is now changing how we work and live. Through creativity and innovation, from the earliest origin of man, we have been creating and shaping tools - fire, sharpened sticks for tools and weapons, the wheel and thousands upon thousands of other tools and devices.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Without a structured approach, businesses risk being caught off guard by market shifts, economic downturns, or disruptive innovations. Improves Innovation and Adaptability Encourages creative thinking to respond to market shifts. Battery innovation and sustainability trends. 3 years, 5 years, 10 years)?

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2024

AI-powered innovation transformed industries, drove unprecedented levels of efficiency, creativity, and profitability in 2024. Amid this transformative wave, many leaders wonder: Will AI-driven innovation replace traditional business processes entirely? Can AI-driven innovation put me out of business?

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 28, 2018

Why We Like It: This type of in-depth psychology gives us ideas for how to better engage the crowd, inspire creativity, and drive innovative thinking. Stanford Innovation Lab. Global Innovation Management Institute Game Changers. Favorite Episode: Beyond Luck: Persistence And The Successful Woman Innovator.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. Failing to innovate can cause even a large established business to lose ground to competitors that more fully embrace innovation. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation Consultant.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 25, 2022

Creative thinking and innovation don’t come naturally to everyone, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good at them. Sometimes, teams need practice and routine to improve their creativity skills. This article will highlight some popular innovation exercises you can conduct with your team to get your creative juices flowing.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding the sensory and cognitive abilities of innovators Following on from my first post on building an Innovator’s Sensory profile, the combination of various cognitive, emotional and environmental factors heightens our awareness, so I needed to explore this further in this post. Nothing is set in stone.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Description Some social scientists believe that the more expert you become in your field, the more difficult it is to create innovative ideas. This is because becoming an expert means you tend to specialize your thinking. Post-it notes and pen for each participant. Duration 10-20 minutes. Specializing is like brushing one tooth.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To hear more about breaking the barriers to creative thinking, listen to the full podcast episode here: Episode 008: Fixedness: Your Main Barrier to Creative Thinking. Then force the dependency that wasn’t there before or break a dependency that already exists.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

I've been reading and thinking a lot lately about what is described as a "culture of innovation". While I would like to think that such an animal exists, the more skeptical side of me doubts it. To do all of this work effectively, innovation needs to be fully embedded in the regular, day to day operations.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 23, 2021

We know that our surroundings can impact our creative performance and ability to innovate. Well, several pieces of research have looked at how colour around you affects your creative performance. The best colours for more creative thinking: Blue and Green (and especially green plants ). And what are those colours?

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 9, 2022

Life is full of contradictions, isn’t it? We often have two ideas in our heads that are in opposition with one another. We want one thing but we also want something else. Unfortunately, we can’t have both because they’re directly opposed. So, what do we do? That’s what I’m discussing in this episode.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As the customer advocate, you work closely with employees to keep customers at the forefront of innovation. You want your employees to innovate with the customer in mind. These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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Exago

AUGUST 10, 2017

From janitor to CEO, everyone should be involved in daily in your innovation process. The tool to deliver this change is creative thinking, in the hands of a leadership that believes in and embodies its principles. The post Creativity, creative leadership and the value of innovation management appeared first on Exago.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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HYPE Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We have all become totally wrapped up in thr “Innovation Theatre.” Some have called these song and dance routines , others like Steve Blank, have described their view of “innovation theatre” around the current obsession of setting up outposts , mostly in Silicon Valley. Honestly the list gets longer by the day.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Table of Contents What is Supply Chain Innovation? Supply chain innovation is defined as the implementation of new and improved strategies, technologies, processes, and practices within the supply chain to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and improve overall performance.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A human analyst to validate technology search results, conduct crucial subject matter expert interviews , and evaluate unique ideas from experienced, creative employees and stakeholders through open innovation challenges will prove to be the best approach to a fully developed innovation management strategy.

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