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SCAMPER Template

Leapfrogging

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Lead Successful Innovation Projects! What is SCAMPER? Use design sprints to validate assumptions.

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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

IdeaScale

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises.

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Strategic Planning and the Demand for Innovation

Leapfrogging

Here’s a peek at how strategic planning can jazz up your business performance: Key Metric Wingin’ It With a Plan Revenue Growth 2% 7% Market Share 5% 12% Operational Efficiency 60% 85% Want the scoop on mixing strategy with a hint of creativity? Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process.

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Fueling New Solution Development with an Innovation Platform – CBTW & Qmarkets

Qmarkets

The fragmented nature of CBTW’s innovation activities was compounded by the absence of cohesive tools. It was clear that what CBTW needed was an innovation process that broke down these walls and helped everyone to pull in the same direction…and a single platform that could manage this process from end-to-end.

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Creativity, creative leadership and the value of innovation management

Exago

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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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. Can we design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit the specific need? A radically different orchestration of innovation – highly networked, fully connected-up. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Innovators need to heighten sensory intelligence and cognitive abilities.

Paul Hobcraft

Even if heightened sensory profiles were a universal characteristic among innovators, it wouldn’t be the sole factor driving innovation. Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, play significant roles in the innovative process.