Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. You have the responsibility to foster an environment where strategic thinking flourishes. This involves not only setting the path but also empowering your team to contribute their ideas and insights to the strategy.

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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This involves not only verbal encouragement but also the implementation of tangible policies and practices that empower your team to think differently and take risks. Effective leaders provide resources, create cross-functional teams, and ensure that innovation is aligned with business strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking Skills for Sales.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store.

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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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

06:15] Technology now means we are no longer locked to our desks, or to our teams. [08:00] 09:15] How conflicting requirements between neighbouring teams can cause distractions and lower performance. [10:30] Therefore, what would be an office environment that makes teams productive, creative and also able to execute innovative ideas?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

My friend explained that over a period of years, her bosses shot down every dynamic possibility she proposed as a creative marketing idea. The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point. If no one ever says your ideas are too bold, that is also bad.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

“The more bad ideas the better. If you work really hard on coming up with bad ideas, sooner or later, some good ideas are going to slip through.” – Seth Godin (June 19, 2018). Actionable Learning: A comparable business situation involves regularly employing moonshot projects to boost innovation. Failure is an option here.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives. The key is to start small and be willing to fail and learn from the experience.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2021

Every company worth its low-salt lunch has identified innovation as a core competency needing to be developed. Then note which ones are your weaknesses -- and how can you strengthen them. You might even give them to your team and ask them to rate themselves. Committed to learning. can deny the value of improving things?

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

While learning to implement submarine tactics as OOD is challenging, learning to consistently lead a team of 30 sailors and keep them engaged and proficient was far more difficult. This led to poor team dynamics and organization throughout the submarine. COMMAND-AND-CONTROL STYLE.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

This strategy involves structured processes to gather insights from various stakeholders, assess these ideas for feasibility and impact, and select the most promising ones for further development. Ideation is integral to the innovation process, serving as a critical component for companies aiming to harness creativity and drive growth.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2019

It’s always easier to work with a challenge when you have time and the leisure to incubate, think, and in general work the clay of research insights, trends, prototypes, paper-based concepts, or a business model canvas. When you are always doing innovation, you have time to fail, time to create small wins, time to learn.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Speculation about strengths and weaknesses the organization faces. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas?

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation is the process of taking an idea and developing it further. Think of this as taking a product from concept to completion. Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. Product innovation is the development of new products. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. LEAN method.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Big Tech’s offerings – Google Meet (Hangouts), Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams – also experienced growth. Whether you are an executive, manager or individual contributor with the responsibility to effectively navigate the next 6-18 months, it is imperative to be thinking more deeply about what WFH means for you, your team and your organization.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. This strategic thinking exercise allows a large group (perhaps hundreds of online participants) to provide targeted input on an organization’s future direction.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Think fast, move faster. In a meeting in 2013, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty gave her workers quite a talking to, telling them to move fast and respond to customers faster to combat poor revenues. She preferred nondescript hotel rooms, away from home, to get her creative juices flowing. The only way to win is as a team.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Just pick a method, book a conference room, invite some team members, and dive head first into your brainstorm, right? The primary reason?

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 3, 2017

We will then try to learn what did the product managers (in some cases, entrepreneurs themselves) do so that their products became successful. It occurred to him that it would be a good idea if he could develop a machine which could take these documents and create copies quickly and cheaply. What do we learn from them.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Companies must focus on the future, and they are intensely interested in how the market is changing, what their customers will want, how technology is developing and what their competitors and partners are planning to do. Would that company invest in R&D?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Most managers I know want their employees to be curious and experimental, to take the initiative and develop new products and solutions. To accomplish this, managers can do four things: Foster divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is different from creative thinking. This is experiential learning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In a separate study of 81 organizations and 189,000 people around the world, we found that four types of leadership behavior are most commonly associated with high-quality executive teams: operating with a strong orientation to results, solving problems effectively, seeking out different perspectives, and supporting others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

For example, you might write, “I’m an environmental fundraising professional with more than 15 years of experience and I’d love to bring my expertise and enthusiasm to your growing development team.” We’re a small team and I can’t afford to train someone,” she says. But don’t try to be funny. First off, it was professional.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years. It was a huge learning curve, and there are a lot of lessons still being learned. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills!

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. becomes the salient question, and discovering the likely answers determines the responses that will be developed. A Waterfall variant, ADDIE, is commonly used in course development and professional training. Core Elements of Waterfall.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Releasing the creative potential in your organization will provide you with a powerful new resource that can take you into the future. If the challenge is too high a level, creative thinking will be all over the place. Start by running a pilot campaign, learn lessons, and scale it up the next time. Taking ideas forward.

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