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

It’s the environment that supports an ongoing commitment to creativity and novel problem-solving. 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. How do you prioritize and fund innovative projects?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Strategos offers clients a robust and creative approach to strategy and innovation that appealed to me. ” Individual ideas are rarely big enough on their own.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 24, 2015

It's interesting to me how little we appreciate the depth of knowledge and discipline that has been developed over the years where innovation is concerned. A lot of innovation and creativity is based on Osborn's work, supplemented by Parnes and others. This is why expertise can be dangerous when generating ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Economic Development and the “Home Run” Complex. But in the spirit of an Economic Development “What If…” What If all those other Amazon bidders had put that same energy, and money, into doing innovation projects that are smaller in scale, but, new, different, and clever in their regions?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement. Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Thinking, with the subtitle "The Unconventional Approach to Breakthrough Ideas". What this book is about The book introduces a framework the authors have developed to improve innovation thinking to lead to better ideas. All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rural Development Hinges On The Creative Class. Attracting the Creative Class is About Culture, Tolerance, and Quality of Life. Where Creative Workers Locate is Where Innovation and New Businesses Happen, Site Locations Follow. Just how does a community encourage creative workers to locate there? It can be done.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

While producing new ideas might not be difficult considering how frequently ideas come and go, producing great ideas often requires some inspiration and implementing some scientifically proven techniques of ideation. It’s time to let go of conventional, boring idea generation tactics. Brainstorming. Gamestorming.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 1, 2017

It recognizes that some of the best people and best ideas reside outside the company, which often times lead to faster, more creative and valuable solutions to difficult problems. It is through this diverse source of participation that ideas take shape in creative ways.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

However, innovation is not a haphazard endeavor; it requires a well-structured approach to harness creativity and translate it into tangible results. This structured approach, known as the innovation management process, is essential for turning novel ideas into successful products, services, or processes. Source: Venture Founders 3.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

An innovation pipeline acts like the lifeline of your company’s growth, channeling fresh ideas through a structured process to transform them into market-ready products. An innovation pipeline is a systematic approach to managing the flow of ideas and projects from conception to market launch.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. GenAI’s most prominent contribution is in idea generation and validation—innovation’s divergence and convergence phases.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

It recognizes that some of the best people and best ideas reside outside the company, which often times lead to faster, more creative and valuable solutions to difficult problems. It is through this diverse source of participation that ideas take shape in creative ways.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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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?

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is definitely not a failure of a single product, acquisition, or bad campaign. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. Absence of an exclusive team. And innovation partners such as education institutions, incubators, and developer communities are just as important.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. However, decades of studies demonstrate that groups that use Osborn’s rules of brainstorming come up with fewer ideas (and fewer good ideas) than the individuals would have developed alone.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Executives need to own up to their role in creating the workplace stress that leads to burnout—heavy workloads, job insecurity, and frustrating work routines that include too many meetings and far too little time for creative work. You can also look at how you staff teams. Weak time-management disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

For results in idea generation you need a system, a framework, and a wide, deep chest of tools. How can you generate great ideas with a more systemic approach to “brainstorming”? Professional innovators already use brainwriting — and a vast array of other tools — to brainstorm/generate ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. Mash-Ups, in its various permutations, is a power tool and a fast path for combining disparate elements to creatively problem solve. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

New ideas are the fuel of progress. Yet not all ideas are created equal. For every brilliant concept that revolutionizes an industry, countless others fall short due to poor execution or lack of clarity. This is where idea development comes into play. What is Idea Development?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 20, 2025

A well-defined product ideation process helps companies systematically generate , evaluate , and refine ideas to ensure they align with real market demand. Whether improving an existing product or developing something entirely new, structured ideation increases the likelihood of success.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Gregg is a Visiting Innovation Scholar at Notre Dame, and is the author of Jack’s Notebook , a business novel about structured creative process. Gregg has a secret ingredient to his training programs: Fun, he has a well developed sense of humor, and that helps when communicating complex material. Fun, then Serious Results.

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