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MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking in Innovation Benchmarking plays a critical role in real-world innovation projects by providing data-driven insights that inform both strategy and execution. Incorporate benchmarking findings into strategic planning cycles, design thinking workshops, or agile backlogs. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

For teams which are struggling to overcome risk-averse behaviour, organise a workshop to help them identify the biases and behaviours which may be holding back their creativity. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Learn how to gain empathy when practicing design thinking. Empathy is an important element in design thinking and human-centered design. In this guide, we’ll cover what empathy for design thinking means as well as how to learn empathy to apply to your innovation- and design thinking-focused projects.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To spice up your planning process, including getting creative with design thinking, pop over to how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process. Resource Swag : Make sure you’ve got the budget, crew, and tech ready to power your creative projects. Check out our piece on design thinking for planning.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Are you interested in learning about the steps of design thinking so you can take action on applying the process? What is design thinking ? Design thinking is a popular approach to getting started with innovation that begins with empathy and understanding the needs of your users or customers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Explore examples of how design thinking and human-centered design has led to innovation in healthcare. Healthcare is one industry among many that can benefit from innovative thinking and human-centered design principles. Using Agile Thinking to Keep Hospitals Aligned. Image Courtesy of IDEO.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Lean Innovation Project Management: Putting in place a structure which teams can use to focus limited time and energy on progressing ideas quickly, and validating progress.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reviewing innovation metrics and KPIs to apply for design thinking stages. In this article, we take a look at creating simple design thinking metrics or KPIs that may be applied to your scenario. Here are some simple design thinking metrics or innovation KPIs you might use. Design Thinking Metrics and KPIs.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

We offer our design thinking certificate programs in partnership with an organization, university, or other institution. Our design thinking certificate courses are designed and delivered for varying lengths, settings, group sizes and can be a combination of in-person and virtual experiences for different purposes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. Here’s how design thinking breaks down: Empathize: Get cozy with your customers’ needs and woes. Using combos like design thinking and SWOT ensures that innovation isn’t floating by itself.

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MARCH 30, 2022

This article is part 5 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Vague statements such as, “Customer X likes cars,” don’t do much to inform your design thinking. These brainstorming and ideation techniques can help with your design thinking and innovation projects.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

It is likely that many of you have heard of, worked with or are experts in design thinking. Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology brought to the forefront by IDEO at least two decades ago (read: it’s old). I started to work with Rinat and Johan on co-design projects back during pre-iPhone days.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

The key factor to help you leverage your business may be the combination of project management methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Scrum. The Benefits of Design Thinking. Design Thinking respects and understands the needs of the end user. Design Thinking – Concept and Stages.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved.

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MARCH 9, 2021

How to facilitate a design thinking workshop for digital transformation. Digital transformation is a significant and common challenge for organizations and thus a great design thinking project. Leaders, facilitators and design thinking project leaders also have to be creative about working virtually.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming on a whiteboard. What is the worst outcome you can think of? What similar projects/products do we want to take inspiration from? Design Thinking.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s article, we’ll share some of our favorite templates that you can use with FigJam to build out your own innovation or design thinking events, workshops, and meetings. It helps you think about their interests, goals, needs, pain points, and more. User Persona Template. Conclusion.

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MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s review the three stages of this design thinking framework. This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking and Part 2: Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them. .

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Move Perk Play with Ideas Inspires out-of-the-box problem-solving Supply Creative Stuff Speeds up getting those fresh ideas off the ground Keep an Eye on Your Tactics Keeps your plans sharp and ready for anything By making creativity a staple of your company culture, you’re setting up a forward-thinking, resilient business.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work. Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs.

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JUNE 14, 2022

Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. Here at Innovation Training, we’ve spent over a decade studying and applying design thinking techniques to help organizations and individuals create real, innovative change. As you may know, empathy plays a critical role in design thinking.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Sometimes called “negative brainstorming”, “ reverse brainstorming ” is one approach to problem-solving sessions that can be a useful way to explore different options in an innovation or design thinking project. Reverse brainstorming training options.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Divvy Up Resources : Make sure you’ve got the essentials covered—time, cash, and crew—to back your fiery projects. Hit up events, dive into workshops, and get your team on board too. Plus, checking out approaches like design thinking can make strategy sessions even more creative.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 18, 2022

These top Jeanne Liedtka’s books are a great source of information on innovation and design thinking. Design thinking books continue to be a popular topic on our blog, as many find them a useful way to learn about innovation and how to apply these techniques to organizational or personal challenges.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Discover how this innovation tool can be used for your design thinking workshop or design sprint. We’ve also featured on our list of top design thinking software tools. In this post, we explored this software and how it can be used specifically for innovation or design thinking.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Continue reading to understand what Design Thinking is and how DT tools can be the turning point for your business! What is Design Thinking. When we talk about Design Thinking , we are referring primarily to the way designers think. What are some Design thinking tools ?

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APRIL 21, 2020

This seemed like a design thinking challenge emerging. An opportunity to put the steps of design thinking into practice: empathy, define, ideate, prototype and test. We took this on as a design thinking project and used a Miro online whiteboard. These were ideas asking to be synthesized.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Design Thinking for Naming. Virtual or Onsite Naming Workshops.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Examples of design thinking and human-centered design in the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. Through the use of methodologies like design thinking and human-centered design, hospitals and other medical organizations have been able to better serve their patients and address specific problems or needs.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Integrating Lean Startup with Design Thinking and AI Integrating the lean startup methodology with design thinking and artificial intelligence (AI) can lead to more innovative solutions and a competitive edge in today’s business environment.

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JULY 9, 2020

In today’s post, we’ll explore how design thinking for the future of work can help businesses and organizations struggling to adapt to new workplace requirements and needs. . Design Thinking At Work. Or, perhaps you’ve discovered just how important on-site interactions can be for certain task loads or projects.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. If you haven’t implemented design thinking or creative thinking exercises into your workspace, it’s time to start. Especially when working remotely it can be very difficult to stimulate creative thinking and get people involved with the workshop you’re conducting. .

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APRIL 28, 2020

Design Thinking Coaching: 1on1 or Group. We can connect you to an excellent design thinking coach who can help you apply design thinking in your own work, with your teams, and within your organization. Here’s an example of what a design thinking coaching program could look like with Tom.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Learn more about this classic Double Diamond design thinking framework and find resources, tips, and more to apply it to your own projects. Developed and popularized by the British Design Council, the double diamond framework has been around since 2004. Double Diamond Design Thinking Framework Training Conclusion.

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