Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Over the last 25 years, I have led hundreds of design thinking sessions for international organizations and startups including brands like Red Bull. These sessions allow product designers and senior executives to work together to co-develop ideas which align with larger business strategies and innovation initiatives.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2025

Dassault Systmes is known for its 3D design software and digital twin technologies, Dassault is at the forefront of innovation in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, and other industries. ING Group : A Dutch bank that has successfully deployed blockchain technology to establish digital platforms for commodity trade and financing.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Beatles’ “Revolution 9”: This experimental track on the White Album was created largely by accident, when group members were fooling around with tape loops and studio equipment. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana: The song’s iconic opening riff was initially intended to be a parody of the Pixies.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Developed by Alexander Osterwalder, this tool allows organizations to design, describe, analyze, and iterate on their business strategies. It provides a structured method to think through business design, adapt to market changes, and scale innovation efforts. Follow these steps to apply it to your innovation project.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 7, 2017

Two groups of engineering students were given a similar task – to design a bicycle rack for a car. The first group was shown an existing but poorly designed roof rack for bicycles. They looked at all the issues with the current design and then set out to come up with something better.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

They invest heavily in surveys, focus groups, and predictive models, hoping to eliminate risk and ensure success. Heres how this works in practice: Engage with High-Quality Feedback : Instead of relying on hundreds of survey responses, have deep, meaningful conversations with a smaller group of potential customers.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

This approach encourages organizations to challenge industry orthodoxy and design innovations that meet latent or emerging needs, often leading to breakthrough value creation. Individuals or groups excluded from the market due to cost or complexity. Experiment with alternative distribution, pricing, or engagement strategies.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process. This helps you understand different consumer groups and tailor your strategies accordingly. This can lead to unfair treatment of certain consumer groups.

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IdeaScale

JULY 6, 2023

What is Qualitative Research Design? Qualitative research design is defined as a type of research methodology that focuses on exploring and understanding complex phenomena and the meanings attributed to them by individuals or groups.

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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. Enjoy… -Ash) As a product design manager and portfolio owner, I have found myself endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 30, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations. Reorganizing a company to solve complex problems, introduce innovation, improve business operations, and identify market opportunities requires design. Design Thinking can be used as a tool to transform or reorganize a company to identify innovative solutions to current problems.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, Apple uses the 3Cs framework to align customer expectations (premium, high-quality products), company strengths (design, brand loyalty, ecosystem integration), and competitor positioning (offering unique innovations that rival Samsung and Google). Create long-term value for both customers and the company.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Women are among the designers, but we need more to join in the effort if we want to ensure everyone has a say in what the metaverse and what its future technologies will look like. We need artists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, and those curious about finding their place in an ever-expanding universe of opportunities. .

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

It works well with groups of 4 to 6 people and is excellent for forcing unusual combinations of ideas and settings. Say you roll 4, 4, 2, 6 the team has to conceive and design a plan for a TV program about a CEO and a teenager who get involved in a robbery at a theatre. The Random Word method is very good. Journalist. Restaurant.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Designing the Retreat Agenda Planning a killer agenda’s your ticket to a memorable leadership retreat. Think group puzzles, skits, or tackling real-world problems to light the spark in your retreat. For more down-to-earth tips on spicing up your sessions, hop over to our guide on strategic offsite meeting design.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Lead Scoring in B2B Sales: Transforming the Process with Design Thinking Lead generation and qualification is a critical aspect of B2B sales success, but it’s also a time-consuming and complex process. Test it with a small group of leads and gather feedback. This means considering their needs, pain points, and motivations.

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Idea to Value

JULY 12, 2021

Then, they split the participants into four groups, who would do one of the following for 12 minutes (except for the Rest group who had no break): No Rest: Participants got no break and would then repeat another set of divergent thinking tests immediately again. And don’t be afraid to let your mind wander.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

” The husband, despite having reservations because the drive is long and hot, thinks that his preferences must be out-of-step with the group and says, “Sounds good to me. The group sits back, perplexed that they together decided to take a trip which none of them wanted. The wife says, “Sounds like a great idea.”

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For more personalized program designs, explore leadership development design ai tools. Offering training modules specifically designed for managers is a great way to start. Check out our guide on leadership development design ai tools. Interested in more ways to integrate AI into your programs?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Preparing for a Successful Offsite The foundation of an effective strategy offsite design lies in meticulous preparation. Session Type Duration Objective Welcome and Introduction 30 minutes Set the tone and objectives for the offsite Keynote on Strategic Vision 1 hour Align the team on the long-term vision Breakout Discussion Groups 1.5

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It promised £50,000 ($100,000) in prize money to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-eight course covering a total of one mile and including certain height markers. Early efforts to build human-powered aircraft had featured wooden designs, which proved too heavy. The prize stood unclaimed for 18 years.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Capturing Attention in the Digital Age: A Design Thinking Approach In the modern digital landscape, attention is the new currency, surpassing traditional commodities in value. What captivates one group may be completely ineffective with another. Empathize: At its core, Design Thinking begins with empathy.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What condition of ‘readiness’ in design, capabilities and capacity4. These form the ‘way forward’ in discussions, resolution and design. What are the expectations and the environment you chose to compete in3. Have the critical processes for creating success been laid in or still have critical gaps.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

It includes both the development of new products and changes in the design of established products. Incremental innovation is research and development to design and implement a series of smaller changes over time, by improving performance, upgrading materials, or lowering manufacturing costs. Product Innovation. Incremental Innovation.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. In contrast, Design Thinking takes a collaborative and iterative approach that involves empathy, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

6: Design Matters with Debbie Millman. #7: 99% Invisible is a sound-rich, narrative podcast hosted by Roman Mars about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. 6: Design Matters with Debbie Millman. 2: The Chase Jarvis Live show. #3:

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

In the final analysis, it is small groups, loosely connected, but united by a shared purpose that drives transformational change. As leaders, it's our job to help those groups connect and to inspire them with purpose. Related posts: Designing Effective Change Tactics Starts With Viable Targets.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 13, 2023

Multiple alerts to market changes, conditions and customers’ needs can stimulate a growing adaptability and solution design, more modular or progressive in response Greater potential for sustainability and social impact.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

After all, we have previously seen that most corporate creativity training is not actually designed to deliver results. Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training In his TEDx talk, Dr Friis-Olvarius also noted that when they tried this training with a small group of 25 experts, the improvement was over 71%.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 11, 2020

00:05:30 – The power of Design Sprints to speed up project starts. Design sprints are a step by step system for bringing a group of people together to solve big problems. Topics covered in today’s episode. 00:01:30 – How User Experience (UX) led Jonathan on his journey to starting his company.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2017

org is a non-profit group founded at Harvard University whose mission is to use the power of behavioral science to design scalable solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems. In 2015 the World Bank established a group to help developing countries use nudge policies. The social side is important.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 1, 2022

The classic example here is an idea developed by a team of “innovation specialists” based on Design Thinking, tested with potential customers to validate demand, and then given to a development team to code and ship. After all, the Design Thinking team can’t code, but they can come up with the concept.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 20, 2019

By stacking cans together, you remove the need of additional packaging to group cans or bottles into “Six-Packs” or “Four Packs” Corona estimates that each year, the beverage industry uses more than 17 million tons of plastic, which could be saved by adopting this new stackable design.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Betterific’s work in crowdsourced open innovation has been used for everything from product design to branding to solving some of the toughest political challenges with which ecological groups struggle. Each can be as broad or as specific as the organizer needs, and then ideas are collected and awarded.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Networking : Engage with a diverse group of people in your industry or interests. Technology and Online Tools : There are various online platforms and tools designed to help you generate ideas, such as idea generation apps, creativity exercises, and brainstorming software. Visit art galleries and museums for inspiration.

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