IdeaScale

JANUARY 4, 2022

His course draws from the book he co-authored, Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Idea, as well as the Global Innovation Science Handbook. CO-STAR is short for customer, opportunity, solution, team, advantages, and results.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Michael Michalko is one of the most highly-acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Genius), and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Handbook Brainstorming 98

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Internal processes arent designed to support something new, your project gets deprioritized in favor of more urgent initiatives or leadership priorities change. The day-to-day business is designed for safely delivering operational KPIs and the margins that keep shareholders happy. Does this sound familiar?

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Leadership Handbook LEAN Project 52

IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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Handbook Innovation Leadership Project 150

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Handbook 189

IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2017

He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

At the recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2025 Launch Event, Rita McGrath, a Strategy Professor at Columbia Business School, Tyler Anderson, CEO of Disruptive Edge, and Tendayi Viki, an Associate Partner at Strategyzer, discussed the need to rethink how the value of innovation can be measured and executive buy-in secured.

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Leadership Innovation Project Technical Review 52

Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For example, many famous artists have designed and mass-marketed consumer goods such as purses, T-shirts, messenger bags, and so forth for a handsome profit. Each artist prints his or her own design on a dozen wallets, which are priced at twenty-five dollars each. Either way, it’s the same figure.

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Handbook Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking 84

InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. The Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook: Practical Techniques for Improving Your Application of Jobs-to-be-Done. Check out our innovation and design thinking resource blog for additional tips and techniques today. Get it here.

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Handbook Tips Design Thinking Case Study 87

Michael Michalko

MAY 23, 2022

MICHAEL MICHALKO is the author of Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” In addition, he created Thinkpak (A Brainstorming Card Set) , which is a novel creative-thinking tool that is designed to facilitate brainstorming sessions.

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Handbook Brainstorming Creativity Study 98

Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Some of the words they came up with were people, cruises, creative, furniture, charity, designer, custom, art, thin air, and celebrities. They planned an elaborate, sophisticated evening and looked for unusual items they could auction. They tried the “exquisite corpse” technique. One of the connections was: create—-art—-thin air.

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Handbook Groups Creativity Study 111

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation). What needs to change (and what doesn’t) when it comes to bringing new products, services, and business models to market in 2023?

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Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook. Allow them to get hands on quickly, with activities like value stream design, setting strategy or OKRs, and actively owning risk items. Identify the functional leaders who will be willing to lead the mindset change and focus on training them through coaching. Form an Agile Leadership Team.

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Agile Handbook Leadership Engagement 111

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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Underperforming Technical Team Handbook Project Resources 100

IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook 100

Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared. In the book, we’ve captured and summarized insights and takeaways from the 80+ online and in-person sessions we’ve hosted from September 2022 to August 2023. It's free, but great value.

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Handbook Technical Review eBook Innovation 59

IdeaScale

JANUARY 24, 2017

He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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Handbook Project Resources Marketing 100

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Design your own “Thank You For Your Great Idea” cards and distribute them freely to contributors. Lastly, don’t forget to thank people for their ideas. Ask the CEO to sign each card with a personal message. Stock up on instant lottery cards and include one or two in each card to show your appreciation. Michael Michalko.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 81

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Design your own “Thank You For Your Great Idea” cards and distribute them freely to contributors. Lastly, don’t forget to thank people for their ideas. Ask the CEO to sign each card with a personal message. Stock up on instant lottery cards and include one or two in each card to show your appreciation. Michael Michalko.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 75

Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

For example, years back, a group of designers were looking for ideas for a new light fixture. Consequently, we break it down and analyze the different parts to see if this will allow us to understand it or make it somehow familiar. When this happens, we form new links and relationships that may lead to breakthrough ideas.

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Creative Thinking Groups Creativity Handbook 98

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

They imagineered this by introducing warning tickets designed to look like parking tickets. Another impossible idea they imagined was to deputize every resident and give them the authority to ticket and fine offending parkers. The tickets can be printed and issued by anyone and placed on any car wrongly parked in a disabled space.

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Brainstorming Creativity Creative Thinking Handbook 75

InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Creative Thinking Handbook. Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone. This book covers creative problem solving and design thinking in an easy-to-understand and implement way. The post Creative Problem Solving Techniques Training appeared first on Innovation Training | Design Thinking Workshops.

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Training Creativity Handbook Design Thinking 47

Planview

JULY 30, 2024

In their research, Gene and Steven reviewed common efficiency design systems like Lean, Agile, DevOps, and the Toyota Production System. Spear in a recent book: Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification. Their conclusion?

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Technical Review CTO Learning Case Study 52

ITONICS

APRIL 26, 2018

Based on prior research covering frameworks for the technical design of smart services and the value proposition canvas, we present the Smart Service Canvas that offers a holistic instrument to describe, discuss, and develop smart services. Service design thinking methods are useful tools to design a service from a customer’s point of view.

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Technical Review Software Review Internet of things Handbook 48

Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

This is exactly what the LEAN Sprint is designed to do. If you come from a software or design background, you have most likely been exposed to the scrum/agile methodology. If you come from a software or design background, you have most likely been exposed to the scrum/agile methodology. Want to learn more about LEAN Sprints?

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Handbook 52

Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” CEO-READ listed Thinkertoys as one of the 100 Best Business Books of all Time.

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Handbook Exercises Creative Thinking Brainstorming 40

Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Some of the words they came up with were people, cruises, creative, furniture, charity, designer, custom, art, thin air, and celebrities. They planned an elaborate, sophisticated evening and looked for unusual items they could auction. They tried the “exquisite corpse” technique. One of the connections was: create—-art—-thin air.

Handbook 52

Handbook Groups Creativity Study 52

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

An easy and enjoyable read, the book describes 10 temporary personas—storyteller, hurdler, experimenter, cross-pollinator, anthropologist, caregiver, set designer, experience architect, director, and collaborator—you can assume to drive 360-degree innovation. Let’s call them more-than-honorable mentions in this list.

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LEAN Entrepreneurship Innovation Case Study 12

The Inovo Group

JULY 29, 2020

It is designed to promote the imagining of alternate futures, both good and bad. Appropriation (Design). 1] Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers , Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, John Wiley and Sons, July 2010.

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Policies Innovation Handbook Tools 52

Planview

APRIL 26, 2022

It is quite literally against the laws of physics for things to change – so we cannot expect people to do so with one impassioned call to action from an executive and a well-designed slide deck. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook. Agile transformation requires executives who embrace, champion, and demonstrate Agile values.

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Agile Handbook Culture Leadership 52

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” CEO-READ listed Thinkertoys as one of the 100 Best Business Books of all Time.

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Creativity Tips Handbook Exercises 40

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Ben Yoskowitz (Founding Partner at Highline Beta) and Helene Niklasson (VP Innovation Ecosystems and Partnerships and Head of CampX at Volvo Group) joined us for our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event. Highline Beta helped AB InBev – the world's largest beer brewer – design and launch the 100+ Accelerator.

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Open Innovation Innovation Management Management Innovation Programs 59

The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

How to design a winning business model. Business model generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Together with the Business Model Innovation Pattern Cards it is a powerful approach for executives and strategic innovators. Take a look at our resources section for more information or get in touch with us!

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Technical Review Competition Innovation Handbook 52

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Design your own “Thank You For Your Great Idea” cards and distribute them freely to contributors. Lastly, don’t forget to thank people for their ideas. Ask the CEO to sign each card with a personal message. Stock up on instant lottery cards and include one or two in each card to show your appreciation.

Brainstorming 40

Brainstorming Creative Thinking Creativity Handbook 40

hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling. Companies such as the construction company Mirvac has separate spaces designated for innovation where people from diverse teams collaborate for projects and workshops, thereby accelerating transformation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Creativity 40

Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

From Project Managment to Strategy Implementation Skills: Nieto-Rodriguez’s research for the HBR Project Management Handbook(to be published in Sep 2021), clearly shows that senior leaders see project management as a core competency and invest in them over 2021 and beyond. 6–16 WEEKS GENERATE MORE TRUST IN THE OUTCOMES?—?A

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Trends Project Design Thinking Ideation 52

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al., Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, 1, 104–126. Practice of Empathy: can be taught using creative research methods. The theoretical side of teaching entrepreneurship. Johnson, D., L., & Hildebrand, R.

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Entrepreneurship Study Creativity Learning 62