Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

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CMOE

JUNE 21, 2021

The good news is, there are development opportunities for supervisors that can help you succeed in your role. With the right tools and resources by your side, you will feel more confident in driving your team forward. Supervisors are the linchpin that keeps team members—key contributors of an organization—on track.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 15, 2023

Well, sometimes it could end up leading you to make bad decisions, just because everyone else thinks it is a good idea. While this bias is known to have a large impact on things like politics , sports and fashion, it can also have a big impact on innovation and creative teams. Does it make sense to just follow the crowd?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Idea validation isn’t just about deciding if an idea is good or bad; it’s about systematically evaluating feasibility, viability, and alignment with strategic goals. The Role of Idea Validation in Idea Management Idea management involves capturing, organizing, and developing ideas from across an organization.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

This does not mean copying what “innovative companies” like Netflix are doing (much of their famous HR Culture document would simply not work in many other companies), but instead seeing what impact their own processes are having, and how they can enable and encourage more innovative behaviours, from people at all levels of the company.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2017

The authors JF Gauthier, Marc Penzel and Max Marmer are all founders of Startup Genome and have pulled together an impressive project team to provide this great, insightful report with a whole host of Ecosystem Partners around the globe- thanks from this reader. There is a clear lifecycle to the development of startup ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Without a clear system to manage, filter, and prioritize these ideas, teams can waste valuable time and resources trying to identify where to focus their efforts. Poor Prioritization: Many organizations lack a structured approach to evaluating which ideas align with their strategic objectives.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As software development initiatives increase in scope and complexity, teams are facing persistent bottlenecks that can seriously hinder productivity and slow down delivery cycles. The consequences of poor productivity reverberate across the entire software development lifecycle.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 26, 2012

It’s not that design pattern libraries are bad, but that in a world of limited resources, it is it is not clear that the investment is worth it. Should your team invest time in making a pattern library as a training tool, or just change the way they work? Should they spend time on documentation or collaborate on projects?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

For team leaders, company directors, project managers , innovators and senior leadership, understanding the stages of AI maturity is essential for harnessing its power to drive innovation and efficiency. .: Level 4: Advanced Prompt Engineering: Teams craft detailed prompts to tailor AI outputs for precision. in their work.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Leadership and Emotional Intelligence In the dynamic landscape of leadership development, emotional intelligence has emerged as a critical factor in effective leadership. For an in-depth exploration of how emotional intelligence is being integrated into leadership development programs , follow the link.

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Leapfrogging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

They developed Google Adwords in 2000 to allow advertisers to pay for ads on the platform and have since continued to disrupt the marketplace through strategic innovation. Today more than ever, businesses need to develop systems to empower them to make better strategic decisions related to innovation and disruption.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

sits at the helm of the world’s most prominent development institution. Some processes are explicitly defined, documented, and followed while others are habitual or routine ways of working together that have evolved over time. Banga has his work cut out for him. Priorities affect what an organization can and cannot accomplish.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One opportunity for designers is to “own” the future, to use their unique skills to document and maintain the future state of the product. The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers.

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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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization. What is Commercialization?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We needed to be out talking to the people we serve, and developing programs that were unique to our city’s needs,” McAdoo says. New Ways Using Empathy Instead of Making Assumptions Hayward needed community input on a controversial 190-unit residential development. The old way: Hold town hall meetings that are poorly attended.

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Leapfrogging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In my consulting and leadership development practice, I design and run lots of meetings. I’ve saved untold hours by developing an agenda template using a spreadsheet rather than using a static document. Getting the most out of meetings is easy if you know how to effectively design them.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To cater to both sides of design, I started the journey of mapping and documenting useful psychological insights used by designers. Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Removing friction and introducing fun.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. Do people get on with each other?

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A team performance plan is a reliable tool that pinpoints team goals, issues and challenges limiting team success, and steps to address those issues. Providing clarity about team direction, expectations, goals, and performance targets. Improving alignment, unity, and collaboration among team members.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Having worked as a consultant, at an agency and in-house, I’ve observed that the organizational location and economics of the user experience team can make or break them. When should you bring in an outside team, and when should you hire an individual employee? How to figure out the right team for a new project?

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As our profession has increasingly gained importance, it also become increasingly specialized: information design, user experience design, interaction design, user research, persona development, ethnographic user research, usability testing—the list goes on and on.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Innov8rs | How product teams can tackle ambiguity, meet business aims, and prove their worth. With organizations asking why product teams are important, and what to expect from them, how can product teams respond? The reason for that makes sense, because product development is difficult.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

Strategy should be continually developed and re-evaluated, rather than developed once and put on a shelf. It is defined by the spoken or written, and just as importantly the unspoken tenets and rules, what team members tolerate and what they don't tolerate. Companies cannot build static strategies that stretch over 3 or 5 years.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

But none of this is even remotely new, or poorly documented, or beyond the reach of many of the people you already employ. Certainly companies are good at product portfolio and roadmaps, making decisions on how much to invest in older technologies, how much to invest in newer products and the roadmaps and versions that should be developed.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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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. Strategic Thinking: Short-Term Weakness, Long-Term Strength.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

An appropriate and attainable SOW determines whether my team of UX designers and researchers get the time and activities we require to fully understand a client’s needs and fashion a suitable solution. Clients understandably want to know what they are getting for their investment: Who will be on the team? What will they deliver?

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporate venture studios offer innovation teams the freedom to operate with the spirit, passion, and resilience of entrepreneurs, all while leveraging organizational resources. However, building successful innovation teams in this context requires careful consideration. What are the key ingredients?

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ITONICS

JANUARY 21, 2025

Developing a business case for each project, including a detailed project plan, budget, and resource allocation. Team members may work with outdated files, and stakeholders struggle to gain real-time insights into resource availability. This practice enhances team performance and ensures that projects are executed successfully.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Whether you’re plotting the course for your product development or managing a portfolio of initiatives , you’re bound to face the daunting challenges of accurately predicting project milestones and costs and steering projects toward valuable, cost-effective conclusions. That’s where sentiment analysis comes to the rescue.

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