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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Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Read Next: Agile Transformation: 10 Lessons Learned (so far) on our Agile Journey. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook. Many executive leaders don’t need to learn all the theory behind Agile. Identify and Train Key Business Owners. Focus on selling Agile to executives by showing them how they can succeed with the approach.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ted is also co-author of the sociocracy handbook Many Voices, One Song and Who decides who decides? The motto is to help the individual understand social learning. In an interview with Ted Rau , we discussed his vision of 2045 and ways to make the world a better place by introducing self-governance through Sociocracy.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to figure out what customers want (even when they can’t express it), sort valuable insights from less useful data, dig into the “why”, develop solutions that work, spot emerging trends, and more. Get it here. Jobs to be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation. Get it here.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 12, 2023

Connect and collaborate with other innovators to learn new approaches, solve challenges and improve outcomes. For anyone leading and doing innovation in large organizations, we offer a community of peers to learn from and collaborate with. Upgrade your skill-, tool- and mindset with Innov8rs Learning Labs. Innov8rs |.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Through step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples he shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

A leader might have learned from the VC role to let go of struggling projects, where customers don’t respond as expected or where the market does not respond positively, in order to move the resources to fund innovation winners. They are resourceful, looking for the support and resources wherever they can be found.

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Planview

JULY 30, 2024

He has authored six books, including the acclaimed The Unicorn Project (2019), and co-authored the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate (2018), The DevOps Handbook (2016), and The Phoenix Project (2013). He served as the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. This allows teams to partition problems so they can be more easily solved.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

What we've learned since then is that, just like everything else, competitive advantages have a life cycle. And, in Rita’s words, “that cuts short the learning and what might be a great innovation going forward”. "We What are the biggest challenges heading into 2023? How to address innovation within the current market conditions?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

To learn more about the culture creator role as well as the other innovation, leadership roles, download the entire chapter of Leading Innovation Ten Essential Roles for Harnessing the Creative Talent of Your Enterprise. The post Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Further info/Source Exercise is based on creative thinking techniques described in book of Michael Michalko “Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques” The exercise was implemented in the Training Course CREATIVE LEADERSHIP that has been funded with support from the European Commission.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. If no one wins, double the prize for the next month. Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Michael Michalko.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. If no one wins, double the prize for the next month. Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Michael Michalko.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

What can be learned and applied to real life from the metaphoric scenario? A sequence of events can be anything; quick or slow, orderly or random, causal or without cause, salty or sweet and so on. How can they work together in order to return to earth?

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Organizational learning helps innovative organizations to deal with the ever-changing, unsure and unpredictable context of business (Van De Vrande, 2017). Learning while (re)configuring: Business model innovation processes in established firms. Business model generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Learn more about this methodology and discover creative problem solving techniques, activities, and more articles to read below. . Want to learn more about creative problem solving? The Creative Thinking Handbook. Using innovative techniques can help you develop better solutions to problems your organization faces. Impossible!

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

” The goal of a LEAN sprint is to demonstrate NOT “learning velocity” but “traction velocity.” ” Much as it’s not enough simply to build a great product or feature, it’s not enough simply to demonstrate learning without business results. Want to learn more about LEAN Sprints?

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Planview

APRIL 26, 2022

Quite literally overnight, organizations had to learn how to embrace hybrid working environments , support their employees as whole people, and somehow keep the figurative lights on during a truly unprecedented time in our collective history. Somehow, individuals, teams, entire organizations learned to adapt to this new normal.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” David Peat author and physicist, director of the Pari Centre for New Learning near Siena, Italy “Hold the intention or the question. That’s the important word here: learn. Listen carefully and pay close attention.

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 15, 2021

The technical aspects of the job can be learned over time so it’s best to choose somebody with slightly less experience who is a better fit for the business. Write A Detailed Employee Handbook . If you don’t already have one, you can use an employee handbook template to help you get started with yours.

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Michael Michalko

AUGUST 25, 2022

Using a technique I described in my book Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques) on how to find and force connections between a challenge and random stimuli, they randomly picked a picture of “Beehives.” The result was that teams of marketers and researchers now meet quarterly to learn Ahow to talk to each other.@

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Handbook Creative Thinking Marketing Creativity 40

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Some of the principles in the book include a plan for systematic learning, listening to customers, testing to learn, de-risking your business model, and canvassing your plan. He talks about more learnings from his journey with IMVU. The book is divided into three parts: vision, steer, and accelerate.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Through step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples he shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind.

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Handbook Creativity Groups Brainstorming 52

Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

This iterative approach fosters a learning mindset, driving ongoing innovation and efficiency. Adopting Agile Methodologies Kanban Source: Entrepreneur Handbook Scrum: Scrum is one of the most popular agile frameworks. Cross-functional teams are crucial for fostering creativity and addressing complex challenges from multiple angles.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 22, 2023

Naresh Jain (2009) claims: “Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realise their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations”. [4] Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management. Making the team : a guide for managers (3rd ed.). ISBN 9780131861350.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

During our recent The Innovator's Handbook 2023 launch event, we explored these topics with Tristan Kromer (Innovation Coach & Founder at Kromatic), Dan Toma (Co-Author of Innovation Accounting & The Corporate Startup, Partner at OUTCOME), and Noel Sobelman (Partner at Accel Management Group).

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Beyond the hype, are we seeing investments in "business building" paying off?

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. Business model generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Learn more about business model innovation? But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies?

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Technical Review Innovation Competition Handbook 52

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Therefore, entrepreneurs should not learn from large corporations’ best cases on (innovation) management, but learn entrepreneurial thinking in a more Schumpeterian way. The ‘learned entrepreneurship competence’ is a competence not acquired at birth, but through education, training or experience (Bird, 1995; Lans et al.,

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. If no one wins, double the prize for the next month. CREATIVE CORNER Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Ask the CEO to sign each card with a personal message.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 25, 2019

To succeed, we must be open to failure — sure — but the intention is to ensure we are learning from our mistakes as we tweak, reset, and then redo if necessary.”. Using future-mapping exercises, for example in Lucy Kimbell ’s Service Innovation Handbook can help a team visualise different futures and make plans for different eventualities.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling. He stayed relevant, improvised, and acted on his inherently curious nature to learn and thrive. A musician who has created music that is timeless, Bowie, who passed away last year, constantly reinvented his image and his music.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Recently, however, I learned that he scored a grant from the government to keep the business going for another 18 months. My colleague Richard Foster is working on (among other things) a "handbook for creative destruction." The rest of the local VC community had the same reaction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." When he was young, he learned to push past his tendency. Most of us just haven't fully learned how to do that. His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. But we can.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

We could learn a thing or two about communication from our forefathers. We like to think that we learned everything there is to know about grammar in our 10th grade English classes, but the conventions are constantly changing. The more you write, the more you learn about yourself. You should never start a sentence with "because."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

But of course they must bite the hand that feeds them," the new marketing handbook says. Brands are learning to give up control to take on vibrancy. They are learning to surrender simplicity to take on multiplicity. Will Fred and Carrie bite the advertising hand that feeds them?

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