LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Adaptive Planning. Savoring Surprise.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

Management Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2011

Idea generation is core to everything we do in our organizations. It's too bad that we've been going about it all wrong!

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Idea Generation Organization Education Strategy 68

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scenario: Idea generation During traditional brainstorming exercises, it is common for those with the most positional authority or passion for the topic to dominate the conversation. To get everyone’s voice into the mix, you can use a two-step process of silent writing first, then randomize the ideas, and the group shares them.

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Consensus Brainstorming Participative Committee 536

Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

I’ve seen this happen many times: Employee to Manager: I’ve got a great idea and think that by doing x we will get y,z and extra outcomes. Manager Responds: Yes that is good, and if you would just do p, q, and r we would achieve y, z and more outcomes. Employee to Manager: Yeah I see I will do it that way. Photo Credit.

Management 141

Management Idea Generation Executive Coaching Self-aware 141

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 21, 2024

In the early stages, they tend to focus on the reputation of the person behind the idea and how well it’s presented, even though these factors don’t predict success. But as the idea progresses, its popularity and how fast it’s gaining popularity become more important. The long-term implications?

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Innovation Reputation Maturity Idea Generation 117

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Here are five ways you can lead by example and influence your team to innovate and succeed every time: 1. This skill of listening can be a challenge for some teams, but when you set the example and create a culture of listening to various opinions, ideas and feedback you give your team a forum to feel comfortable expressing their ideas.

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Examples Delegation Team Idea Generation 192

Management Excellence

MARCH 27, 2022

There's little doubt creativity is vital in the workplace, and that idea generation is the enabler of creative problem solving and innovation. The better our teams and colleagues are at generating ideas, the better the odds of surviving and thriving in our topsy-turvy world.

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Creativity Idea Generation Team Innovation 98

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2021

Gaining a fresh perspective on things is often at the heart of innovation as it allows us to apply our existing knowledge in new circumstances. New research from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) highlights that we can get a similar boost just by moving employees between company sites. Fresh perspectives.

Innovation 88

Innovation Tacit Knowledge Creativity Idea Generation 88

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2021

When it comes to innovation, it’s tempting to think that the latest and greatest technologies are required to facilitate the creative process. What’s more, if these employees are recognized for their efforts and encouraged to develop their skills then their innovative output rises yet further. ” Common tech. .

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Creativity Idea Generation Technology Information Technology 98

Mike Cardus

APRIL 5, 2020

As you check-in with your management, you are reflecting the priorities to them. As you continue to update your management, you will speak to them differently, and they will recognize your new language and pattern of increasing the market viability of the organization.

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Construction Public Relations Idea Generation Document 180

LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. As new ideas are generated, the require permission and resources from managers, who may not understand the new idea due to their lack of specialized knowledge. New York: Doubleday.

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Creativity P&L Senge Handbook 106

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. For creative idea generation, narrowed focus is a problem.”. If your visual field is narrow, then your cognition is likely to be as well,” they explain.

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Creativity Consensus Idea Generation Engineering 137

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Creativity and innovation are increasingly collaborative processes, but ensuring the right people are involved at the right stage is crucial to success. Research from Bocconi University suggests that the best approach might be to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well.

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Development Idea Generation Creativity Construction 78

LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. As new ideas are generated, the require permission and resources from managers, who may not understand the new idea due to their lack of specialized knowledge. New York: Doubleday.

Creativity 84

Creativity Senge P&L Handbook 84

Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

With Mother’s day around the corner and a lot of us moms in lockdown (some wondering if we will even get our annual token lunch) we could all use some innovation hacks to cope with boredom, homeschooling and the compulsions of career transitions. Now, I am classically six sigma certified and innovation trained. 3) Too many choices.

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Innovation Six Sigma Agility Benchmarking 60

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Idea Generation Example 2. Innovation and Strategic Planning Exploring AI-driven innovation strategies, trend analysis, and long-term planning to keep the organization ahead of the curve.

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Servant Leader Sample Power Document 100

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Decentralization Construction Restructuring Tools 126

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Through such analysis, we can identify which interruptions have the potential to enhance innovation and determine the most effective strategies for managing them within organizations.

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Supply Chain Incubator Creativity Objective 114

Management Excellence

MARCH 21, 2012

Michael Maddock (Mike), the leader of the innovation agency Maddock-Douglas, author of multiple books, serial entrepreneur and someone who is a one-person idea generating machine. Mike is here with his latest literary effort: "Free the Idea Monkey.to Mike is here with his latest literary effort: "Free the Idea Monkey.to

Idea Generation 67

Idea Generation Leadership Entrepreneur Brand 67

Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? • When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says. “A How do they contribute to desired outcomes, and where are there gaps in our thinking? •

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Team White Paper Business Objectives Long-term 90

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is still common for most managers to refer to people skills as “soft skills,” because they aren’t specifically about the business of the organization. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue. And that's not all.

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Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio. For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase.

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Wilde Idea Generation Morale Process 95

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2023

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well. This can help to emphasize the benefits of functional dissimilarity to the team.

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Diversity Team Bond Education 130

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. This is the insistence of companies and CEOs that their organizations lack ideas. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. You see, the problem is never idea generation.

Company 53

Company Idea Generation Workshop Innovation 53

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2019

Each group was then asked to complete an idea-generation task, with their ideas evaluated for their creativity. Firstly, it transpired that those who were in the boredom inducing group came up with ideas that were rated as more creative than their peers in the other group. A couple of trends emerged from the data.

Creativity 97

Creativity Trends Idea Generation Learning-by-Doing 97

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A recent study from INSEAD suggests that innovative uses of social media are strongly correlated with creativity in our professional lives. Their creativity was also measured using an 11-item scale assessing things such as problem identification and idea generation. Boosting creativity.

Media 53

Media Creativity Engineering Idea Generation 53

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

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Project Idea Generation Long-term Brainstorming 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. She has served as a Partner/Managing Director at CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners and was a Partner at Flatiron Partners. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

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Decentralization Idea Generation Content Execution 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

About every six months an article appears arguing that innovation is an overused term, with corporate fatigue auguring a "back to basics" approach focused on less sexy but important tasks of execution, strategy, and so on. The Little Black Book of Innovation offers a simple, five-word definition: "Something different that has impact."

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Innovation Christensen Definition Idea Generation 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. And the 'we' part says we're going to do it together and build on each other's ideas.".

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Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 22

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Brainstorming as an approach can be an effective way of generating lots of ideas on a specific issue which can then be filtered and reviewed to determine which idea or approach is the most appropriate. This pages outlines the history and demonstrates how to conduct an effective brainstorming session.

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Brainstorming Creativity Strategy Innovation 28

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 7, 2023

GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu Brainstorming is one of those hyped terms that these days has a reputation of its own because of the controversy surrounding it. Is it just a shallow activity, organizations do when they are stuck in a rut? Or is there an efficient way to go about it without wasting time? […]

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Brainstorming Reputation Efficiency Organization 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. Strapped for cash in an era of marketing budget cuts, they make innovative use of new — and cheaper — media.

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Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 17

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 18, 2016

Manuel Kaiser interview Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph about his new book, and how innovative firms generate new ideas and develop successful business models. Continue reading →

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Books Review Business Model Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What’s the best way to quickly improve innovation in your organization? That was the question posed to me recently by Warwick, the head of innovation for the Australia and New Zealand region of a multinational engineering firm. He asked because their CEO had just announced a new innovation initiative.

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Innovation Idea Generation CEO Process 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

I had just begun to get to know the company, and it seemed to me to be brimming with innovation energy, particularly among young employees who would regularly throw out creative "What if's" during casual conversations. A month later, it was clear that the problem — as is almost always the case — wasn't a lack of raw ideas.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14