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Smarter Networking to Improve Your Company’s Visibility

External networking serves many purposes for a company, and modern digital marketing has become a combination of marketing, customer service, and public relations. Social media and other platforms also allow industry experts and organizations to engage in public conversation about important topics, so being involved and engaged in business and local communities is vital to a company’s success in order to appeal to modern socially conscious audiences.

Ideascale2021-12-15T13:59:35-08:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, digital economy, leadership skills, networking, professional network, relationships, social networking, social proof, volunteer, volunteering|

Innovation Management: The Value of Seeing What You Have

If your job is to get your company, team, or community to innovate, you know how organizational forces can make it hard to even try something new. Visualizing the resources available is an effective first step in overcoming some of those organizational forces. Simply being able to see, and show, what you have allows you to make a compelling case for marshalling resources and even spark some initial interactions in that direction.

Ideascale2021-12-15T13:59:00-08:00October 10th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, cross reference, hub, Innovation Management, network maps, recombine, reimagne, relationships, resources, team leaders, thought leadership, value, visual thinking, visualization|

Musings of an Apprentice: Business Thinking Meets Design Thinking to Create a Design-led company

Abstract: A perspective of a redesigned, reformed and transformed business design professional. The author shares her journey, experience, progress, and point of view on today's often discussed "design thinking or building a design-led innovation culture."

Ideascale2021-12-14T15:48:52-08:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, Change Management, Communication, Creativity, critical thinking, design, design thinking, diversity, education, empathy, engineering, in-depth article, innovation, Innovation Strategy, inspiration, knowledge sharing, learning, management, mba, product management, relationships, storytelling, strategy|

Picking the Right Stakeholders for Open Innovation

What external stakeholder groups can you tap into to build value for your innovation initiatives? Are your relationships with these external stakeholder groups solid or do you need to do additional work to build good, mutually beneficial working relationships? Are there potential stakeholder groups that you have not yet tapped at all? If so, what is your plan for reaching out to organizations within these pools so that you can further expand your innovation ecosystem? Are your channels for communicating with your external stakeholders strong or do they need further work?

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:27:35-08:00January 19th, 2017|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Competition, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, external collaboration, innovation partnership, MNC, Open Innovation, partnership, relationships, SME, stakeholder management, Stakeholders, strategic partnership|

What Happens When Leadership Focus Shifts Away From Innovation?

Corporations tend to focus on fads, often packaged into corporate initiatives or programs, that roll in and out of favor over time. Attention from leadership around any single initiative doesn’t last forever, and it will shift to the next bright and shiny object at some point. How do you prepare for when this happens?

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:50:47-08:00October 2nd, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Innovation Psychology, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: engagement, idea pipeline, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation value, leadership, relationships, ROI, strategy, trend|

Ever Heard of the Groan Zone?

The switch from divergent to convergent thinking in innovation workshops is smooth in literature but extremely tough in reality. In this article Susanna Bill explains how she was on the verge of making a huge mistake until she learned about the middle component between divergence and convergence: the groan zone.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:33:13-08:00January 29th, 2013|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: case study, Creativity, Ideation, lateral thinking, relationships, team building, trust, workshop|

How Appreciative Inquiry Can Help you to be More Creative: Interview with William E. Smith, Ph.D.

Appreciative inquiry gives us the power to transcend current models, thinking, judgements and structures, so we can realize more of our creative potential, explains William E. Smith Ph.D, President of ODII. Bill is an innovative thinker and practitioner in the field of leadership, organization and social development. He's developed new, creative approaches to organization for multinational corporations, governments, and villages all over the world.

Ideascale2020-07-09T10:23:58-07:00November 2nd, 2011|Categories: Interview|Tags: action, appreciative inquiry, control, creative leadership, creative thinker, Creativity, influence, innovative, interviews, mindset, open system, paradigm shift, power, purpose, relationships|

Want your Organization to Thrive? Create a Supportive Environment for Creativity

Employees have tremendous creative capacity. If properly harnessed with a supportive culture, it can help companies to thrive in today's turbulent business world.

Ideascale2020-07-09T10:58:50-07:00September 28th, 2011|Categories: Interview, Strategies|Tags: appreciation, authenticity, creative, Creativity, culture, customers, HR, innovative, Interview, interviews, leader, non-linear, Organization, paradigm, relationships, self care, signals, Stakeholders, stress management, supportive environment, transparency, whole brain strategy|

Lessons in Business Transformation

Is the world turbulent and hard to predict or changing in discernible ways? Two prominent strategists have different views, but draw similar lessons for business leaders.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:06:57-08:00September 6th, 2011|Categories: Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: Business Model Innovation, company value, complex systems, core values, crisis, customer, disruptive innovation, diverse minds, experimentation, leader, lesson, logical, markets, patterns, relationships, specialized resources, strategy, transformation, turbulence|

Harnessing the Collective Mind of Social Media to Drive Innovation

Social media networks make it possible to harness the ideas, information, knowledge, collaborations and passion of workers around innovation as never before, explains Colin Crabtree.

Ideascale2020-07-14T10:48:27-07:00July 13th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, collective, creative ideas, enterprise innovation, innovation, innovation frameworks, key social platforms, purpose, relationships, social media|

An Open Innovation Reference Framework: Reducing Innovation

Can we bring an open collaborative spirit to understanding, describing and prescribing innovation methods? Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Philips believe we can and that it will greatly simplify the innovation process.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-02T15:11:53-08:00April 25th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: collaborative innovation, common innovation model, innovation framework, innovation life cycle processes, model, Open Innovation, relationships, strategy|

Creativity is a core value for leaders navigating uncharted waters, says Seth Kahan

According to leadership author Seth Kahan, navigating uncharted waters which often gives rise to anxiety and uncertainty. Visionary leaders learn to work with that energy and transform it inside themselves into creative progress.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-04T16:29:25-07:00July 4th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Leadership|Tags: compassion, consultants, Creativity, energy, entrepreneurs, imagination, Interaction, Interview, leaders, mindset, optimism, patience, reframing, relationships, transformation, Visionary|

Complexity Science and Innovation

What has complexity science to do with innovation management? Quite a few things if you ask Dr. Curt Lindberg of Plexus Institute, NJ, the States. Complexity science is the scientific study of complex systems, systems with many parts that interact to produce patterns of behavior that cannot easily be explained by the behavior of the individual constituent elements. From a business perspective you can use it to better understand the importance of relationships and interactions to your innovation efforts.

Ideascale2021-12-01T13:47:34-08:00June 14th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: behavior patterns, Change Management, Collaboration, company culture, complex systems, complexity science, economics, idea management, Ideation, Interview, leadership, leadership skills, learning cycle, management, planning cycle, process improvement, relationships|

Creativity as a Search for Meaning

Creativity is part of, and not necessarily separate from, our intellectual efforts, explains John Armato in this thought-provoking article about using creativity to make meaning in our lives.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-01T09:06:13-08:00November 19th, 2009|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: connections, Creativity, customer experience management, depression, innovation tool, intellectual effort, meaning, motivation, patterns, relationships, skills management|

The critical connection between trust, collaboration and innovation

Trust is fundamental to the highest levels of collaboration, but how do you know if that level of trust exists?

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T16:49:41-07:00October 25th, 2009|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Collaboration, Competition, continuous innovation, cooperation, improvement, invention, relationships, trust|