Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

I have had the privilege of building innovative social service programs for at-risk children and families. Initiated at a brainstorming session with four of my colleagues, COI began implementing services in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 2007 with a collaborative team of eight community, faith, and professional organizations.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 24, 2014

Unfortunately, while leaders may state that they want to engender a more collaborative environment in their organization, they don’t realize how often own actions are actually serving to stifle collaboration, promote the growth of silos, and ultimately hindering their organization’s ability to innovate or incur any real forward momentum.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard. posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Shawn Cyne, Author of Brainsteering, tells us to forget the brainstorming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Research shows that managers see far more leadership potential in their employees when their companies adopt a growth mindset — the belief that talent should be developed in everyone, not viewed as a fixed, innate gift that some have and others don’t. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center. High-risk projects.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. Brainstorming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

They have videos on the developers site that will take you three minutes to learn the tool. The Cartesian Coordinate system was developed by the philosopher and mathematician Descartes it was further developed in business to be thought of as the 2×2 model. It forces you to make better decisions.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

They have videos on the developers site that will take you three minutes to learn the tool. The Cartesian Coordinate system was developed by the philosopher and mathematician Descartes it was further developed in business to be thought of as the 2×2 model. It forces you to make better decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. This is your bench of corporate innovators: your intrapreneurs. You already have natural intrapreneurs in your company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Collaboration Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Few superintendents had the time or the luxury to consider strategic issues or brainstorm emerging opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

Another brainstorming session, another slew of tired ideas. But you can get your people back into the groove with a little work, says Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, a partner at The Innovation Architects, the advisory firm, and the coauthor of Innovation as Usual. Your team is in a rut, but what can you do about it?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Collaboration across departments or units of the same company will likely be a good thing only if managers set up the conditions for what Morten Hansen — citing Procter & Gamble's collaborative innovation as a prime example — calls " disciplined collaboration." Progress ground to a halt, crippling innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For example, when a top architect at architectural/engineering firm HGA was assigned to help make a pitch for a synagogue project, she immediately started to study Jewish culture — although she was Catholic — starting with Judaism for Dummies and moving on to more intellectual books.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. That is how Google’s “20% time” policy is able to act as a human-powered search engine for new ideas. Now Leonardo was clearly a genius of historical proportions, but think about how much more efficient he would have been with a decent search engine.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Most corporate buildings don't do a good job of supporting collaboration, brainstorming, and innovative work methods. The talk was held in the company's recently completed design collaboration space, a large open area where multiple disciplines can come together to innovate. The space facilitates this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

The three groups came together and brainstormed new ways to automate the analysis of large volumes of data, much of it real-time in nature. Notre Dame received software from IBM designed to allow research students to develop creative applications for managing water. Collaboration Government Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

What struck me was that most of the participants — young, tech-savvy programmers, engineers, and others — seemed largely uninformed or unconcerned about intellectual property. This approach probably makes the most sense for certain types of businesses, such as those concerned with software development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. This insight produced the business case for holding brainstorming sessions to build connections and improve communication.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

And if not, what are the ways and means of creating a culture where employees are united by curiosity, knowledge, innovation and a shared sense of purpose. The HR Digest: What is Bosch’s secret sauce to being recognized as one of the “Best Workplaces for Innovators?”. Bosch takes great pride in its Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

App developers from Stockholm to San Francisco are anxiously counting down the days til the November release of the Apple Watch SDK (or “Software Development Kit”), which will give them the tools to begin building their own concepts. I’d argue that these developers stand at a crossroads for the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

They might be managers, product experts, innovators, or code writers. The second step is to turn the Critical 100 into a brainstorming and management tool. Imagine, for example that a highly motivated engineer or product specialist is invited to participate but his or her boss is not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

They might be managers, product experts, innovators, or code writers. The second step is to turn the Critical 100 into a brainstorming and management tool. Imagine, for example that a highly motivated engineer or product specialist is invited to participate but his or her boss is not.

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Company CEO Politics Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Implicit, or “unconscious,” bias against women in medicine is prevalent, affecting their hiring, promotions, development, and wellbeing. This program encourages using a survey to uncover bias in locations like hiring, mentoring, and compensation, so that institutions can develop concrete strategies.

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Policies Leadership Mentor Career 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Now picture this group engaged in brainstorming, negotiations, or expansion planning. Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese. I began Englishnization in 2010.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. The chipmaker Xilinx, for instance, has reported an increase in engineer productivity by around 25% thanks to social media tools that encourage and enable employee collaborative activities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. In 1990 they gained a second Michelin Star, and in 1994, they became the first high-end restaurant to invest in a development team and a lab.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. To be sure, the present is vitally important. Excerpted from.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

It was the stuff of Silicon Valley lore : Employees from across the company took a break from their regular projects to develop mind-blowing ideas about artificial intelligence over an intense 24-hour period. At their best, hackathons create a structure and process around idea development. Hackathons are no longer just for coders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? And then we brainstorm. Marketing and internal IT expertise are both at the table.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Setting such goals is important, of course, but you first need to develop trust. And the small win is the shortest way towards developing trust: it helps partners to learn about one another and develop informal rules of collaboration. They tend to focus instead on mobilizing their stakeholders around big, audacious goals.

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