The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For instance, research from Bocconi University suggests that the best way to be creative and innovative is to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well. Resignation – the final strategy was deployed when the previous two had failed. They seldom tackle the root causes.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the first experiment, the creative idea generation session was divided into two rounds. The reason behind this is that the creative task provides feelings of autonomy and liberation that help low-power individuals overcome their initial disadvantage, according to researchers.

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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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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.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Filled with strategies you will use again and again, The Good Fight is an essential field guide for leaders at all levels. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Blog Post ). * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. instead of adversaries.

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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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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. People are at the core of this strategy. How do you measure the value these D&I programs bring to the company?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. Here is my bottom line take.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. But because the industry’s margins are so low, this strategy carries real risk.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Boomers Concerned About Millennials/Gen Y Employment.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators ? What exactly are you looking for , and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate ?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. In turn, these experts must be encouraged to drill down deep in their own specializations, develop plans and strategies, and share them with the rest of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Without any formal authority or role in organizational strategy, Brian drove broad change across the company. It has become increasingly accepted that the work of strategy is no longer conducted solely from the C-suite. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

When groups simply get together and start throwing out ideas, they actually come up with fewer ideas overall and fewer novel, actionable ideas than the individuals in that group would have come up with had they worked alone. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. They convened the program’s top 75 performers — many still fresh out of business school — for a three-day stint of idea generation and problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They have no problem generating ideas, including some that are potentially useful and novel. Furthermore, they are also generally able to access creative ideas generated by others. Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve noticed workers at your organization make unanimous decisions every single time regardless of the issue, then there are signs of groupthink at your workplace and it’s likely stifling innovation and creativity. With no change in strategy, there are going to be no changes in results. But what is groupthink?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. After all, what is a Snuggie but the mutation of a blanket and a robe?

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Management Excellence

APRIL 4, 2018

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Neither strategy is necessarily better than the other. Which situations call for dominant leadership?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

While I thought many of the ideas were legitimately interesting, after a few hours of working together, a nagging concern began to creep in: that the team hadn't quite formulated what question it was seeking to answer. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

As companies design their workplaces for the future, adopting the right technology and putting the right policies into place are key to business strategy and organizational success. This is a fundamental shift in thinking about the workplace: Offices are becoming more open and walls are coming down.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * In the Economist review of our book, [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

Here’s what we learned about how the two strategies stack up. The process for a single campaign includes idea generation, concept research, asset design, and – the final step – promotion. We took a data-driven approach to compare the efficacy of native advertising versus content marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Leaders — especially those in large, successful organizations — must create an environment where people thrive on passion and purpose, and are as agile and innovative as their potential disruptors. The Jam was three great days of idea generation and dialogue.” Disruptors can come from anywhere, any time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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