The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2019

They recruited over 100 volunteers and split them into two groups, one of which were given a boring task to perform for half an hour, whilst the other group were given an interesting art project to work on. Each group was then asked to complete an idea-generation task, with their ideas evaluated for their creativity.

Creativity 75

Creativity Trends Idea Generation Learning-by-Doing 75

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

When each person shares their opinion openly, ideas come together and everyone plays an important role in the outcome of the project. Being able to admit that you are wrong for the greater good of the project and team success is a prime case of leading by example. This has been shown to improve innovation among teams.

Examples 192

Examples Delegation Idea Generation Team 192

Jason Womack

JANUARY 15, 2015

We stood in front of my office white board and filled it with ideas, possible avenues, and a brainswarming process of idea generation. . I loaded up my “Evernote” notebooks and stacks with all kinds of tasks, projects, outcomes, areas of focus, and then. We gave ourselves benefit of thinking before doing.

Creativity 100

Creativity Productivity Products Stress 100

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale. Support local community projects or organize donation drives to give back during the holiday season.

Morale 52

Morale Team Building Stress Planning 52

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It's also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology. Blog Post ). How do you weather disappointment and failure? What even is success?

Books 236

Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 11, 2011

Today is the day I blocked out to brain-storm and chalk work (I have a chalk-board in my office ) the content for this project. When I left my old employer the portable path came with me, and has served an my calming, thought provoking, idea generation, slowing down – best practice. The process worked!

Team Building 83

Team Building Creativity Conference Learning-by-Doing 83

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” This means assembling employees – all of whom are individual experts capable of idea generation – and encouraging them to think new thoughts in different ways and challenging them to do new things.

Venture Capitalist 78

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 78

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you’re in a formal leadership position or are participating on a committee, in a meeting, or on a project team, you have a role to play. 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.

Consensus 535

Consensus Brainstorming Participative Committee 535

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” This means assembling employees – all of whom are individual experts capable of idea generation – and encouraging them to think new thoughts in different ways and challenging them to do new things.

Venture Capitalist 62

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 62

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There is also an impressive array of people skills that seem especially appropriate for managers who need to get results through people: interview a candidate, respond to suggestions, give a briefing, give a speech, deal with behavior problems, teach a concept, teach a procedure, teach a skill, facilitate experiential learning, encourage constructive (..)

Skills 104

Skills Goleman Construction Emotional Intelligence 104

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2008

Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. Used generally to describe projects that have no more life in them but refuse to die. That disk conversion project has been circling the drain for years." Similar to the more common "It's not my job."

Reference 120

Reference Bond Project Document 120

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” This means assembling employees – all of whom are individual experts capable of idea generation – and encouraging them to think new thoughts in different ways and challenging them to do new things.

Venture Capitalist 56

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. In this archetype, accountability for innovation projects stays at business unit level.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

It is a joint project between the Royal College of Art and Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London where designers and engineers can work in close contact with clinicians to identify challenges and provide solutions.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Many of the most productive creative people intentionally set a project aside and take a physical break from their work believing that this incubation stage is where ideas begin to come together below the threshold of the conscious mind. ideas generated.

Incubator 11

Incubator How To Creativity Idea Generation 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. It could be anything (such as wearing a silly hat) that signals to your brain that it is time to go into idea-generating mode. Get an outsider’s opinion. Wear a silly hat.

Creativity 50

Creativity Newsletter Bottom-up Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. They link their work to existing priorities , moving opportunistically to join projects already under way. This initially led to projects that weren’t very prominent or impactful, but that gave Brian the chance to gain experience and produce working examples.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

These forces not only rob employees of time to concentrate on completing complex tasks or for idea generation, they also crunch the downtime that is necessary for restoration. A Microsoft study found that it takes people an average of 15 minutes to return to an important project after an e-mail interruption.

Company 15

Company Agility Energy Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation.

Diversity 13

Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 13

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.

Power 15

Power Constraint Transportation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Participants go through three intensive sessions and work on an “action learning project” as part of a small team.

Development 11

Development Participative Conference Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Likewise, designers and social innovators have sought feedback from the populations they target, and have even looked to harvest the creative ideas generated by users who have improved products by tinkering with them. They help shape both the physical elements of the solution and the social and economic projects that they support.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

A good illustration of mapping personality profiles along the journey of an idea is the innovation S curve : when your new business or idea (the innovation) gradually approaches its peak, it is time to think about the next business or idea (in this case, curve). The more empathy there is on a team, the more emotional safety.

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Tools Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Critique is important at times, but it can get in the way of idea generation. Take over an unused room and make it a persistent, shared project space. At the d.school we use tall stools gathered in small circles for many work sessions. See who will join your team.

Creativity 15

Creativity Bottom-up Idea Generation Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

The content is much denser than it would be on a typical slide, but that’s okay because it’s meant to be printed, not projected. This was the idea-generation phase. On a recent project, my coauthor graciously accommodated this method of thinking and writing, and it worked well.

Document 8

Document Content Software Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Think back to the last team project you participated in at work. How did the person running the project lead the group? Prestigious leaders provide essential contributions to idea-generating and decision-making processes, but at the same time, they listen to and incorporate input from others.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

To force discussion about the metrics that matter, meetings end with a "juice or kill" call for each campaign — "juice" the promising projects with more resources, "kill" the unpromising ones. The CMO now reviews a standard dashboard of five metrics — down from over 25 — during weekly meetings. Work faster, not harder.

Marketing 17

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

One of the most promising approaches for understanding patients’ experiences has been design thinking , a creative, human-centered problem-solving approach that leverages empathy, collective idea generation, rapid prototyping, and continuous testing to tackle complex challenges.

Health Care 14

Health Care Transportation Mayo Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

By the time Basadur was asked to help out on the project, P&G had already tested a half-dozen of its own copycat green-stripe bars, though none could best Irish Spring. And out of that came a coastal-blue and white striped bar named (what else?)

Innovation 18

Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The idea generation stage is often referred to as divergent thinking or exploration. Unless you plan to have your team hand off its creative ideas, you will need to create a team that can operate in both modes, switching among them as appropriate.

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Team Diversity 8

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.

Creativity 8

Creativity Team Kaizen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Well-known sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo allow people to raise money for new projects. Design platforms like Crowdspring and 99designs give people the tools needed to crowdsource graphic design ideas and feedback. It''s no secret that people in business are turning to the crowd to solve their toughest challenges.

Participative 9

Participative Innovation Guidelines Idea Generation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They’ll be operating from home, the field, and project and customer locations, as well as from hotels, airports, and trains. Companies that leverage these technologies to enhance their talent strategies are tapping into a whole new way of thinking about work and restructuring the way work is done.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

While office time is important, both for formal meetings and for those informal conversations that are so important for idea generation and team camaraderie, the fact is that most knowledge workers could get by with doing something on the order of 30% of their work from home (or other locations) and at non-traditional work times.

Short-term 11

Short-term How To Human Resources Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

To force discussion about the metrics that matter, meetings end with a "juice or kill" call for each campaign — "juice" the promising projects with more resources, "kill" the unpromising ones. The CMO now reviews a standard dashboard of five metrics — down from over 25 — during weekly meetings. Work faster, not harder.

Marketing 10

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

The process for a single campaign includes idea generation, concept research, asset design, and – the final step – promotion. Content marketing costs largely relate to the scope of the projects being produced (e.g., First, we looked at content marketing services. influencer marketing versus no outreach).

Advertising 8

Advertising ROI Content Marketing 8