thoughtLEADERS, LLC
AUGUST 17, 2022
Analyzing your business model, revenue, and costs can lead you to innovative solutions. Business Toolkit Entrepreneur Innovation Leadership StrategyTransform your business by completely rethinking how it works.
Leading Blog
MAY 16, 2020
Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. Creativity & Innovation
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Art Petty
JANUARY 20, 2023
I like the operating system metaphor [.] The post Designing A Bug-Free Operating System for Great Managers appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.
Management Excellence
MAY 6, 2021
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thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 3, 2021
Analyzing your business model, revenue, and costs can lead you to innovative solutions. Business Toolkit Entrepreneur Innovation Leadership StrategyTransform your business by completely rethinking how it works.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Yes — the need for digital transformation and overall business innovation is undeniable. Rhett Power discusses a few ways business leaders can balance business innovation with operations when focusing on digital transformation.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Operations managers have a tough and challenging role, particularly in 2021. As a result, innovation and ingenuity is more important than ever before. Operations managers and supply chain managers can overcome this particular challenge by partnering with leading logistics firms.
Art Petty
JULY 25, 2021
It's time to change your team's operating approach. The post Leadership Caffeine™—Rethinking Your Team’s Business Reviews and Operating Approach appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. While I’ve not attended your business review session, I can tell you with confidence born of experience that most of these events are painful time, productivity, and morale killers.
Management Excellence
JANUARY 20, 2023
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Art Petty
MAY 6, 2021
Yet, when I explore the stress points with struggling managers and ask some questions, I often discover they are attempting to execute their role without the benefit of what I describe as a Manager Operating System.
Mike Cardus
JANUARY 21, 2013
I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Plus I just gave a talk about Innovation Tools and made the PowerPoint below. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus. DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. What are some of your favorite innovation tools?
Mike Cardus
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – is a tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. Generally the DTC Operator is used in solving more tangible, mechanistic problems. The DTC Operator Algorithm.
Management Excellence
APRIL 10, 2020
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Mike Cardus
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. and The Google Guys yields a strong confirmation that the pursuit of innovation might require a partnership approach, not a traditional teamwork style. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Luca de Meo at Volkswagen AG did it.
Chart Your Course
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
In particular, when it comes to improving the customer service experience and streamlining operations, today’s call center agents now have a wide array of tech solutions to resolve these matters. Here are three proven ways today’s call centers can better streamline operations and achieve greater success. Today, leading businesses are starting to see the upside of implementing cloud contact center solutions into their operations.
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
In fact, it were the L&D teams that were instrumental in bringing about wider acceptance of innovative measures, processes and strategies, including reimagining how employees learn to work in a digitized world. Operations Before Experiences.
Mike Cardus
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – A TRIZ tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size, time and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. The DTC Operator Algorithm. creativity innovation problem solving creative problem solving DTC Operator TRIZ triz tools
Skip Prichard
JUNE 18, 2020
How to Ignite Innovation. Innovation is one subject that each and every one of us should study because its powerful force is available to us if we know how to tap it. It’s no surprise that Tamara Ghandour’s book interested me because I read all I can about innovation and creativity.
Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2019
T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. While organizational size complicates innovation, “scale if properly exploited could actually be an advantage, not a liability, for innovation.” Creating an Innovation Strategy.
Coaching Tip
MARCH 20, 2014
OUT THINK: How to innovate Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes" by G. We all have a shared understanding of some of the foundational aspects of leadership , starting with building trust, which means keeping business operations transparent. These foundational traits of the innovative leader constitute the terra firma underlying the journey to innovation. Shawn Hunter: Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes.
Strategy Driven
APRIL 7, 2013
Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. Analytics tools give decision-makers the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. Click here for more information on Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations.
Leading Blog
JUNE 28, 2012
Cellular communications, the laser, digitized and synthesized music, the solar battery cell, the first orbiting communications satellite, and the UNIX operating system, are all products of Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory , author Jon Gertner brings back to life not only the story of Bell Telephone Laboratories through the people that worked there, but the story of innovation—how it happens, why it happens, and who makes it happen.
Leading Blog
JULY 25, 2019
Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. Still, no matter what great strides the innovative startups make or how much airtime they’re given by the media, innovation in startups is completely different than innovation in established organizations. Creativity & Innovation
Strategy Driven
MAY 15, 2022
Building better business connections has never been such a simple task when you can take the time to utilize the innovative ideas above.
Great Leadership By Dan
APRIL 23, 2015
Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. Successful products, services, strategies, and business models now have a shorter shelf-life than ever before in business history, which means that “innovate or die” is not just a cute bumper sticker; it’s a brutal reality of twenty-first century competition. And who better to learn them from than the innovation leaders themselves?
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 12, 2015
Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. A local car wash operator learned about CRM (customer relationship management) in a magazine and decided to create his own version. Pretty good service is not your ticket to avoiding the blade, innovative service is. And, innovative service is the creation of unexpected experiences that get people positively remarking.
Art Petty
APRIL 10, 2020
In talking with top executives, it’s no surprise that one of the biggest challenges they are facing is transferring their well-established operating routines into an online/virtual format. The post Rethinking Your Management Approach and Your Team’s Operating Routine in Real-Time appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.
Mike Cardus
MAY 15, 2022
By sharing these experiences, different ways of getting the work done spoken, shared, tried, adjusted, watched, shared, communicated, tried, and shared — then they may be placed into a standard operating procedure, then formed into formal policy.
Mike Cardus
JUNE 12, 2013
Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. Hire Mike of Create-Learning to Think Differently & Enable Innovation within your company and team. Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation from Michael Cardus.
CEO Insider
MAY 13, 2020
Pandemic presents a multi-dimensional challenge: Public health, operational, and economic crises, all rolled into one. Leaders have a lot on their plates right now.
Management Excellence
JULY 25, 2021
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Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 4, 2019
They typically look at their employees as having separate accountabilities (“John is accountable for sales, Mary is accountable for operations, etc.”) Guest post from Eric Coryell : Accountability. Good employees are accountable. Good leaders hold their employees accountable. Good organizations have accountable cultures. But what does it really mean to be accountable? And what happens when someone isn’t accountable?
LDRLB
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Dependence limits innovative thinking. And earlier this year, New York’s Mayor Bloomberg doled out awards specifically recognizing the city’s most innovative nonprofits. But here’s the challenge: most nonprofit innovations come from socially minded start-ups that invented themselves from scratch. I put the word profit in quotes because New York-based Housing Works, which manages to do everything I just described, is technically a charity operation.
Coaching Tip
OCTOBER 4, 2013
All companies, no matter the size, need to continually innovate in order to remain competitive. Innovation is a two-part challenge. While many companies recognize the need to innovate, they typically devote the vast majority of their time and energy to the initial 1%--the exciting hunt for the next groundbreaking idea, but this often comes at the expense of the most crucial part, implementation. Organizations are not Structured to Execute Innovation.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 15, 2022
Fortunately figuring out how you can become a more environmentally conscious business doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might initially imagine, as this guide contains some of the most innovative ideas that you can utilise to go green in no time at all.
Aspire-CS
JULY 26, 2010
So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Your best chance of having creative, innovative initiatives will occur with behaviors that: Encourage curiosity: Ask open ended questions, encourage forums where it is easy and safe to brainstorm, and model curiosity for others on your staff.
Strategy Driven
JULY 10, 2013
StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. “To help clients combat these risks, StrategyDriven advisors, applying decades of nuclear and high-risk industrial operations experience, authored a library of operational risk management tools easily accessible from our online risk management forum.”
Skip Prichard
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Operating an inventive company takes more than speeches and internal messaging. The post Use the 'Always Day One' Mindset to Power Innovation first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. A Winning Culture.
CEO Blog
APRIL 8, 2011
I read a great book yesterday by Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani called Breaking Away - How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth - And Why Others Fail. I loved the title (although perhaps not the part about failing) since I think a large part of leadership is fostering innovation. I am, of course, a great believer in innovation. I think one of my strong points is high creativity (not in the artistic sense but in the business innovation sense).
Mills Scofield
APRIL 24, 2011
(This post continues the summary of fabulous stories and interactions at the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW's Center for Innovation & Growth: Practical Challenges of Global Open Innovation featuring P&G on April 21st.) Craig Vogel, President of Live Well Collaborative (LWC), talked about being an Open Innovation partner of P&G, focusing on the over 50 population. Dean of Research & Innovation at the University of Cincinn [.].
Great Leadership By Dan
JANUARY 11, 2018
They know that if they don’t innovate, they will be left behind, the world’s simply moving way too fast. They are looking to institutionalize the innovation process. This means building a culture where innovation happens every day. It means creating an environment where innovation is not the domain of a select few individuals, rather every single person believes they can contribute to creating great products. You cannot tiptoe your way into innovation.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2022
Operations and supply chain management Innovation Personal productivity Technology and analytics AI and machine learning Internet of Things Digital ArticleLessons in enterprise AR’s potential from China Southern Airlines.
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