Design Sprint Training
The “Design Sprint” is one of the fastest trending innovation and design thinking approaches I’ve seen in the past decade. It is now a part of our language to describe a specific kind of innovation session. This design sprint training article shares an overview of the process and resources you can use throughout. The design…
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky’s Sprint Talk at Google
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky deliver this helpful Talk at Google about their book SPRINT: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. Give it a watch to get more familiar about this approach to innovation that is one of my favorites because it blends the best of Agile and Design…
6 reasons to host a design thinking or innovation event within your organization
There are more benefits to hosting design thinking sessions or innovation events than just the innovation work output that is produced at the event. When done well they can have a uniquely positive impact for the organization’s culture of innovation and for your people. Go beyond “innovation theatre” and design an invent that can have…
The 7 Things Every Innovation Center Should Have
Many of the organizations we work with on a culture of innovation focus want to set up an innovation center or lab. This can actually be done in just a day with basic materials. Use a design thinking innovative mindset to get into action quickly with a prototype for your innovation center that you could…
Design Thinking & Innovation Development through Training
Have you been asked to help your organization and your employees to innovate? Do you need to demystify innovation for yourself and others? Would you like to learn innovation in a simple way, what that means, how to do it, and how to get started? Do you need to have a culture of innovation, design…
7 Trends for Organizational Innovation and Learning
In the report on 15 Practices of Innovation Leaders for Creating Cultures of Innovation, I identified the most common themes in organizational innovation and learning from my interviews with over 100 innovation leaders at larger organizations. I wanted to identify the key techniques these individuals use within their organizations and share that for others to…
How to Get Unstuck in your Mindset to Innovate
At the end of the day, people failing to progress – at whichever stage – need a way to take action. It is not always possible to will yourself into a new mindset. This is where establishing a structural solution is key in innovating yourself. The best intervention is a structure to help you take…
Mindset for Innovative Thinking
The Innovation Thinking Process The three sticky notes featured on the cover of the book, Innovation Step-by-Step: How to Generate & Develop Ideas for your Challenge, speak directly to the basic three stages of the process of innovation. 1. Challenge 2. Ideas 3. Action The first sticky note, with the stick figure question mark character,…
Design Thinking Workshop Resources
This is a list of links to my recommended resources for design thinking I’ve researched and found over the years that influence my design thinking training workshops. Many are pdf guides you can use to help with the design thinking process and projects. These are the resources I recommend in conjunction with my design thinking…
15 Practices of Innovation Leaders for Creating Cultures of Innovation
For my book, Innovation Step-By-Step: How to Create and Develop Ideas For Your Challenge, I drew on my first hand experience and knowledge working as an innovation consultant and facilitator for a wide variety of organizations to share the common elements of the innovation process for anyone to use and apply. But this time, I…
Design Thinking “Train the Trainer” Program
Online Design Thinking Workshops & Innovation Courses
