INNOVATION & CREATIVITY BLOG
Building Your Innovative Team – February 10, 2020 in Surrey, BC 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Building Your Innovative Team – February 10, 2020 in Surrey, BC 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Click here to Register Pricing Date,Time and Location FREE! Monday February 10, 2020 HealthTech Innovation HUB 201-13737 96th Avenue Surrey, British Columbia V3V 0C6 View Map What...
Think Outside the Box – Toronto – Saturday January 18, 2020
Think Outside the Box – January 18, 2020 in Toronto There’s a little-known secret to thinking outside the box. It’s knowing how, when faced with a challenge, you engage in the universal creative process. Every one of us has unique thinking preferences for moving...
The Ultimate Creative Thinking Workshop – Toronto – February 20, 2020 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Ultimate Creative Thinking Workshop! – February 20, 2020 in Toronto 9:30 am – 12:30 pm In every business, there’s always a dilemma that needs a better solution. These are the solutions that benefit from creative thinking. The challenge is, for the most part,...
The Ultimate Creative Thinking Workshop! – February 21, 2020 in Ottawa – Kanata 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
The Ultimate Creative Thinking Workshop! – February 21, 2020 in Ottawa – Kanata 10:00 am – 1:00 pm In every business, there’s always a dilemma that needs a better solution. These are the solutions that benefit from creative thinking. The challenge is, for the...
Innov8rs vs the Organization Thursday December 12, 2019
Free Webinar Innovators vs. the Organization: A New Study on Cognitive Differences That Make Innovation Hard Trending Topic Talk and Q&A with Sarah Thurber & Janice Francisco Thursday December 12, 2019 13:00 – 14:00 EST Innovators love wild ideas....
ALL ABOUT INSPIRATION TORONTO, NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Free Webinar Innovators vs. the Organization: A New Study on Cognitive Differences That Make Innovation Hard Trending Topic Talk and Q&A with Sarah Thurber & Janice Francisco Thursday December 12, 2019 13:00 – 14:00 EST Innovators love wild ideas....
I work on an Innovation Team
Call it Creative Problem Solving, Integrative Thinking or Epiphanies, it's ALL ABOUT INSPIRATION Host Dave Boyle will lead a panel of experts as they discuss how to get more inspiration to tackle complex challenges. Panel Members: Amanda Small, Director of People...
My team is facing Change, Uncertainty, and Constraints
You’ve been asked to work on an innovation team with a diverse group of people. They’ve been hand-picked from across the organization and you’ve likely not worked with any of them before. Your work is split off from the core business and it’s not what you’ve been...
I work on a Distributed, Dispersed or Virtual Team
You’ve been asked to lead change in your organization and you’re concerned about your team. You’re feeling pressured to deliver more value to the organization, and what you’ve done in the past might not serve you as well in the future. You and your team have been...
I work on a Technology Team
Call it what you want-- distributed, dispersed or virtual--these kinds of teams are made up of individuals who are geographically dispersed, work across time, space, organizational boundaries and rely on communication and technology to get things done. Team members...
I work on an Engineering or Product Development Team
You’re being asked to create value and deliver innovation. Your team is excited about the possibilities of new technologies, but when you bring a solution to the organization, you get a whole bunch of grief. You’re doing your best to follow sound project management...
I work on an R&D Team
You’re finding that more and more of your success is dependent on your ability to work across functions. And it’s painful. Everyone looks at the problem you’re tackling from a different perspective and few people see the value of looking beyond next quarter’s results....
I work on a Project Team
Your team has been asked to lead or contribute innovation, and research and develop new products and opportunities critical to the success of the organization. But you’re finding more and more of your success is dependent upon your ability to work across functions....
I work on an Operations Team
Call it what you want-- distributed, dispersed or virtual--these kinds of teams are made up of individuals who are geographically dispersed, work across time, space, organizational boundaries and rely on communication and technology to get things done. Team members...
I work on a Leadership Team / I’m helping to develop leaders
Your team does pretty well the same things every day, but you’re being asked to think creatively, be more innovative, and find new and better ways of doing your work. Cost savings and avoidance, continuous improvement to drive efficiency, effectiveness and deliver...
THE ULTIMATE CREATIVE THINKING WORKSHOP!
Creativity has been identified as a key leadership competency, and many organizations have identified innovation as a priority. Creativity and innovation are strongly linked because without creative thinking skills, you can’t drive the novelty necessary for...
How to Facilitate Effective Meetings
This creative thinking workshop will help you harness your creativity to find innovative solutions to business challenges. Every business focuses on solving problems for clients, but we also need new solutions within our own businesses. What Strategic Challenge Do You...
What Kind of Organizational Culture Supports Innovation?
Free Webinar Innovators vs. the Organization: A New Study on Cognitive Differences That Make Innovation Hard Trending Topic Talk and Q&A with Sarah Thurber & Janice Francisco Thursday December 12, 2019 13:00 – 14:00 EST Innovators love wild ideas....
How to Bring Innovation to a Company
Call it Creative Problem Solving, Integrative Thinking or Epiphanies, it's ALL ABOUT INSPIRATION Host Dave Boyle will lead a panel of experts as they discuss how to get more inspiration to tackle complex challenges. Panel Members: Amanda Small, Director of People...
Answering the Challenge of How to Measure Innovation
The Ultimate Creative Thinking Workshop! – February 21, 2020 in Ottawa – Kanata 10:00 am – 1:00 pm In every business, there’s always a dilemma that needs a better solution. These are the solutions that benefit from creative thinking. The challenge is, for the...
Innovators: Here’s What We Know About You (So Far)
Think Outside the Box – January 18, 2020 in Toronto There’s a little-known secret to thinking outside the box. It’s knowing how, when faced with a challenge, you engage in the universal creative process. Every one of us has unique thinking preferences for moving...
How to Be an Innovator: Four Actions You Can Take Now
You’re finding that more and more of your success is dependent on your ability to work across functions. And it’s painful. Everyone looks at the problem you’re tackling from a different perspective and few people see the value of looking beyond next quarter’s results....
How to Facilitate a Meeting
Call it Creative Problem Solving, Integrative Thinking or Epiphanies, it's ALL ABOUT INSPIRATION Host Dave Boyle will lead a panel of experts as they discuss how to get more inspiration to tackle complex challenges. Panel Members: Amanda Small, Director of People...
How to Be Innovative at Work
The question of how to bring innovation to a company is certainly something I spend a lot of time exploring through research and with clients. With our partner FourSight, we sponsored the Innov8rs Conference for intrapreneurs, conducted global research to answer the...
Why Is Innovation Important for Society?
As an adult educator and organizational development/change consultant with a Master’s of Science in Creativity and Change Leadership, I’m fascinated by how people in organizations learn to be more innovative. Indeed, much of my work over the past twenty years has...
How to Develop Innovation Skills
This Thanksgiving, I'm travelling to work on an innovation project with the Israeli government. (For readers outside of Canada, Thanksgiving Day is the first Monday of October.) As I'm landing in Tel Aviv, the Thanksgiving turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie...
How to Develop a Culture of Innovation
As an adult educator and organizational development/change consultant with a Master’s of Science in Creativity and Change Leadership, I’m fascinated by how people in organizations learn to be more innovative. Indeed, much of my work over the past twenty years has...
How to Develop Innovative Ideas
This Thanksgiving, I'm travelling to work on an innovation project with the Israeli government. (For readers outside of Canada, Thanksgiving Day is the first Monday of October.) As I'm landing in Tel Aviv, the Thanksgiving turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie...
How to Develop an Innovation Strategy
By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect Funny thing about ideas: within organizations, there seems to be a large interest in asking for ideas and little thought put into how to develop innovative ideas. This...
What Is the Global Innovation Index?
If your organization is struggling with how to develop an innovation strategy, know that you aren’t alone. Leaders in most organizations typically agree that innovation is a good idea, so they set innovation as a key organizational strategy and then neglect to define...
Why Innovation Is Necessary
By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect Funny thing about ideas: within organizations, there seems to be a large interest in asking for ideas and little thought put into how to develop innovative ideas. This...
How to Facilitate a Community Meeting
If your organization is struggling with how to develop an innovation strategy, know that you aren’t alone. Leaders in most organizations typically agree that innovation is a good idea, so they set innovation as a key organizational strategy and then neglect to define...
How to Think Creatively and Innovatively
Community meetings are often held to engage community members, hear more voices and get more viewpoints. The question is, how to facilitate a community meeting so that these goals are achieved? What Is a Community? Before we answer that question, let’s step back and...
How to Be a Good Meeting Facilitator
Guest post by the Innov8rs Team. How to Think Creatively and Innovatively was originally published as The Innovative Team: Recognizing and Developing Your Innovators on the Innov8rs blog. Creativity is in high demand. According to studies done by Adobe and IBM, 94% of...
How to Create Innovative Ideas
Community meetings are often held to engage community members, hear more voices and get more viewpoints. The question is, how to facilitate a community meeting so that these goals are achieved? What Is a Community? Before we answer that question, let’s step back and...
How to Develop Creativity and Innovation: Dedicate One Day
Guest post by the Innov8rs Team. How to Think Creatively and Innovatively was originally published as The Innovative Team: Recognizing and Developing Your Innovators on the Innov8rs blog. Creativity is in high demand. According to studies done by Adobe and IBM, 94% of...
How to Generate Innovative Ideas
World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) April 15 – 21 and World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 (WCID) advocates solving problems in new ways an annual event. The overall purpose is to free up, encourage and remind people to use their creativity...
Acknowledging Inconvenient Truths
How to Generate Innovative Ideas: Guest post by Helen Cahen When I work with a team on the question of how to generate innovative ideas, I often ask team members, “Are you creative?” Depending upon the group, I usually get between one and four hands raised. I once...
How to Become an Innovative Company
World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) April 15 – 21 and World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 (WCID) advocates solving problems in new ways an annual event. The overall purpose is to free up, encourage and remind people to use their creativity...
How Does Innovation Increase Productivity?
How to Generate Innovative Ideas: Guest post by Helen Cahen When I work with a team on the question of how to generate innovative ideas, I often ask team members, “Are you creative?” Depending upon the group, I usually get between one and four hands raised. I once...
How to Encourage Innovation in a Team
This past week in New York City, my colleague Helene Cahen and I had the honour of attending a joint meeting of the Conference Board of US Innovation Leadership Council and the Conference Board of Canada Council of Innovation and Commercialization, of which I am the...
Go Take a Risk: How to Conduct an Experiment in Risk Taking and Innovation
How to Encourage Innovation in a Team, by Janice Francisco I’ve been working with a team over the past eighteen months that had volunteered to address challenges management in the client organization saw on the horizon. These challenges had resulted from recent and...
Taking the Risk on Innovation: The Video
This past week in New York City, my colleague Helene Cahen and I had the honour of attending a joint meeting of the Conference Board of US Innovation Leadership Council and the Conference Board of Canada Council of Innovation and Commercialization, of which I am the...
Reading for Creativity
How to Encourage Innovation in a Team, by Janice Francisco I’ve been working with a team over the past eighteen months that had volunteered to address challenges management in the client organization saw on the horizon. These challenges had resulted from recent and...
The Innovation Skills You and Your Team Need
78% of college-educated workers over 25 wish they had more creative ability. 94% of hiring managers consider creativity when hiring job candidates. Creative applicants are preferred, 5-to-1. CEOs identify creativity as the #1 leadership quality needed for...
The Trouble with Canada’s Innovation Policy
How to Generate Innovative Ideas: Guest post by Helen Cahen When I work with a team on the question of how to generate innovative ideas, I often ask team members, “Are you creative?” Depending upon the group, I usually get between one and four hands raised. I once...
An Innovation Christmas Carol
Community meetings are often held to engage community members, hear more voices and get more viewpoints. The question is, how to facilitate a community meeting so that these goals are achieved? What Is a Community? Before we answer that question, let’s step back and...
Managing and Measuring Innovation: Improving Canada’s Innovation Outcomes
"Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?" - Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens) We had a...
Three Ways Your Organization Can Do Innovation Better
78% of college-educated workers over 25 wish they had more creative ability. 94% of hiring managers consider creativity when hiring job candidates. Creative applicants are preferred, 5-to-1. CEOs identify creativity as the #1 leadership quality needed for...
Intrapreneurship and Innovation are All About Change, and the Job of a Change Leader is Never Easy
Attending the Intrapreneurship Conference in Toronto a few weeks back reinforced some of my beliefs around how organizations can improve the way they “do” innovation. As we know, intrapreneurs are integral to innovation, and so the following three themes about how...
Intrapreneurship and Why it’s Essential for Innovation
As I mentioned in my last blog post, earlier in November I spent three days at the Intrapreneurship Conference in Toronto. The line-up of speakers on Day One included CEOs Larry Keeley of Doblin Group (Deloitte), Idris Mootee of Idea Couture, my colleague Ken Tencer...
IT Leadership Development with the FourSight Thinking System™: A Case Study
If your organization is struggling with how to develop an innovation strategy, know that you aren’t alone. Leaders in most organizations typically agree that innovation is a good idea, so they set innovation as a key organizational strategy and then neglect to define...
How to Wire Your Organization’s DNA for Innovation
78% of college-educated workers over 25 wish they had more creative ability. 94% of hiring managers consider creativity when hiring job candidates. Creative applicants are preferred, 5-to-1. CEOs identify creativity as the #1 leadership quality needed for...
Is Collaboration Dressed Up as Consensus in Your Organization?
You may or may not be familiar with the term “intrapreneurship.” If you are, congratulations! If you aren’t—and especially if you work in an organization that isn’t a start-up—then it’s time to get up to speed or risk being left behind. Last week I spent three days at...
Playing with Fire: Innovation is Risky Business
Do you find collaboration when innovating a bit scary? Are you haunted by consensus decision-making? Let me bring you some hope. As I’ve often said, innovation is a team sport. And like any sport, there are rules to follow and everyone has a role to play. Otherwise,...
Why reflecting on progress is key to a culture of innovation
The question of how to bring innovation to a company is certainly something I spend a lot of time exploring through research and with clients. With our partner FourSight, we sponsored the Innov8rs Conference for intrapreneurs, conducted global research to answer the...
Making the Commitment to Risk and Learn from Failure in Innovation
In her book, The Progress Principle, creativity and innovation researcher Teresa Amabile shares the following: A sense of making progress on meaningful work was the single most important factor in igniting creativity, satisfaction, and productivity among employees—far...
An immersion experience in the Silicon Valley: A tale of two cultures
On Friday September 29, BridgePoint Effect ran a special event in Ottawa that introduced our course Taking the risk on Innovation with leaders from the private, federal government and non-profit sectors. They were brave souls willing to engage in reflective...
Working with the “argyle profile” and facing team challenges
78% of college-educated workers over 25 wish they had more creative ability. 94% of hiring managers consider creativity when hiring job candidates. Creative applicants are preferred, 5-to-1. CEOs identify creativity as the #1 leadership quality needed for...
It's time to stop feeling stuck and start getting momentum as a team.
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