I’m often engaged in conversations with business leaders focused around “why is innovation important to the growth of organizations?”
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What Kind of Organizational Culture Supports Innovation?
Written by Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Consultant, BridgePoint Effect If you're wondering what kind of organizational culture supports innovation this blog outlines the defining features of a...
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How to Develop Innovation Skills
By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect
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What Is the Global Innovation Index?
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Why Innovation Is Necessary
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- Innovation Articles (28)
- Janice Francisco (23)
- Blog (21)
- Skills Required for Innovation (15)
- Creativity (12)
- Intrapreneurship (11)
- Leadership (11)
- Building Capacity for Innovation (9)
- FourSight (9)
- innovation capability (9)
- Conference Board of Canada (8)
- intrapreneurs (8)
- Creative Problem Solving (6)
- innovation at work (6)
- innovation capabilities (6)
- innovation in Canada (6)
- innovation skills (6)
- innovation strategy (6)
- meeting facilitation (6)
- Canada (5)
- Innovation Management (5)
- Innovation in the Workplace (5)
- Risking and Learning from Failure in Innovation (5)
- creative thinking (5)
- culture of innovation (5)
- facilitation (5)
- innovation process (5)
- innovation strategies (5)
- workplace skills for innovation (5)
- FourSight Thinking System (4)
- Innovative thinker (4)
- Learning (4)
- Organizational Growth Indicator (4)
- capacity for innovation (4)
- collaboration (4)
- incremental innovation (4)
- innovation theatre (4)
- innovative thinking (4)
- measuring innovation (4)
- outcome-driven innovation (4)
- Goran Ekvall (3)
- Innovation Skills Profile (3)
- Small Business (3)
- Stormz (3)
- change leadership (3)
- decision making (3)
- facilitating meetings (3)
- how to facilitate effective meetings (3)
- innovation leadership (3)
- innovation measurement (3)
- innovation training (3)
- innovators (3)
- meeting facilitator (3)
- meetings (3)
- observation skills (3)
- radical innovation (3)
- risk (3)
- risking and learning from failure (3)
- strategic planning (3)
- team building (3)
- team skills (3)
- technology (3)
- virtual meetings (3)
- Brett Richards (2)
- BridgePoint Effect (2)
- Case Studies (2)
- Dimensions of a Creative Climate (2)
- Facilitation Toronto (2)
- FourSight Creative Thinking System (2)
- Innovation in Government (2)
- Intrapreneurship Conference (2)
- Learning Circles (2)
- Learning Cycle (2)
- Marci Segal (2)
- OGI (2)
- Suggested Readings for Innovation and Creativity (2)
- ThinkUp Innovation Framework (2)
- Toronto Facilitator (2)
- UN Ambassador I. Rhonda King (2)
- World Creativity and Innovation Day (2)
- culture of innnovation (2)
- divergent thinking (2)
- effective meetings (2)
- enterprise innovation (2)
- failure (2)
- how to conduct effective meetings (2)
- how to facilitate a community meeting (2)
- innovation framework (2)
- innovation investments (2)
- innovation systems (2)
- leadership development (2)
- meeting agenda (2)
- mindfulness (2)
- mindset for innovation (2)
- pourquoi innover dans une enterprise (2)
- remote team (2)
- role of the meeting facilitator (2)
- teams (2)
- thinking preferences (2)
- thinking skills (2)
- training (2)
- value (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- Australia (1)
- COVID-19 (1)
- Canadian innovations (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Centre for Business Innovation (1)
- Collaborative problem solving (1)
- Conference Board USA (1)
- Connective Intelligence (1)
- Creative Operating System (1)
- Dali Museum (1)
- David Johnson (1)
- David Johnston (1)
- Dragon's Den (1)
- Engage4Insights Podcast (1)
- Forest Bathing (1)
- FourSight Forum (1)
- Funding Innovation (1)
- GISAT (1)
- Gerard Puccio (1)
- Gifford Pinchot (1)
- Ginny Santos (1)
- Ginny Snatos (1)
- Global Innovation Index (1)
- Helen Cahen (1)
- Helene Cahen (1)
- How to gather input from multiple stakeholders (1)
- IT (1)
- Innov8rs (1)
- Innovation Pulse (1)
- Kanban (1)
- Labyrinths (1)
- Le leadership d’innovation (1)
- New Zealand (1)
- Paul Preston (1)
- Problem solving training materials (1)
- Productivity (1)
- Roger Firestien (1)
- Sarah Thurber (1)
- Scrooge (1)
- Shark Tank (1)
- Sylvain Matte (1)
- Tech for Good (1)
- Think Tank (1)
- Théâtre d’innovation (1)
- Tom Jenkins (1)
- adaptability (1)
- agile (1)
- all staff meeting (1)
- big three skills (1)
- blue ocean opportunitiies (1)
- blue oceans (1)
- business response pandemic (1)
- challenge (1)
- change management (1)
- community consultation meeting (1)
- connection (1)
- consensus (1)
- convergent thinking (1)
- customers successful growth companies (1)
- defining innovation (1)
- digital facilitation (1)
- digital transformation (1)
- economy (1)
- events (1)
- fintech (1)
- funding (1)
- gestion d'innovation (1)
- growth (1)
- guidelines for creative thinking (1)
- how to be a good meeting facilitator (1)
- how to develop innovative ideas (1)
- how to organize a meeting (1)
- ideation (1)
- innovation funding (1)
- innovation learnscape (1)
- innovation policy (1)
- innovation strategy workshop (1)
- leadership skills development (1)
- matrices d'affaires (1)
- measuring innovaiton (1)
- measuring skills (1)
- meetings that matter (1)
- opportunity (1)
- organizational culture (1)
- pandemic (1)
- productivité (1)
- reflective thinking (1)
- remote meetings (1)
- rewarding innovation (1)
- risk mitigation (1)
- risk-averse organizations (1)
- social innovation (1)
- strategic planning facilitator (1)
- suggested reading (1)
- team effectiveness (1)
- tech (1)
- value creation (1)
- weekly action review meeting (1)
- who is the facilitator (1)
- work from home (1)
Topics
- Innovation Articles (28)
- Janice Francisco (23)
- Blog (21)
- Skills Required for Innovation (15)
- Creativity (12)
- Intrapreneurship (11)
- Leadership (11)
- Building Capacity for Innovation (9)
- FourSight (9)
- innovation capability (9)
- Conference Board of Canada (8)
- intrapreneurs (8)
- Creative Problem Solving (6)
- innovation at work (6)
- innovation capabilities (6)
- innovation in Canada (6)
- innovation skills (6)
- innovation strategy (6)
- meeting facilitation (6)
- Canada (5)
- Innovation Management (5)
- Innovation in the Workplace (5)
- Risking and Learning from Failure in Innovation (5)
- creative thinking (5)
- culture of innovation (5)
- facilitation (5)
- innovation process (5)
- innovation strategies (5)
- workplace skills for innovation (5)
- FourSight Thinking System (4)
- Innovative thinker (4)
- Learning (4)
- Organizational Growth Indicator (4)
- capacity for innovation (4)
- collaboration (4)
- incremental innovation (4)
- innovation theatre (4)
- innovative thinking (4)
- measuring innovation (4)
- outcome-driven innovation (4)
- Goran Ekvall (3)
- Innovation Skills Profile (3)
- Small Business (3)
- Stormz (3)
- change leadership (3)
- decision making (3)
- facilitating meetings (3)
- how to facilitate effective meetings (3)
- innovation leadership (3)
- innovation measurement (3)
- innovation training (3)
- innovators (3)
- meeting facilitator (3)
- meetings (3)
- observation skills (3)
- radical innovation (3)
- risk (3)
- risking and learning from failure (3)
- strategic planning (3)
- team building (3)
- team skills (3)
- technology (3)
- virtual meetings (3)
- Brett Richards (2)
- BridgePoint Effect (2)
- Case Studies (2)
- Dimensions of a Creative Climate (2)
- Facilitation Toronto (2)
- FourSight Creative Thinking System (2)
- Innovation in Government (2)
- Intrapreneurship Conference (2)
- Learning Circles (2)
- Learning Cycle (2)
- Marci Segal (2)
- OGI (2)
- Suggested Readings for Innovation and Creativity (2)
- ThinkUp Innovation Framework (2)
- Toronto Facilitator (2)
- UN Ambassador I. Rhonda King (2)
- World Creativity and Innovation Day (2)
- culture of innnovation (2)
- divergent thinking (2)
- effective meetings (2)
- enterprise innovation (2)
- failure (2)
- how to conduct effective meetings (2)
- how to facilitate a community meeting (2)
- innovation framework (2)
- innovation investments (2)
- innovation systems (2)
- leadership development (2)
- meeting agenda (2)
- mindfulness (2)
- mindset for innovation (2)
- pourquoi innover dans une enterprise (2)
- remote team (2)
- role of the meeting facilitator (2)
- teams (2)
- thinking preferences (2)
- thinking skills (2)
- training (2)
- value (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- Australia (1)
- COVID-19 (1)
- Canadian innovations (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Centre for Business Innovation (1)
- Collaborative problem solving (1)
- Conference Board USA (1)
- Connective Intelligence (1)
- Creative Operating System (1)
- Dali Museum (1)
- David Johnson (1)
- David Johnston (1)
- Dragon's Den (1)
- Engage4Insights Podcast (1)
- Forest Bathing (1)
- FourSight Forum (1)
- Funding Innovation (1)
- GISAT (1)
- Gerard Puccio (1)
- Gifford Pinchot (1)
- Ginny Santos (1)
- Ginny Snatos (1)
- Global Innovation Index (1)
- Helen Cahen (1)
- Helene Cahen (1)
- How to gather input from multiple stakeholders (1)
- IT (1)
- Innov8rs (1)
- Innovation Pulse (1)
- Kanban (1)
- Labyrinths (1)
- Le leadership d’innovation (1)
- New Zealand (1)
- Paul Preston (1)
- Problem solving training materials (1)
- Productivity (1)
- Roger Firestien (1)
- Sarah Thurber (1)
- Scrooge (1)
- Shark Tank (1)
- Sylvain Matte (1)
- Tech for Good (1)
- Think Tank (1)
- Théâtre d’innovation (1)
- Tom Jenkins (1)
- adaptability (1)
- agile (1)
- all staff meeting (1)
- big three skills (1)
- blue ocean opportunitiies (1)
- blue oceans (1)
- business response pandemic (1)
- challenge (1)
- change management (1)
- community consultation meeting (1)
- connection (1)
- consensus (1)
- convergent thinking (1)
- customers successful growth companies (1)
- defining innovation (1)
- digital facilitation (1)
- digital transformation (1)
- economy (1)
- events (1)
- fintech (1)
- funding (1)
- gestion d'innovation (1)
- growth (1)
- guidelines for creative thinking (1)
- how to be a good meeting facilitator (1)
- how to develop innovative ideas (1)
- how to organize a meeting (1)
- ideation (1)
- innovation funding (1)
- innovation learnscape (1)
- innovation policy (1)
- innovation strategy workshop (1)
- leadership skills development (1)
- matrices d'affaires (1)
- measuring innovaiton (1)
- measuring skills (1)
- meetings that matter (1)
- opportunity (1)
- organizational culture (1)
- pandemic (1)
- productivité (1)
- reflective thinking (1)
- remote meetings (1)
- rewarding innovation (1)
- risk mitigation (1)
- risk-averse organizations (1)
- social innovation (1)
- strategic planning facilitator (1)
- suggested reading (1)
- team effectiveness (1)
- tech (1)
- value creation (1)
- weekly action review meeting (1)
- who is the facilitator (1)
- work from home (1)