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Il est assez facile de répondre à la question pourquoi innover dans une entreprise. La plupart le font pour augmenter la productivité ou pour la création de nouvelle valeur pour leurs clients, leur...
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Few would dispute the need for innovation; in fact, most organizations identify innovation as a key business strategy. But the question of how to innovate in business is something that comes down to...
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In this article I focus on firm-level metrics, that is, how organizations measure innovation. If you’re interested in how to measure innovation at the country level, please see our blog about the...
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This article was originally published on the Innov8rs blog, October 14, 2018. The research focused on in this article will be released at the Innov8rs Miami conference, February 20-21, 2019. What...
Read MoreHow to Be Innovative at Work
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...
Read MoreHow to Develop Innovation Skills
By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect
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By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect
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Read MoreIndex of Blog Posts
- Innovation Articles (28)
- Janice Francisco (23)
- Blog (21)
- Skills Required for Innovation (15)
- Creativity (13)
- Intrapreneurship (13)
- innovation capability (13)
- Leadership (11)
- Building Capacity for Innovation (10)
- FourSight (10)
- innovation capabilities (9)
- intrapreneurs (9)
- Conference Board of Canada (8)
- Creative Problem Solving (8)
- innovation strategy (8)
- Innovation in the Workplace (7)
- collaboration (7)
- creative thinking (7)
- innovation at work (7)
- outcome-driven innovation (7)
- team effectiveness (7)
- Innovation Management (6)
- complex problem solving (6)
- culture of innovation (6)
- innovation in Canada (6)
- innovation process (6)
- innovation skills (6)
- meeting facilitation (6)
- Canada (5)
- Collaborative problem solving (5)
- FourSight Thinking System (5)
- Risking and Learning from Failure in Innovation (5)
- facilitation (5)
- innovation leadership (5)
- innovation strategies (5)
- remote team (5)
- team building (5)
- team skills (5)
- teamwork (5)
- workplace skills for innovation (5)
- Innovative thinker (4)
- Learning (4)
- Organizational Growth Indicator (4)
- ThinkUp Innovation Framework (4)
- capacity for innovation (4)
- change leadership (4)
- decision making (4)
- facilitating meetings (4)
- incremental innovation (4)
- innovation theatre (4)
- innovative thinking (4)
- measuring innovation (4)
- strategic planning (4)
- upskilling (4)
- virtual meetings (4)
- Facilitation Toronto (3)
- Goran Ekvall (3)
- Innovation Skills Profile (3)
- Small Business (3)
- Stormz (3)
- analytical thinking (3)
- divergent thinking (3)
- enterprise innovation (3)
- how to facilitate effective meetings (3)
- innovation measurement (3)
- innovation training (3)
- innovators (3)
- leadership skills development (3)
- meeting facilitator (3)
- meetings (3)
- observation skills (3)
- radical innovation (3)
- risk (3)
- risking and learning from failure (3)
- talent development (3)
- technology (3)
- work from home (3)
- Brett Richards (2)
- BridgePoint Effect (2)
- Case Studies (2)
- Dimensions of a Creative Climate (2)
- Dragon's Den (2)
- FourSight Creative Thinking System (2)
- Innovation in Government (2)
- Intrapreneurship Conference (2)
- Learning Circles (2)
- Learning Cycle (2)
- Marci Segal (2)
- OGI (2)
- Productivity (2)
- Shark Tank (2)
- Suggested Readings for Innovation and Creativity (2)
- Toronto Facilitator (2)
- UN Ambassador I. Rhonda King (2)
- World Creativity and Innovation Day (2)
- adaptability (2)
- challenge (2)
- culture of innnovation (2)
- digital facilitation (2)
- effective meetings (2)
- employee upskilling (2)
- failure (2)
- future of work (2)
- how to conduct effective meetings (2)
- how to facilitate a community meeting (2)
- innovation culture (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)
- role of the meeting facilitator (2)
- strategic planning facilitator (2)
- teams (2)
- thinking preferences (2)
- thinking skills (2)
- training (2)
- value (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- April 21 (1)
- Australia (1)
- COVID-19 (1)
- Canadian innovations (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Centre for Business Innovation (1)
- Conference Board USA (1)
- Connective Intelligence (1)
- Creative Operating System (1)
- Dali Museum (1)
- David Johnson (1)
- David Johnston (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)
- Roger Firestien (1)
- Sarah Thurber (1)
- Scrooge (1)
- Sylvain Matte (1)
- Tech for Good (1)
- Think Tank (1)
- Théâtre d’innovation (1)
- Tom Jenkins (1)
- UN World Creativity and Innovation Day (1)
- World Creativity and Innovation Week (1)
- agile (1)
- all staff meeting (1)
- big three skills (1)
- blue ocean opportunitiies (1)
- blue oceans (1)
- business response pandemic (1)
- change management (1)
- community consultation meeting (1)
- connection (1)
- consensus (1)
- convergent thinking (1)
- customers successful growth companies (1)
- defining innovation (1)
- digital transformation (1)
- economy (1)
- events (1)
- fintech (1)
- funding (1)
- gestion d'innovation (1)
- growth (1)
- guidelines for creative thinking (1)
- high potential talent development (1)
- how to be a good meeting facilitator (1)
- how to develop innovative ideas (1)
- how to organize a meeting (1)
- hybrid workplace (1)
- ideation (1)
- innovation funding (1)
- innovation learnscape (1)
- innovation policy (1)
- innovation strategy workshop (1)
- innovative leadership (1)
- leadership team development (1)
- matrices d'affaires (1)
- measuring innovaiton (1)
- measuring skills (1)
- meetings that matter (1)
- online training (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)
- suggested reading (1)
- tech (1)
- value creation (1)
- weekly action review meeting (1)
- who is the facilitator (1)
Topics
- Innovation Articles (28)
- Janice Francisco (23)
- Blog (21)
- Skills Required for Innovation (15)
- Creativity (13)
- Intrapreneurship (13)
- innovation capability (13)
- Leadership (11)
- Building Capacity for Innovation (10)
- FourSight (10)
- innovation capabilities (9)
- intrapreneurs (9)
- Conference Board of Canada (8)
- Creative Problem Solving (8)
- innovation strategy (8)
- Innovation in the Workplace (7)
- collaboration (7)
- creative thinking (7)
- innovation at work (7)
- outcome-driven innovation (7)
- team effectiveness (7)
- Innovation Management (6)
- complex problem solving (6)
- culture of innovation (6)
- innovation in Canada (6)
- innovation process (6)
- innovation skills (6)
- meeting facilitation (6)
- Canada (5)
- Collaborative problem solving (5)
- FourSight Thinking System (5)
- Risking and Learning from Failure in Innovation (5)
- facilitation (5)
- innovation leadership (5)
- innovation strategies (5)
- remote team (5)
- team building (5)
- team skills (5)
- teamwork (5)
- workplace skills for innovation (5)
- Innovative thinker (4)
- Learning (4)
- Organizational Growth Indicator (4)
- ThinkUp Innovation Framework (4)
- capacity for innovation (4)
- change leadership (4)
- decision making (4)
- facilitating meetings (4)
- incremental innovation (4)
- innovation theatre (4)
- innovative thinking (4)
- measuring innovation (4)
- strategic planning (4)
- upskilling (4)
- virtual meetings (4)
- Facilitation Toronto (3)
- Goran Ekvall (3)
- Innovation Skills Profile (3)
- Small Business (3)
- Stormz (3)
- analytical thinking (3)
- divergent thinking (3)
- enterprise innovation (3)
- how to facilitate effective meetings (3)
- innovation measurement (3)
- innovation training (3)
- innovators (3)
- leadership skills development (3)
- meeting facilitator (3)
- meetings (3)
- observation skills (3)
- radical innovation (3)
- risk (3)
- risking and learning from failure (3)
- talent development (3)
- technology (3)
- work from home (3)
- Brett Richards (2)
- BridgePoint Effect (2)
- Case Studies (2)
- Dimensions of a Creative Climate (2)
- Dragon's Den (2)
- FourSight Creative Thinking System (2)
- Innovation in Government (2)
- Intrapreneurship Conference (2)
- Learning Circles (2)
- Learning Cycle (2)
- Marci Segal (2)
- OGI (2)
- Productivity (2)
- Shark Tank (2)
- Suggested Readings for Innovation and Creativity (2)
- Toronto Facilitator (2)
- UN Ambassador I. Rhonda King (2)
- World Creativity and Innovation Day (2)
- adaptability (2)
- challenge (2)
- culture of innnovation (2)
- digital facilitation (2)
- effective meetings (2)
- employee upskilling (2)
- failure (2)
- future of work (2)
- how to conduct effective meetings (2)
- how to facilitate a community meeting (2)
- innovation culture (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)
- role of the meeting facilitator (2)
- strategic planning facilitator (2)
- teams (2)
- thinking preferences (2)
- thinking skills (2)
- training (2)
- value (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- April 21 (1)
- Australia (1)
- COVID-19 (1)
- Canadian innovations (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Centre for Business Innovation (1)
- Conference Board USA (1)
- Connective Intelligence (1)
- Creative Operating System (1)
- Dali Museum (1)
- David Johnson (1)
- David Johnston (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)
- Roger Firestien (1)
- Sarah Thurber (1)
- Scrooge (1)
- Sylvain Matte (1)
- Tech for Good (1)
- Think Tank (1)
- Théâtre d’innovation (1)
- Tom Jenkins (1)
- UN World Creativity and Innovation Day (1)
- World Creativity and Innovation Week (1)
- agile (1)
- all staff meeting (1)
- big three skills (1)
- blue ocean opportunitiies (1)
- blue oceans (1)
- business response pandemic (1)
- change management (1)
- community consultation meeting (1)
- connection (1)
- consensus (1)
- convergent thinking (1)
- customers successful growth companies (1)
- defining innovation (1)
- digital transformation (1)
- economy (1)
- events (1)
- fintech (1)
- funding (1)
- gestion d'innovation (1)
- growth (1)
- guidelines for creative thinking (1)
- high potential talent development (1)
- how to be a good meeting facilitator (1)
- how to develop innovative ideas (1)
- how to organize a meeting (1)
- hybrid workplace (1)
- ideation (1)
- innovation funding (1)
- innovation learnscape (1)
- innovation policy (1)
- innovation strategy workshop (1)
- innovative leadership (1)
- leadership team development (1)
- matrices d'affaires (1)
- measuring innovaiton (1)
- measuring skills (1)
- meetings that matter (1)
- online training (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)
- suggested reading (1)
- tech (1)
- value creation (1)
- weekly action review meeting (1)
- who is the facilitator (1)