5 Ways Rapid Decision-Making Sprints can Transform Team Collaboration
Ditch your standard meeting / brainstorm format and get your projects on track The Rapid Decision-Making Sprint (RDMs) is probably my favourite tool ever. I’ve been working for over 16 years, and if I were given an option to travel back in time to Day 1 of my career but with the ability to bring […]
Design Sprints & Three Principles To Help Set Better Goals
Why bother setting goals? Is it not enough to always simply ‘do your best’? Widespread research on goal setting proves quite the opposite in many aspects such as academia, early childhood development, and team environments. Without a specific target and a measurable end goal in mind, we tend to lack motivation, persistence, and results. But that doesn’t […]
Three Design Thinking Practices you can Adopt Tomorrow – Even Remotely
Now more than ever, teams and businesses are under a lot of pressure to constantly evolve, innovate, and stay relevant in a time of great uncertainty and major change. Many of those who’ve been tasked with leading innovation have probably come across, if not dabbled into, design thinking. And while it isn’t the key to […]
Iteration Is A Superpower: Q&A With J Li From Prototype Thinking Labs
One of the tenets of Design Thinking and Design Sprints is a bias for action – starting somewhere, and generating insights and learning that ultimately leads you to the creation of new or enhanced value (a.k.a. “innovation”). Prototyping and testing are at the heart of innovation because this is where the real learning, and if approached […]
Q&A with John Zeratsky – Design Sprint Co-Creator & Author
If you’re involved in any element of product/service design or development, innovation or growth (etc.) at your organization, chances are you’ve at least heard of Design Sprints. Because of their bias for action, repeatable systematic steps and their powerful risk mitigation qualities, design sprints have caught on like wildfire, especially in the US and Europe. […]
Want To Be Involved In Innovation? Develop Your Facilitation Skills
If you’re involved – or especially leading – any kind of innovation in your organization, one thing you can absolutely count on is that you’ll be facilitating a lot. Facilitation skills are a key element in the modern professional work world, and a foundational skill set for an innovation professional. The ways in which you […]
Agile Business Goals
As the pace of change continues to increase, implementing strategy and changing direction is still a major hurdle for most organizations. Companies now need to be able to focus, align and engage their people around dynamic and measurable outcomes – becoming more agile and flexible in their outputs and process while helping people understand how […]
Experiment-Driven Product Innovation
Organizations need a way to test new ideas and fast, kill ideas that don’t work and iterate on the ones that show more promise. In 2017, IDEO studied innovation in over 100+ companies and found that when teams iterate on five or more different solutions, they are 50% more likely to launch a product or service […]
Introducing The Design Sprint & Innovation Masterclass To Toronto!
Back by very popular demand, we’re thrilled to announce that bestselling author John Zeratsky, co-founder of the design sprint process and co-author of the seminal Sprint book will return to Toronto with his world-renowned Official Design Sprint Bootcamp on November 19, 2019! John is joined by prototyping trailblazers, Prototype Thinking Labs for a truly unique three-day […]
The Official Design Sprint Bootcamp Comes to Toronto!
We’re super thrilled to announce that the Official Design Sprint Bootcamp, from the authors of the Sprint book, is coming to Toronto – for the first time ever in Canada! The event is June 25 at the Telus Towers Toronto (25 York St) and whether you’re a start-up, scale-up or enterprise organization, this is something […]