How can you use LGF to drive creative business innovation?

1 Why LGF for innovation?

Innovation is not a solo activity, but a collective effort that requires input, feedback, and support from various stakeholders, such as customers, employees, partners, and investors. LGF can help you create a space where these stakeholders can interact, exchange, and co-create in a constructive and respectful way. LGF can also help you build trust, alignment, and buy-in among the participants, which are essential for implementing and sustaining innovation.

2 How to use LGF for discovery?

The discovery stage of the innovation process is where you identify problems, needs, and opportunities that can inspire new solutions. LGF can help you use different methods and tools to gather insights from your stakeholders, such as interviews, surveys, focus groups, or observation. LGF can also help you use techniques such as brainstorming, affinity mapping, or scenario planning to analyze and synthesize the data, and generate hypotheses and questions that can guide your exploration.

3 How to use LGF for ideation?

The ideation stage of the innovation process is where you generate and select ideas that can address the problems, needs, and opportunities you discovered. LGF can help you use methods and tools such as divergent and convergent thinking, creative thinking techniques, or idea evaluation criteria to stimulate and structure the ideation process. LGF can also help you use formats such as workshops, hackathons, or prototyping sessions to involve your stakeholders in the ideation process and get their feedback and input.

4 How to use LGF for experimentation?

The experimentation stage of the innovation process is where you test and validate your ideas with your stakeholders, using methods and tools such as prototypes, experiments, or pilots. LGF can help you use methods and tools such as design thinking, lean startup, or agile to plan and execute your experiments, and measure and learn from the results. LGF can also help you use formats such as demos, feedback sessions, or learning reviews to share your findings and learnings with your stakeholders and get their reactions and suggestions.

5 How to use LGF for implementation?

The implementation stage of the innovation process is where you scale and launch your solutions to the market, using methods and tools such as business models, roadmaps, or launch plans. LGF can help you use methods and tools such as stakeholder analysis, communication strategy, or change management to prepare and support your stakeholders for the implementation, and address their concerns and expectations. LGF can also help you use formats such as presentations, celebrations, or retrospectives to communicate your achievements and learnings with your stakeholders and acknowledge their contributions and feedback.

6 How to overcome LGF challenges?

LGF for innovation can also pose some challenges and pitfalls, such as complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, conflict, or resistance. LGF can help you overcome these challenges by using methods and tools such as facilitation principles, frameworks, or techniques to design and lead your sessions, and ensure they are clear, engaging, and effective. LGF can also help you use methods and tools such as group dynamics, conflict resolution, or feedback skills to manage and facilitate your sessions, and ensure they are inclusive, respectful, and constructive.

7 Here’s what else to consider

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