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3 Keys for Enabling Blue Sky Thinking and Big Ideas

BrainZooming

What options are there when assembling a leadership team or board of directors who want to do blue sky thinking for big ideas? Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. Framing the Thinking Perspectives.

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Taming Blue Sky Ideation: Collecting Ideas that are Both Novel and Valuable

IdeaScale

I frequently hear from some clients the desire or need to hold “general” or “blue sky” campaigns. “We In two blog entries, I provide guidelines to help you go broad, avoid pitfalls, and collect ideas that are valuable and relevant to your organization. We don’t want to limit them.” Anything goes.” Constraints breed creativity.

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Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. a slightly different version was originally published on the Hype blog posting site.

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The Assembly Line Versus The Concept Car

Innovators Alliance

But when I want to frame up innovation, I often think of what the car folks do. No one stops the line to blue sky concepts and brainstorm alternative methods of delivery. When automotive manufacturers want to explore new ideas to topple their own established ways of thinking, they create a concept car. The Assembly Line.

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Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

BrainZooming

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Emma Alvarez Gibson (EAG): When your show was first available on YouTube, I told Mike about it, and I didn’t think he would watch it.

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAY THE AVERAGE PERSON THINKS AND A CREATIVE GENIUS THINKS

Michael Michalko

This is where the cliché “Think outside of the box” comes from. Or, in other words, you had to break normal thinking patterns, something that the new Esquire said it could help modern men do. Over time the puzzle became synonymous with creative thinking and the phrase “thinking outside the box” has now become a cliché for creativity.

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Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea

Taivara

Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell. We’ve found a few methods to be consistently helpful with the teams we work with: Blue Sky – Creative ideas are encourage without constraints, don’t let beliefs or even current technology limit you. Which is why we’re proponents of Design Thinking (DT). Do they do nothing?