Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. When you become an expert, move on.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are thinking about subscribing to The Year of Living Creatively , one question you are likely to ask is this: "Who created it -- and what are his credentials?". FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Ten Stages of Creativity – Love Sandwich. The question of what creativity is and how it works will perhaps remain humanity’s most unanswerable — but that hasn’t stopped us from trying.” – Maria Popova, Brainpickings. Bookmark this article on the stages of creativity and refer to it again, and again, and again.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

“Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper to boost creativity.”. We listened to the rationale for adopting an innovation strategy based on broad creative freedom. In many ways, it seemed to make sense: They are looking for new thinking from a diverse set of participants. Now, however, you are having second thoughts.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We haven’t talked about stealing (or copying) ideas as a creative strategy for some time. Translated into a creative strategy formula, it’s an example of “Lead, Copy (1 and 2), Swerve, Integrate, Go.” Here’s how this creative strategy formula plays out between two well-known consumer brands. BTW, A Word about Personalization.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I have also since seen a mounting amount of scientific research showing how women do not even get the same credit for their creativity or innovation work as if a man were to suggest the same idea. The main thing is to start with creativity- understand that creativity is the engine for innovation. Twitter: natwnixon.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

This lifecycle is what Forrester describes as the 5 key activities of innovation management , a process through which creative ideas are given life via targeting, ideation, incubation, business planning, and commercialization (more on this in point 1 below). That’s the stuff of dreams, you might think, but not anymore.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

The whole search for diversity can generate so much fresh thinking if we open our minds to the alternatives. We need to draw on insights, creativity but most importantly have a growing sense of the context we are thinking through to search for new ideas, concepts, and eventual new innovating solutions.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

These compilations are organized to be easier to use than combing through individual blog posts. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? You're busy.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to MaRS – North America’s largest urban innovation hub, “a culture of innovation is an environment that supports creative thinking and advances efforts to extract economic and social value from knowledge, and, in doing so, generates new or improved products, services or processes”.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For instance, the team needs to select, adapt and provide ideation and brainstorming tools, platforms to set up programming and ideation challenges like hackathons , ideas processing pipelines, information sharing applications etc. To innovate by example. IP experts. Guest innovators.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This calls for interaction, creativity, and the articulation of many different opinions. With all of this said, sometimes you can kick-start innovation and growth projects with the key drivers and other times you might start a renewal journey with just an ideation session. Identify necessary projects to be executed now.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Where people will maximize the use of all three modalities, our heads, hearts and hands to fill the interpersonal and creative roles that will be hardest of all to mechanize. The imagination age is a theoretical period beyond the information age where creativity and imagination will become the primary creators of economic value.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

There is, without a doubt, lot of creativity involved, but it’s without a doubt a skill that can be learned. If you’ve ever participated in an ideation workshop, it’s quite likely that you’ve heard a facilitator tell the participants that “there are no bad ideas”. Constraints create creativity. However, that’s simply not true.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. Creativity and idea management. Innovation and Creativity Management. This course focuses on the following concepts: Different ways to manage creativity effectively.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. Creativity and idea management. Innovation and Creativity Management. This course focuses on the following concepts: Different ways to manage creativity effectively.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to MaRS – North America’s largest urban innovation hub, “a culture of innovation is an environment that supports creative thinking and advances efforts to extract economic and social value from knowledge, and, in doing so, generates new or improved products, services or processes”.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Vague Descriptions Boost Creativity: By keeping associations vague, it allows people to bring their own perspective to the mind map and gets their creative juices flowing. Overcome Creative Blocks: By providing context and clear avenues for ideation, mind maps help overcome common innovation roadblocks.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Lead from behind to harness & mobilize people’s potential because they know that skills like creativity & complex problems solving are the result of collaborative efforts, facilitated through teaming & networking across diverse groups, often in different locations. Recipes for 21 st century leadership learning.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

At its core, Innovation is about identifying and creatively solving problems to deliver new value. It requires more than establishing an innovation team or hosting a few ideation workshops. When creativity is baked into values, mindsets, and behaviours across teams, it leads to more ideas and, ultimately, more impactful Innovation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. When you’re trying to come up with new ideas, you can use brainstorming techniques such as mind mapping, free association, and ideation exercises to help you generate a broad range of ideas.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It is sometimes also referred to as the democratization of ideation, or crowd-sourcing ideas. Releasing the creative potential in your organization will provide you with a powerful new resource that can take you into the future. How to Run Ideation Campaigns that Generate Real Value. Shortcoming with the idea box.

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