Idea Champions

JUNE 21, 2021

Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their (on-site) brainstorming sessions -- just in time, as some of our clients, post-pandemic, begin gathering together, in the flesh, again. Client testimonials.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We have actively collaborated and designed tools and frameworks over the years that we believe had some of our insights “baked” into them to offer valuable reference points to help us all work through connecting innovation in hopefully better ways. We call this the engagement- alignment gap.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. We’ve helped organizations across the world go beyond what they thought was possible by using some of these techniques!

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. One idea in his book, discussed in Chapter 33 on "How to Organize a Squad to Create Ideas", later became one of the most widely used creativity techniques in the world. There is, however, a big problem with Osborne's idea of brainstorming: It doesn’t work!

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Most Engaging: Avatar Mode TL;DR: Boost inclusion and engagement by empowering contributors to participate under the guise of personalized AI-generated avatars. Also, here’s a real-world use case about it featuring Bayer.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 23, 2019

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. HERE'S THE PROCESS GOING FORWARD.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. What follows is a menu of the services and products included in a Free the Genie engagement. question for your team to brainstorm.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation. The use of innovation activities is one way to accomplish these goals, spur creativity, and drive business or organizational growth. Design thinking workshops are very common types of workshops utilized for innovative purposes.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. HERE'S THE PROCESS GOING FORWARD.

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Brainstorming Ideation Strategy Strategy 33

Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. Our 142-page brainstorm facilitation workbook.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e.

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Ideation Brainstorming Creative Thinking Groups 29

Idea Champions

JANUARY 26, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions.

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Brainstorming Ideation Case Study Creative Thinking 29

Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 23, 2021

This template follows all seven of the SCAMPER techniques in an engaging and easy to follow way. Brainstorm in a group ideas for each of the 7 ideas (Substitute / Combine / Adapt / Modify / Put to another use / Eliminate / Reverse). Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples. Brainstorming templates.

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Software Review Brainstorming Design Thinking Training 59

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Design Thinking for Naming. With our company, we’ve committed to using an innovative framework of design thinking to go step-by-step through a naming process.

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Design Thinking Brainstorming Training Design 64

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

We have designed innovative reflection workshops and training to guide your participants through reflecting on themselves and their experience. Please contact us to learn more about the reflection workshop or session we can lead for your group virtually or onsite. Student engagement in reflection activities happens in three ways.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the people in your organization treat invitations to brainstorming sessions like jury duty summons? Do people roll their eyes when the brainstorming is over, convinced that nothing new is going to materialize? Past experience has shown us that learning goes deeper and lasts longer in this format. ON THE FLY: (i.e

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Knowing how precious your time is, I have designed a simple way to ensure that you get the best possible results from your online Free the Genie brainstorming session. If you decide to go for it, I will send you a Letter of Engagement for your signature. 30-45 minutes. Time required? 15-20 minutes.

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Creative Thinking Exercises Brainstorming Creativity 26

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 22, 2021

If you haven’t been doing a scrum retrospective, or your sprint retros are ineffective and leaving your team with the feeling that nothing in your agile practice ever changes, you may want to consider utilizing a creative sprint retrospective template designed specifically with your need in mind. Contact us today to get started.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. E.g. suppose you have difficulty closing a particular sale.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. Future products are increasingly engaging the consumer as they evolve and respond to “data” and knowledge supplied back. software and mechanical, electrical, and all component parts of a finished product design.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. Sprint planning – used to define the tasks that will be prioritized in the sprint. What is Design Sprint?

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. E.g. suppose you have difficulty closing a particular sale.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker. You Are Creative.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Handbook Brainstorming 98

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a short design sprint exercise advanced by the team at AJ&Smart that has since gained popularity across the design thinking and innovation space. An activity like this could also be an engaging part of a design thinking workshop. Design thinking software tools.

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Software Review Design Thinking Design Software 52

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. We’ve researched worked with teams all over the world to build better innovative training sessions, brainstorms, workshops, meetings, and more. This 12-minute activity is designed to generate better ideas and more of them faster.

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Training Meeting Brainstorming Guidelines 52

InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Innovate your virtual meetings through our design thinking-inspired Zoom facilitation training workshop. With many workshops, classes, events, and sessions being held online, it’s more important than ever to have the right virtual meeting and facilitator skills to effectively engage in your virtual session.

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Training Meeting Design Thinking Conference 52

Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

To better ensure your company can respond efficiently to changing customer needs during the crisis, you may want to consider expanding your brainstorming initiatives to include external input. You’re no doubt already familiar with using your Qmarkets platform to engage your employees on a companywide basis.

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Collaboration Brainstorming How To Crowdsourcing 98

Qmarkets

JULY 21, 2017

Digital design teams are their natural counterpart, driving innovation on a more personal level. How can you bridge the gap, using them both in unison? Innovation centers and digital design teams: quick definitions. They are almost a perfect match, but there are some large differences between the two.

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Design Innovation Management Innovation Processes 69

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

In the US there is this powerful push to make money far more and to realize innovation, as clearly you must focus on the ‘making money part2 otherwise it remains a good idea but not fully market executed. Final designs were hard fought over and the product is ready to go. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Another option is to create flex spaces in the office to make it easier to run into people, have impromptu meetings or brainstorming sessions, or otherwise break up the workday into more manageable chunks. Friendly animals make us friendlier. Ergonomics. Fortunately, headphones and personal audio systems can help keep the peace.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

How engaged are employees generally with your internal communications and initiatives? If you’re a small company, it might even be, quite literally, a dedicated time at the end or beginning of the day where everyone sits down and starts brainstorming. Putting yourself out there is difficult for even the most extroverted of us.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Indeed, these days, the normal interactions we've always counted on to help us work through problems, issues, and opportunities rarely happen by themselves. And third, we facilitate an engaging creative thinking process, doing everything we can to help you get out of the box and to higher ground, generating new ideas as we go.

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Brainstorming Creative Thinking Survey Ideation 49

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 12, 2021

Stand-up meetings and huddles have become popular formats in agile culture and design thinking -centered spaces, and with good reason. This stand up template is simple and easy to use. Contact us if you are interested in putting these agile practices into action with our innovation workshops or design thinking training.

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Meeting Software Review Agile Design Thinking 52

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2020

We’ve compiled this “meta-list” from looking at the software tools that were recommended again and again from 30 different innovative designers, collaborators, and facilitators who were posting their own lists of recommended software and online tools in our social networks. It used to be called Realtime Whiteboard.

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Michael Roberto

JULY 12, 2018

In a new article published in Research-Technology Management ( When Cognition Interferes with Innnovation: Overcoming Cognitive Obstalces to Design Thinking ), my colleague Allison Butler and I offer one plausible explanation for why many individuals struggle with the design thinking process.

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