Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

, REframe co-founder and trainer Back in November 2018, Innovation Walk had the pleasure to interview Vlad Dumitrescu-Petric? , Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. What does creativity mean to you?

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification? To optimise creative sessions.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 25, 2022

Free the Genie is a 60-90 minute online creative thinking session that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, commitment, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, or opportunity. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool."

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity. Invite humor.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

While innovation is now very topical it doesn't appear to be a well understood term. Some people support innovation, others are frightened of it and many just don't care- they think it's someone else's responsibility. One member also said "Everyone loves innovation but no one wants to change".

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zoomstorming is a 60-90 minute online brainstorming process that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, problem, or opportunity. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool."

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2021

The service we've created is the distillation of 33 years of being "innovation provocateurs" for a wide variety of forward thinking organizations. Think of it as a kind of chiropractic adjustment for your creative mojo OR, if that analogy doesn't work for you, a GPS for your sometimes challenging creative process.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Design thinking has raised a lot of expectations as well as its fair share of controversy. Often it became the promise of having creative ways to solve solutions and work in harmony with all the rational thinking that dominates much of business thinking today, DT sounded so appealing, it quickly became “oh, we need some of that.”.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity. Invite humor.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Thanks to the creative capacity of our ancestors. Through innovations, the knife was transformed from a stone in a dirt to that useful gadget in modern-day kitchens. This process of thinking that generates or recognises ideas and alternatives to problem solving that are workable or functional is called creativity.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? The training programs established by this partnership will reach worldwide and will address important matters such as: Problem-solving Decision-making Ongoing innovation. Tap into the power of your creative team to build your innovation strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In our innovation activities there is an even greater pressing need to build into our thinking the ability to find more dynamic capabilities. It is a constant innovator’s dilemma to think through and get right. We need to manage with one eye on austerity, the other on emphasizing the need for innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Innovations happen everyday — one of these days, it might be the next big thing that puts you out of a job. Being pre-active and as it applies to innovation the disrupter, however, is easier said than done. More often than not, we are taught conformity rather than innovation. Culture of Innovation. Frame-shifting.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity. Invite humor.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

This is particularly engaging because solving problems is directly rooted in our evolutionary need to innovate. But breakthrough innovations are only realized when you discover and focus on the real issue at hand. True innovators question if they’re even actually solving the right problem. Sherlock Holmes. Apply the Six Ws.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity. Invite humor.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire. However, it doesn’t need to be this way.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

And besides, even a casual scan of the literature will reveal an extraordinary number of innovation-leaning people who joined forces with others to conceive something brilliant that none of them could have conjured on their own. Think Jobs and Wozniak. Earth to journalists on deadline writing about brainstorming for a flight magazine.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you -- something to adapt to your particular company/team culture/ It's not like you have to implement all ten of them. That is IF you want to increase the odds of you and your team increasing the odds of innovation actually happening on-the-job. The results?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And so, in the spirit of full disclosure, here's the back story of The Year of Living Creatively -- a bold, new online service of mine with the potential to make a profound difference in your life. Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 9, 2022

A majority of the scientists reported that they got their best ideas and insights when not thinking about the problem. This suggests how the creative act came to be associated with “divine inspiration” for the illumination appears to be involuntary. Yet this enhancement of creative thinking exists completely beneath the radar screen.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

So part two of my reflective summary: Design thinking becomes the best friend to innovation, strategically and tactically. When DT is applied to business or social issues it is by making creativity logical, you have its power of contribution, it can transform our innovative solutions.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Done the right way and in the absence of a pandemic, a proper mix of WFH and in-office can increase productivity AND creativity AND reduce stress levels. more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). For corporate innovators, there is a unique set of WFH concerns and questions.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What are open innovation hubs? Startup, Corporate Venture, Open Innovation Hubs: who is who in the world of digital transformation. It is in this context that terminologies such as Startup, Corporate Venture and Open Innovation Hubs arise. Open innovation hubs. After all, what is a Startup? What is a Corporate Venture?

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