Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". What ARE the holes? Is there a formula for this?

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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. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy. You know it.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". What ARE the holes? Is there a formula for this?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

It loses its real powerful edge of harnessing creativity to solve problems in highly imaginative and insightful ways, it becomes just the encouragement to help thinking along. Leaders start to ask a question about all this design thinking ‘hype’ and began demanding far more from a design thinking process to tackle their complex problems.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". What ARE the holes? Is there a formula for this?

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Creativity is not a gift but a skill we can train with proper tools. When we introduce somebody to innovation methodologies, especially those focused on business models, the role of creativity topic usually comes up. The most common question is whether we need to use creativity or not to innovate. Analogy cards.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

day, if I’m going through a creative process there might be some days when certain activities are more appropriate than others, So if you’re at the beginning of a journey, it might be more about ideational, or refining ideas but at a certain point you might need to to get into the thick of actually pretty.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

Rigid waterfall processes fail because they tend to segment activities and related roles. Designers often design totally separate from content ideation and development. ” The value of most design projects is typically placed in the upfront design and strategy work. Content The Design(er) is King.

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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. It is important to ensure that WFH workers are properly outfitted and trained in the use of the tools from both a technical and behavioral standpoint. Tools do matter. User testing.

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