Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

My intention not to call attention to myself, but to let you know that I've been deeply immersed in the creative process for decades and, along the way, have learned a lot about what enables the origination, development, and implementation of new possibilities and what obstructs it. Facilitator training program in the works.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Idea Champions has recently developed an extraordinary online, ideation service which we call "Zoomstorming." For now, only two of our staff are trained to deliver this service -- but soon we will be opening it up to the rest of the known universe. I see myself as a creative person.". His clients. what they say. Testimonials.

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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. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? You're busy.

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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Otherwise, there is this risk that DT fails in its real potential as a real creative process to search out imaginative solutions that DO solve complex problems. Design Thinking should be seen as a specific creative, human-centered process all our thinking should pass through.

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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.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Today, those familiar with design thinking may understand how the practice of observation is central to its process. These days, the once unnamed process of design thinking has become almost synonymous with innovation. How exactly do designers think?” Design is doing. Ongoing innovation doesn’t have to be elusive.

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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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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2016

Here's the deal: I was leading a daylong ideation session for a large telecommunications company when it was time for lunch. At that time, I simply followed my hunch that the porcelain dog, was, somehow, part of the creative process. Brainstorm facilitation training. I didn't know how things would unfold. Idea Champions.

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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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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. In advertising, copywriters often drive the creative process. There’s a lot we can learn from traditional advertising here.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

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. It is difficult for people to be creative spontaneously at a preset day and time. Inovo has long practiced an approach to opportunity discovery called “slow burn” ideation.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

So, it’s more than high time to train our creative brains and expect both employees and students to come up with surprising ideas on any usual weekday. Everyone in your team should first write their ideas on a post-it note or in the virtual ideation room. Then you can start collecting ideas individually.

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