Idea Champions

JUNE 8, 2021

With most people working from home and scrambling to survive, the opportunities for "thought partners" to connect with each other in meaningful ways have radically declined -- and along with it opportunities to ideate, problem solve, and think out of the box. Pre-Covid, this was the main thrust of Idea Champions' work.

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Idea Champions

MAY 8, 2022

Sometimes all that's needed for a creative person to get unstuck is a few minutes of reflection, ideation, and a change of mindset. Created by Idea Champions' co-Founder, Mitch Ditkoff , self-inquiry pages are a kind of chiropractic adjustment for your creative mojo. The Ten Characteristics of Highly Creative People.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One of the most important decisions people in organizations make on a daily basis at all levels is choosing how to spend resources. Channel : This is the creative thinking part. Many improvements that get actioned come from the fringes, the people who have their hands on the work and are not wedded to a set way of thinking.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With most people working from home and scrambling to survive, the opportunities for "thought partners" to connect with each other in meaningful ways have radically declined -- and along with it opportunities to ideate, problem solve, and think out of the box. Pre-Covid, this was the main thrust of Idea Champions' work.

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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. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. How to address these issues is often a challenge for teams.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The ‘innovation team’ needs to define what innovation is in the context of your company, and how to ‘get there’. 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.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. Thinkertoys: The Best Creative Problem-Solving Book of all Time. Chuck Frey.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As an internationally acclaimed thought leader in the field of innovation, I know how to spark breakthrough in even the most curmudgeonly conference attendee. If you are looking for a kickoff conference keynote that will energize, inspire and establish the kind of mindset conducive to real learning, engagement and commitment, keep reading.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. THE BREAKTHROUGH CAFE : A creative thinking experience disguised as a cafe. JUMP START CREATIVITY : The first creative thinking training (aka "Get Out of the Box") AT&T ever offered to its workforce.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

But none of them, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation.

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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". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” multiple times. I was stunned!

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Idea Champions has recently developed an extraordinary online, ideation service which we call "Zoomstorming." Mitchell Ditkoff , Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions -- a thought leader in the field of creative thinking, innovation, and the creative process. WHO IS THE CREATOR OF ZOOMSTORMING? His clients.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently. It might be a juicy opportunity you don’t know how to seize. When you ask your mind to think differently, what happens? Time for Q&A and a discussion on how to adapt the tool to your needs. Does it come easily?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions. Design Thinking Projects : Individuals or teams work on projects that require empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing – all key components of the design thinking methodology.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

4 Steps of Creative Problem Solving. Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas. Creative Problem Solving Techniques & Activities. There are many techniques and activities that can be used to apply the creative problem solving methodology to your unique challenge. The Creative Thinking Handbook. Impossible!

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen. For that, you need to go to the dojo.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen. For that, you need to go to the dojo.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

thereby determining how to stay on top today, tomorrow, and in the future. 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. Train MBA students and executives in strategic and creative thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Improv works for innovation, if you know how to apply it — and you don’t have to be funny. Improv For Business — Serious Fun. But you will have fun.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

thereby determining how to stay on top today, tomorrow, and in the future. 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 jurney with just an ideation session. 5) Training MBA students and executives in strategic and creative thinking.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 22, 2016

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen. For that, you need to go to the dojo.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). Doing this makes it straightforward for everyone how to behave and what to do, which will make it easier for people to change their mindset.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

We need to connect multiple thinking, diversity and different experiences that so often diverge initially to then collectively find the path to converge, in a common understanding, to translate the combined creative thinking into real action, achieving valuable outcomes.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

published a book called "Your Creative Power" in which he shared his secrets. 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. This also relieves pressure, a proven inhibitor to creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

How can fast can you get ready and go with this newly swerved and integrated idea? In a recent creative thinking workshop, we spent significant time discussing how to enable consumers to customize and personalize a product. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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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. Study how the world’s most successful businesses use systematic processes to manage disruptive innovation. Innovation and Creativity Management. Course duration: 6 weeks.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Contrasting with the information age where analysis and thinking have been the main activities. “An An imagination economy is defined by some thinkers as an economy where intuitive and creative thinking create economic value, after logical and rational thinking has been outsourced to other economies.”.

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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. Study how the world’s most successful businesses use systematic processes to manage disruptive innovation. Innovation and Creativity Management. Course duration: 6 weeks.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Measuring creative thinking preferences. Tools for problem framing.

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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. You can always sit down before the session to think about and write down your own ideas.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

This is because they are re-inventing how to engage in the art of applying entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship practices to harness potential & mobilize human energy towards creating better future by; Developing creative ideas & innovative solutions to some of the world’s greatest societal challenges.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Your Creative Power. A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead , by Alex Osborn. Osborn was one of the original “Mad Men” of advertising. Goodrich’s publication.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Your Creative Power. A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead , by Alex Osborn. Osborn was one of the original “Mad Men” of advertising. Goodrich’s publication.

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Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This means, that nothing truly creative can come out of the brainstorm where ideas are judged right at the idea generation part of the discussion. . This means, that nothing truly creative can come out of the brainstorm where ideas are judged right at the idea generation part of the discussion. . Equal Opportunity & Diversity.

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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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