Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Get Training!

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The following are 16 suggestions to encourage you and your colleagues to start becoming more creative today. At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. CREATIVE CORNER Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. The weekly sessions are FREE.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You can also see the transcript of our AI ideation session below to see the ideas that were created when our question meets artificial intelligence. AI Ideation Demo (Generate Ideas with Artificial Intelligence on OpenAI). Here’s the play-by-play of our AI idea generation experience. Art of Design 5.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. On-site gatherings: Invite customers and prospects to your site to test new products, provide feedback on existing products, and for idea generation.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. To optimise creative sessions. The benefits listed above are essential for boosting creativity. People let themselves go and show you their real profile, which may be hidden in a formal meeting.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. That sense of collective identity has a more significant chance of generating new innovative solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

They are the day-to-day manifestations of your company’s culture, seen in everything from how meetings are run to the way projects are managed. Culture and Innovation In an era where innovation is indispensable, the culture of your organization can either nurture creative thinking or stifle it.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

Following are 15 suggestions to encourage you and your colleagues to start becoming more creative today. At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute.

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Ideation Meeting Project Creativity 52

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even at serious meetings? Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Can we still use Free the Genie? Yes, but only four people can participate at one time. Why only four? When more than four people participate, there is a tendency for some people just to observe. What kinds of "How can we?"

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Micro-Learning for Innovators , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only takes 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring idea generation phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. What is your current process for capturing and documenting ideas generated in brainstorming sessions.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring idea generation phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. What is your current process for capturing and documenting ideas generated in brainstorming sessions.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Many companies are creating, adapting or partnering with others to provide an innovative space for fostering ideas, creative thinking, exploring new technologies and prototyping. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring idea generation phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. Of course, how these idea feedback sessions are structured and facilitated make all the difference.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” such as solitary list-writing.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring idea generation phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. What is your current process for capturing and documenting ideas generated in brainstorming sessions.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Importance of thinking diversity. Measuring creative thinking preferences. Tools for positive evaluation and idea enhancement with critique. Meeting and workshop facilitation. Typical Innovation Project Cycle (materials include a shell process). Cycle metrics. Managing innovation projects. Management pitches.

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