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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

IdeaScale

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. Solving this issue requires both encouraging creativity and broadening the scope of what an “idea” is.

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Best Practices for Managing Multiple Stakeholders in the Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Innovation is about diplomacy as well as creativity. Central to any innovation process is stakeholder management. All should be involved in the process to some degree, making innovation processes as much about people skills and diplomacy as engineering. Everyone needs a voice. Communicate.

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Design Thinking in Education: Shaping Creative Minds for the Future

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking in Education: Shaping Creative Minds for the Future In a world characterized by rapid changes and complex challenges, the traditional education model, which primarily focuses on the dissemination of knowledge, is increasingly proving to be insufficient. Blog Subscrition Here Email* Please leave this field empty.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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Inspire Creativity in Your Team through Active Listening

IdeaScale

In any group, one of the most fundamental needs is to be heard. We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Really hearing what somebody says is always a bonus for innovation. To learn more about strategies to spur innovation, join our newsletter !

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Six tools to improve your creativity during an innovation process

The BMI Lab Blog

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.