Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Human designers with varied backgrounds and expertise can engage in interdisciplinary collaboration more effectively, bringing together insights from psychology, sociology, ethics, and other fields. User Engagement and Feedback : Building relationships with users and collecting meaningful feedback is human-centric.

Design Thinking 147

Design Thinking Design Technology Creativity 147

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since innovation is unusual and there aren't a lot of successful examples, many of us (I covered some of the same companies in my book Relentless Innovation) rely on the success of a few companies to illustrate what others should do, often not fully aware that these companies that are successful are often somewhat unique.

Idea Generation 144

Idea Generation Innovation Leadership Engagement 144

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 8, 2020

Right now, during the COVID pandemic, there is a big push to engage everyone, and tools like Zoom, Teams, Slack and others seem to provide the means to involve a lot of people simultaneously to address key challenges. But - simply because we can engage a lot of people at once, does that mean innovation activities benefit?

Open Innovation 111

Open Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Idea Generation 111

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Here I want to explain my thinking behind this and provide the visual cascading steps I feel help us succeed in innovation. This is where the engagement from the top of the organization becomes pivotal. The aim here is to engage the top of our organizations to lay out the conditions and result impact they expected from innovation.

Innovation 246

Innovation Engagement Resources Strategy 246

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Designers can use VR and AR to understand how users interact with products or environments, making Design Thinking more central in creating immersive and engaging solutions. By tailoring designs to specific user needs, AI-led Design Thinking could create more engaging and relevant user experiences.

Design Thinking 147

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Think of the improved innovation results they could get if they not only engaged their employees in the innovation process but also helped them to learn about that process and develop their skills in generating, developing, and analyzing ideas. Get started yourself today and then engage others to scale it.

Training 124

Training How To Ideation Innovation 124

Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"As a result of Idea Champions'efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." - Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful.

Brainstorming 52

Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Creativity 52

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seven Idea Generation Fails. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. It’s the worst-practices that have plagued us for many years.

Brainstorming 52

Brainstorming Idea Generation Ideation Training 52

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

NASA@Work, the space program’s internal crowdsourcing program, is charged with promoting knowledge-sharing and idea generation. At the conclusion of each challenge, they award prizes for the best ideas offered. You must also set expectations for challenge owners because engagement is critical to success.

Crowdsourcing 219

Crowdsourcing Learning Data Technical Review 219

Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. Various products around us have provided amazing user experiences that were useful and served customers effectively. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

Design Thinking 62

Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Idea Generation 62

Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Human designers with varied backgrounds and expertise can engage in interdisciplinary collaboration more effectively, bringing together insights from psychology, sociology, ethics, and other fields. User Engagement and Feedback : Building relationships with users and collecting meaningful feedback is human-centric.

Design Thinking 97

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 97

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Here I want to explain my thinking behind this and provide the visual cascading steps I feel help us succeed in innovation. This is where the engagement from the top of the organization becomes pivotal. The aim here is to engage the top of our organizations to lay out the conditions and result impact they expected from innovation.

Innovation 130

Innovation Engagement Resources Strategy 130

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Design thinking is a creative process utilizing personas for branding that will help us create and select the best idea from the input of your team. We can use a persona focus and idea generation & development funnel to engage the brainstorm attendees in creating a short list of very good names for whatever the challenge. .

Design Thinking 64

Design Thinking Brainstorming Training Design 64

Brunner

MARCH 18, 2021

Q8) Are you focused on customer-centric idea generation? . 1 = we come up with occasional ideas, 10 = we continuously engage a community of customers to help us innovate. . . 1 = we test everything before we do anything, 10 = we have a robust test and learn approach that gets us to market faster . .

Disruption 71

Disruption Idea Generation Engagement Leadership 71

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. The company utilized the best-practice functionality of the system to generate ideas from their employees. “We Marketing Manager, Qmarkets.

Idea Generation 56

Idea Generation Software Innovation Crowdsourcing 56

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The x-axis labels along the poster’s top featured three specific opportunities to deliver the attributes: at the initial engagement with internal clients, throughout ongoing work, and as a project wraps up. That meant more than forty perspectives from which to generate ideas for potential behaviors. My answer was, “No.”.

Strategic Thinking 73

Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook Groups 73

Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Ideation is done using tools like mind-mapping, sketching, and brainstorming to create possible concepts. ? Prototyping, Testing, and Iterating: The iteration process tests and refines the ideas generated during the ideation phase, while prototyping helps push the process of delivering a tangible outcome forward.

Design Thinking 118

Design Thinking Design Ideation Survey 118

Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker. You Are Creative.

Creative Thinking 98

Creative Thinking Creativity Handbook Brainstorming 98

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

We need to really engage and have a real depth of understanding of the customer, their needs, their individual journey, by discovering and engaging with them constantly at all their current touch points and experiences of what they are wanting to do, that is different from today and this comes from new combinations.

Innovation 171

Innovation Collaboration Disruption Engagement 171

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. This 12-month campaign incentivizes participants to contribute innovative ideas that have potential to impact the company’s key strategic priorities in positive ways.

Idea Generation 40

Idea Generation Software Innovation Crowdsourcing 40

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 15, 2016

The “warm and fuzzy” front end of innovation can make us all a little grumpy. So some ‘grief’, some compliments, and I ended up feeling ‘warm’ but a little chastened, as I had failed in clearly raising the level of curiosity intended in my mail out for a greater, deeper engagement that I was attempting.

Software Review 100

Software Review Innovation Software Engagement 100

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

My consultancy has been maxed out during Covid19 with two primary engagements. The dynamic engagement included Zoom, Stormz, telephone calls, texts, and exchanged documents. That engagement is just coming to closure but the process worked well for the business re-invention those folks needed to do.

Roadmap 98

Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. You might even decorate the area with pictures of employees as infants to suggest the idea that we’re all born spontaneous and creative. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

Creativity 105

Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 105

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

you do need a balance of problem finding, idea generation, evaluation and. are tackling – then teach them how to use it (Design Thinking is a great start. to create change is a huge motivator, use ‘now that’ rewards rather than. ‘if if > then” incentives which have been shown to decrease engagement for.

Underperforming Technical Team 84

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Tips Culture of Innovation 84

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We need to switch from fossil fuel into renewables, and the whole shift of significant invested assets for power generation and distribution have to accommodate an energy mix that provides us electricity certainty 24 x 7. That sense of collective identity has a more significant chance of generating new innovative solutions.

System 180

System Innovation Collaboration Technology 180

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s why I’ve recently published, What Matters At Work , a learning Guide that helps all of us who are determined to provide outstanding leadership and service some important ways to do so. It helps us get out of the box that inhibits free-flowing idea-generation, prototyping, or other behaviors that we know benefit the creative process.

Leadership 59

Leadership Collaboration Engagement Groups 59

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. You might even decorate the area with pictures of employees as infants to suggest the idea that we’re all born spontaneous and creative. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

Creativity 98

Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Necessity of Growth Qmarkets : So Michiel, please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your role at Enexis? And there is always an enthusiasm from people working out their own ideas, the willingness to start small and grow it from there into something amazing. What made you choose us over the other alternatives?

Ideation 98

Ideation Innovation Engagement Management 98

Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

. -- Quickly gain the confidence of difficult groups. -- Fully engage even the most curmudgeonly participants. -- Stay energized, focused, and on the leading edge of brilliance. -- Email your questions to us and get our responses ASAP INTRIGUED? Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. WHO ARE WE?

Brainstorming 33

Brainstorming Ideation Strategy Strategy 33

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 23, 2019

. -- Quickly gain the confidence of difficult groups. -- Fully engage even the most curmudgeonly participants. -- Stay energized, focused, and on the leading edge of brilliance. -- Email your questions to us and get our responses ASAP INTRIGUED? Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. WHO ARE WE?

Brainstorming 33

Brainstorming Ideation Case Study Creative Thinking 33

Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

. -- Quickly gain the confidence of tough groups. -- Fully engage even the most curmudgeonly participants. -- Stay energized, focused, and on the leading edge of brilliance. -- Email your questions to us and get our responses ASAP INTRIGUED? Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. WHO ARE WE?

Brainstorming 29

Brainstorming Ideation Case Study Creative Thinking 29

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this?

Product Development 52

Product Development Crowdsourcing Technical Review Idea Generation 52

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

the natural evolution of the course should be smart, or digital, government that not only enables more efficient engagement between its personnel but also upgraded contact with the people, including value-generating services. Is Your City Becoming Smarter?

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Technical Review Innovation Engagement 52

Qmarkets

AUGUST 4, 2017

Barriers to Employee Engagement. Immature engagement tools and approaches lead to fragmented results or total non-compliance. * Difficulties tracking/responding to comments. Even when employees do share ideas with managers, suggestions need to pass several gatekeepers before being implemented, frequently getting lost in the process.

Artificial Inteligence 67

Artificial Inteligence Engagement Software Review Tools 67

Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

Brainstorming 31

Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Creativity LEAN 31

BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is targeting both learning and emotion to prompt engagement and risk taking among its nearly 700 employees. To further engage its team, Ironwood asks staff to submit clever early-stage names for products in development. Cultivating a Resilient, Innovative Environment.

Strategy 88

Strategy Strategy Innovation Idea Generation 88