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Creative Problem Solving Process

InnovationTraining.org

This initial thought process has led to later models, including the 2011 Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Learner’s Model from the Creative Education Foundation. While divergent thinking, or brainstorming, generates lots of potential possibilities, convergent thinking involves evaluating and choosing the most promising one. Conclusion.

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Why you should consider a red team Let's imagine, instead, that your innovation team, the people with the great new idea, are the blue team. They've developed an idea based on a set of insights, voice of the customer work, great idea generation and a lot of testing. After all, good artists borrow and great artists steal.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. How to Connect with Customers.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate.

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The Thin Line Between Innovation and Insanity

Qmarkets

Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery. In his view, if you analyze a failure, it can help you figure out how to succeed the next time. Studies show that once evaluation apprehension arises from criticism or screening, creativity and new idea generation declines.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

More info: Steen, Manschot & De Koning (2011). Searching for and collaborating with these communities may increase new ideas. Please feel free to add them and to indicate how to could be included in the graphic and I’ll update it. It has become a main topic of research within design thinking. Weiblen, 2014 ).

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The Thin Line Between Innovation and Insanity

Qmarkets

Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery. In his view, if you analyze a failure, it can help you figure out how to succeed the next time. Studies show that once evaluation apprehension arises from criticism or screening, creativity and new idea generation declines.