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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. Discovering New Ideas.

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Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples

InnovationTraining.org

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. How will you hold your team accountable after the meeting is complete?

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Stimulating creativity in your organization

Be-novative

Is your organization reaching its true creative potential? The tools for managing innovation can also hinder creativity by being either too simplistic, like a google form to submit an idea, or too process oriented with several bottlenecks. Simply put, innovation is about transforming creativity into tangible value.

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Improv for Business

Gregg Fraley

Improv schools like Second City and IO Theater in Chicago lead executive or team workshops, and their focus is on team building. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. It’s worth noting that Improv is “framework neutral.”

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

But none of those factors, 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, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.

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The 10 Commandments of Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. There is a great deal to say about the 10 Commandments listed above. I could write a book on problem framing, #2, alone.

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Creating Digital Entrepreneurs 

etventure

Explain how today’s unpredictable marketplace drives the need for a much more agile and entrepreneurial mindset – based on an openness towards technological change, the use of methodologies such as design thinking, scrum for agile project management, a willingness to take risks, and a change in the company structure to a network organization.