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9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Planview

No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others. A product team uses Instant Coffee to brainstorm ideas for the next quarter. Brainstorming.

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10 Popular Innovation Exercises to Try

InnovationTraining.org

Lean startup method Lean Startup is another source of many activities and exercises in a customer-focused approach to innovation. In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes. Learn more about design thinking in this guide.

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The Best Innovation Keynote Speakers Talking Points & Presentations

Leapfrogging

For insights into how top innovation keynote speakers can enhance audience experience, refer to our in-depth analysis in top innovation keynote speakers audience experience. Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued.

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Announcing Momentum Creative Problem Solving (MCPS)

Gregg Fraley

MCPS leverages creativity in a dynamic balance with thoughtful analysis. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. CPS first started being used in the early 1950’s, created by the founder of brainstorming, Alex Osborn.

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How to Set Department Goals: 5 Useful Tips

CMOE

Perform a SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis is a framework that examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of your department. This data can serve as a helpful brainstorming tool to develop new department goal ideas. To ensure you are making the right choice, lean on SMART goal setting.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. That difficult bit of invention that analysis can’t quite solve is especially challenging for corporations. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Deeper read or quick summary- finding the time

Paul Hobcraft

Certainly I’ve seen or witnessed many brainstorming or management meetings that have asked along a design thinking expert, who pulled out of the hat, like the magical rabbit, a wondrous show to excite, determine and mostly fill an otherwise boring day. It is crafting analysis with synthesis, it is expecting divergence and convergence.