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Banking Insights and Identifying Post-Recession Opportunities

Innovation Leader

“Being seen as a group that is purely visionary and focused on idea generation can make your group vulnerable to cuts,” writes Michael Perman, a former innovation and marketing leader at Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss. Perman explains how to avoid that fate when recessions, or other organizational stressors, are.

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Reverse brainstorming is a method for idea generation in business that capitalizes on that.

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Reverse brainstorming is a method for idea generation in business that capitalizes on that.

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Why expertise is a seductive trap for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

We, all of us, become experts in our chosen paths and fields, and most of us, when confronted with a "new" idea, will search our memory banks to consider whether this idea has been presented before (some version probably has) and what happened the last time it was presented.

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For interesting innovation, ignore your instincts

Jeffrey Phillips

To some extent, I'm banking on my observations and experiences. If you then try to force all the innovation work you do into a paradigm where your experience can help you make quick decisions or apply certain rules of thumb, then you will constrain your thinking and bring all the idea generation back into a setting that you can control.

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Unleashing Innovation: Mastering AI-Driven Design Thinking Strategies

Leapfrogging

By analyzing customer interaction data, AI provides insights into user behavior, leading to more personalized and efficient banking services. This has led to a reduction in customer service calls and increased user adoption of digital banking platforms. The education sector is also benefiting from AI integration.

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The 5 Worst Things You Can Do in an Ideation Session

Flying Fish Lab

Sometimes the best ideas never see the light of day because the creator is too embarrassed to voice them for fear of ridicule or through lack of confidence. Even if the ideas generated aren’t suitable for the project you are focussing on doesn’t mean they won’t be the ideal solution for another project.