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Where can you get Fresh Ideas?

Destination Innovation

Do you need some novel ideas for the problems and challenges you face? Here are some places and methods to help you find them: Read Widely : Books, magazines, and online articles are great sources of inspiration. Different perspectives can trigger new ideas. Collaboration often leads to the generation of novel ideas.

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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. Mastery in encouraging open communication and fostering collaboration and creativity can set your offsite apart.

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The 10 Commandments of Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. I could write a book on problem framing, #2, alone.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. 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.

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Scaling Innovation Training: How to Start, Maximize, and Scale Innovation Training

IdeaScale

Organizations engage their people in submitting ideas without any training on how to generate ideas. Next time try a 15 minute long training on idea generation tools and techniques and see how this affects the quantity and quality of ideas you receive. Try doing it collaboratively with others.

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Rule Breaking Series #3: Pilot Test Your Innovations

Flying Fish Lab

In 1977, Marvel Comics published a comic book anthology series called What If? Crowdsourcing is a way for businesses to gather a lot of ideas generated, not only by their employees, but also by their customers and suppliers. It’s also a transparent process as when you pilot test your innovations, you are expecting failure.

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Rule Breaking Series #3: Pilot Test Your Innovations

Flying Fish Lab

In 1977, Marvel Comics published a comic book anthology series called What If? Crowdsourcing is a way for businesses to gather a lot of ideas generated, not only by their employees, but also by their customers and suppliers. It’s also a transparent process as when you pilot test your innovations, you are expecting failure.