The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Creativity is not a gift but a skill we can train with proper tools. When we introduce somebody to innovation methodologies, especially those focused on business models, the role of creativity topic usually comes up. The most common question is whether we need to use creativity or not to innovate. Analogy cards.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Overview: While the fundamentals of creating an innovative culture at a company remain the same when remote, such as encouraging ideas and using small teams to build up, the remote workplace offers new challenges for innovators. Remote Work And Innovation Culture. The same will be true of your innovation strategy.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Impact of Innovation on Organizational Growth Innovation is the driving force behind sustained organizational growth and competitive advantage. It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Discover what to expect at a creative problem solving workshop and when your organization could benefit from a training session. Creative problem solving is an innovation framework focused around better ideation and brainstorming sessions. About Creative Problem Solving Training Workshops.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2021

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. In this article, we will outline some important exercises that help both provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specified virtual whiteboard instances. Especially when working virtually these markers are very important.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 23, 2019

Ideas are more than brainstorming. The beginning of any innovation process is freeform, creative, and even fun. It’s when the process advances that it becomes tougher. It’s easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. The Idea Cycle.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part. Peeling away and pulled away- why do we do that?

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Betterific

AUGUST 8, 2016

In this installment of “Brainstorming with an [innovation] expert” we invite Matt Nelson from Hyundai. He just finished up his role as the Innovation and Technology Planner at Hyundai and is now returning to the University of Michigan to get his masters in Design Science. MW: Where do you think good ideas come from?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Lack of training/skills or experience Another problem with innovation as a discrete project is a lack of training. Emphasis on speed and risk reduction When your main goal as an innovation team member is to get through and finished with the activity as quickly as possible, you aren't likely to introduce new thinking or expand your scope.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions. As organizations strive to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving marketplace, the integration of AI into the design thinking process offers a compelling advantage.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Myths are stories, whether historical or fictional, that can be essential to how an organizational culture strives to enable innovation with every person, in every job. Being innovative is not always easy. It can take a heroic effort to identify a new goal, birth innovative solutions, and put those solutions to work.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

With the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this process is undergoing a profound transformation. AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation is not just an endless succession of blue-sky concepts. Brainstorming and even daydreaming may play a role in innovation, but practicality is required to bring innovative ideas to life. ?. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better. Rinse and repeat.

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 29, 2022

In fact, I’ll teach you why the key to innovating successfully involves innovating efficiently. The popular press and innovation gurus alike often provide well-worn examples that muddy the waters on how to approach the innovation process. These tips are designed to help you innovate differently.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. A truly innovative culture? Comprehensive information on innovation best practice & emerging advanced practices. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You can’t innovate without an exploratory learning process. Deliberately embracing learning — as part of the innovation process — can lead to better ideas and improved innovation results. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite. How Scaffolding Applies to Innovation.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The same is true for the innovation process, which also has a breathing rhythm. First comes an inhale, where you define a goal or intention and gather the "raw materials" you need to innovate by gaining new perspectives and knowledge. It can change lives and help people become more positive.

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Values Centered Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The same is true for the innovation process, which also has a breathing rhythm. First comes an inhale, where you define a goal or intention and gather new perspectives and knowledge – the "raw materials" you need to innovate. We appreciate what one person said about the Jolt process itself: Innovation is a world by itself.

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Values Centered Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The same is true for the innovation process, which also has a breathing rhythm. First comes an inhale, where you define a goal or intention and gather the "raw materials" you need to innovate by gaining new perspectives and knowledge. It can change lives and help people become more positive.

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Wazoku

APRIL 5, 2018

The innovation spectrum. Innovation is not one specific thing, it is a spectrum. It can start with small, incremental changes and expand to radical innovation, creating brand new solutions or disrupting an entire industry. People forget that innovation is not just about throwing ideas out there, it needs structure.

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Values Centered Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Over the last 75 years, the field of corporate innovation has dynamically evolved from the 1950s-60s’ NASA innovation process models and the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving process to today’s popularity with Design Thinking and Agile Development. Not only do we embrace change, we also seek to make it.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Thinking about things is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation.

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Values Centered Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Over the last 75 years, the field of corporate innovation has dynamically evolved from the 1950s-60s’ NASA innovation process models and the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving process to today’s popularity with Design Thinking and Agile Development. Not only do we embrace change, we also seek to make it.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks. Projects change culture.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Jobs' fervent belief in organization-wide creativity helped Apple to stand apart from its early competition.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Jobs' fervent belief in organization-wide creativity helped Apple to stand apart from its early competition.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Their minds have changed. In their place?

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

When I write that "innovation is easy" what I mean is that innovation as practiced in many corporations is rapid, inexpert and quickly converges on a simple solution. Innovation rarely has the preparation, commitment or effort applied to it to really succeed.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. Additionally, software systems like this do not replace people in the innovation process and cannot automate its management.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

As challenging as Covid has been, it has highlighted many flaws in our systems thus forcing innovation and disrupting industries, education not excluded. Most teachers already practice entrepreneurial thinking to some degree (and often on a daily basis) to meet the ever changing demands of the classroom and their students.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

I'm just not not the creative type. No one, besides me, cares about innovation. We don't have an innovation process. I'm not in a creative profession. Our company is going through too many changes right now. Nothing ever changes around here. Nothing ever changes around here.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Uses Visual Elements.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Their minds have changed. In their place?

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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

In innovation processes, we usually run into companies that mostly use ‘questionnaires’ and ‘expert interviews’ as part of their ‘research process’ Sometimes, if engineers or psychologists are involved, they use experiments too. Now that’s a goal.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This requires a talented ‘innovation team’ – the right synthesis of strategists, technologists, and communicators - to lead this fundamental change and operate at the core of the ‘innovation machine’; to introduce the new culture , to inspire teams and drive innovation by example. To innovate by example.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Their minds have changed. In their place?

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