Idea Champions

JUNE 2, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course (September 12th -- November 7th) that helps aspiring innovators transform their bold ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. If you're stuck, the page will help get you unstuck.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. Ideation Tools. Prototyping Tools.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 11, 2021

Once a week, for eight weeks, participants in The Year of Living Creatively course receive three, online self-inquiry pages from the list below. Once submitted, the facilitator of the course responds, via email -- providing participants with yet another opportunity to dive deeper into their own creative process.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 14, 2021

What follows are the ten qualities you will develop during your two-month participation in The Year of Living Creatively. When a person is on fire with a desire to learn, discover, and explore, whole new worlds open up to them -- especially the inner world of creativity. COLLABORATION: Jobs had Wozniak. We don't teach it.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

My intention not to call attention to myself, but to let you know that I've been deeply immersed in the creative process for decades and, along the way, have learned a lot about what enables the origination, development, and implementation of new possibilities and what obstructs it. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I learned 800 times, what didn't work." Buut there are times, in the creative process, especially in the beginning, when too much logic gets in the way. Collaborate: Some people assume that creativity is the result of a lone wolf genius inhabiting some kind of ivory tower. Solitude/collaboration.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 28, 2024

Free the Genie is a lightly facilitated online brainstorming session that enables anyone with a need, goal, or aspiration to make a quantum leap of thought and action. Bottom line, it's a GPS for the creative process -- a highly engaging way to close the gap between dream and reality. It feels right. It feels good.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2020

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: Only students and teachers who want to learn will end up in our school. Our selection process will be a simple way to determine if our potential students and teachers are truly inspired to learn and teach. If they are not inspired to learn and teach, that's the end of the selection process.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

It was simply what you did when you gathered together a bunch of creative professionals (like engineers and industrial designers) who were experts at making things, and had them collaborate with another bunch of creative professionals (like psychologists and human factors experts) who focused on understanding human experience.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2021

I learned 800 times, what didn't work." Buut there are times, in the creative process, especially in the beginning, when too much logic gets in the way. Collaborate: Some people assume that creativity is the result of a lone wolf genius inhabiting some kind of ivory tower. Solitude/collaboration.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 28, 2020

I learned 800 times, what didn't work." Buut there are times, in the creative process, especially in the beginning, when too much logic gets in the way. Collaborate: Some people assume that creativity is the result of a lone wolf genius inhabiting some kind of ivory tower. Solitude/collaboration.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

My creative process at work started to go into overdrive. It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. Learning From Others Methods Process and Methods' I noticed something else.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 27, 2018

I learned 800 times, what didn't work." but there are times, in the creative process, especially in the beginning, when too much logic and linearity get in the way. Often, creativity is informed by the so-called lone wolf genius being in relationship to people -- i.e. jamming, brainstorming, talking, and getting feedback.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. You can bring the facilitation power to your own brainstorming session! Hack” = experimental, creative problem solving with a playful approach . +. So, your meeting has wrapped up.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2018

I learned 800 times, what didn't work." but there are times, in the creative process, especially in the beginning, when too much logic and linearity get in the way. Often, creativity is informed by the so-called lone wolf genius being in relationship to people -- i.e. jamming, brainstorming, talking, and getting feedback.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Individually, we might accomplish the task, but by working collaboratively under a single purpose, the team can reach new heights and success. When executed well, teamwork unites people and purpose, enhances trust and collaboration, and ultimately boosts productivity and elevates workforce engagement.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

In this blog post, we want to share our learnings on how to plan and execute a successful remote ideation session - from the ideal group size, our favorite collaboration tools to the dos and don'ts of virtual whiteboards and icebreakers. Miro is one of the most popular online collaboration platforms. What is ideation?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Our first client made $600,000 with a single idea they generated in the first brainstorming session we ran for them. Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased. What, specifically , were we learning?

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure. Intuit’s Catalyst Toolkit outlines a three-step “design for delight” process that begins with gaining empathy for customers’ problems, brainstorming solutions, and testing and refining ideas in partnership with real customers.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure. Intuit’s Catalyst Toolkit outlines a three-step “design for delight” process that begins with gaining empathy for customers’ problems, brainstorming solutions, and testing and refining ideas in partnership with real customers.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2014

Andrew Hinton’s model of a “virtual shared organizational ‘building’ where people spread all over the country were collaborating to run and participate in the org”. … But mostly in hopes of learning a way to make a good concept model. He brainstormed more elements that might play into the model. Audience—Who uses them?

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Millions of office workers around the world were told to “stay in your homes…but keep on working and collaborating.” For workers, the transition is mostly about learning a new set of tools, although some behavioral adaptations are also helpful. It can be used by itself, or in conjunction with more traditional brainstorming activities.

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