Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems. Share instances where timely knowledge acquisition has led to breakthroughs or market leadership to strengthen ecosystem thinking and design further.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making. Inspire Collaboration : They foster a collaborative culture that encourages the sharing of diverse thoughts and perspectives. Decision Making Making choices that drive business success.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 8, 2021

With most people working from home and scrambling to survive, the opportunities for "thought partners" to connect with each other in meaningful ways have radically declined -- and along with it opportunities to ideate, problem solve, and think out of the box. A dependable way to enter into a creative mindset. Increased collaboration.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. If your meetings aren’t accomplishing organizational goals or building collaboration, it’s time to take them in an entirely different direction. This 12-minute activity is designed to generate better ideas and more of them faster.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2020

Thirty years of sparking-innovation in a wide variety of forward thinking organizations from just about every industry on planet Earth. MICRO-LEARNING FOR INNOVATORS: During the past 30 years, Idea Champions has written and spoken a lot about innovation, creative thinking, brainstorming, collaboration, and storytelling.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Additionally, innovation can help to foster creativity and collaboration, and it can be a source of inspiration and motivation for individuals and teams. Encouraging innovation within a company or organization can be a complex and challenging task, as it involves fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and risk-taking.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’ll share some general advice for organizations and companies designing, developing, and implementing leadership retreats. Simply put, an executive retreat can help the leadership team at your organization or company tackle your own unique challenges, brainstorm future goals, and build a global vision moving forward.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. And yes, this can be trained.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

Have every member brainstorm a list of metrics and see where the lists overlap, and where there are differences. For medium-sized organizations like our school, we had each team come together and create a collaborative list. They tell you their ideas, and they tell you what needs improvement.”. The Moving and Shaking Stage.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking, we demonstrated how to build teams in a way that facilitates sharing and communication to allow both groups and individuals to grow. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x References. Beheshti, N.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Teamwork & Collaboration, Meeting Mastery, Listening & Feedback, Problem Solving, and Employee Engagement. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Enables Tiered Thinking: The different tiers of mind maps create solid context and comprehensible branches so you can review any level of your solution at a glance. Enables Tiered Thinking.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For instance, the team needs to select, adapt and provide ideation and brainstorming tools, platforms to set up programming and ideation challenges like hackathons , ideas processing pipelines, information sharing applications etc. To innovate by example. Measure, Assess, Adjust. IP experts. Guest innovators.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Think of it as a customized, just-in time curriculum that will help each and every person in your organization become proactive innovators on the job -- five minutes (or less) at a time. I have also produced more 50 videos and podcasts on the topic. What does this have to do with you?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

We help organizations discover how to build innovation and design thinking strategies into their workplace environments, start and lead innovation teams, and keep up the process of innovating every day. Aside from collaboration, innovation teams must also fight against a “failure” mentality. What is an innovative team?

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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. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 15, 2017

Take Seymour Cray, for example, the legendary designer of high-speed computers. Cray's explanation of his tunnel digging behavior is consistent with the stories of many other creatives -- inner-directed, boundary-pushing people who understand the need to go off-line whenever they get stuck. BRAINSTORM. Who’s first?

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Take Seymour Cray, for example, the legendary designer of high-speed computers. Cray's explanation of his tunnel digging behavior is consistent with the stories of many other creatives -- inner-directed, boundary-pushing people who understand the need to go off-line whenever they get stuck. BRAINSTORM. Who’s first?

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Idea Champions

MAY 9, 2016

Take Seymour Cray, for example, the legendary designer of high-speed computers. Cray's explanation of his tunnel digging behavior is consistent with the stories of many other creatives -- inner-directed, boundary-pushing people who understand the need to go off-line whenever they get stuck. BRAINSTORM. Who’s first?

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko is a fun book on how to come up with unique ideas and channelize them in your business and personal lives.

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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.” more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). 2D/3D digital design. It can be used by itself, or in conjunction with more traditional brainstorming activities.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 6, 2023

We brainstormed, blue-skied, dialogued, role played, invented, read, sang, stretched, drank coffee, wine, the crisp Colorado air, and whatever else it took to free ourselves from the gravity of what we already knew. We walked our talk. We noodled. We conjured. Did Steven and I accomplish what we set out to do during our 30 days of immersion?

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 20, 2018

We brainstormed, blue-skied, dialogued, role played, invented, read, sang, stretched, drank coffee, wine, the crisp Colorado air, and whatever else it took to free ourselves from the gravity of what we already knew. We walked our talk. We noodled. We conjured. Did Steven and I accomplish what we set out to do during our 30 days of immersion?

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