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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 28, 2022

Open-source software is a well-known collaborative community. As we saw in the previous tip, innovation tournaments and bounties can be run either competitively or collaboratively. GE, on the other hand, ran their ecomagination challenges collaboratively, allowing anyone to comment on or vote for any submission.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

In this article, we’ll discuss what innovation teams are, how they are formed, how you can help them be successful, and how to sustain them both long-term and virtually with digital collaboration. Aside from collaboration, innovation teams must also fight against a “failure” mentality. What is an innovative team?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. It’s beneficial to create a checklist to manage these details effectively. By defining a clear purpose and agenda, and meticulously selecting the right venue and managing logistics, you’re paving the way towards a successful offsite.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 29, 2021

Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius. Click here to identify the project you'd like to brainstorm with Val. FEE: $95/hr.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

We’ll describe how we use flexible business and management strategies to develop high-performing teams and achieve rapid results in higher education. This is a jumping-off point to show adaptable, relevant methods to manage your ideas. In this series of posts, we’ll share our journey in doing just that. The Learning Stage.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How can innovation be managed and directed in an organization? How does innovation differ from creativity, and how do the two relate to each other? Additionally, innovation can help to foster creativity and collaboration, and it can be a source of inspiration and motivation for individuals and teams.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius. Click here to identify the project you'd like to brainstorm with Val. FEE: $95/hr.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you’re in charge of a company or a significant business unit or department, are you actively managing gender diversity ? And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. These questions are real. We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation!

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. THE BREAKTHROUGH CAFE : A creative thinking experience disguised as a cafe. JUMP START CREATIVITY : The first creative thinking training (aka "Get Out of the Box") AT&T ever offered to its workforce.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 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.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Brainstorming Ideas – How Many Ideas Per Television Series? Disrupting Thinking. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Your manager has made it clear that he/she does not have the time to consider your ideas. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. There's no one to collaborate with. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. Brain fatigue.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

Your manager has made it clear that he/she does not have the time to consider your ideas. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. There's no one to collaborate with. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. Brain fatigue.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

If you have strategic planning process participants who are knowledgeable about your competitors, you may want to collaboratively tap their insights. Jack and his Extreme Creativity Beans. Suppose you need extreme creative thinking. The kind of extreme creativity that comes from people with their heads in the clouds!

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Flexible Development and Management Strategies: Intimately Knowing Your Team and Your Product Portfolio, we shared strategies for getting to know an organization from the perspective of those closest to the work. In larger-scale organizations, proactively managing and communicating about workloads across teams can be a challenge.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

If we split into smaller groups, what structure can I put around each small group to help them perform successfully even though I have no time to manage the group composition to maximize their input on innovation strategy? Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete purpose or hurdle against which the innovation program is supposed to act.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Yael Weiss Efron is an Innovation Manager at the Israel Securities Authority (ISA). Earlier in 2017, the ISA approached Qmarkets regarding the implementation of Qmarkets' platform in order to run an idea and innovation management program. In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It

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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. Programme Managers. This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. IP experts.

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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.” Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic, a San Francisco startup that developed the extraordinarily popular open source content management system known as WordPress. Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many companies find it hard to prioritize ideation. Here are five ways to break the pattern and gather a wealth of ideas for your organization. The post How to Break the 5 Habits That Hurt Ideation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Called the inventor of modern management, Austrian-born American Dr. Drucker’s insights are still highly relevant and many of his predictions did come true. He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M.

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