Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? You're busy.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. And this is usually also very clear to see when teams and companies are trying to generate new ideas. But there is a huge problem with this. Incubation. Inspiration. Verification.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been helping a wide variety of forward thinking organizations tap into their innate creativity and originate breakthrough ideas. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful. ZoomStorming.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This involves fostering an open, collaborative culture that encourages creativity, risk-taking and continuous learning. The standard advocates for practical methods to stimulate idea generation, such as brainstorming sessions, innovation workshops and suggestion systems.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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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. Four steps to start implementing Design Thinking in your company.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? You're busy.

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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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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

And in 2012, some former IDEO colleagues and I decided we wanted to focus our efforts on guiding companies through the process of applying, learning, and adopting design thinking. And with that, our company Innovationship was born. Those results were compelling. How exactly do designers think?” It's thinking by doing.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes? The result?

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2021

Why should YOU, a person with big ideas, but little time, spend any of that time with me -- or more specifically -- exploring my YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY service? co-Founder of a corporate consulting company. learning consultant to an Islamic school in Australia… and now – creator of THE YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes? The result?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes? The result?

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 4, 2016

In my view, great innovators combine the principles of brainstorming/ideation with good practices of constructive conflict. At other times in the creative process, they engage in healthy dissent and debate. I’ve found that pairs can also play a key role in the innovation process at established organizations.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 15, 2014

As for adoption, many say they use personas, but few designers I’ve met actually use them as a part of their core creative process. This method-acting technique allowed Cooper to put users front-and-center in his design process as he created software for others. What are personas used for? Build empathy.

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Because of this challenge, innovators have developed a wide range of tools to help people unleash and nurture their innate creativity, which is usually constrained by the rules, procedures, and methods that many companies use. Let us explore the most popular creativity tools for innovation.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2016

During the past 25 years I have facilitated more than 1,000 brainstorming sessions for a wide variety of heavy hitting organizations -- everyone from MTV to GE to government think thanks. Here's the deal: I was leading a daylong ideation session for a large telecommunications company when it was time for lunch. What our clients say.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference. 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!

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. We’ve all been there.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Experts attribute this to the group’s ability to more effectively correct issues, think creatively, process information, and solve problems. For example, cross-training and brainstorming sessions often pave the way to better strategies and outcomes. Implement brainstorming sessions that allow individuals to work together.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And so, in the spirit of full disclosure, here's the back story of The Year of Living Creatively -- a bold, new online service of mine with the potential to make a profound difference in your life. Our first client made $600,000 with a single idea they generated in the first brainstorming session we ran for them. Fast forward to 2020.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Nick Skillicorn , CEO of Improvides Innovation Consulting , provides consulting services to companies looking to bring more new ideas to their projects and processes, thereby solving problems more quickly and expanding their offerings. He has mapped out 15 types of innovation that can help you and your company break new ground.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. We’ve all been there.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

For example, CSAA Insurance Group, one of the insurance companies associated with the American Automobile Association, uses three types of innovation to help its 3,800 employees understand their role in fostering a culture of innovation. But if we only swing for the fences, we won’t score on singles, doubles, or triples.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas. Selecting the right collaboration tool When the pandemic hit in early 2020, many companies faced the challenge of having to move meetings, workshops, and services online. What is ideation?

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

For example, CSAA Insurance Group, one of the insurance companies associated with the American Automobile Association, uses three types of innovation to help its 3,800 employees understand their role in fostering a culture of innovation. But if we only swing for the fences, we won’t score on singles, doubles, or triples.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

If you’re not sure what I mean, think about this: We had a big problem at our company. With this information we then spent a long time brainstorming ideas that would answer two questions: “What’s the site all about?&# What’s really interesting is how themes, once found, function in the creative process.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

It can be used by itself, or in conjunction with more traditional brainstorming activities. It immerses both the individual and the group in new learning and gets the subconscious mind engaged in the creative process. It’s a technique that has proven its effectiveness over the past 15 years in hundreds of innovation initiatives.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2014

He brainstormed more elements that might play into the model. Ultimately, they are the most selfish, introspective, and self-indulgent artifact, a means for facilitating your own creative process.”. Dave was the founder of Xplane , a company that used diagrams–concept and other–to transform companies.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It is the responsibility of everyone in a company to contribute with their ideas, validating them and implementing the best ones as one common team to achieve this breakthrough. So, it’s more than high time to train our creative brains and expect both employees and students to come up with surprising ideas on any usual weekday.

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