Idea to Value

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He is also distinguished as being the person who has trained more people to lead the creative problem solving process (CPS) than anyone else in the world. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:15 the foundational work of Alex Osborn, who invented brainstorming and then the Creative Problem Solving process, which had been validated by more than 150 research studies. 00:09:45 the 4 different types of creativity, and how everyone can be (and already is) creative.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

He is also the creator of a new & effective creative thinking methodology called “ Anti-Conventional Thinking ” as an alternative to traditional brainstorming methods. He also runs the Report 103 , which is one of the longest running eJournal or blog on creativity and innovation in business. He is a great guy, who understands the psychology behind creativity and has a great sense of humor. Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Jeffrey Baumgartner.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. While the previous two quotes do have some degree of truth associated with them, likening a brainstorm session to a "crowd" is not only a poor choice of metaphors, it is patently untrue. or poorly facilitated brainstorming sessions don't work.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. High Velocity Brainstorming.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We only need to be creative and come up with original, new ideas 2% of the times on an average day, yet disruptive solutions are the key to any successful business in the 21stcentury. 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. As a company, we follow the market leaders or already set-up lower-risk processes.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 9, 2021

When do you have your best ideas: Right at the beginning of creative work, or later on when you are exhausted? Interesting new research sheds a light on how you might be wrong about your own creative process. They think that their creativity will fall off a sharp cliff.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 21, 2021

People often think that science and creativity are not related. In fact, over the past few decades , a huge amount of research has begun showing us exactly what causes our creativity, what reduces it, and even what enhances it. Incubate and allow the natural creative process to work.

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Ideanote

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

So, why not save yourself the struggle and start with a WHY now , while you are still at the brainstorming level? Only after you have done all the necessary soul-searching and singled out your WHY, you can start brainstorming on the problems or challenges which are directly related to your newly found inspiration. Other times, the creative process doesn’t produce that many results. The key is to avoid applying convergent thinking in this early brainstorming phase.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Joshua has been the voice of characters in over 100 animated TV shows and movies and has a diverse background across creative disciplines like music, theatre, and stage illusions. In today’s episode, we talk about how we need to become more comfortable letting go of expectations in order to unleash our innate creativity. Topics discussed in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – How his childhood formed his creative outlook.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. We believe in this naming process so much that it’s even been used to decide on names for children!

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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.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 31, 2021

Enter The Year of Living Creatively -- a highly engaging online antidote for creative derailment -- a GPS for possibility, a greenhouse for greatness, and a chiropractic adjustment for the often mysterious creative process.

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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. brainstorming conflict creativity innovation judgment

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Imagine what you think a “creative person” looks like, and what they behave like. 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. You might see a trend developing here, and you would be doing the same thing that the vast majority of people do… … most people think that more extroverted, outgoing people are the most creative ones.

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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. Make More Time for Creativity. The Ten Characteristics of a Highly Creative People. Develop Your Own Natural Practice of Creativity.

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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.

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Idea Champions

MAY 6, 2021

For the past 11 years, I've been writing a series of articles on creativity for my Heart of Innovation blog. I'm in the process, now, of editing it. The Hero's Journey and the Creative Process. The Creativity Manifesto 6. The Challenge Most Creative People Face.

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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. Brainstorm Champions

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This is because they break down the complexity of processes so that the designer has a full 360-degree view of the problem, anchoring them in their way of thinking. To make it even simpler, you could say that Design Thinking is an innovative approach based on the designer’s thoughts, combining creativity and empathy to create innovative solutions. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 14, 2021

There are two kinds of benefits you will receive from participating in The Year of Living Creatively. And second, you'll develop the kind of skills, mindset, and mojo you'll need to succeed with any creative project of yours in the future. Who created the Year of Living Creatively?

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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. How to catalyze creativity and innovation in others. Every story has a back story.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity. questions for brainstorming.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 15, 2016

If so, you are likely to be intrigued by Chuck Frey's newly published guide about how to set up EVERNOTE as a way support a complete, end-to-end creative process. Brainstorm ChampionsIf you are reading this blog, I am 95 percent certain you value the power of BIG IDEAS. I'm also certain that you've experimented with various ways of capturing your big ideas: Notebooks. Voice memos. Post-its. Napkins. Whiteboards. Mind maps. And who knows how many other techniques.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Organizing the types of innovation can help streamline your processes and boost results. The pool from which innovation emerges is filled with big ideas and endless creativity. Thus, in a way, innovation is infinite, bound only by the depth of thought processes. For this reason, thought leaders grapple with generating methods of categorizing types of innovation as a means of channeling some of the creativity. It introduces predictability into the creative process.

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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. In the process of business model innovation, ideation is the second step. After that, creativity and hence, quality declines.

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The Human Factor

AUGUST 15, 2019

You are at your most creative when you work without interruptions. While there is nothing wrong with organizing a creative brainstorming with the team, you’re most likely to be able to turn those ideas into a great podcast or blog article if you can think your way through it alone. Indeed, the creative process is a solitary process in essence. It appears that they bring a sense of stability and creative self-affirmation that doesn’t exist in the team.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy. I get it.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s perfectly okay that most people – from call center employees to claims adjusters in the field – focus on continuous improvements to current business processes, the customer experience, and insurance products. With the premise that everyone has an equal opportunity to add innovation-based value, it’s essential to help jump start the process. Adobe’s toolkit is named Kickbox and actually comes packaged in a snazzy red box and outlines a more comprehensive process.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zoomstorming is a 60-90 minute online brainstorming process that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, problem, or opportunity. I see myself as a creative person.".

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s perfectly okay that most people – from call center employees to claims adjusters in the field – focus on continuous improvements to current business processes, the customer experience, and insurance products. With the premise that everyone has an equal opportunity to add innovation-based value, it’s essential to help jump start the process. Adobe’s toolkit is named Kickbox and actually comes packaged in a snazzy red box and outlines a more comprehensive process.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 3, 2015

” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators. The process of creation. The ten stages in the process of creation progressively create four realms. Creative activity. Innovation brainstorms.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are thinking about subscribing to The Year of Living Creatively , one question you are likely to ask is this: "Who created it -- and what are his credentials?". FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Back then, this process wasn’t called design thinking. 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. Our process is what makes us special! million.

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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. I once also viewed personas with disdain, but once I started using them in my own work, something interesting happened: My process became more efficient and fun, while the fruits of my labor became more impactful and useful to others. I saw that personas are an essential part of what constitutes the goal-directed process.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

If your job requires you to lead meetings, brainstorming sessions , or problem solving gatherings of any kind, chances are good that most of the people you come in contact with are left-brain dominant: analytical, logical, linear folks with a passion for results and a huge fear that the meeting you are about to lead will end with a rousing chorus of kumbaya. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Periodically remind them of where they are in the process.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2021

Neither my mother or father were particularly "creative", but they had whatever it took to spark new life and I was very glad they did. learning consultant to an Islamic school in Australia… and now – creator of THE YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY. I did. Mitch Ditkoff. Who am I?

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2021

Most people agree that creativity is a good thing. Accordingly, they want to know how they can become more creative. Why make the effort to become more creative? Realize you already ARE creative: Most of us are subject to the myth that only some people are creative.

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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. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy. I get it.

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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. There is a short answer for this: The majority of the most successful innovation methodologies give creativity a strong role.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2016

In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Here I revisit the article with all-new evidence showing how close we are to artificial creativity. In the not too far future machines and robots will not only become more advanced, they will also begin to exhibit aspects of Creativity, and may soon exceed people in the ability to produce simple creative outputs.

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Betterific

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We are excited to bring you Joyce Wycoff , an author and expert on gratitude and creativity. The Betterific memberbase is comprised of design thinkers, product developers, and smart creatives. So we like to bring content that helps expand the mind around creativity and brainstorming. Below is Joyce’s version of breaking down the science of creativity. There is one over-riding rule of creativity: Separate the two phases.

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Ideanote

APRIL 19, 2017

It is a digital tool that facilitates problem-solving by involving multiple departments of a company into the process. Involving customers in your innovation process is by far the smartest thing you can do. Involving them in the innovation process means you have access to valuable information about their needs and wants. Getting this information early in the innovation process brings you closer to delivering the best product for the consumer.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Done the right way and in the absence of a pandemic, a proper mix of WFH and in-office can increase productivity AND creativity AND reduce stress levels. more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive).

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