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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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. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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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. It's not a class. It's not a workshop. It's not a training. And it's not a magic pill.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course that helps aspiring innovators transform their inspired visions and ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. APPLIED CREATIVITY: A PDF download of a 200-page guidebook for aspiring innovators.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. Optimizes team performance.

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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. Analysis and Synthesis: grouping collected data and reframing the initial situation based on transforming data into insights. Ideation Tools. Prototyping Tools.

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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 27, 2018

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process.

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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. The post Do We Need Team-Players Anymore?

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the 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. Creative activity.

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Betterific

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

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. It is reposted with her permission.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2020

If they do, one of our teachers will meet with that student one-on-one or in small groups and explore the art and science of teaching/learning/imparting/transmitting/evoking. Get the picture? Real-time, real-life learning. HOMEWORK: Sorry, there will be no homework.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Yet for people who haven’t experienced this human-centered, collaborative, and creative process, the name “design thinking” itself can be a bit misleading. But anyone who has had hands-on experience with the process knows that the scenario described above couldn’t be further from the truth. How exactly do designers think?”

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process.

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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. Of the ten ideas we pitched to the focus group that day, the Paw Phone was the third highest rated. The brainstorming sessions you attend?

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Let us explore the most popular creativity tools for innovation. To get started it may be useful to separate them into two groups: Divergence tools, focused on the generation of as many ideas as possible. Within both groups there are a wide range of options to choose from, depending on the workshop and project.

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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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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. Ideation is a creative process so it can be challenging to come up with great ideas on demand. This is as true for groups as it is for individuals. until you get to the essence of a problem.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. Ideation is a creative process so it can be challenging to come up with great ideas on demand. This is as true for groups as it is for individuals. until you get to the essence of a problem.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

By moving from self-interest to a group-interest mindset, individual members are empowered to work collaboratively under a common purpose to reach success. Better problem solving: Empirical research illustrates that teams perform better than a group of individuals working alone. Why Is Teamwork Important in Business?

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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. How to catalyze creativity and innovation in others.

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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. While CSAA Insurance Group also focuses on “major advancements” (e.g.,

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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. The rule is: the more diverse the group, the higher the chance of innovative ideas.

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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. While CSAA Insurance Group also focuses on “major advancements” (e.g.,

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Sometimes walking away and coming back later helps, and other times brainstorming with colleagues is beneficial. It introduces predictability into the creative process. So much can go wrong with group dynamics. Brainstorming can work, but you need rules.?. Innovation Type 3: Effective Brainstorming.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Ideation : The prevailing view is that face-to-face interaction of a group of people generates more creative outcomes, that it spontaneously generates new ideas that would not otherwise have surfaced. It can be used by itself, or in conjunction with more traditional brainstorming activities. This can certainly happen.

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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.”. Since I was lucky enough to be at a conference full of diagrammers, I chased Joe Elmendorf of The Understanding Group.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To come up with something new and creative, we need to think illogically first and use associations between things that might seem to have nothing in common. The random word technique is a perfect method to be used in a group and inspire creative, disruptive ideas to make processes more efficient or identify breakthrough opportunities.

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