Stephen Shapiro

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The traditional approach to brainstorming is wildly ineffective. Fortunately there is a better way… Brainstorming sessions are often the lifeblood of many corporate innovation efforts. Most brainstorming sessions start with ideas. Most brainstorming sessions do a poor job of thinking through the challenge.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

The right speaker can also enhance the prestige of your event, attracting a wider audience and generating buzz within your industry. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry. As business leaders, it’s essential to understand and integrate this component to drive change and encourage a thriving environment of creativity and risk-taking.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

His international team applied those methods to various NATO military, political, and social problems and in doing so it produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Chuck Frey.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. Adapting this strategic thinking exercise for a client , however, we experienced MAJOR push back.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. The Role of AI in Design Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various facets of business operations, including the creative and iterative processes within design thinking.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In fact, innovation and creativity are cited as being some of the most important skills and differentiators listed by CEOs which will determine their future success. In order for innovation to be possible, a company needs to have the following foundational elements: Enablement: The creativity and culture to develop new and different ideas.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Strategos offers clients a robust and creative approach to strategy and innovation that appealed to me. Working on innovation in industry roles can be very demanding.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While changes to your environment can help you focus, get more done, and think more creatively, all of these approaches have limits. Another option is to create flex spaces in the office to make it easier to run into people, have impromptu meetings or brainstorming sessions, or otherwise break up the workday into more manageable chunks.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

More than skill, subject-matter knowledge, or industry experience, organizations need workers who understand the principles of teamwork and how to apply them. Brainstorming : Teach teams to allow members to state all their ideas—no matter how far-fetched they might seem—in an atmosphere of respect. Individual talent just isn’t enough.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it” - Steve Jobs famously talked about how investing in an innovative workforce was one of the biggest factors that led to Apple’s phenomenal success in the face of heavy competition from industry-leading giants. Jobs made that quote in 1998. What is an innovation lab?

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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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Innovation Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. We ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization. What are your main products or services? List three or four. What are.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

The conference industry is based around events. The creative ones will add some interactivity, such as polls, to make sure people haven’t fallen asleep. Use breakout rooms with exercises, so that people can apply what they heard. One creative example was a mobile phone company that had a competition to create a new iPhone app.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. When you’re trying to come up with new ideas, you can use brainstorming techniques such as mind mapping, free association, and ideation exercises to help you generate a broad range of ideas. Improvement vs Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can pick up the phone and speak to experts on production, technology, operations, markets, and industries for example. Every organization or industry offers many exciting problems to solve. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. LaRose Industries saw Walmart sales of its Cra-Z-Art glue increase over 50% monthly in the fall of 2016. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can pick up the phone and speak to experts on production, technology, operations, markets, and industries for example. Every organization or industry offers many exciting problems to solve. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 6, 2015

The size, scope and scale of the innovation is not questioned, and the company fiddles while the industry burns. We used to think that CEOs could not stay engaged enough to make an impact on innovation, and we certainly didn't want CEOs sitting in brainstorming exercises. And mea culpa I admit I was wrong.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. Or online polls.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

Leisure is creative. High performance has a lot to do with creativity, and we know that it takes time to exercise it. Promote remote decompression and brainstorming meetings. The linear industrial model’s days are numbered. This is a great excuse to reframe productivity. Many good things can come from them!

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. Or online polls.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a concept generally known. We’ve found a few methods to be consistently helpful with the teams we work with: Blue Sky – Creative ideas are encourage without constraints, don’t let beliefs or even current technology limit you. It’s a time for non-critical, free-flow sharing of ideas.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

"Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife." -- Jonathan Schattke, scientist. Innovation is a new way of doing something in your business or in your industry. Innovation and invention are often used interchangeably yet they are two very distinct practices.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. Or online polls.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

With partial funding from Cook’s father, the pair not only founded Intuit, which improved many a math- and time-challenged life, but also gave another gift to the software industry that they borrowed from the consumer packaged goods industry: usability testing. Dorelle leads a brainstorming session with the Harmony team.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. Or online polls.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. Or online polls.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2016

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. Or online polls.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. Perhaps, like renowned educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson says, “We got educated out of creativity.”

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