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

MARCH 6, 2024

They outperform their peers in productivity, creativity, and overall results. This strategic approach enables teams to apply experiential learning towards creative problem-solving, thus driving the organization forward. But what distinguishes these teams from the rest?

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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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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

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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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire. .

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Jobs' fervent belief in organization-wide creativity helped Apple to stand apart from its early competition.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail. Most organization’s don’t have the guts to actually reinvent.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Jobs' fervent belief in organization-wide creativity helped Apple to stand apart from its early competition.

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Leadership Innovation Engagement Examples 49

Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2016

This is a real issue in brainstorming sessions or other idea generation sessions, where often the people invited are the loudest ones with the highest energy, who appear to come up with the most ideas during the session. Do you like insights into innovations like this? What did you think of this video?

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Video Brainstorming Innovation Training 100

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems. There is no innovation without creativity. Individuals and teams need to be creative in order to solve focused innovation challenges.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. In the various types of innovation training that GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) does, it’s interesting that stop-action Improv scenes lead to amazingly effective brainstorming.

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Culture Training Creative Thinking Innovation 52

Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit. Instead of doing Brainstorming, do Brainwriting , or better yet, a BrainWalk. .” “Mediocre results, we just can’t seem to get to anything really different.”

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Brainstorming Innovation Programs Ideation Idea Generation 48

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Acquiring knowledge across many domains is about broad-based learning, and it’s often where big “I” innovation comes from.This allows creative combinations of ideas and concepts from one area — with ideas or concepts from another. The key is to get creative with how your organize your innovation projects.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Teamwork & Collaboration, Meeting Mastery, Listening & Feedback, Problem Solving, and Employee Engagement. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result of this project, TSYS was able to address employee pain points and inefficiencies, enhance corporate leadership strategies, increase savings, and implement lucrative new ideas. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. HOW IT WORKS: 1. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Innovation 22

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Imagine the impact that basic training in Creative Problem Solving* and innovation concepts would have — more innovation across the entire value chain of the business. It’s almost as if creativity from operational employees is actively discouraged. Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming. END OF BLOG POST.

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. No compelling vision or reason to innovate If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. People & Culture 1.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

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. Here are some ways to build innovation skills in yourself and your team: The next time you brainstorm, focus on problem discovery rather than idea generation.

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eBook Innovation Culture of Innovation Culture 40

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed. Professional facilitators know which tool to use, in a complex context, to boost a meetings results. Internal facilitators do hasty planning. Professional facilitators have time and experience to plan — and that is a key to success.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. Thinking about things is not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Measuring creative thinking preferences. Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”). Tools and techniques for generating ideas. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, road-mapping, and brainstorming sessions. Cycle metrics. Managing innovation projects.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9