IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual. It’s just as important to engage in free thinking to develop innovative solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. They share insights that can reshape the way your organization approaches creativity and problem-solving.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It also allows those who aren’t trained as designers to use creative tools to address a vast range of challenges. The Five Stages of Design Thinking The process of Design Thinking is divided into five stages that guide the problem-solving process. What is AI-Powered Design Thinking?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Look for ways to turn challenges into advantages with virtual whiteboarding, more accessible brainstorming, and shared touchpoints. Remote Work And Innovation Culture. The irony of the COVID-19 pandemic is that before it arrived, much innovation work was focused on how to unite far-flung workforces across long distances.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs. We will guide them through the learning and doing of innovating with ChaptGPT as a professional.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Whether you are working together in person or remotely, design thinking software tools such as Miro can help make the innovation process easier than ever. Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With AI’s predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, leaders and innovators are unlocking new potentials in understanding user needs and market trends. Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Discover what to expect at a creative problem solving workshop and when your organization could benefit from a training session. Creative problem solving is an innovation framework focused around better ideation and brainstorming sessions. About Creative Problem Solving Training Workshops.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. Research & Development AI tools can simulate and test product scenarios, reducing the need for physical prototypes.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This, in turn, can lead to the development of groundbreaking products, services, and processes that drive the organization forward. Recognizing these individuals early allows for targeted development, aligning leadership growth with the strategic imperative of fostering an innovation culture.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Recognizing the pivotal role that ideas play in driving innovation, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has introduced ISO 56007 guidance on tools and methods for managing opportunities and ideas. This standard serves as a comprehensive guide to managing innovation opportunities and ideas.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2021

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. It serves as a tool to visualize, actualize, and realize the full potential of your ideas. Implementing meaningful structure creates an environment of direction and creativity, and gives people solid guidelines to help focus their contributions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Lack of training/skills or experience Another problem with innovation as a discrete project is a lack of training. In fact, the main metric for most innovation projects is how quickly they can get through the work, so the team can go back to their day jobs.

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Betterific

AUGUST 8, 2016

In this installment of “Brainstorming with an [innovation] expert” we invite Matt Nelson from Hyundai. He just finished up his role as the Innovation and Technology Planner at Hyundai and is now returning to the University of Michigan to get his masters in Design Science. Process Development (How do we make it).

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a short design sprint exercise advanced by the team at AJ&Smart that has since gained popularity across the design thinking and innovation space. For teams who want to collaborate, innovate, and build better together, this format can be incredibly effective – and even fun!

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation is not just an endless succession of blue-sky concepts. Brainstorming and even daydreaming may play a role in innovation, but practicality is required to bring innovative ideas to life. ?. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. What’s new is the hard proof, and, using tools more deliberately. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. The reason? Scaffolding.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Here are details regarding innovation courses you can attend in the near future, Denver, August 28 – 31.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Discover our guide to human-centered design books, articles, tools, and other resources. One up-and-coming innovation framework is human-centered design, an approach centered around the end user and their unique problems and needs. Ideation: brainstorm and identify opportunities for design, prototype possible solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

The first course is a one-day Innovation Intensive Overview , targeted for executives. It’s theory, practice, and how to get started, or improve your innovation process. If you take this course you’ll know why and how to move forward with results oriented innovation projects. The second course is a 2.5

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

The quotes above are all from larger company high level managers who already have highly defined innovation processes in place. This post is to make a simple point about innovation. How can you expect your innovation program to thrive if: It’s much like every other company in your industry. Are you lost?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

One reason innovating is so hard, is because there’s often no real strategy on how to do it. In The Startup Teacher Playbook we provide the tools needed to bring startup principles into education to promote innovative teaching and create the culture of innovation we all strive to achieve.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks. It’s about the cultural basics underlying them, and all innovation. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems.

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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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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

AUGUST 1, 2018

The customized session design and associated proprietary tools in Digital MoshPit are only available through GFi. The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

When I write that "innovation is easy" what I mean is that innovation as practiced in many corporations is rapid, inexpert and quickly converges on a simple solution. Innovation rarely has the preparation, commitment or effort applied to it to really succeed.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year. Measurable processes and results, the data for on-going improvement.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But crowdsourcing is a tool for specific challenges. Innovation processes may differ, but they share some of the same qualities. Different organizations name and order stages slightly differently but everything moves between periods of broad brainstorming to concentrated decision making – sometimes in a cyclical manner.

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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. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 12, 2018

Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. Most companies already know that hackathons are a useful tool for gathering ideas, but companies need to know how to do this right. Yeah, that’s a product of a hackathon).

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Uses Visual Elements.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Promoting a culture of innovation focused on business growth starts with providing practical tools that give anyone the opportunity to innovate in whatever they do. It’s one thing to say you want a culture of innovation. It’s another to actually get everyone truly innovating. Provide Tools of the Innovation Trade.

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