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Four Ways to Improve Your Creative Confidence

IdeaScale

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. 53% of the innovation programs are focused on leveraging the collective wisdom of employees. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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Can Small Teams Run Innovation Programs?

KindlingApp

We generally call that last kind an “innovation program.” Let’s talk about a fourth kind: programmatic innovation on the scale of a small team, such as a startup or a department within a large company. Desiree’s blog post last week about innovation tools throughout the 20th century was interesting in this regard.

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Four Ways to Improve Your Creative Confidence

IdeaScale

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. 53% of the innovation programs are focused on leveraging the collective wisdom of employees. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge

Gregg Fraley

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. Digital technology innovation is an opportunity where most organization’s will be too late to the party.

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How to Get a Quantity and Quality of Ideas That You Will Never Get From Innovation Brainstorming.

Innovate2Grow Experts

In the previous blog I covered: Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. Company culture is very powerful. Most cultures strictly define what the company will do and will not do. The former president of Eureka Ranch that had been one of the preeminent innovation companies in America.

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Winning Ideas and Beyond: 4 Steps to Effective Product Concept Development Workshops

Planview

Imagine if the Xerox team sat down to brainstorm the technology’s use cases and concluded that it would be foolish not to turn the technology into a consumer good. The top three barriers to moving ideas forward are: Risk-averse culture: 47%. Brainstorm a desired improvement and reverse engineer it. De-risk and validate.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.