Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022. Get alignment and clarity about your success criteria. Everyone is born creative.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. This happens about every six months.

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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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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 10, 2021

Learn about this innovation framework and find training resources, articles, tips, and more. The most popular story about what Jobs to Be Done is comes from the late Clayton Christensen. This downloadable canvas template features space to brainstorm for your own product/service challenge using the framework as a guide.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

By entrusting team members with achieving objectives that impact the greater organization, leaders create a sense of ownership. Teams and their leaders should collaborate to define their missions, outcomes, and metrics that measure progress toward the desired result. This often feels like the quickest path to getting going.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

Benefits of crowdsourcing: Common Misconceptions In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Crowdsourcing and Brainstorming – What are they So Often Confused?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no longer necessarily about developing software, but about developing innovation. Assemble teams that encourage mixing and working with new people. Otherwise, it’s the same work teams in a different environment, which makes genuinely new ideas less likely to emerge.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. Innovation leaders know what projects are happening and can start to think about activities like idea sourcing, documentation, and assignment of owners.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 27, 2020

More people than ever before are relying on remote software tools to collaborate and innovate with their teams. Video conferencing software Zoom is definitely near the top of that list – and they’ve just added a new feature that makes connecting your various virtual tools even easier. Kahoot! – The Kahoot!

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Crowdsourcing and Brainstorming – What are they So Often Confused? Another frequently recurring mistake is the confusion of crowdsourcing with brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These enhancements assist teams in navigating complex problems with greater precision and speed. AI’s ability to quickly generate and evaluate a multitude of scenarios and design options enables teams to explore innovative pathways that may not have been previously considered.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I've been thinking a lot about why innovation fails. Not about why supposedly innovative new products fail, because there are multiple reasons for the failure of a new product. Whether you conduct a brainstorming exercise or use open innovation, this is a new opportunity for divergence to find the best solution.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Crowdsourcing and Brainstorming – What are they So Often Confused? Another frequently recurring mistake is the confusion of crowdsourcing with brainstorming.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Here is a short case study about this kind of program including what participants wanted to focus on and what they learned and gained. Building better teams. For me, I was so excited to participate and take part in this experience because I have tried a lot of things that we talked about before at work. Generate new ideas.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 6, 2020

On a side note, if you are a creative professional or if you lead a team of creative professionals, you definitely have to follow the work of Todd Henry. In his recent episode, he shares more information about the EPIC framework that you can use to pick the idea among all the options to continue to work on.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful. Brainstorm Champions. President, Fox National Cable Networks.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

For instance, greater diversity of ideas and the efficiency found with them save your firm time and money while exposing your team to ideas that could be more effective overall. By definition, using crowdsourcing to generate ideas or receiving feedback for existing ideas speeds up the creation process. Efficiency. Diversity of Ideas.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

There are three things you should know about how I want to help you with this series of blogs. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

It’s mind numbing all the literature I read about innovation. My new message about innovation is — get back to basics first — and that means the spark of it all, creativity. Let’s talk about creativity. ” In my view, that definition is another way to say “novelty that’s useful.”

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The approach can be applied to nearly every industry and discipline, making it a useful tool when brainstorming solutions to challenges and testing them in action. In this stage of design thinking, the goal is to establish a clear definition of the challenge at hand. Want to learn more about design thinking in action?

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Innovation teams deeply consider customer needs and emerging opportunities.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are thinking about subscribing to The Year of Living Creatively , one question you are likely to ask is this: "Who created it -- and what are his credentials?". Your caution is totally understandable, especially if you are about to invest some of your precious time and money. But I've definitely had my share of successes.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Dr Ritter is an Assistant Professor at Department of Social and Cultural Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen in Holland, and is leading a team looking into how people generate and select ideas. This is why even after brainstorming sessions, it’s usually the safest and least interesting ideas which are taken forward.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 6, 2015

If Drucker was right, what does that say about most executives, who are busy managing costs? Sure, innovation is constantly in the news, and executives talk about the need for more innovation, but frankly there's really very little innovation happening other than incremental change. Or, how about education?

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Gijs Van Wulfen

JANUARY 6, 2016

Beginning to help answer the thing: brainstorming. The main means we’re venturing to think about known as ‘brainstorming’. Brainstorming methods ‘attempting to identify a method for a challenge or topic by compiling spontaneous ideas’. The two main instances of brainstorming you can perform: ‘positive’ and ‘negative’.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 8, 2023

Skip It Principle – Low code and no code means you and your organization no longer have to worry about outsourcing for a pretty penny. Thinking exponentially about websites, customer-facing applications, and how they apply to your organization unlocks nonlinear, exponential growth. Take your biggest problem and skip it.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

In other words, neither brainstorming nor ideation workshops can produce meaningful or useful ideas. Building a startup is about setting goals and creating a vision. As Einstein once said: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions”.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Once you know why and when workplace conflict occurs, its effects, and other vital information, you can learn how to help your teams go through it and find the rewards beyond it. There have been multiple studies over the years that have provided varying definitions of conflict. Figuring out which team members should take which tasks.

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

He challenged my thinking about innovation. He proclaimed, “Outside the Box brainstorming is a myth!” He went on to cite the research about the efficacy of classic brainstorming sessions. There is no advantage of a brainstorming group over the same number of individuals working alone. I just couldn’t do it!

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s not about money. 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. Spark curiosity.

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

In other words, they do not have to worry about customers or competitors, because they think they’re the only game in town…town meaning the broader organization. ” Wake-up call to internal functions: you most definitely are not the only game in town. Generally speaking, monopolies exist to serve themselves.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

At the SAP Design & Co-Innovation Center (DCC), we frequently organize the so-called “Method Mondays,” a regular one-hour meeting series in which the team members share, practice, and test different methods. Brainstorming: The Walt Disney method. His task is to think about the ideal way to answer the given challenge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 13, 2015

One of my favorite sort of snarky comments almost always arises when we are asked about our consulting fees and rates. But this isn't a post about innovation consulting pricing, rather it's a post about why you need innovation expertise to "do" innovation effectively. Possibly, but the answer isn't definitive.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Kaihan: I conducted about 150 interviews of internal innovators and experts for this book and found many expressed the view that innovating from within held several advantages. You worry about being embarrassed. So a great exercise is to brainstorm multiple problems to solve by looking at the entire industry.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. To clearly define which of these practices you will embrace with your team, we decided to create this article to show you the benefits. Team self-management. What are Squads?

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