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As the Manager, should you be present in the Brainstorm meeting?

Destination Innovation

With you there, it is very hard for your team to switch from normal meeting mode to creative brainstorm mode. Use brainstorm methods which depersonalise the ideas and encourage radical thinking. I facilitated a brainstorm meeting for a marine engineering company. Then let them run the meeting and you take a back seat.

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Collaborating over videoconference makes you both less creative

Idea to Value

This was from a field and laboratory study looking at the creative performance of more than 600 people in a lab, and 1,490 engineers a company across offices in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. Those collaborating over zoom came up with 20% fewer ideas than those working face to face.

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Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A

Tullio Siragusa

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. The vision should articulate what success looks like for the organization and how sales and marketing will work together to achieve it.

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

Prepare brainstorming exercises in advance so that your hackathon team can hit the ground running. How Allianz Fueled Their “Growth Engine” with a Hackathon. The post How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation appeared first on IdeaScale. Organize your hackathon with both physical and online space.

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Five Lateral Thinking Hacks

Destination Innovation

The brainstorm method called Similes involves identifying other walks of life which might have similar problems and then seeing if any of their approaches can be converted to suit your challenge. He adapted an idea from a video he saw about how to extract a cork from an empty wine bottle. Why not try adapting one of their solutions?

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Brainstorming with Innovator Dan Pick

Betterific

” This is the first in our “Brainstorming with…” series. Below is an interview we had with Dan, where we ask him about his techniques, some insight into how he brainstorms, and for some suggestions on how to make Betterific even better! MW: What do you when you’re not brainstorming on Betterific?

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Design Thinking Tools: how to use them to solve complex problems

mjvinnovation

Knowing how to use DT tools can transform even your daily routine into a problem-solving strategy. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. Brainstorming: It is a creative process to encourage those involved in the project to generate many ideas quickly.