Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. When this is properly communicated and promoted across the business, employees have an easily accessible way of sharing their ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Icebreakers and Team Building Activities Kickstarting your offsite with icebreakers and team-building exercises is a strategic move to warm up the group. Initial activities set the tone for the offsite, so choose exercises that are aligned with the overall objectives of your strategic planning.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. Ideas are still needed to fill pipelines! I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. Plan visual elements, written and kinesthetic exercises.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. Brainwriting Exercise Template.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Here is a brief review of quantum idea generation. Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. To generate these powerful results you need to use four elements – diversity, stimulus, brain type, and eliminate fear and have fun. Let’s start with a big picture view.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Practical Exercises to Encourage Innovative Thinking To cultivate an innovative mindset, leadership development programs should incorporate practical exercises that challenge leaders to think outside the box.

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Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

We need to get them to a mindset where they can be creative, if our purpose is to get the most creative ideas that are possible. Start your brainstorming session by playing a game that requires creativity. Get them to exercise (mild) – it could even be just laughter therapy. Idea Coach. Get people to draw something.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the people in your organization treat invitations to brainstorming sessions like jury duty summons? Do the ideas generated all-too-often underwhelm? Do people roll their eyes when the brainstorming is over, convinced that nothing new is going to materialize? If so, Idea Champions can help.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Whether your naming project is renaming or looking for descriptive names, business names as an entrepreneur, names for social media, or a brand identity that fits a brand strategy, we can help you brainstorm and converge on the best potential names. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

These scholars asked the question: "Could repeatedly 'exercising' the creativity muscle help build up creative performance over time?" Brucks and associate professor of marketing Szu-chi Huang , regular brainstorming sessions are not likely to lead to an increase in unique ideas. Their results proved surprising.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. And this is usually also very clear to see when teams and companies are trying to generate new ideas. But there is a huge problem with this.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Reverse brainstorming is a method for idea generation in business that capitalizes on that.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How can you include a "Brief Reality Check" in your company's ideation process -- a way to ensure that all key internal stakeholders are on the same (clearly communicated) page before cranking out new ideas and concepts? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 19, 2016

This is another article about Quantum Idea Generation a process proven to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming. In previous articles, I've addressed the first two of four Quantum Idea Generation elements – diversity and stimulus. Continue reading →

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Traditional methods are more deterministic in that they extrapolate from the past to the present into the future – more like a planning exercise where we believe in certainties. They focus on skill building without having a “landing place” for employees to exercise those skills. Why is this important?

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Learning and exploration come first, then interactive exercises and tasks that have people playing with the data points, leading to concept blends and brilliant, new, fresh ideas. Coming up with new ideas is part of any innovation process or framework. This might include brainstorming alone, prior to a group session.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Now, almost 20 years later, an increasing number of companies are beginning to appreciate the importance of fostering innovation so that their employees have the flexibility to exercise their creativity, which in turn would result in their products and services sitting at the forefront of their domain. What is an innovation lab? Conclusion.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Reverse brainstorming is a method for idea generation in business that capitalizes on that.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

By incorporating AI into the brainstorming process, teams can overcome cognitive biases and explore a broader design space. Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

While wild and wacky ideas might not be the winning ideas coming out of a Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Creative Session you may not get those winning ideas unless they start as wild and wacky ideas. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 from previous blogs.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How can you include a "Brief Reality Check" in your company's ideation process -- a way to ensure that all key internal stakeholders are on the same (clearly communicated) page before cranking out new ideas and concepts? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions. Hands-on practice of advanced innovation tools and techniques.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

BRAINSTORMING BOARD. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Provide pieces of white paper on which people can write their ideas to post on the board. Provide pieces of white paper on which people can write their ideas to post on the board. IDEA LOTTERY.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

Horst Geschka and his associates at the Batelle Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, developed a variety of group creative-thinking techniques called Brainwriting which, like Feynman=s innovative problem-solving approach, are designed to process ideas in parallel, spontaneous sequences. Brainwriting increases idea production dramatically.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions. Register for the training here, be advised that the facilitation course has a limited number of registrants in order to provide each participant with an opportunity to lead exercises and get hands-on experience.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

How can you include a "Brief Reality Check" in your company's ideation process -- a way to ensure that all key internal stakeholders are on the same (clearly communicated) page before cranking out new ideas and concepts? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. Spontaneous idea generation is great. Exercising. That's the good news. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. Spontaneous idea generation is great. Exercising. That's the good news. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

How can you include a "Brief Reality Check" in your company's ideation process -- a way to ensure that all key internal stakeholders are on the same (clearly communicated) page before cranking out new ideas and concepts? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. Spontaneous idea generation is great. Exercising. That's the good news. That's not the problem.

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 20

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. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Emergent Design: Awakening the creativity of an organization's workforce is not a follow-the-dots exercise. Idea Champions. Brainstorm Facilitation Training. In their place?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Emergent Design: Awakening the creativity of an organization's workforce is not a follow-the-dots exercise. Idea Champions. Brainstorm Facilitation Training. In their place?

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This blog addresses how you can get the best innovative ideas from both groups for any need, at any time, for any kind of business. Quantum idea generation – overview. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. I will now share an actual left and right brain idea generating exercise.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Emergent Design: Awakening the creativity of an organization's workforce is not a follow-the-dots exercise. Idea Champions. Brainstorm Facilitation Training. In their place?

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Emergent Design: Awakening the creativity of an organization's workforce is not a follow-the-dots exercise. Idea Champions. Brainstorm Facilitation Training. In their place?

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