Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

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

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Focused Momentum

JANUARY 29, 2020

This was the question I posed to stimulate a brainstorming exercise during a recent Strategic Thinking Workshop. How horrible that this dedicated manager has given up before she’s even started. “What are the greatest challenges you face?”. Too many goals. We have too many goals put upon us.” Said one soft-spoken participant.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Strategic Thinking Exercises to Pursue an Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Innovation Strategy – 4 Change Management Struggles at Disney. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Third, leaders and managers must focus the unique abilities of individual team members in different ways to accomplish the team’s overall goals. Managers and trainers could consider focusing on any of the following behaviors: Effective Communication : Teach employees how to be open with each other instead of holding back great ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Collaborative Activities : Exercises that require teamwork and creative thinking to solve problems or develop new ideas. Implement collaborative activities such as brainstorming sessions and group problem-solving. This visioning exercise is critical as it will serve as the foundation for the strategies you develop next.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Another option is to create flex spaces in the office to make it easier to run into people, have impromptu meetings or brainstorming sessions, or otherwise break up the workday into more manageable chunks. But it seems more likely cold temperatures are just a distraction that detracts from our work as we try to manage it.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

In the same way, if we start a brainstorming session cold with a serious, uptight facilitator throwing out questions and problems to a stiff, conservative group, the chances of producing healthy ideas is minimal. An exercise to illustrate this follows. The effect of this little exercise is quite remarkable. CREATIVE COLLAGES.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

When you’re talking about innovation, a traditional brainstorming approach doesn’t work. When you get more than that, it just becomes more difficult to manage for the facilitator. If you want to generate better ideas, you have to be able to create your innovation dream team in a systematic way. . Types of Diversity.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Often you are the initiator and the evangelist as well as the project manager and team leader. You need a clear step-by-step plan with tangible outcomes to convince middle managers and team members that investing their time and resources produces results. Why is this important?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Managers, executives, and consultants who embrace these AI advancements position themselves at the forefront of innovation, ready to leverage the full potential of improving design thinking with ai.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. As we look ahead to clients’ strategic planning processes, we’re developing new strategic thinking questions to freshen our Brainzooming strategic planning exercises. – Mike Brown.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

IMPROVE YOUR BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS: Most company's brainstorming sessions are hugely ineffective, a kind of hyper-caffeinated Rube Goldberg machine where the same, usual suspects go through the same tired process of trotting out their pet ideas, jousting with each other, and calling it "ideation." Exercising. In the shower.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 24, 2014

If you’re in UX or a related field, congrats: You probably have more work than you can manage in a time when many people are underemployed. I created a simple exercise to help create personal mission statements—something short and meaningful to say about yourself—with some help and encouragement from Christina Wodtke and Anders Ramsay.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Risk Management : Fostering a culture that is not risk-averse but rather sees calculated risks as opportunities for growth. These can range from strategies for brainstorming to methods of implementing a new idea within a corporate structure. Ideation sessions that use creative thinking exercises.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In the next decade we'll say goodbye to some of the firms who are talking about innovation but aren't exercising the muscles. Innovation capability Long ago, over a decade ago when we started OVO, it was unusual to find people who could run an effective brainstorming activity within most companies.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 20, 2022

this is best as a team exercise or better, several teams). Optional: brainstorm new ideas to tackle the gaps. When looking at the results of the exercise, two distinct outcomes are useful: 1) Are the teams aligned? It helps you determine where you need exploration work in order to optimize outcomes. increase customer delight y%.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

If you want people to be optimally creative, it is imperative that you find a way to help them identify their limiting assumptions about the challenge they are brainstorming. questions for brainstorming. That's why "Go for a quantity of ideas" is the first rule of brainstorming. Encourage idea fluency. His response?

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Provide a Structure Idea management tools are useful in providing a formal process for submission via an idea submission form. Idea management tools allow you to customize your forms so that you can pinpoint exactly what you want from your employees’ ideas and maintain their focus.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Ideation in this context is presented as a considered and managed process, designed to achieve a specific measurable outcome. STEM communities tend to be encouraged by knowing the exercise is well framed and by having a calibrated target. Likewise, those who want to create and invent, rather than manage, will have a place to do so.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s ​​intended ​​audience ​​are ​​leaders, ​​managers, ​​and ​​project ​​supervisors ​​who ​​are ​​empowered, ​​or ​​seek ​​to ​​be ​​empowered, ​​to ​​lead ​​innovation ​​projects ​​at ​​their ​​organizations. It’s ​intended ​for ​the ​project ​manager ​or ​director ​of ​innovation ​at ​an ​organization. ​In August 28, 2017.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Ideation in this context is presented as a considered and managed process, designed to achieve a specific measurable outcome. STEM communities tend to be encouraged by knowing the exercise is well framed and by having a calibrated target. Likewise, those who want to create and invent, rather than manage, will have a place to do so.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Brainstorming – 7 Things a Brainstorming Session ISN’T. Brainstorming Is Challenging with these 6 Brainstorming Session Types. Creative Thinking Skills: 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. Whenever there is about 60% or higher presence of either one of these, this should determine the type of idea generating exercises you plan to use. In many exercises, you will want to work in pairs so four is a great number.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

How about framing the exercise as Goldilocks and the Three Competitors? 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement Strategic Planning – 7 Questions for Avoiding Strategic Management Failures Creating Strategic Impact – Do You Need a Strategic Plan? When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

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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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100%Open

MARCH 24, 2020

Workshop techniques also become more challenging to use, such as post-it note brainstorms and breakouts, and the workshops themselves often simply develop into quite dull webinars, where spontaneity is replaced with powerpoint. We co-design the workshop, and then manage, facilitate, record, and report the Jam.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 21, 2021

Brainstorming is an art and science. Over the past 25 years, I have run hundreds of brainstorming workshops for high-performing teams. The problem is that most brainstorming sessions stop with a big list of ideas. Because successful brainstorms aren’t about technology at all. I’m not going to write them here.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

Brainstorming sessions sound like a great idea, especially for breaking out of creative ruts, but too often brainstorming fizzles out. The main reason for this is that organizations don’t actually use any of the ideas that come out of brainstorming sessions. The key is to have the right brainstorming tools in your kit.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Concepts are taught using interactive exercises and challenges, which make for rich debrief discussions, learning, and integration into real world team habits. Conflict Management: Conflict, or the avoidance of it, is the biggest barrier to team productivity. Management teams. Sales Management teams. Innovation teams.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. 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.

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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? Over the last 30 years modern management thinking has been influenced by outsourcing and rightsizing, on lean and Six Sigma thinking and on the GE way (1st, 2nd or out of the market). Everything else, he said, are costs.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

In traditional brainstorming groups, people suggest ideas one at a time. If a brainwriting group has 10 members, up to 10 ideas will be generated for every one generated in a typical brainstorming session of 10 members. This is serial processing of information: i.e., only one idea is offered at a time in a series. One idea per card.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Brainstorming and Prioritization First, the took the time to brainstorm and prioritize assumptions for each step of the value stream from dealers first becoming aware of the solution to being passionate about it. The Lean Innovation principles utilized by Edmunds were not theoretical training exercises.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One of the exercises on my Creative Leadership workshop runs like this. If you are a manager at Amazon and one of your people comes to you with a suggestion your initial answer must be ‘Yes.’ People in pairs have short conversations. The second person replies with an objection. They start their sentence, ‘Yes but….’

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

You manage the behind-the-scenes work, like overseeing chats during the virtual facilitation and monitoring the discussions to ensure participants receive the proper support. As the facilitator, you lead the charge by helping participants form connections and by offering purpose and direction.

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