Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

As a meeting manager or organizer, you can facilitate these qualities by: Promoting Diversity of Thought: Encourage your executives to consider multiple perspectives and to challenge their own assumptions. Collaborate and Co-create: Promote a collaborative environment where ideas can be shared freely.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

As a meeting manager or organizer, you can facilitate these qualities by: Promoting Diversity of Thought: Encourage your executives to consider multiple perspectives and to challenge their own assumptions. Collaborate and Co-create: Promote a collaborative environment where ideas can be shared freely.

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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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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 16, 2023

When you are generating ideas, through individual work, or brainstorming, or some other means, you are sparking ideas. While idea generation can often seem challenging to introverts or people who don't think of themselves as "creative", it is the easiest activity in the innovation realm.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Getting your best ideas brewing can be difficult, especially if you don’t have the right tools for the job. No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others.

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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. The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Most companies don’t understand that innovation isn’t just a single process that can be improved, but the result of capabilities existing within the company which enables ideas to be developed and scaled into solutions. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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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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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. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. The key is committing to a portfolio management discipline. But what happens next?

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. 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. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. How do you get there?

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

We’ve helped companies completely transform themselves through idea management, but for many businesses it’s still a new concept, and a hard thing to get right. Idea management is the process of generating, collating, analysing and implementing ideas that solve real business problems, as part of a wider innovation strategy.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Training Accelerates Innovation. Almost always.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Neutrality allows a group to be fully expressed within a structure, a plan. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed. Do any of the following Seven Fails ring true?

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The client started by saying he wanted to do a brainstorming session. It wasn’t brainstorming that was needed. As it turns out the session was really more about idea development and elaboration. As it turns out the session was really more about idea development and elaboration. Getting to Clarity.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

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. Happy to do that on the phone, or in a talk or discussion with your group.

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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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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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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2016

Tracking a group of people’s interactions with others, for instance, shows that as Jung noted, there aren’t really pure extroverts and introverts , but mostly people who fall somewhere in between. But again, this also harks back to some of the myths of brainstorming people still believe and is for a future article.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Analysis and Synthesis: grouping collected data and reframing the initial situation based on transforming data into insights. Ideation Tools.

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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 I ask them how they created the idea.

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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. ” Individual ideas are rarely big enough on their own.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently. During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. But you can’t implement them.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Beyond real world projects, I’ve studied the literature, theory, frameworks, strategy, thinking tools, facilitation, assessments, research, project management, team dynamics, and even improvisation. And yes, that includes brainstorming, but more importantly, problem framing. So where do you start? It’s the old 80/20 rule.

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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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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

An innovation lab can be a physically dedicated space for individuals and teams within a company to come together and brainstorm ideas to drive growth via atypical means. In addition, a physical space serves to bring together individuals to brainstorm and work together on their ideas. Encourage a feeling of community.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons are on the rise , and many leading enterprise grade businesses now participating in these events on a regular basis as a way of quickly generating innovative results to difficult problems. Remember, hackathons are held for a set amount of time during which everyone focuses on ONE issue or idea.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons are on the rise , and many leading enterprise grade businesses now participating in these events on a regular basis as a way of quickly generating innovative results to difficult problems. Remember, hackathons are held for a set amount of time during which everyone focuses on ONE issue or idea.

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CREATORS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

External Innovation Unit External Innovation Unit Corporates can create an external unit which legally belongs to the company but works independently and is therefore often technically structured as a research subsidiary, an external incubator or an investment group but not as an integral part of the organizational structure.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

It is an arduous journey, inherently risky.But innovation partners, consultants, and innovation management software offer much promise in this space. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. Innovation can be incremental (e.g. The Innovation Process.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Most organizations start off managing innovation by exception (like funding, HR, bonuses, or exceptions on procurement or legal) but as you roll out this way of working to more and more people, you’ll start to have issues with how to actually impact those deep systems beyond exception-based solutions. These are just three examples.

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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. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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