Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Coming up with new ideas is hard. Ideation sessions are hard too – but only if you let them be. What if we could free you from the chains of running ideation sessions where ideas are few and far between and participants get distracted from their only role in the session – coming up with ideas – any ideas – and nothing else!

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Coming up with new ideas is hard. Ideation sessions are hard too – but only if you let them be. What if we could free you from the chains of running ideation sessions where ideas are few and far between and participants get distracted from their only role in the session – coming up with ideas – any ideas – and nothing else!

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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. Have participants do research, and virtual ideation, alone.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. It encompasses five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Five Stages of Design Thinking The Design Thinking process is often represented by five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Prototype : Building a version of one or more of your ideas to show to others.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Yes, as long as the replacement team member has read the Insight & Ideation Report from session #1 and has a clear understanding of what has preceded session #2. Read the Insight & Ideation Report (summary of output from session #1). hours (two 90-minute FTG brainstorming sessions and 30 minutes of pre-work). Let's talk.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it. No it doesn't.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Generate a vast array of ideas and conceptual designs quickly. For a deeper understanding of how AI can enhance the ideation phase, explore our article on ai-driven design thinking strategies. Ideate AI models suggest a diverse set of potential solutions.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The IDEO design thinking process: This methodology is a five-step approach to problem-solving that involves empathizing with users, defining the problem, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing. They can help designers to identify patterns and trends in user research data, and to generate insights that can inform the design process.

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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. How do you move from idea generation to rigorous idea development the right way?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings take up precious time, and, are dead essential to moving the ball downfield. There are specific tools for visioning, problem framing, and ideation etc.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

While many workers are happy to do without long commutes and fixed working hours, there is one thing many of them miss: stimulating exchanges with colleagues, jointly identifying problems and spinning wild ideas. What is ideation? In the process of business model innovation, ideation is the second step.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Anonymous Feedback Mechanisms : Establish anonymous channels for team members to share their concerns and suggestions, which can later be discussed openly in team meetings. To instill this learning culture, I have instituted regular training sessions, knowledge-sharing meetings, and opportunities for professional development.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

Let’s start by reviewing the 5 steps of the Design Thinking process ( Empathize / Define / Ideate / Prototype / Test ) from a VR use case POV. In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation. Mural brainstorm and draft.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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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. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. Ideation Tools. Focus on the problem.

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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

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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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. Verification.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Get Training!

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy. You know it.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

Learn the hands-on tools for conducting strategy, ideation, idea development, and implementation workshops. Tools ​and ​techniques ​for ​visioning, ​strategy, ​ideation, ​and ​concept ​refinement. for hands-on facilitators, project leaders, meeting mangers, innovation team leaders). Advanced Facilitation Training.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

The idea generation phase involves various possible solutions, then the designers start prototyping, gaining feedback, and ongoing iterations. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design. Ideate and Collaborate. The outcome is the result of prototype iteration and customer feedback.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even at serious meetings? In the various types of innovation training that GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) does, it’s interesting that stop-action Improv scenes lead to amazingly effective brainstorming. But that kind of mental work might be the most satisfying thing a human can do. I’d call that fun. Do people laugh?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

This is not Post-It Note brainstorming folks. It’s more like a focused psychedelic ideation experience, but without drugs. I’ve spent the last ten years figuring out how to do that artful scaffolding — and do it consistently. It’s better than drugs! What you will get is business results.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

The course includes extensive take home materials, including: a shell innovation cycle and innovation mandate documents, idea development templates, post-session coaching, and strategy and ideation session design consultation (after the course). Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”).

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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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2017

On a five star scale, rate your team (not the organization as a whole) on their ability to conduct and manage innovation meetings and projects. Review the data the questions generated. Has the team, or team leader, gotten facilitation and/or innovation project management training?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

It certainly doesn’t happen in most brainstorming sessions. Scaffolding is a term borrowed from the field of education and psychology and generally refers to an expert teacher helping students learn by providing graduated steps. Remember also the classic brainstorming rule of deferring judgment while diverging.

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