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. Give them time to read, absorb, and jot down ideas, alone.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

When thinking about creativity in teams, we often imagine a bunch of people in front of a flipchart throwing on the paper whatever comes to their mind – brainstorming. But, what actually is brainstorming? Once ideas have been generated, they are evaluated at a later stage, to see which are worth implementing.”.

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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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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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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Does your ideation session with your teammates turn into just another meeting with a few people squabbling and the rest keeping quiet? It’s time to let go of conventional, boring idea generation tactics. How about trying some innovative and fun ideation techniques to generate better solutions and ideas?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

With AI, we can generate a plethora of ideas, sift through them, and quickly identify those with the most potential. AI tools can assist in evaluating ideas against various parameters such as feasibility, market readiness, and alignment with company strategy.

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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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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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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Idea Lottery Have a monthly “idea lottery,” using a roll of numbered tickets.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Learn about this group problem-solving and solution generating approach. Teams that struggle to be productive and efficient in brainstorming and problem-solving sessions may be interested in the nominal group technique (NGT). Voting and ranking: This involves prioritizing the recorded ideas in relation to the original question.

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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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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Idea Lottery Have a monthly “idea lottery,” using a roll of numbered tickets.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Idea Generation Sessions: Encourage blue-sky thinking with sessions dedicated to generating new ideas without constraints. Implementing Action Plans Once the discussions and brainstorming sessions are over, it’s essential to translate the insights and decisions into concrete action plans.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. BRAINSTORMING BOARD Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. IDEA LOTTERY Have a monthly “idea lottery,” using a roll of numbered tickets.

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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 13, 2024

hours (two 90-minute FTG brainstorming sessions and 30 minutes of pre-work). Yes Introducing Free the Genie How teams can successfully brainstorm online Metaphors be with you What people are saying about Free the Genie Testimonials from our corporate clients Fabulous illustrations above: gapingvoid.com CONTACT: genie@ideachampions.com

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

This principle helped Walt Disney bring his fantasies to life and also enabled Albert Einstein to engage in thought experiments that led to revolutionary ideas about space and time. For example, Einstein imagined falling in love and then meeting the woman he fell in love with two weeks later. This led to his theory of acausality.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Success is Determined Before a Meeting. 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. Would this meeting have worked out with an in-house facilitator?

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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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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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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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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. How that is handled will determine the outcome of your meeting.

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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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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Their supervisors tell them to focus on their objectives and meet this quarter’s numbers. There is no point in committing resources to idea generation – whether in suggestions schemes, brainstorms or innovation training – unless you are prepared to commit significantly more resources for the implementation of the best ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 5, 2022

They can help designers to identify patterns and trends in user research data, and to generate insights that can inform the design process. Idea generation techniques: There are many different techniques that can be used to generate ideas, such as brainstorming, mind mapping, and lateral thinking.

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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? Take a shot at it now.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They will showcase large initiatives for gaining ideas and suggestions from across the organisation. They will point to their last brainstorming session and say how successful it was, how it produced hundreds of ideas (or at least post it notes). This builds frustration among all of the people who submitted ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation. One workaround is to brainstorm out loud in VR while recording the session. Mural brainstorm and draft. You can think of “ Digital twins “ or less realistic VR spaces here.

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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. This way, the most strategic ideas are prioritized for prototyping.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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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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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. BRAINSTORMING BOARD. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. IDEA LOTTERY. STUPID IDEA WEEK. Make idea generating fun.

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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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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Stimulus is the second of the four Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 elements we utilize in a creative session to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming – and a quality of ideas you will never get from brainstorming. Here is a brief recap of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By analyzing user data, AI can help design teams to create more tailored experiences that meet specific user needs. For instance, AI can facilitate brainstorming sessions by providing prompts based on emerging trends, leading to a more diverse and innovative set of ideas.

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