Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

New analytics approaches powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can identify real-time data patterns, helping anticipate trends and inform decision-making. For example, AI can analyze large datasets of user feedback to identify patterns and trends, guiding designers in making data-informed decisions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

AI offers capabilities that can dramatically improve various stages of design thinking by providing actionable insights, predicting trends, and automating repetitive tasks. By harnessing AI’s computational power, teams can: Identify user needs and market trends with greater accuracy.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These algorithms can analyze historical data, market trends, and consumer behaviors to suggest novel concepts and solutions. 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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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

By definition, using crowdsourcing to generate ideas or receiving feedback for existing ideas speeds up the creation process. You are maximizing the existing resources you have by looking elsewhere to brainstorm ideas; existing resources can be used elsewhere on other important tasks. Diversity of Ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Affinity diagrams: Affinity diagrams are a tool used to organize and analyze data by grouping similar ideas together. 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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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

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. GFi is now offering a new version of MoshPit to discover ideas that exploit new digital technologies. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming. Data Analytics.

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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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

It’s a course for innovation project managers, consultants, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs who want to have more productive strategy, idea generation, and innovation action plans. It’s being held at the Community Research Center and I’m working with CO local Kim Smoyer of Smoyer & Associates.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit. MoshPit is a new way to combine existing trends and technologies to get to new and different. Instead of doing Brainstorming, do Brainwriting , or better yet, a BrainWalk.

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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. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals?

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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. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training! What I also often find is inexperience.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. So I rise today to neither praise nor bury brainstorming, but to place it in its proper context. Brainstorming is a group technique to generate, socialize and evaluate ideas.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Encourages leaders to seek out emerging trends and technologies that could influence future markets. These activities might include: Idea Generation Workshops : Leaders participate in brainstorming sessions where they are encouraged to propose unconventional solutions to business challenges.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

We focused on using inspiration from global trends applied to an organizations broad business challenges. Global Trends. This is not Post-It Note brainstorming folks. Innovation leaders are rewarded for incremental, low risk, innovation — but that’s another topic. Consumer Insights. New Materials or Science.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation Metrics : Measure the number of new ideas generated and implemented by the team. New Ideas 5/month 15/month +200% Project Completion Rate 80% 95% +18.75% By regularly reviewing these metrics, you can gauge the success of the initiatives and make data-driven decisions for further improvements.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Trend radars are not innovation. The following concepts, frameworks, approaches, etc. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Big Data is not innovation.

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Trend & technology benchmarking Another alternative method for analogy thinking uses technology benchmarking as a reference. Sometimes it is useful to select several trend technologies, and try to figure out how to implement them in our company. Mind maps are usually a great way to organize ideas.

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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

Trend tracking: keeping track of macro-economical and ‘under the iceberg’-technological trends that could impact your business. Focus groups: invite diverse groups of people to discuss the product idea with you. Brainstorms: using creative techniques with a diverse group of involved stakeholders to gather new ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. In spite of many success stories it’s not done nearly enough. The reason? Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. They don’t know how to scaffold a learning experience.

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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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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Help employees generate more future looking ideas by giving them prompts and frameworks that spark this type of thinking, which leads us to… 2. Ineffective brainstorming/idea generation efforts Ideation is hard.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Help employees generate more future looking ideas by giving them prompts and frameworks that spark this type of thinking, which leads us to…. Ineffective brainstorming/idea generation efforts.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Use of stimulus tools and global trends. Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”). How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, road-mapping, and brainstorming sessions. Working with market research and insights. Tools for problem framing. Challenge Mapping.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Help employees generate more future looking ideas by giving them prompts and frameworks that spark this type of thinking, which leads us to…. Ineffective brainstorming/idea generation efforts.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

Multi-Modal Mash-Ups with Trend-Centric Stimulus and Scaffolding. 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. Simple Mash-Up Forced Associations.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. Idea Evaluation and Prioritisation: Figuring out which ideas have more potential than others, and which fit the strategic goals.

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