Innovation Excellence

MARCH 7, 2023

GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu Brainstorming is one of those hyped terms that these days has a reputation of its own because of the controversy surrounding it. Is it just a shallow activity, organizations do when they are stuck in a rut? Or is there an efficient way to go about it without wasting time? […]

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

We see similar factors at play when there is a brainstorm meeting with the big boss in the room – everyone defers to their ideas and people are reluctant to challenge. If we want to find the best and most effective innovations, then ideas should be judged strictly on their merits and not on their sources. i] Peer pressure.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Seven Idea Generation Fails. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the relentless pursuit of innovation, the ability to generate ideas and validate groundbreaking concepts swiftly is the key differentiator between companies that thrive and those that merely survive. Enter Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), a technological marvel transcending traditional brainstorming methods.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. One idea in his book, discussed in Chapter 33 on "How to Organize a Squad to Create Ideas", later became one of the most widely used creativity techniques in the world. Osborne further outlined that the group should defer judgment, go for quantity, and embrace wild ideas.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

There was this great infocomic a few years ago that talked about the virtues of online brainstorming. When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Asking the Right Questions Before the digital age, ideas were mostly shared through physical suggestion boxes. Ideation is most successful when it is focused on the challenges that your organization is facing and/or around your business goals and strategy. Expert Review With an idea management tool, you can set up an ‘expert review’.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 2, 2018

.’ Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management carried out a study of data from 154 corporate customers of Spigit over a five year period. They report a significant correlation between ideation rates. The findings are instructive.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a nutshell, innovation management is the systematic process of introducing ‘something new’ to an organization – be it a product, workflow, or business model. However, innovation management always entails establishing a process by which a company can continuously and effectively promote innovative activity.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Having said that, there should be a balance between ideating with employees to surface incremental improvements (short-term wins) and shooting for large systemic transformation (long-term wins). Empower the directors and managers of departments. Shoving hundreds of people in a room to brainstorm is not practical or scalable.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Asking the Right Questions Before the digital age, ideas were mostly shared through physical suggestion boxes. Ideation is most successful when it is focused on the challenges that your organization is facing and/or around your business goals and strategy. Expert Review With an idea management tool, you can set up an ‘expert review’.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

FREE THE GENIE : A deck of cards to help aspiring innovators originate, develop, and manifest bold new ideas and possibilities. Four idea-sparking games to help people get out of the box. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. Testimonials.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. What is innovation management? So why not ignite the culture of ideation among employees? Importance of innovation management.

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 3, 2019

Based on research in the market and in many countries, I tried to figure out the exact mechanism by which startup ideas are created. Is it mainly a matter of brainstorming effort or are external factors at play? The post Startup Ideas are NOT Inspired on the Spur of the Moment! appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

If you are relying on best practices, and not making an effort to go beyond them, you aren’t going to arrive at different or breakthrough ideas. For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit. Instead of doing Brainstorming, do Brainwriting , or better yet, a BrainWalk. Are you lost?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, many companies are slow to recognise just how much of a valuable resource their employees or external stakeholders are when it comes to generating potentially ground-breaking innovative business ideas. In this article, we'll look at how companies can overcome ideation hurdles and generate more value for their business.

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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. Streamlined management of innovation projects. More effective innovation cycles, more effective brainstorming.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

From recognizing innovators, to empowering your team at every level, to developing innovation outposts, the US Coast Guard are experts in innovation and idea management. Learn more in this podcast interview.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2019

In a nutshell, innovation management is the systematic process of introducing ‘something new’ to an organization – be it a product, workflow, or business model. However, innovation management always focuses on establishing a process that will allow companies to innovate continuously and effectively.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the discovery phase, innovation experts can help with web scouting, market research, ethnographic studies, technology or design research, workshops, boot camps, empathy maps, and journey mapping to generate ideas. Tools that a firm uses to initiate ideation internally can also be applied to external stakeholders.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2019

In a nutshell, innovation management is the systematic process of introducing ‘something new’ to an organization – be it a product, workflow, or business model. Culture: Establishing a culture where innovation is encouraged, and stakeholders are incentivised to share and comment on ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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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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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Six comments on ideas – which is the most crucial for your company? When accepting that ideas are a powerful instrument for day-to-day business people face a problem: how does creativity work? Oftentimes a brainstorming session is held, many ideas are scribbled onto a poster and contributors are happy with the great result.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Six comments on ideas – which is the most crucial for your company? When accepting that ideas are a powerful instrument for day-to-day business people face a problem: how does creativity work? Oftentimes a brainstorming session is held, many ideas are scribbled onto a poster and contributors are happy with the great result.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry.

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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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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 19, 2022

A growing trend over the past several years has been to host internal innovation challenges.

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InnovationManagement

OCTOBER 7, 2019

There are a lot of best practices that we recommend to our customers: start with the end in mind, adopt criteria to drive ideation, use at least seven channels to communicate with your end user, respond to ideas with positive feedback and questions.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Management Platform Level 4 : The DIY. Ideation System Level 3 : Hackathons and. Here are a few of the benefits these social collaboration tools offer: Streamlined Brainstorming: Enterprise social platforms make it easy to create dedicated groups where authorized users can take part in brainstorming sessions.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 26, 2019

With the rise of the innovation department, numerous organizations are focusing their attention on their company’s ideation rate.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Level 1: Minimum Viable Innovation – Maintaining Ideation with Basic Office Tools So you’ve decided that you want to start gathering ideas from your employees to help you fight back against your competitors – great, but where to start? Here are a few of the benefits these tools offer.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 28, 2017

Companies that embrace digital transformation (as all companies should be doing) will make use of digital tools to consolidate not just the ideation process, but will also take advantage of those tools to add expert reviews, evaluation metrics and internal/external testing, to bring an idea all the way from conception to implementation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. In contrast to quiet R&D labs, hub premises are meant to be bustling with activity, with lively events such as innovation jams or idea jams, hackathons, pitches, innovation challenges, idea competitions and brainstorms.

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