IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming on a whiteboard.
InnovationTraining.org
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. AI Ideation Demo (Generate Ideas with Artificial Intelligence on OpenAI).
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Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming. There have been many studies of brainstorming and articles written. The original guidelines of brainstorming (defer judgment, quantity of ideas, build on ideas, combine, etc.)
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Facilitators who scaffold well are master innovation facilitators and their projects achieve better results. The key is to get creative with how your organize your innovation projects. To scaffold thinking, participants should explore the domain first, and related domains, before group ideation. This might include brainstorming alone, prior to a group session. This done before ideation. To innovate: learn, scaffold, ideate. Innovation is Learning.
IdeaScale
JULY 28, 2022
What are the best tools for brainstorming in 2022? Coordinating brainstorming sessions and innovation work can require a substantial amount of creativity. Start with this excellent video by Sprouts, an online organization dedicated to learning, science, and ideation.
InnovationTraining.org
MAY 26, 2020
These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room. Interested in templates for brainstorming that you can even use with a team online? In this guide we will share some of the most popular brainstorming frameworks.
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. The big picture the article misses is that brainstorming is not a single tool, it’s a system. They mention Osborn in the article but don’t accept his definition of brainstorming.
Flying Fish Lab
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. Let your next ideation session be the one that creates your organisation’s next big idea! Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity.
Flying Fish Lab
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. Let your next ideation session be the one that creates your organisation’s next big idea! Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session. Broaden the range of knowledge in the project.
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? How do you enhance the likelihood of having successful ideation sessions? While producing new ideas might not be difficult considering how frequently ideas come and go, producing great ideas often requires some inspiration and implementing some scientifically proven techniques of ideation. Techniques That Encourage Ideation.
Destination Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2019
These might be the top choices from brainstorm sessions or from your internal suggestions scheme or from external contributors. When people have seen all the presentations they vote – in secret so that no-one can see which is currently the most popular project.
Betterific
JULY 25, 2016
” This is the first in our “Brainstorming with…” series. Dan is an ideator in the true sense of the word – he’s submitted hundreds of ideas, has participated in countless challenges and has won his fair share. Below is an interview we had with Dan, where we ask him about his techniques, some insight into how he brainstorms, and for some suggestions on how to make Betterific even better!
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Staying on track: Throughout a design thinking project, teams need to repeatedly shift gears from diverging to converging, and apply different tools and mindsets at each stage of the process.
Gregg Fraley
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings about getting a project mandate, visioning, what to innovate, how to innovate, challenges to take on, jobs to do, experiences to create, research exploration, insights development, problem framing and problem reframing, project road-mapping, concept development, prototyping, pitches, strategy, check-ins, and all the variations. There are specific tools for visioning, problem framing, and ideation etc.
Flying Fish Lab
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
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!
Flying Fish Lab
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
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!
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.
Idea Champions
OCTOBER 5, 2017
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. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? You're busy. I get it.
Gregg Fraley
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Solving an innovation culture problem isn’t easy, but your solution had better include interesting, compelling, and fun, Projects. Projects are how cultures actually change. 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. Are You Having Fun? Innovation Should Be Fun, Joyful, and About Playing With Concepts.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 4, 2018
This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. 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. It grows your capacity to run effective projects.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 1, 2018
Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. Digital Technology MoshPit finds undiscovered tactical and strategic innovation project ideas. This contemplative pre-ideation starts the group meeting at a more advanced stage of thinking.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 19, 2019
I’m also a bit weary of chasing or developing the latest, greatest, and most sophisticated tool for ideation. Beyond real world projects, I’ve studied the literature, theory, frameworks, strategy, thinking tools, facilitation, assessments, research, project management, team dynamics, and even improvisation. It’s all useful, but you can drown trying to make it useful in projects. Deliberate, realized, built-into-projects, creativity.
Idea Champions
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Here's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate brainstorm sessions: When they are led by upper management, department heads, or project leaders, they usually get manipulated. Because honchos and honchettes are so heavily invested in the topic being brainstormed, it is common for them to bend the collective genius of the group to their own particular point of view. That's why brainstorm facilitators need to remain neutral. High Velocity Brainstorming.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 9, 2017
To think differently, you need to organize ideation or strategy sessions — and the entire front end of innovation cycle — using different tools and techniques, different settings, new stimulus, new speakers, new and different everything. You need to embrace Different, and also it’s cousins, Risk and New to enliven innovation projects. For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit.
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. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? You're busy. I get it.
Idea Champions
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Here's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate brainstorm sessions: When they are led by upper management, department heads, or project leaders, they usually get manipulated. Because honchos and honchettes are so heavily invested in the topic being brainstormed, it is common for them to bend the collective genius of the group to their own particular point of view. That's why brainstorm facilitators need to remain neutral. High Velocity Brainstorming.
Idea Champions
JULY 19, 2016
Here's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate brainstorm sessions: When they are led by upper management, department heads, or project leaders, they usually get manipulated. Because honchos and honchettes are so heavily invested in the topic being brainstormed, it is common for them to bend the collective genius of the group to their own particular point of view. That's why brainstorm facilitators need to remain neutral. High Velocity Brainstorming.
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. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you -- something to adapt to your particular company/team culture/ It's not like you have to implement all ten of them. You're busy. I get it.
Gregg Fraley
DECEMBER 11, 2017
How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods. Be certain that there is alignment from the top down around the desire to integrate digital tech and get projects underway. Teams need to be cross-silo, cross-functional, because digital tech ideas and projects spread across the entire value chain.
Gregg Fraley
DECEMBER 9, 2016
I thought by this year in history (2016) everyone in the business world would have a clue as to how to do ideation (aka brainstorming) properly. Training in basics like brainstorming, but also more advanced concepts like innovation cycle management, frameworks, and facilitation of innovation teams and projects. Well for one, groups I’ve witnessed routinely start ideation with vague questions — which pretty much dooms the session.
Idea Champions
JUNE 28, 2019
Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business. The learnings from that session instantly changed the way we run our ideation sessions -- both internally and externally with our clients.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 4, 2017
Make a list.Partially done projects, that is, things you haven’t put fully into play, but there is active development, a plan and a commitment to launch the project, do count. Were there any ideas or projects that seemed interesting but weren’t done due to perceived risk? Were there ideas or projects that seemed interesting but weren’t done due to lack of resources? Are there innovation projects underway? Projects.
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. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites.
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. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites.
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. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites.
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. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. You're busy.
Idea Champions
MARCH 9, 2016
If you are planning to lead any kind of ideation or brainstorming session in the near future and will be dividing the group into sub-groups, here's one thing to keep in mind: No matter how clear the instructions you give or how much you reinforce the ground rules of brainstorming, there is a 95% chance that the small groups will default to any of the following instead of brainstorming: conversation, debate, storytelling, schmoozing, philosophizing, venting, and question-asking.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 28, 2018
It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. 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. More efficient management of innovation projects, including smarter team formation. Innovation Intensive .
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes. Brainstorming Brainstorming is a classic innovation exercise that involves a group of people coming together to generate new ideas.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 19, 2015
It certainly doesn’t happen in most brainstorming sessions. I say “expert” here because this is not a concept every brainstorming facilitator knows or can do, it’s an advanced technique. Remember also the classic brainstorming rule of deferring judgment while diverging. Getting groups into truly generative mode is a key to successful brainstorming. Teams can brainstorm ideas directly onto the worksheets, or around them on the wall mural.
IdeaScale
MAY 26, 2021
You may experience a brilliant spark of innovation and ideation and lose it just a minute later, or you can commit to incorporating new changes into your business plan and soon after forget the important steps. Without this, it’s much harder for people to come together and ideate as a team.
InnovationTraining.org
MAY 9, 2022
When it comes to developing innovative solutions to unique organizational challenges or your own life, using tried and true methods to brainstorm ideas and find the best possible solution can be a great way to achieve your goals. Learn more about this CPS innovation methodology here.
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