Leapfrogging

JUNE 21, 2021

Brainstorming is an art and science. Over the past 25 years, I have run hundreds of brainstorming workshops for high-performing teams. The problem is that most brainstorming sessions stop with a big list of ideas. Because successful brainstorms aren’t about technology at all. I’m not going to write them here.

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InnovationManagement

JULY 26, 2021

Imaginary scenario: you have been invited to a meeting to explore new approaches to a wicked problem. The post In Search of the Perfect Brainstorm: An Update of Collaborative Ideation appeared first on InnovationManagement. Loudmouth Number 1 describes his solution. Loudmouth Number 2 vehemently disagrees. A heated argument ensues.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Learn about this brainstorming technique and find resources below. Sometimes called “negative brainstorming”, “ reverse brainstorming ” is one approach to problem-solving sessions that can be a useful way to explore different options in an innovation or design thinking project.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Find out what the round robin brainstorming technique is and how to utilize it below. We’ve talked about brainstorming and ideation many times before, and that’s because it is an essential part of the innovation and design thinking process. What is Round Robin brainstorming? . Round Robin brainstorming templates.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

What if the very same idea was suggested at a team meeting by a junior accounts clerk? 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. Pretty good I expect. What if it came from a department head? Still good.

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Svava

MARCH 1, 2022

Brainstorming workshops are powerful tools for ideation, collaboration and innovation as a team and company. Pre-pandemic most brainstorming sessions were hosted in a conference room, using a whiteboard and several post-it notes. In 2019 most of us learned how to make due brainstorming in fully digital meetings.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 31, 2022

Highlights Especially in hybrid work and the asynchronous workplace across time zones, getting everyone on the same page at a meeting can be difficult. Proper timing, interactive exercises, friendly debates, and both active and passive comments can help teams be more creative. Don’t forget to ask your team what else they can use to be [.].

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 31, 2022

Highlights Especially in hybrid work and the asynchronous workplace across time zones, getting everyone on the same page at a meeting can be difficult. Proper timing, interactive exercises, friendly debates, and both active and passive comments can help teams be more creative. Don’t forget to ask your team what else they can use to be [.].

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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. Everyone knows this.

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Svava

APRIL 20, 2020

In this webinar, Elia Mörling, CEO of Idea Hunt, walks us through the Brainstorming Pro template and how you can use it to succeed with your next online brainstorming meeting.

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Svava

MARCH 9, 2020

New Meeting Template Release: Brainstorming Pro.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

Most management meetings are dull affairs stacked full of short-term urgent problems that need fixing. You should brainstorm strategic and innovative options. Here are some questions which I use in corporate brainstorm meetings. Follow the rules of brainstorming and tackle one or two of these questions.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 30, 2017

Are you overwhelmed by unnecessary meetings ? We’ve all been there: one more meeting, and you feel like you’re going to scream. You’ve been trying to make some real progress on your creative project, but the constant meetings have really been cutting into your individual brainstorming time.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We talk about things at meetings. Let’s introduce more pictures into our meetings and in particular into our brainstorm meetings. For an ideas meeting I suggest that you use dozens of pictures. Another idea is to use a cartoonist to draw pictures of the main issues, decisions and actions in a meeting.

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Stephen Shapiro

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The traditional approach to brainstorming is wildly ineffective. Fortunately there is a better way… Brainstorming sessions are often the lifeblood of many corporate innovation efforts. Most brainstorming sessions start with ideas. Most brainstorming sessions do a poor job of thinking through the challenge.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 24, 2020

Premise: The current pandemic has definitely changed the way we organize ourselves and our meetings. This definitely means that we need to rethink the way we function – work, play and meet with our colleagues, customers and partners. They go on and detail three ways virtual meetings are better.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 24, 2020

Premise: The current pandemic has definitely changed the way we organize ourselves and our meetings. This definitely means that we need to rethink the way we function – work, play and meet with our colleagues, customers and partners. They go on and detail three ways virtual meetings are better.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The challenge is that many innovation strategies encourage sharing all ideas — no matter how outlandish — in the brainstorming and exploratory stages. The post Meeting the Challenge of Innovation in a Highly Regulated Industry appeared first on IdeaScale. To just keep soldiering on, doing what you’re doing, is to die a slow death.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Keep Zoom Meetings Focussed. There is a temptation to have meetings on Zoom or Teams which are too long, too many or too rambling. You do need regular meetings for everyone but keep them short, businesslike and focussed on key issues. For other meetings invite only those people who absolutely need to attend.

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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? This is why: most ideas produced during brainstorming sessions don’t work in reality, because of a lack of essential filters.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. You can check out our first Brainstorming with a winner edition, where we interviewed Dan Pick.

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Michael Roberto

MAY 28, 2019

Here are a few simple suggestions for enhancing your team brainstorming meetings.

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2022

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming process that helps you realize the full potential of your ideas. In this article, we will outline four innovative exercises that help provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specific virtual whiteboard instances. Exercise #4 ? Be Prepared for Follow Through.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

This directs contributions and collaboration towards the goals you’re trying to meet. Because of the shared nature of online whiteboards, indecision declines when brainstorming innovative solutions. Working online then simulates everyone brainstorming ideas alongside each other rather than with each other. Brainstorming.

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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? Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the most common and the most popular ideation technique in almost every industry. Brainstorming is all about the quantity of ideas and not the quality.

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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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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

MARCH 12, 2021

These stand up meeting templates can help you make your next meeting more agile. Stand-up meetings and huddles have become popular formats in agile culture and design thinking -centered spaces, and with good reason. Team Standup Meeting Template. Huddle Board Meeting Template. Brainstorming templates.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’ve taken the best of what I’ve done in meeting rooms and innovation labs and replicated it in the virtual world. The problem is that most brainstorming sessions stop with a big list of ideas. Because successful brainstorms aren’t about technology at all. Ideas aren’t innovations in themselves.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Meeting Mapping Template. Template for Meeting Legos.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Face-to-face events are essential for so many organizations globally, from meeting planners organizing events, to services providers and the entire hospitality industry. While digital formats can expand audiences, they make it more difficult to engage members, create quality connections, or brainstorm new ideas. Overcoming challenges.

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Svava

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Face-to-face meetings, hybrid meetings, or virtual ones – no matter what you prefer, taking notes is a must to create usable minutes. Many office workers are struggling with unproductive and inefficient meetings. Swedish studies show that 40% of meeting attendees don’t know what has actually been decided.

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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.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Currently, we are unable to conduct in-person, face-to-face meetings. In other words, create a virtual version of the live meeting. We don’t want to deliver online meetings or presentations the way we conduct them in-person. In fact, I would argue that many of our face-to-face meetings were poorly designed to begin with.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Two years into the pandemic, we have all become quite accustomed to virtual meetings. Recognizing these challenges, Kellogg School Professor Leigh Thompson has offered us three important recommendations for improving virtual meetings. Others have encountered various frustrations and grappled with Zoom fatigue.

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