Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With most people working from home and scrambling to survive, the opportunities for "thought partners" to connect with each other in meaningful ways have radically declined -- and along with it opportunities to ideate, problem solve, and think out of the box. Pre-Covid, this was the main thrust of Idea Champions' work.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. How to address these issues is often a challenge for teams.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This requires a talented ‘innovation team’ – the right synthesis of strategists, technologists, and communicators - to lead this fundamental change and operate at the core of the ‘innovation machine’; to introduce the new culture , to inspire teams and drive innovation by example. Team Responsibilities. To innovate by example. IP experts.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

( Ideascale ) How might we develop AI as a creative thinking partner to effect profound change, and create innovative solutions that help us build a more equitable and sustainable planet for all humanity? (

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. Thinkertoys: The Best Creative Problem-Solving Book of all Time. Chuck Frey.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. They are the catalysts who: Champion Change : High potential leaders are often at the forefront of advocating for and implementing new ideas and processes.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I contacted a selection of my fellow innovation experts (this time all women) to see how they talk about innovation with their clients, and compiled the results for you here. What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”?

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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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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” multiple times. I was stunned!

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes? The reasons?

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Idea Champions

MARCH 9, 2016

creative thinking), people need to deal with the basics of their business life -- the stuff that is "on their minds.". small group sharing that had nothing to do with ideation). Before dividing into small groups, be very upfront about this non-ideation phenomenon. Brainstorm facilitation training.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Understanding your external context and the global key drivers impacting your organization prepare you for change. In fact, thinking much more broadly produces the most value. PESTLED illuminates current influences, but more importantly, it alerts you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Explore creative problem solving techniques, activities, and articles. If you find your organization or business stuck in a rut, unable to evolve or adapt to changes in your industry or customer expectations, it may be time to try a new approach. 4 Steps of Creative Problem Solving. Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Understanding the external context and the global key drivers prepare you for change. You must think much bigger than that to produce something of value. PESTLED can illuminate current influences, but more importantly, it can alert you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries. The Framework.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Design thinking so often then gets reduced down to supporting small project-related work, happily working at the periphery of the organization, it becomes simply a friend to incremental innovation and change. There is a different pathway ahead, otherwise, Design Thinking in its existing form alone will fail.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

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.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Projects are how cultures actually change. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Improv works for innovation, if you know how to apply it — and you don’t have to be funny. But you will have fun.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 9, 2017

And, if you don't believe them (since they are one of our favorite clients), how about these people ? "At At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Mitch Ditkoff's ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 23, 2020

Simply put, ZoomStorming is a facilitated, online ideation session that radically increases your odds of thinking creativity and originating bold, new, actionable ideas. It is not a bowl of split pea soup you stick your finger into only to discover 30 seconds later that nothing has changed. We're starting a movement! (In

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Most of us are aware that the nature of work is changing. Contrasting with the information age where analysis and thinking have been the main activities. “An According to Singularity University , while emerging technologies may destroy many jobs, they will also create many new ones.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

published a book called "Your Creative Power" in which he shared his secrets. 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. This also relieves pressure, a proven inhibitor to creative thinking.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

And, if you don't believe them (since they are one of our favorite clients), how about these people ? "At 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.

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Idea Champions

MAY 4, 2016

The learnings from that session instantly changed the way we run our ideation sessions -- both internally and externally with our clients. And speaking for a business that's fueled on creative thinking, I can think of no better investment of our time." -- Steve Papageorge, Creative Director.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

For humans to be effective, productive & innovative, in the Digital Age, we must have great leaders, who know that the future of work is both human and technology centred and are able to; Take a strategic, systemic & human centred approach to their role & work, who make it safe & possible for people to change, adapt & innovate.

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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. You can always sit down before the session to think about and write down your own ideas.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

As innovators, we often struggle with coming up with a way to wrap up a piece of work in which we are engaged, whether that is an ideation workshop or a presentation to stakeholders on a new idea. These statistics, he notes, have hardly changed since the 1970s. Tokyo, Japan. Overall cancer deaths in the U.S.

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