Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As organizations strive for innovation and efficiency, AI-powered design thinking techniques have emerged to redefine traditional methodologies and enhance the creative process. AI-powered design thinking is the incorporation of artificial intelligence into the design thinking process to improve and streamline each phase.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Quick Pattern Recognition: With an enhanced ability to perceive and process information, innovators may be adept at quickly recognizing patterns, trends, and potential disruptions. Extended Cognitive Effort: Innovators may exhibit perseverance and a willingness to engage in extended cognitive efforts.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc. But, navigating this kind of complexity and uncertainty requires leaders to actively engage in sense-making to lead effective transformation with clarity and creativity.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. What if we started shifting the dialogue to rapidly engage people in innovating through constraints?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 2, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course (September 12th -- November 7th) that helps aspiring innovators transform their bold ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. If you're stuck, the page will help get you unstuck.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s why I’ve recently published, What Matters At Work , a learning Guide that helps all of us who are determined to provide outstanding leadership and service some important ways to do so. It begins with “interior work,” learning and practicing methods for clarifying our Core Stories in order to discern our values and guide our efforts.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. To optimise co-creation. To start an innovation project.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

However, business owners may need help engaging those individuals so they will take the most appropriate actions and implement the most effective innovation strategy possible. IdeaScale is the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world and facilitates collaboration among professionals from all industries.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) and The Society of Innovators at Purdue Northwest Collaborate on Public Training Seminar. Leaders need to learn the basics, then step up and make it happen,” said Jason Williams, assistant director of the Society of Innovators. Public Training Offering — Getting Innovation Started. PORTAGE, Ind.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Because art transforms something that was once utilitarian into a vessel of engagement, like Warhol did for the Campbell’s soup can. The campaign is a great example of business art that turned their product, a bag of potato chips, into a canvas for global creative self-expression. What feelings do you want to evoke in your consumers?

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Because art transforms something that was once utilitarian into a vessel of engagement, like Warhol did for the Campbell’s soup can. The campaign is a great example of business art that turned their product, a bag of potato chips, into a canvas for global creative self-expression. What feelings do you want to evoke in your consumers?

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Idea to Value

JULY 19, 2017

My research focuses on the impact of broad environments, called climates, on individuals’ creativity development. As the base of the pyramid indicates (Figure 1), the most critical part of a creative process is the climates, rather than the creation or the creator. high expectations and challenges (storms).

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Idea Champions

MARCH 28, 2024

Bottom line, it's a GPS for the creative process -- a highly engaging way to close the gap between dream and reality. The atmosphere cultivated was one of collaboration, encouragement, and creativity. No taking notes, no learning new terminology, no memory/retention to pass a test, later. It feels right.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging a Culture of Continuous Learning In the face of continual disruption, your business must prioritize learning and development to stay competitive. Cultivating a culture of continuous learning is essential for building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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Mills-Scofield

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Often, the most difficult part of any creative process is just getting started; preparing for the tasks at hand by putting the necessary structures in place that will bring the project to fruition. In this way, scaffolding is a form of learning. It gives structure to what we know and how we know it. 1] Vasari, Giorgio.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. Errors in the approach or technical execution of prototypes are explicitly understood as opportunities in the learning process and as the potential for innovation. Promote empathy.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The more you are engaged in the creative process the more innovative connections your mind will be trained to make. If it’s not possible to rearrange the office itself, set up meetings between departments so employees collaborate more. And make sure you have a way of sharing the lessons learned from each failure!

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

My creative process at work started to go into overdrive. It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. To get your team engaged, start with an alphabet challenge. I noticed something else. Instructions.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Individually, we might accomplish the task, but by working collaboratively under a single purpose, the team can reach new heights and success. When executed well, teamwork unites people and purpose, enhances trust and collaboration, and ultimately boosts productivity and elevates workforce engagement.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 24, 2009

Insight is one of the most widely used and poorly understood concepts in the creative process. Lessons from Slime Mold: How to Survive and Thrive in Ever-Changing Organizational Environments – Kate Rutter How can we stay effective, be engaged and create great work in an environment that is ever changing and in constant flux?

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

In this blog post, we want to share our learnings on how to plan and execute a successful remote ideation session - from the ideal group size, our favorite collaboration tools to the dos and don'ts of virtual whiteboards and icebreakers. Miro is one of the most popular online collaboration platforms. What is ideation?

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure. The Colorado Department of Education recognized the need to promote community engagement to help advance education across its state. True culture change requires direct engagement. Don’t Throw It Over the Wall.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

But no matter what happened -- or didn't happen -- we kept on adapting, inventing, and learning. What, specifically , were we learning? How to catalyze creativity and innovation in others. How to help all kinds of people navigate their way through the long and often winding road of their own creative process.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure. The Colorado Department of Education recognized the need to promote community engagement to help advance education across its state. True culture change requires direct engagement. Don’t Throw It Over the Wall.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

All this adds up to a creative process. Creativity is one of the key essences contributing to innovation. One is the collaboration between Ideo and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, focused more around the concept that design is increasingly circular.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Millions of office workers around the world were told to “stay in your homes…but keep on working and collaborating.” For workers, the transition is mostly about learning a new set of tools, although some behavioral adaptations are also helpful. WFH requires quite a significant shift in how they motivate and measure worker performance.

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