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Are You Working on the Right Things? The Power of Collaborative Channels

Planview

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Channel : This is the creative thinking part.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Collaborative Innovation Software

PlanBox Innovation

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe.

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Five Tips for Cultivating Creative Thinking on Your Team

IdeaScale

Creativity is the great untapped resource on any team. How do you bring out the creativity of your team? It’s one of the harder questions to answer in innovation management, but it doesn’t have to be. With some smart thinking and careful decisions, you can bring out the best in your team. Contact us.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

BrainZooming

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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Creative Thinking Skills – 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity

BrainZooming

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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Creative Thinking Exercise – The New-and-Improved, Surf-to-Turf

BrainZooming

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday. In its new form, it’s called Surf-to-Turf.

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5 Questions to Move Creative Thinking into Action

BrainZooming

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.