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. You're busy. You know it.

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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. Practical Exercises to Encourage Innovative Thinking To cultivate an innovative mindset, leadership development programs should incorporate practical exercises that challenge leaders to think outside the box.

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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. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface. That is no surprise.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

This is similar to the work I do with clients and companies to understand the science of creativity. See my services here for more information. His team found that this training improved creative performance in students by over 28%. We therefore never attempted to publish it.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups. Plan If You Can.

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Planview

JANUARY 15, 2018

Defining goals is critical to running successful ideation challenges. I’ve been working with several ideation program managers recently to launch their first crowdsourcing challenge and noticed that many try to bypass the step of defining goals. Others have a hard time articulating a quantifiable success measure and want to give up.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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Innovation Architecture

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

How many people in the organization, for example, are skilled in facilitating customer journey mapping exercises for stakeholders such as the call center managers or the retail managers? The essential practices look remarkably similar, however, and ideation plays a critical role. Do we share common practices? It’s in Our Data.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These strategies underscore the importance of a proactive approach to innovation, one that integrates it into the company’s DNA. Your leaders are the catalysts for change and the architects of a company’s innovation strategy. Utilizing customer feedback loops to stay aligned with market needs.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Exercises in Innovation #2: Call a meeting to spotlight the outliers. This exercise awakens their innate curiosity and encourages the entire organization to start thinking like anthropologists. Curiosity and careful note-taking are perhaps the most critical business skills your company can possess. Look out for exercise #3.

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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. You're busy. You know it.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea. Many companies have a method to solicit ideas, but they go to a central repository and never get acted upon and the submitter never gets any feedback – good, bad or indifferent. Are we, as a company, able to provide the solution? Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell. Feasibility.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Ideation is most successful when it is focused on the challenges that your organization is facing and/or around your business goals and strategy. On the Qmarkets’ Q-ideate platform , the expert review includes methods such as, ‘score card’ and ‘token voting’.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Some of the biggest companies in the world are using them to build the products we know and love. Created by Google, the framework has been a game changer for people working in the world of digital products, but now it is being widely adopted by FMCG companies who have to act and operate with far more agility than ever before.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2018

While the organization has extensive insights into its intermediaries, we oriented many of the innovation strategy exercises toward the ways the people using their product experience (or don’t) what the company manufactures. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Imaginatik

JUNE 15, 2015

Ideation with top level innovation leaders is an amazing experience. Presentations that shared tough lessons learnt from leading innovation managers, from large multinational companies as diverse as KLM, Shell, or Cargill. Finishing with a “speed dating” exercise enabled all to network at the event.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

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?

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself. This serves to bring team members together in the process and structure the ideation itself. What’s in a name? It turns out, a lot!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

People still ask if I miss working for a Fortune 500 company. At the company he was at, there was no opportunity to work with us. He changed jobs early in 2017 and re-subscribed to the blog with his new company’s email address. In a Fortune 500 company, this could lead to a huge tug-of-war for credit.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Local economic development leaders could do this same exercise, listing local assets on one side, and new technology (or trends) on the other. Deliberate combinations, aka concept blends, can be done by individuals, companies, non-profits, or governments. Every innovation process has an ideation step.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Download this free, concise ebook to: Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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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?

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 22

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Some of the biggest companies in the world are using them to build the products we know and love. Created by Google, the framework has been a game changer for people working in the world of digital products, but now it is being widely adopted by FMCG companies who have to act and operate with far more agility than ever before.

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Ideation Agile Innovation Exercises 52

BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2017

Talking with a B2B company about a day-long customer program, I suggested they invite employees to fill various roles at the event. Busy is about doing what the company does. Yet brand building (via creating stronger relationships and perceptions) is integral to the company being able to sell more, do more, and make more money.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. We ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization. What are your main products or services? List three or four. What are.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 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?

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 20

Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Ideation is most successful when it is focused on the challenges that your organization is facing and/or around your business goals and strategy. On the Qmarkets’ Q-ideate platform , the expert review includes methods such as, ‘score card’ and ‘token voting’.

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Idea Generation Technical Review Ideation Collaboration 52

BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

I was talking with an engineer at a company that primarily employs engineers. The company focuses on materials testing. He told me how the company had its annual meeting at the same venue two years in a row. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. The reason why?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Here are a few ideation challenge questions that we have seen from Spigit customers recently that elicited higher than average rates of contribution and that customers felt generated actionable, valuable ideas. Ideation in this context is presented as a considered and managed process, designed to achieve a specific measurable outcome.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Here are a few ideation challenge questions that we have seen from Spigit customers recently that elicited higher than average rates of contribution and that customers felt generated actionable, valuable ideas. Ideation in this context is presented as a considered and managed process, designed to achieve a specific measurable outcome.

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How To Exercises Ideation Culture 49

Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

It examines anonymized data from over 3600 value streams, representing over 38K individuals across the value chain from ideation to value. This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. Speaking of points, let’s talk about speed of points.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

As a customer and someone helping companies develop attractive customer experience strategy plans, this strategy is horrendous. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Choosing a Horrendous Strategy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Innovation rarely has the preparation, commitment or effort applied to it to really succeed.

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Planview

AUGUST 6, 2015

But according to Gardner, you should be wary of staunching the flow too soon — especially if backing off on ideation is a result of feeling overwhelmed. Driving innovation in your company isn’t an exercise that should be taken on by a small group of experts, and certainly not by the management team alone. Don’t Be a Loner.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The idea may describe a problem really well, alluding to operational costs, that if addressed, could save the company money or an idea submitter may describe a new program that is designed to improve the health of a community. The goal is to gather important financial details without stymying your crowd’s ideation. Introduction to ROI.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it. Understandably, finding the best ways to cope with financial pressure while investing in the future during difficult times is one of the biggest challenges for companies.

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