Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2021

Simply put, we've extracted the essence of three decades worth of in-the-trenches experience and are making it available to entrepreneurs, movers, shakers, schools, hospitals, non-profits, artists, writers, and other cultural creatives. It's simple. And it works. PS: No animals were killed in the writing of this blog post.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Innov8rs | Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and simply the abundance of easily accessible data means that the world is being put on a level playing field when it comes to analytical thinking. This is lateral and creative thinking. To adopt an experimental mindset we recommend trying to stress test and break your ideas.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. The benefits listed above are essential for boosting creativity. Founder and CEO Inteligencia Creativa Expert and speaker on Innovation and Creative Thinking. To optimise co-creation.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

My intention not to call attention to myself, but to let you know that I've been deeply immersed in the creative process for decades and, along the way, have learned a lot about what enables the origination, development, and implementation of new possibilities and what obstructs it. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JULY 19, 2020

According to another article on Lifehacker that examined the best times of day for creative thinking: “Bouts of creative writing might be easier to come by just after waking as this is the time of day when the prefrontal cortex is most active.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

The result of a creative process that creates value for society 11. The process of bringing new, problem-solving ideas into use Definitions proposed. A successfully implemented and widely accepted invention, which can be material and non-material, an object, process, phenomenon and/or their combination.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. Check out our conversation to discover more about the REframe workshop and Vlad’s perspective on creativity and innovation. co-founder of REframe. ” 9.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This partnership will pair creative processes with management tools to find the solutions that will result in the most significant impact. Closing the gap between collaboration and action will result in greater creative thinking. Taking Decision-Making Up a Notch.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

We need to connect multiple thinking, diversity and different experiences that so often diverge initially to then collectively find the path to converge, in a common understanding, to translate the combined creative thinking into real action, achieving valuable outcomes.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

It suggests that creativity arises from the integration of three factors: KNOWLEDGE: All the relevant understanding an individual brings to bear on a creative effort. CREATIVE THINKING: Relates to how people approach problems and depends on personality and thinking/working style.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Your mind will get in the habit of produce and thinking generatively. The more you are engaged in the creative process the more innovative connections your mind will be trained to make. This will open them up to all sides of the company, and give them more fuel for innovative thinking. Reward Creative Thinking.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

Try this core creative process to generate prospective outcomes to explore in any aspect of your business. Now’s the time to describe this challenge, turn your attention to your innovation ecosystem to select the right contributors and start innovating. Try it yourself. Sherlock Holmes.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Roger Martin suggested some time back “ that modern leaders need integrative thinking to embrace complexity, tolerate uncertainty and manage tension in searching for creating solutions to problems “ It is learning to make different choices in a far more creative process, often more disruptive to our established norms.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But there is no room for this kind of energy-sucking behavior in a well-run brainstorming session -- one that has been thoughtfully prepared, the right people invited, and with a skillful facilitator catalyzing the creative process. How can brainstorm sessions be improved?

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased. 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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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

Yet this enhancement of creative thinking exists completely beneath the radar screen. In other words, people are more creative after they forget about the problem for a period of time, but they don’t know it. Sometimes it came while they were traveling, shaving or thinking about other matters.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is less common is letting your in-house "idea people" know what the criteria will be used to assess the ideas they conceive.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Then, break-out sessions, challenge mapping and sketching sessions, rapid prototyping, and other design thinking and creative process activities can keep teams moving, thinking, and working together toward the desired outcome. How will you hold your team accountable after the meeting is complete?

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teams and resources are maintained to foster creative thinking and the continuous proposition of innovative solutions. Approved Startups will be pre-accelerated by MJV in a completely free, agile and creative process. Returns are usually quite high, obviously, because the risks are so great.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This will mean that design thinking will change in the future, into a greater, fuller “thinking” mindset that can be applied to these more complex problems at an organizational level and contribute this creative thinking to numerous challenges organizations are facing today. Where Design Thinking Can Earn its Place.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). It immerses both the individual and the group in new learning and gets the subconscious mind engaged in the creative process. Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck. The shift is at the level of mindset and behavior.

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