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. What does creativity mean to you?

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Idea Champions

MARCH 25, 2022

Free the Genie is a 60-90 minute online creative thinking session that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, commitment, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, or opportunity. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool."

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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. Invite humor.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Mitchell Ditkoff , Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions -- a thought leader in the field of creative thinking, innovation, and the creative process. Twenty years ago, Mitch created a deck of creative thinking cards ( Free the Genie ) to help his clients think out of the box and become more innovative.

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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. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification? To optimise creative sessions. The benefits listed above are essential for boosting creativity. To optimise co-creation.

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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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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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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. And who knows, after a while, we may not even mind waking up anymore.

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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. The creative development of solutions to real and important problems of customers, which are profitably brought to market 6. Anything that improves anything 2.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Design thinking has raised a lot of expectations as well as its fair share of controversy. Often it became the promise of having creative ways to solve solutions and work in harmony with all the rational thinking that dominates much of business thinking today, DT sounded so appealing, it quickly became “oh, we need some of that.”.

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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. Invite humor.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Thanks to the creative capacity of our ancestors. This process of thinking that generates or recognises ideas and alternatives to problem solving that are workable or functional is called creativity. Experts in the field consider creativity as necessary in solving everyday problems and in adapting to changes.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? According to a recent release on PR.com , the partnership will add creativity training to innovation management by offering best practices while increasing an already substantial return on investment. Taking Decision-Making Up a Notch.

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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. Invite humor.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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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. Invite humor.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In fact, if you go way back in history, many cultures believed that the most brilliant and creative minds were the result of a unique relation with a mythical being such as a muse or even a daemon. Innovative thinking doesn’t seem that accessible to everyone when we hold such a belief…. Reward Creative Thinking.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

Uncover hidden motivation: needs, wants, and beliefs: Now deeper truths can emerge; try to combine your clues and meanings to form a hunch and a creative new belief about the world. Try this core creative process to generate prospective outcomes to explore in any aspect of your business. Connect Where is this problem?

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The anti-brainstorming forces are also fond of asserting that creativity is stifled in a brainstorming session. To claim that creativity will invariably be stifled in a brainstorming session is like saying that creativity will invariably be stifled in a marriage. or in a school. or in an organization. or in a school.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And so, in the spirit of full disclosure, here's the back story of The Year of Living Creatively -- a bold, new online service of mine with the potential to make a profound difference in your life. Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased.

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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. Your creative team will get a much-needed reality check. Done well, it can be supremely helpful. Viable ideas will be refined.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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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

A majority of the scientists reported that they got their best ideas and insights when not thinking about the problem. This suggests how the creative act came to be associated with “divine inspiration” for the illumination appears to be involuntary. Yet this enhancement of creative thinking exists completely beneath the radar screen.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Hack” = experimental, creative problem solving with a playful approach . +.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

So part two of my reflective summary: Design thinking becomes the best friend to innovation, strategically and tactically. When DT is applied to business or social issues it is by making creativity logical, you have its power of contribution, it can transform our innovative solutions. Where Design Thinking Can Earn its Place.

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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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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Done the right way and in the absence of a pandemic, a proper mix of WFH and in-office can increase productivity AND creativity AND reduce stress levels. more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). It is difficult for people to be creative spontaneously at a preset day and time.

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