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

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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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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. Rethinking the role of a manager. Unfortunately, this is all too common.

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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 the facilitators of brainstorm sessions learn how to dependably spark creativity in others?

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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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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

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. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

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