Phil McKinney

JULY 15, 2023

Many people believe creativity and physicality go hand in hand, as creatives tend to be more hands-on in their approach. However, some may wonder if physicality is essential for creativity to flourish. Physicality Critical to Creativity? Physicality is an essential aspect of creativity.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 23, 2017

Today, I came across two extremely creative ideas, that made me think about creativity and how do we get creative ideas. What follows is my take on how we become and stay creative. First, lets look at the creative ideas that inspired this post. All of us enjoy a uniquely creative experience. Reflection: .

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

Free the Genie for Teams is a simple, online, collaborative process that enables teams to unleash their collective genius and generate breakthrough ideas in service to a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. Everyone perceives "things" differently.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. Still, barriers do need to be consciously built into any new thinking as ones “to be resolved” in any new solution design. Today most organizations have barriers towards creativity, ideas and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, also play significant roles in the innovative process.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 13, 2023

Or perhaps you're merely looking for a creative spark to ignite your problem-solving skills? This ingenious tool supercharges your creative process and takes your idea generation to the next level. It fosters open communication, promotes active participation, and creates a fun, engaging atmosphere.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Working together means more creativity. Teaching people to think creatively may feel like a freeform exercise, and it can be. Here’s how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive. There are several ways to design these questions. Bring your team into focus.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. More availability of tools designed for innovation. Yes, but it’s also about a variety of perspectives.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 1, 2021

And that is, precisely, what The Year of Living Creatively is all about -- an engaging, dependable, online GPS for your heart's desire. Subscriptions to The Year of Living Creatively will be available in two months (fee still-to-be-determined). Twenty minutes, per week, is all it will take. If not YOU, who? If not NOW, when?".

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. Some methods can help with this process, methods that are made just for this. That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. What is organizational culture?

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

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. Creativity" really isn't all that foreign to them (although they may think it is).

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

They are not always intentional or by design. If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc. But, navigating this kind of complexity and uncertainty requires leaders to actively engage in sense-making to lead effective transformation with clarity and creativity.

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Mills-Scofield

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

A modern variation of a similar design used in the recent restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[2]. Often, the most difficult part of any creative process is just getting started; preparing for the tasks at hand by putting the necessary structures in place that will bring the project to fruition.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 28, 2019

In this context, the combination of some innovative approaches such as Design Thinking and Scrum – one of the Agile Methodology frameworks – emerges as a strategy in business projects to increase team productivity and make valuable deliveries focused on the end customer. The benefits of Design Thinking.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 28, 2019

In this context, the combination of some innovative approaches such as Design Thinking and Scrum – one of the Agile Methodology frameworks – emerges as a strategy in business projects to increase team productivity and make valuable deliveries focused on the end customer. The benefits of Design Thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. Design Thinking for Naming. Why not consider letting your team take control?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

Creativity started taking more effort than it had previously. My creative process at work started to go into overdrive. I was able to generate, dismiss, or accept design ideas very quickly. The science behind creativity. For four years, I did no improv. And my brain seemed to stutter to a screeching halt.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Dr. Albert Rothenberg, a noted researcher on the creative process, has extensively studied the use of opposites in the creative process. He identified a process he terms “Janusian thinking,” a process named after Janus, a Roman God who has two faces, each looking in the opposite direction.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 3, 2015

” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators. The realm of design.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

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. Creativity" really isn't all that foreign to them (although they may think it is).

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Businesses have begun to realize however that rather than – or in some cases, in addition to – spending millions each year on conducting market research in a simulated or hypothesized manner, they can often get better insights, and at less cost, by engaging customers directly in a co-creative process.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Because art transforms something that was once utilitarian into a vessel of engagement, like Warhol did for the Campbell’s soup can. The campaign is a great example of business art that turned their product, a bag of potato chips, into a canvas for global creative self-expression. What feelings do you want to evoke in your consumers?

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Because art transforms something that was once utilitarian into a vessel of engagement, like Warhol did for the Campbell’s soup can. The campaign is a great example of business art that turned their product, a bag of potato chips, into a canvas for global creative self-expression. What feelings do you want to evoke in your consumers?

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the course proceeds, readers are invited to engage with others to have critical conversations that can deepen our insights and broaden our reach and influence. It is a process that engages participants in a genuine exploration of their common needs and interests, through which they seek mutually beneficial outcomes.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

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. Creativity" really isn't all that foreign to them (although they may think it is).

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 4, 2017

IDEO's Tom and Dave Kelley wrote a wonderful book together a few years ago titled, "Creative Confidence." In the book, they offer tons of ideas on how to spark creativity in your organization, based mostly on their work developing design thinking as a process and set of tools for creating breakthrough innovations.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

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. Creativity" really isn't all that foreign to them (although they may think it is).

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

And in knowing the theme, he’ll have a compass to use in the process of “designing&# the damn thing (i.e. Now wouldn’t it be nice if we had something like that for user experience design? what to keep, what to lose, what actually happens at the end). So, What’s the Problem Anyway?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Your users need to be able to interact and react in a seamless and engaging way, and we’re constantly adding new features to help with this. Comment ‘Liking’ At Qmarkets we’re strong believers in the power of crowd voting.

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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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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Your users need to be able to interact and react in a seamless and engaging way, and we’re constantly adding new features to help with this. Comment ‘Liking’ At Qmarkets we’re strong believers in the power of crowd voting.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Your users need to be able to interact and react in a seamless and engaging way, and we’re constantly adding new features to help with this. Comment ‘Liking’ At Qmarkets we’re strong believers in the power of crowd voting.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 24, 2009

Gaming the Design: Using Game Design Techniques in the Realm of Investing – Dominic La Cava and Kellie Rae Carter Games have a central goal in their design: to keep people playing. Insight is one of the most widely used and poorly understood concepts in the creative process.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Most innovation toolkits these days have roots in design thinking, and draw inspiration from one of the original freely available toolkits from the Stanford Design School called the Bootcamp Bootleg. The Colorado Department of Education recognized the need to promote community engagement to help advance education across its state.

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