Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. This shift allows design thinkers to focus on higher-level creative and strategic activities. What is Design Thinking?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today most organizations have barriers towards creativity, ideas and innovation. The overriding tendency is to reduce risk and stifle the creativity that challenges the status quo or current design. Let me outline many of these here. Today, our innovation systems are inadequate and not fit for the job.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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. Extended Cognitive Effort: Innovators may exhibit perseverance and a willingness to engage in extended cognitive efforts.

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Idea to Value

JULY 19, 2017

Creativity is the process of making something unique and useful, and the successful outcome of this process is an innovation. My research focuses on the impact of broad environments, called climates, on individuals’ creativity development. A child’s creativity can be stifled by home and school climates.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course that helps aspiring innovators transform their inspired visions and ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. HOW IT WORKS: Dominoes delivers pizza. FedEx delivers packages.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 31, 2021

Enter The Year of Living Creatively -- a highly engaging online antidote for creative derailment -- a GPS for possibility, a greenhouse for greatness, and a chiropractic adjustment for the often mysterious creative process. It's not a class. It's not a workshop. It's not a training. And it's not a magic pill.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 2, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course (September 12th -- November 7th) that helps aspiring innovators transform their bold ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. HOW IT WORKS: Dominoes delivers pizza.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 14, 2021

Enter The Year of Living Creatively -- a highly engaging online antidote for creative derailment -- a GPS for possibility and a chiropractic adjustment for the creative process. The world is full of people -- from every walk of life -- whose dreams, aspirations, goals, and visions never materialize.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This blog explores how Design Thinking, with its human-centered, creative problem-solving approach, can be pivotal in capturing and sustaining attention in a world where it is increasingly scarce. It’s not simply about who shouts the loudest; it’s about who can engage consumers in the most meaningful and memorable way.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It also allows those who aren’t trained as designers to use creative tools to address a vast range of challenges. The Five Stages of Design Thinking The process of Design Thinking is divided into five stages that guide the problem-solving process. What is AI-Powered Design Thinking?

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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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. But even the loosest session will benefit from adherence to some best practices. Bring your team into focus.

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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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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many people believe they’re not creative. So a natural question may be: why bother trying to be more creative? Well, there are lots of reasons - good reasons - to increase your creative skills. And it doesn’t matter where you are on the creativity scale. Taking the time to learn creativity is worth it!

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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. The idea of “outsourcing” innovation can seem contrary to the whole concept. Why Should I Outsource Innovation?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, choose metrics that are more informative and that tell you about the process. You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. Building an innovation culture starts with a strong foundation.

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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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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Every great product or service in the market today started out as an idea in someone’s head, and it was brought to life by a group of creative, motivated, and inspired people. Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity. Knowing what ideation is and that it’s needed in the creativity process is one thing.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Every great product or service in the market today started out as an idea in someone’s head, and it was brought to life by a group of creative, motivated, and inspired people. Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity. Knowing what ideation is and that it’s needed in the creativity process is one thing.

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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. It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. The science behind creativity.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 25, 2022

If you are looking for a simple, engaging way to spark powerful new ideas for your friends, colleagues, team, department, or clients, you have come to the right place. Mitchell Ditkoff , Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions -- a thought leader in the field of creative thinking, innovation, and the creative process.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

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.”. Fun and engaging perhaps but it needed to be separated and contained.

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Idea Champions

MAY 28, 2023

If you (or your team) need to get out of the box in an engaging way in order to originate bold, new, actionable ideas, keep reading. In effect, we become the online catalysts of your creative process, greatly increasing the odds of you and your team tapping into its collective brilliance. What people are saying about it.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been helping a wide variety of forward thinking organizations tap into their innate creativity and originate breakthrough ideas. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College. ZoomStorming.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 31, 2022

Knowing how to generate and catalyse creative ideas through rapidly innovating through constraints? What if we started shifting the dialogue to rapidly engage people in innovating through constraints? How might we ignite people’s creativity, safely develop better ideas? What if re-consider these constraints differently?/

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

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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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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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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Idea Champions

MARCH 28, 2024

Bottom line, it's a GPS for the creative process -- a highly engaging way to close the gap between dream and reality. The atmosphere cultivated was one of collaboration, encouragement, and creativity. You have created a creative tool that helps one create. Ideal for committed individuals and small teams.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Design thinking is a creative process utilizing personas for branding that will help us create and select the best idea from the input of your team. We can use a persona focus and idea generation & development funnel to engage the brainstorm attendees in creating a short list of very good names for whatever the challenge. .

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2023

10 – The Power of Employee Engagement Employee engagement is a goldmine of innovation. Engaged employees are more likely to be committed to the company’s vision and motivated to contribute to its success. #9 9 – Balancing Risk and Innovation Risk is an inherent part of innovation.

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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

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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IdeaConnection

JANUARY 27, 2018

Inviting the unknown is essential for creativity yet too often fear, uncertainty, comfort, stability and familiarity get in the way. In this interview, Estelle talks about her own experience with the unknown and how it can spur creativity. Your book has a chapter on creativity subtitled ‘Opening the Gates of Insight and Innovation’.

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