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. The cost? $15

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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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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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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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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. This is as true for groups as it is for individuals.

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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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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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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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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

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

JULY 11, 2021

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the 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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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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging creativity and experimentation among your team members can lead to breakthroughs that keep your company on the cutting edge. Establish ‘innovation labs’ or ‘hackathons’ to tackle challenges creatively. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process.

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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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

For example, CSAA Insurance Group, one of the insurance companies associated with the American Automobile Association, uses three types of innovation to help its 3,800 employees understand their role in fostering a culture of innovation. While CSAA Insurance Group also focuses on “major advancements” (e.g.,

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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. A great example comes from Tata.

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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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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

In this blog post, we want to share our learnings on how to plan and execute a successful remote ideation session - from the ideal group size, our favorite collaboration tools to the dos and don'ts of virtual whiteboards and icebreakers. The rule is: the more diverse the group, the higher the chance of innovative ideas.

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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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

For example, CSAA Insurance Group, one of the insurance companies associated with the American Automobile Association, uses three types of innovation to help its 3,800 employees understand their role in fostering a culture of innovation. While CSAA Insurance Group also focuses on “major advancements” (e.g.,

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process.

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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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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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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.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We only need to be creative and come up with original, new ideas 2% of the times on an average day, yet disruptive solutions are the key to any successful business in the 21stcentury. So, it’s more than high time to train our creative brains and expect both employees and students to come up with surprising ideas on any usual weekday.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

This is particularly engaging because solving problems is directly rooted in our evolutionary need to innovate. 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. Connect Where is this problem?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. This is so prevalent that those companies pushing forward in this direction are now part of the Financial Technology Industry, or FinTech.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. This is so prevalent that those companies pushing forward in this direction are now part of the Financial Technology Industry, or FinTech.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. This is so prevalent that those companies pushing forward in this direction are now part of the Financial Technology Industry, or FinTech.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 20, 2017

This involves strategically dividing your potential customers into groups based on who they are and why/how they’re buying. The creative process will become easier, and everything the brand does will be more thoroughly informed by this one anchoring concept. The old model says segmentation is the key to business success.

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