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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Choose Different Metrics The metrics you usually have for projects may simply not apply, especially if you’re doing a small-scale pilot or a similar project. Instead, choose metrics that are more informative and that tell you about the process.

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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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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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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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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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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. As a result of Idea Champions'efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." - Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear. ZoomStorming.

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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

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. Ideal for committed individuals and small teams. A Sampling of Testimonials "Priceless. It's a treasure.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We believe in this naming process so much that it’s even been used to decide on names for children! 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.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

It will focus on how to get initiatives started and how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes that impede project success. You have to create projects and execute to see results. Area manufacturers, process improvement and quality leaders, and entrepreneurs are encouraged to attend. Innovation doesn’t just happen.

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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. As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire. "As

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Mills-Scofield

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

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. Neologisms and provisional project titles, for example, create space where new ideas can emerge.

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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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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. And that is the death of creativity and innovation. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture?

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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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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. This facilitates and empowers all projects.

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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. This facilitates and empowers all projects.

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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. You can download the full case study of Qmarkets' project for the Intesa Sanpaolo Card here.

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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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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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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. For the most compelling project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons?

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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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Disruption Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management 40

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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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

You know the story: User experience brings the structural framework and behaviors of the interface; creative brings the visual design; client marketing brings the copy; business brings content; our engineering folks were sometimes bringing error messages. That was their only requirement. We had, together, begun to form our product story.

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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

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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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

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

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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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.

Innovation 52

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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.

Innovation 52

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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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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

When executed well, teamwork unites people and purpose, enhances trust and collaboration, and ultimately boosts productivity and elevates workforce engagement. Experts attribute this to the group’s ability to more effectively correct issues, think creatively, process information, and solve problems. What Is Teamwork?

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