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. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful.

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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 15, 2018

If you are like most companies, you put your most creative people in a room to develop ideas who then hand off those ideas to a team of implementers. The managers were then broken into teams to solve a given problem. Both groups were equally ‘creative,’ but their styles of creativity were very different.”

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Ideation is a creative process so it can be challenging to come up with great ideas on demand.

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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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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

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. Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that, six months later, their impact still hasn't worn off!

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To make it even simpler, you could say that Design Thinking is an innovative approach based on the designer’s thoughts, combining creativity and empathy to create innovative solutions. Brainstorming: It is a creative process to encourage those involved in the project to generate many ideas quickly.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

Eventually, there are Challenges presented whereby the skills and tools that have been cultivated are applied to critical issues, such as workplace conflicts, engaging larger communities to manage transition, and gaining a broader understanding of What Matters; the results of these efforts can profoundly transform our organizations.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

Gregg Fraley is the author of Jack’s Notebook, a business novel about creative process. Based in Southwest Michigan, his clients include Sanofi, Accurate Castings, W.R. Grace, Bosch, and many others. Visit: www.greggfraley.com, or call 773-251-8567. # # #.

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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 5, 2017

We often talk about the proliferation of too many rules and rigid processes as a key obstacle in the creative process. Often caused by a disconnect between the idea generators and decision makers, innovation can never truly thrive unless every person within a law firm is onboarded.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The anti-brainstorming forces are also fond of asserting that creativity is stifled in a brainstorming session. To claim that creativity will invariably be stifled in a brainstorming session is like saying that creativity will invariably be stifled in a marriage. or in a school. or in an organization. But inevitable?

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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". Spontaneous idea generation is great. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

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". Spontaneous idea generation is great. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

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". Spontaneous idea generation is great. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. That's not the problem.

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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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Innovation 101, Kick-Start Ideas That Lead to Growth is a three hour virtual training that is perfect for “newbies” to innovation, but also provides fresh insights for experienced innovation managers (you will get ideas on how to improve). He’s a thought leader and a highly experienced hands-on innovator.

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