Idea Champions

AUGUST 11, 2021

If you are a reader of this blog, you most definitely are committed to becoming more innovative and creative. And so I created The Year of Living Creatively -- a two-month online course -- a kind of greenhouse for grand possibilities. a GPS for the creative process. a chiropractic adjustment for creative mojo.

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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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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. FedEx delivers packages.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2016

In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Here I revisit the article with all-new evidence showing how close we are to artificial creativity. Over the passing years, this ability has grown by leaps and bounds. How is this useful?

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2021

Most people agree that creativity is a good thing. Accordingly, they want to know how they can become more creative. Ask yourself WHY you want to become more creative: If you don't know the answer to this question, the rest of the guidelines that follow will be nothing more than fairy dust. Hey folks, everyone is creative.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The key factor to help you leverage your business may be the combination of project management methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Scrum. In another project, this time for the Hospital sector, we were able to understand how the patient’s experience cycle worked and how new solutions can be developed. Prototyping.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 28, 2020

Most people agree that creativity is a good thing. Accordingly, they want to know how they can become more creative. Ask yourself WHY you want to become more creative: If you don't know the answer to this question, the rest of the guidelines that follow will be nothing more than fairy dust. Hey folks, everyone is creative.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Most people agree that creativity (and it's twin brother, innovation) is a good thing. Accordingly, they want to know how they can become more creative or more innovative. That being said, there are time-tested guidelines and principles which, when honored, will increase your chances of increasing your creativity and innovation.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Elaborate questions from information collected during the observation of the universe that surrounds a problem. 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. INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2018

Most people agree that creativity (and it's twin brother, innovation) is a good thing. Accordingly, they want to know how they can become more creative or more innovative. That being said, there are time-tested guidelines and principles which, when honored, will increase your chances of increasing your creativity and innovation.

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Creativity is not a gift but a skill we can train with proper tools. When we introduce somebody to innovation methodologies, especially those focused on business models, the role of creativity topic usually comes up. The most common question is whether we need to use creativity or not to innovate. Analogy cards.

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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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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

But, navigating this kind of complexity and uncertainty requires leaders to actively engage in sense-making to lead effective transformation with clarity and creativity. This approach is about breaking away from the rigid mindsets and structures that tend to stifle creativity.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Yet the methods they employ subconsciously derive from talents wired into human nature, accessible to us all – creativity, imagination, the ability to dream. Both are integral components of the visionary innovator’s creative process. Left to our own devices, most of us take shortcuts in the “visioning” process.

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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. The words we use inform the ideas in play, and those ideas give form to what is produced.

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Innovation Walk

AUGUST 28, 2019

Everyone is looking for the best conduit of information. Scan these 12 sources of information and find the tone and topic that appeals to your current state of mind. “If you could invite anyone to dinner, dead or alive, who would you invite?” It’s informative, inspiring, and personal. But is this a myth?

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The Human Factor

AUGUST 15, 2019

From a colleague asking a question to coworkers’ chat distracting you, team-players rarely get to finish a project without being disturbed. You are at your most creative when you work without interruptions. Indeed, the creative process is a solitary process in essence. You create your best material alone.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 15, 2014

As for adoption, many say they use personas, but few designers I’ve met actually use them as a part of their core creative process. Personas were informally developed by Alan Cooper in the early 1980s as a way to empathize with and internalize the mindset of people who would eventually use the software he was designing.

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

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Idea Champions

MAY 25, 2018

Are you confused about how to proceed with your hottest project? In fact, it's often a necessary part of the creative process. Seek out missing information. Bamboozled? If so, take heart! Confusion is not always a bad thing. The weirdness enters when you start judging yourself for being confused.

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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. The Issue of Information Security. They are also instituting programs and physical hubs to involve startups.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Are you confused about how to proceed with your hottest project? In fact, it's often a necessary part of the creative process. Seek out missing information. Bamboozled? If so, take heart! Confusion is not always a bad thing. The weirdness enters when you start judging yourself for being confused.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

As web designers and information architects, we often dismiss deep consideration of content when we design interactive experiences. The information is more difficult to scan, the primary call-to-action has been pushed well below the fold, and the choices that users need to make are less clear. I am an information architect, after all.

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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. The Issue of Information Security. They are also instituting programs and physical hubs to involve startups.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

As designers, we spend a lot of time examining design solutions against an array of information–business goals, user needs, design principles, best practices, the results of usability tests–but less often (if at all) against a definition of the core experience we hope to deliver. So, What’s the Problem Anyway? Go team, go!

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

IDEA Conference theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes Day 1 @idea09 | Day 2 @idea09 Innovation Parkour – Matthew Milan Insight is one of the most widely used and poorly understood concepts in the creative process. Subscribe to the Boxes and Arrows Podcast in iTunes or add this page to your Del.icio.us still apply.

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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. Automated Profile Field Reminders It’s important to ensure you have all the relevant information you need about all the users in your system.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 9, 2022

This suggests how the creative act came to be associated with “divine inspiration” for the illumination appears to be involuntary. The more problems, ideas and thoughts that you think about from time to time, the more complex becomes the network of information in your mind. The creative act owes little to logic or reason.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Automated Profile Field Reminders It’s important to ensure you have all the relevant information you need about all the users in your system.

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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. Automated Profile Field Reminders It’s important to ensure you have all the relevant information you need about all the users in your system.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 24, 2009

In this presentation, Dominic La Cava , Senior Information Architect at Vanguard, and Kellie Rae Carter UX researcher at Comcast Interactive Media, demonstrate how one design team incorporated game techniques into a redesign project. Insight is one of the most widely used and poorly understood concepts in the creative process.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Experts attribute this to the group’s ability to more effectively correct issues, think creatively, process information, and solve problems. I nformed: This team member receives information on how the task/milestone/deliverable is progressing and its outcome. Sponsor informal team activities.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One reason projects are poorly scoped is our clients’ discomfort with ambiguity. Designers need flexibility to define the solution once they have complete information. In design school, when a classmate was uncertain about an ambiguous direction, we urged them to trust the process. Involve clients throughout the project.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas. A clear and informative invitation establishes the right level of expectations. After that, creativity and hence, quality declines. What is ideation? Timing – Ideate no longer than 60 minutes at once.

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