Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2021

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control." -- Julia Cameron. Somebody, somehow, someway conjured them up and successfully navigated their way through the twists and turns of their creative process until what they saw in their mind's eye became a reality. And then they did. The Sistine Chapel.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

But there are a lot of different opinions on the questions of whether creativity can be forced, and if large companies can grow ideas. Coming from a large, creative family which has created music, book, games, stories, inventions and a lot more, I was also bitten with the bug, the desire to create something. Very simple.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

But there are a lot of different opinions on the questions of whether creativity can be forced, and if large companies can grow ideas. Coming from a large, creative family which has created music, book, games, stories, inventions and a lot more, I was also bitten with the bug, the desire to create something. Very simple.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JULY 19, 2020

But at least you can start learning right away, primed to hit the ground running while starting your day in style. The study looked at morning and evening MRI scans and observed that mornings showed more connections in the brain— a key element to the creative process.” Yes, you’ll still be awake.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. Knowing how to generate and catalyse creative ideas through rapidly innovating through constraints?

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2021

Neither my mother or father were particularly "creative", but they had whatever it took to spark new life and I was very glad they did. Why should YOU, a person with big ideas, but little time, spend any of that time with me -- or more specifically -- exploring my YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY service? Here's the short story. Your choice.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Soon after launching my new online course on the creative process, I began talking with the people who enrolled. I was curious to discover what kind of obstacles they were facing -- the "stuff" that got in the way of manifesting their own creativity. People who become disciples are people who are deeply moved to learn something.

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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. A fascinating study may give us clues to what is most effective. But as this study showed, it is not the specific task that matters, but rather the structure of the task.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. Gartner studies highlight that 70% of companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list are currently using gamification techniques and that 50% of innovation processes will be gamified in the coming years.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Soon after launching my new online course on the creative process, I began talking with the people who enrolled. I was curious to learn, from their perspective, what kind of obstacles they were facing -- the "stuff" that got in the way of manifesting their own creativity. Very interesting, indeed. And "want".

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Soon after launching my new online course on the creative process, I began talking with the people who enrolled. I was curious to learn, from their perspective, what kind of obstacles they were facing -- the "stuff" that got in the way of manifesting their own creativity. Very interesting, indeed. And "want".

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Leonardo da Vinci believed that to gain knowledge about the form of problems, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. I have become fascinated with scholastic attempts to apply Darwinian ideas to creativity and genius. How do creative geniuses generate so many alternatives and conjectures?

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Thanks to the creative capacity of our ancestors. This process of thinking that generates or recognises ideas and alternatives to problem solving that are workable or functional is called creativity. Man’s capacity to be creative and innovative has made major contributions to humanity through the fields of science and the arts.

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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. She draws on scientific studies, religion, Jewish mysticism and her experience in private practice to produce a compelling guide on how to tap into the wisdom of not knowing. It had many origins.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

The speakers provide three different perspectives on innovation: theory of the “how to” from Gregg Fraley, real world case studies by local manufacturer Earl Miller, and the role of innovative leadership from Sheila Matias. Gregg Fraley is the author of Jack’s Notebook, a business novel about creative process.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

Thus, learning to explore and question the unknown is where the magic truly happens. They study the issues until they know them like the back of their hand, and ultimately establish those six crucial Ws: who, what, where, when, why and how. The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Sherlock Holmes.

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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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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Brainstorming critics like to cite a 1958 study, at Yale, that showed that students thinking on their own came up with twice as many solutions as brainstorming groups -- and their solutions were deemed to be more effective and feasible. Whenever two or more people with egos get together, creativity has the potential to be stifled.

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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. The diversity in thought and learning styles allows a team to execute tasks and produce results quicker and more productively.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2014

I studied painting until I fell out with the abstract expressionists and switched to photography. But mostly in hopes of learning a way to make a good concept model. The workshop was brain-candy and eye-opening: they covered how the brain processes information and how ways of interacting with information can promote understanding.

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