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. It's not a workshop. It's not a class. It's not a training. And it's not a magic pill. Well, then, what is it? FedEx delivers packages.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It was partly through this conversation with Margot Nijkamp-Diesfeld and Rick Wielens of the Eco System Thinking Institute (ESTI), based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that we got into the subject of creating different workshop concepts to stimulate those attending and draw out their greater awareness.

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Brunner

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This year, instead of an open “whaddya got” review of concepts, we tapped into artificial intelligence during a creative team happy hour. The creatives pulled those images into trusty old Photoshop for further refinement. Blitzen returns home for the holidays to find a group of Wolves have taken over the workshop, and everyone in it.

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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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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Imagine what you think a “creative person” looks like, and what they behave like. You might see a trend developing here, and you would be doing the same thing that the vast majority of people do… … most people think that more extroverted, outgoing people are the most creative ones.

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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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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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Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. Check out our conversation to discover more about the REframe workshop and Vlad’s perspective on creativity and innovation. What does creativity mean to you?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

"Mitch Ditkoff, the Founder of The Year of Living Creatively , has the ability to awaken the creative spark in others -- an ability he has honed and refined to a fine elixir over decades of teaching and writing. Mitch is part creativity shaman, Muse whisperer, writing coach, and mad poet.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This involves fostering an open, collaborative culture that encourages creativity, risk-taking and continuous learning. The standard advocates for practical methods to stimulate idea generation, such as brainstorming sessions, innovation workshops and suggestion systems.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

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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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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a daily exercise and how to make it more actionable and productive. Topics covered in the episode: 00:01:30 – What the Daily Creative is about.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 26, 2016

One innovation method is to invite customers (in a B-2-B situation) or consumers (in a B-2-C scenario) into the creative process with you. Here, they will ideate, workshop concepts that arise in the session, augment concepts provided for them, and create some new product or service ideas that do not yet exist.

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Innovation 360

MAY 30, 2017

Sabina is a passionate innovation expert who thrives from connecting the dots between people, business and creativity. Innovation Process. Workshop moderation. Ideation and creative process. Areas of expertise. Innovation Assessment. Innovation Management & Systems. Positioning. Portfolio Management.

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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. Take the Double Diamond of Design Thinking for example.

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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. Ideation Tools.

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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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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

At MJV, a project for the Telecommunications sector was able to identify behaviors of users of prepaid mobile phones in Brazil, which allowed us to test innovative ideas that emerged in microcredit workshops. The stage in which the team carries out the creative process and presents ideas for the problems found. Prototyping.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

It helps us get out of the box that inhibits free-flowing idea-generation, prototyping, or other behaviors that we know benefit the creative process. Six Stage Collaborative Negotiation Process. We have been using this Collaborative Negotiation Process for over thirty years, with impressive results.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 28, 2019

Ideation: The stage in which the team involved carries out the creative process and presents ideas for the problems raised. Prototyping: It is time to elaborate and test the prototypes of the ideas raised in the ideation process, pointing out and executing improvements continuously. Applying Scrum in business.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 28, 2019

Ideation: The stage in which the team involved carries out the creative process and presents ideas for the problems raised. Prototyping: It is time to elaborate and test the prototypes of the ideas raised in the ideation process, pointing out and executing improvements continuously. Applying Scrum in business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

. —– In a recent workshop with a large company focused on the Innovation@50x process, I mentioned that founders and intraprenuers operate more like artists than accountants – on day one they see something no one else does. I should have realized there was a ton I could learn about corporate creativity by looking at Pixar.

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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

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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Hack” = experimental, creative problem solving with a playful approach . +.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Our conclusion after almost twelve months of executing online workshops with hundreds of participants: it is possible to develop innovative business ideas remotely – if you consider certain points. We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas. What is ideation?

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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

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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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Not only do they generate ideas, they collectively identify the business challenges that demand the focus of their innovation efforts for the next year – which helps sustain momentum following the workshop since people walk out of the session aligned around what to go do and how. The event is much more than training.

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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. Take an integral skill set within your industry and hold a workshop on this to build competency among the team. Sponsor informal team activities.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Not only do they generate ideas, they collectively identify the business challenges that demand the focus of their innovation efforts for the next year – which helps sustain momentum following the workshop since people walk out of the session aligned around what to go do and how. The event is much more than training.

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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.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

By contributing alongside us, clients can see firsthand what goes into the creative process and how the research inputs lead to the output. This project involved in-person workshops and interviews with an R&D team in a medical devices company. Not so—constraints are fuel for creativity.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Open innovation hubs are similar to laboratories and research workshops maintained by companies and other innovation managers, but what sets them apart from these structures is that they emphasize networking and the community to the detriment of workshops and traditional laboratories.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2014

The model served to communicate my ideas well enough for the sake of my workshop, but… shouldn’t form FOLLOW meaning? Stephen’s handout from the workshop on representing types of visual relationships. You can imagine how excited I was to take the Design for Understanding workshop at the 2014 IA Summit.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 15, 2016

Immersed in their own creative process, they lose perspective, with only the sound of their thoughts for company. One of our innovation workshops But first, you need permission. GIVE FEEDBACK: Aspiring innovators go back and forth between being overly intoxicated with their new ideas and being overly sober. Idea Champions.

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