Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 23, 2017

Today, I came across two extremely creative ideas, that made me think about creativity and how do we get creative ideas. What follows is my take on how we become and stay creative. First, lets look at the creative ideas that inspired this post. A unique rain harvesting system that creatively reuses the rainwater it collects to provide a deeper look into the natural systems that give us the food we eat. All of us enjoy a uniquely creative experience.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today most organizations have barriers towards creativity, ideas and innovation. The overriding tendency is to reduce risk and stifle the creativity that challenges the status quo or current design. Enabling technology and processes. Seeing the barriers, the causes and effects.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Far too many people are claiming to be design thinkers, after simply attending very limited “crash course” or “boot camps” and do not have the deep investment and experience to be true ‘design thinkers’ If this continues design thinking will fail in its potential to be a really good creative problem-solving approach. Fun and engaging perhaps but it needed to be separated and contained. Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

When DT is applied to business or social issues it is by making creativity logical, you have its power of contribution, it can transform our innovative solutions. Design thinking is a highly creative problem-solving approach with a toolkit of methods but more a specific mindset where adapting is constant. Design thinking as something far too prescribed ‘dulls’ the process. All this adds up to a creative process. Strengthening our thinking through processes.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We only need to be creative and come up with original, new ideas 2% of the times on an average day, yet disruptive solutions are the key to any successful business in the 21stcentury. So, it’s more than high time to train our creative brains and expect both employees and students to come up with surprising ideas on any usual weekday. As a company, we follow the market leaders or already set-up lower-risk processes.

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The Future Shapers

APRIL 23, 2019

The last few decades have allowed us to realize that creativity, as an innate human ability to solve problems and generate ideas, is the fuel for innovation. Contemporary business challenges are complex and pressing, and there is demand for a creative approach to solving them. Supporting creativity at work has nowadays become crucial for business development and growth. In this dynamic and ever-changing corporate scenario, how can creativity be fostered?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 21, 2021

People often think that science and creativity are not related. In fact, over the past few decades , a huge amount of research has begun showing us exactly what causes our creativity, what reduces it, and even what enhances it. Incubate and allow the natural creative process to work.

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Ideanote

APRIL 19, 2017

It is a digital tool that facilitates problem-solving by involving multiple departments of a company into the process. Idea Management encourages engagement with your customers and team. Engaging with your customers and employees is nothing but a competitive advantage for your company. Customer Engagement. Involving customers in your innovation process is by far the smartest thing you can do. Employee engagement.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Working together means more creativity. Teaching people to think creatively may feel like a freeform exercise, and it can be. Here’s how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. What Innovation Processes Can I Outsource?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, choose metrics that are more informative and that tell you about the process. You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. Why do startups have a head start in innovation?

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Ideanote

APRIL 19, 2017

It is a digital tool that facilitates problem-solving by involving multiple departments of a company into the process. Idea Management encourages engagement with your customers and team. Engaging with your customers and employees is nothing but a competitive advantage for your company. Customer Engagement. Involving customers in your innovation process is by far the smartest thing you can do. Employee engagement.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 31, 2021

Enter The Year of Living Creatively -- a highly engaging online antidote for creative derailment -- a GPS for possibility, a greenhouse for greatness, and a chiropractic adjustment for the often mysterious creative process.

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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.

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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.

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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. What activities can be used to boost participation and engagement?

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course that helps aspiring innovators transform their inspired visions and ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living.

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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.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Dr. Albert Rothenberg, a noted researcher on the creative process, has extensively studied the use of opposites in the creative process. He identified a process he terms “Janusian thinking,” a process named after Janus, a Roman God who has two faces, each looking in the opposite direction. When Josh Opperman’s girl friend left him after a three-month engagement, he was crushed. Read the following top down. Happiness comes from within”.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. We believe in this naming process so much that it’s even been used to decide on names for children!

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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.

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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. But scaffolding of this kind not only gives structure to the process; it demands a consideration of the tools, knowledge, and resources that are necessary for crafting novel and uncommon things.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 31, 2022

Knowing how to generate and catalyse creative ideas through rapidly innovating through constraints? What if we started shifting the dialogue to rapidly engage people in innovating through constraints? How might we ignite people’s creativity, safely develop better ideas?

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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. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool." I see myself as a creative person.".

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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. How to catalyze creativity and innovation in others. Every story has a back story.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification?

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many people believe they’re not creative. So a natural question may be: why bother trying to be more creative? Well, there are lots of reasons - good reasons - to increase your creative skills. And it doesn’t matter where you are on the creativity scale. Just a small improvement in your creative ability will have a big impact on your day-to-day life. Making your daily ideas better, meaning more creative, makes your everyday life better.

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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. Here, Designers and Researchers can engage directly with would-be customers to explore certain problem spaces and their corresponding solution spaces.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the course proceeds, readers are invited to engage with others to have critical conversations that can deepen our insights and broaden our reach and influence. Six Stage Collaborative Negotiation Process. Build agreements by a consensus of those engaged.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 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. Rearrange or Reverse: “What would happen if this process was reversed?” “How

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s perfectly okay that most people – from call center employees to claims adjusters in the field – focus on continuous improvements to current business processes, the customer experience, and insurance products. With the premise that everyone has an equal opportunity to add innovation-based value, it’s essential to help jump start the process. Adobe’s toolkit is named Kickbox and actually comes packaged in a snazzy red box and outlines a more comprehensive process.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

Area manufacturers, process improvement and quality leaders, and entrepreneurs are encouraged to attend. Located in Northwest Indiana, near Chicago, PNW fosters a vibrant academic community through high quality and engaging undergraduate and graduate education. Gregg Fraley is the author of Jack’s Notebook, a business novel about creative process. Public Training Offering — Getting Innovation Started. Attention Michiana, NW Indiana, Chicago.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 1, 2021

And that is, precisely, what The Year of Living Creatively is all about -- an engaging, dependable, online GPS for your heart's desire. Subscriptions to The Year of Living Creatively will be available in two months (fee still-to-be-determined).

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s perfectly okay that most people – from call center employees to claims adjusters in the field – focus on continuous improvements to current business processes, the customer experience, and insurance products. With the premise that everyone has an equal opportunity to add innovation-based value, it’s essential to help jump start the process. Adobe’s toolkit is named Kickbox and actually comes packaged in a snazzy red box and outlines a more comprehensive process.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the most crucial advantages that smaller companies have over their larger rivals is their ability to be creative. The Scale of Engagement . On the other side of the scale, the smaller a company is the easier it is to engage the whole workforce.

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Idea to Value

JULY 19, 2017

Creativity is the process of making something unique and useful, and the successful outcome of this process is an innovation. My research focuses on the impact of broad environments, called climates, on individuals’ creativity development. As the base of the pyramid indicates (Figure 1), the most critical part of a creative process is the climates, rather than the creation or the creator. A child’s creativity can be stifled by home and school climates.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 3, 2015

” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators. The process of creation. The ten stages in the process of creation progressively create four realms. Creative activity.

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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. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Because art transforms something that was once utilitarian into a vessel of engagement, like Warhol did for the Campbell’s soup can. Being an artist of business involves taking a product and turning it into an experience that engages the consumer and makes them a fan and loyalist for life because they are drawn to the product and to the emotions the product evokes. WeWork offers a panoply of services designed to instill and instigate creativity within its community.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? According to a recent release on PR.com , the partnership will add creativity training to innovation management by offering best practices while increasing an already substantial return on investment.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. Extreme Creativity.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Because art transforms something that was once utilitarian into a vessel of engagement, like Warhol did for the Campbell’s soup can. Being an artist of business involves taking a product and turning it into an experience that engages the consumer and makes them a fan and loyalist for life because they are drawn to the product and to the emotions the product evokes. WeWork offers a panoply of services designed to instill and instigate creativity within its community.

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