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Free the Genie Creative Process Coach

Idea Champions

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation.

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Working Together, Separately: How We Do It

Brunner

Short-term toleration is very different from leaning in for the long haul. The creative process doesn’t change just because you move from a conference room to a couch. The creative process doesn’t change just because you move from a conference room to a couch. Trust in the creative process.

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Idea Champions Helps All Kinds of People Originate Great Ideas

Idea Champions

"The Idea Champions process not only worked, it exceeded our every expectation" - Melinda McLaughlin, Senior Vice President, A&E Television Networks. "I Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that, six months later, their impact still hasn't worn off! ZoomStorming. Idea Champions.

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A Sampling of Testimonials from Idea Champions Clients

Idea Champions

Even those who relish the status quo couldn't help but relax, laugh, and lean into their untapped creativity." - Maureen Toshner, Director, Organizational Development & Learning, Charter Manufacturing "Talk about out of the box thinking, it was out of this world!"

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Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

And in fact, the creative process at Pixar has a ton of lessons for both startup founders and corporate innovators. I found other parallels between Pixar’s method for managing innovation and what we built in the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps incubators. Lean Startups are built around the same notion as Pixar research trips.

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. We’ve all been there.

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Customer Co-Creation: A Deeper Path to Empathic Understanding

Legacy Innovation Group

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.