Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

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!" - Eric Birnbaum, Sr.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"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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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Talent development: Working on different types of innovation across the three horizons can provide valuable learning opportunities for employees, helping them develop diverse skills and mindsets necessary for building the right culture for innovation. This is not merely about testing ideas but also about fostering learning.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

I should have realized there was a ton I could learn about corporate creativity by looking at Pixar. And in fact, the creative process at Pixar has a ton of lessons for both startup founders and corporate innovators. In the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps, we make our teams show us MVP’s weekly to measure progress.

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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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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

"I want to note how impressed we all were with Idea Champions' insight and understanding of our business and creative needs, as well as the varied and constructive techniques you used to take us through the creative process." - Gabrielle Del Sesto, VP, MTV Networks.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. Errors in the approach or technical execution of prototypes are explicitly understood as opportunities in the learning process and as the potential for innovation. Promote empathy.

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