Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As We achieved all the goals we set out to accomplish and more." - Sue Mongeon, Staff Manager, AT&T.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 25, 2022

Mitchell Ditkoff , Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions -- a thought leader in the field of creative thinking, innovation, and the creative process. Anyone committed to manifesting an inspired goal, idea, or venture -- especially people open to exploring new possibilities with a skilled facilitator of the creative process.

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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 Management & Systems. Innovation Management & Systems. Portfolio Management. Innovation Process. Ideation and creative process. Project Management.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

George Fankhauser is an innovation consultant and R&D leader with more than 20 years of industry experience managing global, inter-disciplinary teams. His past positions range from leading small teams including several startups to MNCs with a deep dive into research, development, manufacturing and product management.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 30, 2017

I am an experienced change manager and an expert within the area of international marketing and communication. I also enjoy the creative process of business development and marketing, as in developing new markets and exciting brands. Based in Norrköping, Sweden. Background. Areas of expertise.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Still, it requires a distinct set of principles, mindsets, best practices and a specific divergence from traditional 20th-century management approaches. Risk management: Each horizon represents a different level of risk and uncertainty. When managed constructively, failure is rich with learning that can fuel the next breakthrough idea.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Desk Search: search for information on the project’s theme from different sources: websites, books, magazines, blogs, articles, etc. Interviews: obtaining information through dialogue, mainly with users/developers about the product/service/process. Below are some basic steps that must be taken to implement this process!

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Mitchell Ditkoff , Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions -- a thought leader in the field of creative thinking, innovation, and the creative process. Anyone committed to manifesting an inspired goal, idea, or venture -- especially people open to exploring new possibilities with a skilled facilitator of the creative process.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 28, 2019

In this context, the combination of some innovative approaches such as Design Thinking and Scrum – one of the Agile Methodology frameworks – emerges as a strategy in business projects to increase team productivity and make valuable deliveries focused on the end customer. This facilitates and empowers all projects.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 28, 2019

In this context, the combination of some innovative approaches such as Design Thinking and Scrum – one of the Agile Methodology frameworks – emerges as a strategy in business projects to increase team productivity and make valuable deliveries focused on the end customer. This facilitates and empowers all projects.

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Planview

MAY 31, 2023

I started as a trainer and then was promoted to manage the Global Enablement Team, designing the training courses, coordinating and identifying training needs. After that, I joined the Professional Services department as a manager of the Solution Architect team. I also enjoy the creative process of designing and sewing complex quilts.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 28, 2024

Bottom line, it's a GPS for the creative process -- a highly engaging way to close the gap between dream and reality. Mitch's expertise in unlocking creativity and fostering collaboration played a pivotal role in the success of our session." -- Paul Kwiecinski, Managing Partner, Face the Music "This is precious.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Simply put, innovation management is the management of product and organizational innovation processes within an organization.

Disruption 45

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

It will focus on how to get initiatives started and how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes that impede project success. You have to create projects and execute to see results. Area manufacturers, process improvement and quality leaders, and entrepreneurs are encouraged to attend. Innovation doesn’t just happen.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

"As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire. Everyone was impressed with your ability to spark and harness the collective ingenuity of our group." - Craig Harden, Global Risk Manager, Scotia Capital.

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The Human Factor

AUGUST 15, 2019

From a colleague asking a question to coworkers’ chat distracting you, team-players rarely get to finish a project without being disturbed. On the other hand, however, professionals who get to work alone and away from the team are more likely to manage their tasks effectively and productively. You create your best material alone.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Simply put, innovation management is the management of product and organizational innovation processes within an organization.

Disruption 73

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Organizational psychologist and professor from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Edgar H. It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. This makes Design Thinking a “problem” for top management. Seek expert help.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Rethinking the role of a manager. Unfortunately, this is all too common.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Simply put, innovation management is the management of product and organizational innovation processes within an organization.

Disruption 40

Disruption Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management 40

CorporateIntel

JANUARY 7, 2015

Daphne Lonner is a tremendously accomplished CEO who has been thrown more than once in her resilient career by the forces of creative destruction. Paul Beckett is a rising executive who has quickly gone from recent rags to modest riches, but whose latest project is on the brink of failure.

Creativity 40

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

Unveiling Enhanced Campaign Moderation Functionality If you want to scale your impact across the company you need not only strong system-admin functionality, you also need to distribute power to your campaign managers in a targeted way. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And in fact, the creative process at Pixar has a ton of lessons for both startup founders and corporate innovators. That means the entire company is driven by directors – the artists – not by corporate executives in management with MBA’s or financial models or a development department. It turns out that they are.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

Unveiling Enhanced Campaign Moderation Functionality If you want to scale your impact across the company you need not only strong system-admin functionality, you also need to distribute power to your campaign managers in a targeted way. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform.

Innovation 52

Innovation Analysis Collaboration Roadmap 52

Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

Unveiling Enhanced Campaign Moderation Functionality If you want to scale your impact across the company you need not only strong system-admin functionality, you also need to distribute power to your campaign managers in a targeted way. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform.

Innovation 52

Innovation Analysis Collaboration Roadmap 52

Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2016

The EU has already begun investing €1billion into the modelling of the human brain over the next 10 years, which will likely include experiments into modelling thought processes. Even before that, IBM created a new type of knowledge supercomputer called Watson , which managed to win the Gameshow ‘Jeopardy’. So what comes next?

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

So that’s focus relationships is how we connect with others, and how we leverage others in our pursuit of our ambitions, how we lead, how we collaborate energy is, how we manage our ability to bring what Lewis Hyde calls emotional labor to our work, so this is things, like how we. One specific creative project from start to completion.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But there is no room for this kind of energy-sucking behavior in a well-run brainstorming session -- one that has been thoughtfully prepared, the right people invited, and with a skillful facilitator catalyzing the creative process. How can the facilitators of brainstorm sessions learn how to dependably spark creativity in others?

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

Ideation 20

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 20

Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One reason projects are poorly scoped is our clients’ discomfort with ambiguity. In this article, I’ll discuss three methods we use to reassure our clients when trust the process isn’t enough. Involve clients throughout the project. To bring these points to life, I’ll share an example from a 10 week project we completed in June.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 20

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

More than likely, that content was discussed, created, and iterated outside or separate from the core design review process and ultimately plugged into a content management system (or pasted into the code by a developer) much later in the development process. In advertising, copywriters often drive the creative process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Consider the following areas for investment: Automation to streamline processes and improve efficiency. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems to enhance customer experiences. Co-creation workshops, beta testing groups, and customer advisory panels are effective ways to involve customers in the creative process.

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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. Better problem solving: Empirical research illustrates that teams perform better than a group of individuals working alone.

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