Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 18, 2021

2 Techniques to Master Creative Thinking. Any time you notice something creative that catches your eye, try to spot which of the five SIT patterns might have been used or could be used to explain that innovation. . Creative thinking is a team sport. Division – you take something, cut it, and rearrange it.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 10, 2021

In this episode, I’m teaching two techniques to help improve creative thinking long-term as well as some practical tips to make sure you’re on your way to mastery. In this episode you’ll hear: Scientific study on creativity . How to develop your creative thinking through pattern spotting .

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To hear more about breaking the barriers to creative thinking, listen to the full podcast episode here: Episode 008: Fixedness: Your Main Barrier to Creative Thinking. Then force the dependency that wasn’t there before or break a dependency that already exists.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 29, 2022

What do you know about creative thinking today that you wished you knew twenty years ago? That creativity is a phenomena that results from a certain combination of relationships.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 19, 2017

3 Conditions for Explosive Creative Thinking Skills. Reflecting on grain elevators led me to consider explosive creative thinking skills , and the parallels between the two. Finally, by having creative thinking exercises in place, you provide the right structure for group collaboration. Creativity Goes Boom!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

How about Creative Thinking Questions? To prepare for the in-person planning, Tara forwarded creative thinking questions that looked out from today to more than a decade into the future. While the document was daunting, working with a fresh set of questions forced me to think about completely new opportunities and issues.

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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). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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Innovation in Practice

JUNE 19, 2022

A challenge for you to practice your creative skills this week. The post Episode 097: Take Drew’s Final Exam on Creative Thinking appeared first on Drew Boyd. The five criteria my students are graded on. Why I like grading these finals.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 20, 2022

Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught. You are creative. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker. The only difference between people who are creative and people who are not is a simple belief. Creative people believe they are creative. Creative thinking is work.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 10, 2020

But you can actually learn to be creative like you could learn any other skill – whether it be in business or in your personal life or some other skill that you want to learn like a new sport. What is Creativity? Think of creativity as a process, a cognitive process, which is something that happens inside your head.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 10, 2020

But you can actually learn to be creative like you could learn any other skill – whether it be in business or in your personal life or some other skill that you want to learn like a new sport. What is Creativity? Think of creativity as a process, a cognitive process, which is something that happens inside your head.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2018

Are you too comfortable to generate new creative ideas? Would inventing something to make you nervous align with your creative thinking formula and attract more creative ideas? I understand that new creativity comes from being nervous. I seems like it would trample creativity for this Michael. circa 1995).

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The post Five Tips for Cultivating Creative Thinking on Your Team appeared first on IdeaScale. ” It’s the only question, long term, that truly matters in any business. If you’re ready to learn about innovation management, take the first step. Contact us.

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How different drugs affect divergent or convergent thinking. . The post Episode 079: Is There a Magic Pill For Creative Thinking? Resources from this episode: Nick Skillicorn’s blog: Idea to Value. Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. appeared first on Drew Boyd.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2017

Creative wave makers display both the creative thinking skills and the boldness to improve ideas and situations in dramatic, unexpected ways. Some people are born as creative wave makers. Being More of a Creative Wave Maker Yourself. Creativity and Idea Magnets – 11 Vital Creative Characteristics.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 27, 2022

The post Episode 085: The Path of Most Resistance to Creative Thinking appeared first on Drew Boyd. Matching two unrelated things together to create the most resistance. What it looks like to take the path of most resistance.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 9, 2022

Life is full of contradictions, isn’t it? We often have two ideas in our heads that are in opposition with one another. We want one thing but we also want something else. Unfortunately, we can’t have both because they’re directly opposed. So, what do we do? That’s what I’m discussing in this episode.

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Carla Johnson

MAY 17, 2022

Divergent thinking, on the other hand, is. The post The 4-Minute Creative Thinking Test appeared first on Carla Johnson. This is great when you’re working on logical projects where there is one best answer.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 15, 2022

What I do hate is how they are used as an example of innovation and creativity. To me, they set a terrible example of creative thinking. Tune in to learn some of the history of Post-it notes and why I don’t think they teach us any good lessons about creativity. . I love them as a product.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Struggling to be creative? Think about reigniting your creativity as a day at an amusement park. All the ways you have been creative up until now are the amusement park rides. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Related posts Creative Thinking Right Now?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday. In its new form, it’s called Surf-to-Turf.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More. Aspirations. ” – Mike Brown.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 6, 2021

To hear more about another study on gender bias in the world of creativity, listen to the full podcast episode here: Episode 036: Gender Role in Creative Thinking – Not What You Think! Women will tend to pull men and a little bit, rein them in, while men will tend to challenge the status quo more.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I wanted my creative thinking skills to be strong enough to do the same thing. My reaction that day led to exploring ideas for how to boost my creative thinking skills to make comparable intriguing connections. Creative Thinking Skills Test – Bending the Random to the Planned.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2023

I’m not sure when I first realized that one of my life’s passions was collecting questions. I guess it probably had to be early in my corporate career when market research became a greater focus in my job. If you have questions that work in one situation, you definitely want to make sure you use them again.

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Innovation in Practice

JUNE 14, 2020

You can actually learn to be creative like you could learn any other skill whether it be in business or in your personal life or some other skill that you want to learn like a new sport. Innovation is a skill – it’s not a gift. It’s not something you’re born with.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises. Discovering New Ideas.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 28, 2022

What do you know about creative thinking today that you wished you knew twenty years ago? That creativity is a phenomena that results from a certain combination of relationships.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. How do you motivate others – and yourself – to engage in greater creative thinking?

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Phil McKinney

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you want to be creative, then it's important to learn how to laugh at yourself and not take things so seriously all the time! I'm sure you've met a humorless person before. They're those people that take everything far too seriously and never find humor in life or other people. But if you meet […].

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2021

Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:15 – Dr Black’s history in architecture and advertising, leading him to the new field of creativity research. 00:06:30 – Who was Prof Paul E Torrance and his impact on the field of creativity research. 00:09:30 – How creativity tests were developed in the 1950s.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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