Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 3, 2017

The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager by Mukesh Gupta. The choices were limited to sending for expensive photo copies, or having the documents retyped and then re-read for errors. It takes an inventive mind or a creative one to recognise the opportunity that is disguised as a problem or a challenge.

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Creativity Management Underperforming Technical Team Learning 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? 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. Goofy, incomplete briefs that send your creatives off on a wild goose chase.

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Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 89

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. The common denominator was we’d help internal teams generate ideas, document and categorize them, and deliver a long organized list.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog. Yes, you can do too much of a good thing.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook Guidelines 40

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? 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. Goofy, incomplete briefs that send your creatives off on a wild goose chase.

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Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 41

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

This post isn’t a creative guide to coming up with a show-stopping idea, that’s all up to you. Customer engagement? For metrics like employee satisfaction or consumer engagement, teams may have to get creative and develop their own processes. Intimately Knowing Your Team and Your Product Portfolio. Employee satisfaction?

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Management Strategy Strategy Brainstorming 52

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Vague Descriptions Boost Creativity: By keeping associations vague, it allows people to bring their own perspective to the mind map and gets their creative juices flowing. Overcome Creative Blocks: By providing context and clear avenues for ideation, mind maps help overcome common innovation roadblocks.

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Brainstorming Innovation Creativity Exercises 246

Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose. What is your current process for capturing and documenting ideas generated in brainstorming sessions or project development meetings. Take a shot at it now.

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Ideation Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 27

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". So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week?

Ideation 30

Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 30

Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? 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. Goofy, incomplete briefs that send your creatives off on a wild goose chase.

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". So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week?

Ideation 22

Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 22

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". So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week?

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 20

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

The course includes extensive take home materials, including: a shell innovation cycle and innovation mandate documents, idea development templates, post-session coaching, and strategy and ideation session design consultation (after the course). Negotiating a mandate (materials include a shell mandate document). Cycle metrics.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Done the right way and in the absence of a pandemic, a proper mix of WFH and in-office can increase productivity AND creativity AND reduce stress levels. more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). Document preparation. Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck. User testing.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 64

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

The highlight of the tour is the writer’s studio above the carriage house where one can almost sense the creative energy flowing from the room, which Hemingway could access via a catwalk from the second floor of the home. Sometimes doing the exact opposite of what one thinks one should do can actually lead to a creative solution.

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Innovation Technical Review Software Review Study 73