Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. LEAN method. LEAN Method. The Lean approach is similar to Six Sigma, but instead of focusing on eliminating defects, it aims to eliminate waste. LEAN methods focus on identifying problems and fixing them quickly. Continuous Improvement.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 13, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, says “We want employees to be able to work where they feel most creative and productive” (Kelly, 2020). The team chose this name themselves in the early stages, intending to lean in to the idea of wise and knowledgeable owls. Build predictability into your workplace to foster creativity and security.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

Ask them to provide concrete examples of when they devised creative solutions. Antonia Dean’s strategic thinking ideas made it clear an entrepreneurial environment will not develop inside your company if you are too clingy to what has worked previously yet has grown stale and bloated.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

And besides, even a casual scan of the literature will reveal an extraordinary number of innovation-leaning people who joined forces with others to conceive something brilliant that none of them could have conjured on their own. Think Jobs and Wozniak. Earth to journalists on deadline writing about brainstorming for a flight magazine.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Importance of thinking diversity. Why innovation?

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. Perhaps, like renowned educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson says, “We got educated out of creativity.”

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