BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Place with Chuck Dymer. That was definitely true. Mike Brown.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems. Share instances where timely knowledge acquisition has led to breakthroughs or market leadership to strengthen ecosystem thinking and design further.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

Listening to the discussion among the team leader and other members of the organization driving the event, I grabbed paper, a Sharpie, and started organizing their aspirational comments into a presentation for the next day’s meeting. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy.

Creative Thinking 40

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2018

Mass, there are few people present for the start, especially when there is snow on the ground. The others present recite the second half. The leader: Was visible and present so we knew where to find him. Dependably followed our designated role. We took our typical place near where the individual leading the rosary sits.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Leadership Groups 97

Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. question for your team to brainstorm.

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Engagement Brainstorming Creative Thinking Culture of Innovation 49

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Present while walking throughout the room / audience.

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Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. It is their combined disciplines and understanding that can push design and solutions in a continued, innovative way.

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System Innovation Technology Collaboration 180

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Creativity is not usually seen as a logical act; it’s often more associated with emotional or philosophical elements. Effective creative thinking tends to involve utilizing the tools of logic — linguistics and math among them — to solve problems in novel ways. Yet, there is undoubtedly a crossover.

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Creativity Agile Creative Thinking Tips 212

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

If we remain in our present states, then what I suggest as a ‘frozen state’ remains, we default back to what we know, based more on repeating patterns, believing everything is orderly based on efficiency, effectiveness, and doing what is necessary to manage daily. So to name a few: We need to firstly unfreeze.

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Creativity Learning Change Training 257

Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

I was challenged and excited by a presentation by Michael Sui @soundslikesue at Pause Fest, here in Melbourne, on Inclusive Design and it struck me that we need to overlay?—?or or better, underpin?—?all

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Creative Thinking Design Creativity Innovation 41

Norbert Bol

JANUARY 21, 2018

Design thinking was suggested, but also it was suggested that the issues in our current economy should not be thought of as problems to be solved, but should be approached as conditions to be managed as if they were a chronic disease. Perhaps critical thinking depends on the topic and/or the people involved. Wechsler et al.

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Creativity Creative Thinking Innovation Design Thinking 58

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Past experience can be enough to assist complicated but complex becomes more problematical as it is ambiguous, uncertain and presents a uniqueness in its challenges. The changes we are undergoing around a new strategy design play towards innovation outcomes. Any plan of future actions needs to be designed in different ways.

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Innovation Software Review Design Engagement 222

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 105

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Channel : This is the creative thinking part. Many improvements that get actioned come from the fringes, the people who have their hands on the work and are not wedded to a set way of thinking. A well-designed and delivered crowdsourcing exercise at this stage can bridge the gap between promise and delivery.

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Collaboration Crowdsourcing Ideation Exercises 52

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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Groups Creativity Conference eBook 91

Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. As I skimmed the amazing ideation techniques, I found myself exclaiming, “Woah!!”

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Handbook Exercises Brainstorming Creative Thinking 52

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

CREATIVE CORNER Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. LET’S DO LUNCH Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Brainstorming Creative Thinking Creativity Handbook 40

BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week. The audience for the presentation consists of educators, landscape designers, government officials, and others involved with creating outdoor classrooms for children. The topic was how to handle uncertain times successfully.

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Creative Thinking Leadership eBook Creativity 43

IdeaScale

AUGUST 28, 2018

Why We Like It : Tina Seelig is an inspiring personality, but she has some very practical approaches to creative thinking that can be applied by anyone. Favorite Episode: The Daily Show’s Secret to Creativity. Favorite Episode: Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World. 99% Invisible.

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Technical Review Case Study Innovation Study 82

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

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Change Technical Review Agile Creativity 52

Phil McKinney

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Conversely, extrinsic cognitive load is influenced by how the information or task is presented to us. The design of learning materials and the surrounding environment can significantly affect the extrinsic cognitive load.

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Management How To Study Resources 87

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” No, not everyone is creative.

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Creativity Tips Handbook Exercises 40

ImagineNation

MARCH 3, 2024

Closing leadership blind spots A coach empowers, enables, and equips a leader’s capacity, confidence, and competence, to identify and close their leadership blind spots, be in charge of their minds , and think and act differently.

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Leadership System Learning Disruption 40

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options.

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Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 74

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Meeting Design Examples Brainstorming 106

ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Developing the 21st-century leadership superpowers necessary to reimagine, reinvent, design, and deliver innovative solutions to complex and challenging problems. Both In the Box and Out of the Box: noticing what are peoples’ core operating systems, and being present to what is true and real for them, without judgment and with detachment.

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Leadership Technical Review Innovation Learning 59

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

It will present facts and approximations to help you make better-informed decisions. These ideas can be used directly or as inspiration to further develop your creative thinking. UIzard is an innovative design tool powered by AI that creates visually stunning and functional user interfaces.

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ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Change Trends 59

BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Now, when designing a strategy workshop , we often start with time for participants to share ideas they are already bringing with them at the start. This lets them get the ideas out there for others to consider so they can focus on other creative thinking. Typically, they aren’t present among the starting ideas!

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eBook Innovation Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking 40

Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

CREATIVE CORNER. Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Groups 69

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

You have billions of bits of thoughts, observations, and information floating around in your conscious and subconscious mind, totally unobserved, with each bit presenting a multitude of possibilities which evolve and change over time. The Key to creative thinking is knowing how to harvest your thoughts and ideas.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Meeting 45

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and presenters included professionals from around the globe; educators, actors, consultants, special-effects supervisors, directors, musicians, and others. While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. Not sharing all the upfront homework in long presentations (which are almost always NOT FUN), but instead designing the entire strategic planning workshop to reflect the homework’s findings.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The strange tale of Leonardo’s “Kitchen Nightmare” plays out like a Shakespearean “comedy of errors” where a visionary designer’s experiments all work perfectly to extremely disastrous results. ” When Works As Designed Still Fails Imagine this scene in your own kitchen. Soon, the food piles up.

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Design System Project Creativity 94

The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Our collective failure of imagination is caused by five related factors: Momentum of legacy – A company’s past and present are a powerful anchor that can blind a company’s leadership to alternative futures, especially when these futures challenge conventional wisdom or threaten knowledge authorities.

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Technical Review Trends Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 45

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

If we don’t have clarity on our present state (i.e., And I don’t mean the creativity that we only see artists do so well- I am referring to our ability to “toggle between wonder and rigor to solve problems”. Companies must hire for creativity and incentivize creativity by dedicating budget, time and people resources.

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Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 246