Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Committing to becoming a far more innovative company requires training people on the tools and methods, introducing more risk and uncertainty in the business and experiencing occasional learning experiences that others might call failures. But innovation and design thinking have something to offer here.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Free Weekly Webinar of Facilitation Tools with Gregg Fraley. Every Thursday at 2 pm EST, Master Facilitator Gregg Fraley demonstrates a facilitation tool online. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently. When you ask your mind to think differently, what happens?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

To overcome these challenges, it’s advisable to leverage virtual team communication tools that are tailored to remote interactions. Various online tools and platforms offer a plethora of options for real-time messaging, video conferencing, and file sharing.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

To overcome these challenges, it’s advisable to leverage virtual team communication tools that are tailored to remote interactions. Various online tools and platforms offer a plethora of options for real-time messaging, video conferencing, and file sharing.

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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! All in a day’s work for The Brainzooming Group!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Benefits of Virtual Team Building Activities Virtual team building activities are designed to bridge the gap between remote team members, creating a sense of unity and shared purpose. Innovation and Creativity : Virtual team building can stimulate creativity by encouraging members to think outside the box and bounce ideas off one another.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I have been building a stronger, more robust narrative that is built around what I continue to refine and offer as my advisory and coaching practice at Agility Innovation, my eight skill development and creative thinking steps , which will be discussed in depth in a subsequent post or two. My 1st offer point in delivery.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design. What are my pizza meetings?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose. Write 30 ideas for names for a new program on design and creativity.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation. Reimagining the SWOT Analysis (Download).

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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.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership Development Workshops Workshops focused on leadership development provide executives with the opportunity to learn new strategies, tools, and frameworks that can aid in their mindset shift. These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership Development Workshops Workshops focused on leadership development provide executives with the opportunity to learn new strategies, tools, and frameworks that can aid in their mindset shift. These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 15, 2021

There's a famous saying, attributed to Marshall McLuhan, who is reported to have said - we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us. I think what was attributed to McLuhan is true - we shape our tools, and then they shape us. Supposedly Churchill said something similar, only about buildings.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. The task of searching to resolve more complex problems allows Design Thinking to step up and become a far more visible component on how we can go about this. Source: Rikke Dam and Teo Yin Siang.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

They can include logos, office designs, company slogans, and even the jargon used within the workforce. Culture and Innovation In an era where innovation is indispensable, the culture of your organization can either nurture creative thinking or stifle it.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. All you will need is a team of 5-6 people, a facilitator, and your chosen collaborative online tool (or pen and paper for all participants if completed in person).

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

The Tech Backstage Podcast is a live streamed video podcast that goes behind the scenes with today’s leaders of industry to learn what technologies are solving business problems, and how Design Thinking applied to the future of technology is impacting the world. Clearly, there is room for improvement! “By Automation.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Knowing how precious your time is, I have designed a simple way to ensure that you get the best possible results from your online Free the Genie brainstorming session.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . I’m also a bit weary of chasing or developing the latest, greatest, and most sophisticated tool for ideation. With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure these leaders are equipped to fulfill their role in shaping innovation, it’s essential to provide them with the right tools and training through leadership development programs and leadership development workshops. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Innov8rs | Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and simply the abundance of easily accessible data means that the world is being put on a level playing field when it comes to analytical thinking. We all have the same information and the same tools, so we need to develop skills beyond the analytical in order to compete.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement, Manuel Hellendorff (Head of Customer Success at Novable ) provided an overview of the main AI tools currently in use and shared practical advice on how to incorporate these tools into your work to enhance productivity and success.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better. While innovations often start with creative thinking that may or may not be grounded in reality, the ones that become reality are those that solve very real problems or satisfy very real needs. Implement innovations.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 23, 2022

He is also the author of Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Geniuses) which describes the common thinking strategies creative geniuses have used in the sciences, art, and industry throughout history and shows how we can apply them to become more creative in our business and personal lives.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

But none of them, 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, and in meeting facilitation.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Constraints create the need for questions, creative thinking, and experiments. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Innovation thrives within constraints. But as real as constraints are and as helpful as they can be, don’t simply accept them. Instead, question them, push on them, and explore around them.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. In this blog post, we’ll discuss this method as well as share a few templates from top whiteboard tools Miro and Mural to get you started even virtualy. Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’ll share some general advice for organizations and companies designing, developing, and implementing leadership retreats. Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

This transition forces me to formally communicate aspects of the Brainzooming brand, including strategic assumptions and brand personality, vocabulary, design standards, and other elements that have only been in my head until now. That’s my creative advice. Boost Your Creativity with. Do with it what you will. Mike Brown.

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