Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it. No it doesn't.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions. One of our online creative thinking tools. Client testimonials. More client testimonials. What PR firms say about our impact.

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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. Individuals can naturally excel at ideation, but facilitation also helps. We are now combining ideation with critical assessment.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 26, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions. One of our online creative thinking tools. Client testimonials. More client testimonials. What PR firms say about our impact.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients continue upgrading the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. One of our online creative thinking tools. Client testimonials. More client testimonials. What PR firms say about our impact. A few case studies.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The UN passed a resolution in 2017 to mark this global celebration, aiming to encourage people worldwide to use new ideas, technologies, and creative thinking to build a better future. This Innovation Day, ideate, collaborate, take a risk, and challenge the status quo. How do you recognize Innovation in your Organization?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

How many online sessions are included in a Free the Genie engagement? Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. How long is each session?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it. No it doesn't.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you are looking for a kickoff conference keynote that will energize, inspire and establish the kind of mindset conducive to real learning, engagement and commitment, keep reading. As an internationally acclaimed thought leader in the field of innovation, I know how to spark breakthrough in even the most curmudgeonly conference attendee.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Enter Free the Genie -- an affordable, expertly facilitated, 60-90-minute online ideation session designed to help you generate the kind of clarity, creativity, and commitment you need to make a quantum leap of thought and action. And it's simple as 1-2-3. First, we ensure that you frame the right question via a simple online survey.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. You're busy.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

This lifecycle is what Forrester describes as the 5 key activities of innovation management , a process through which creative ideas are given life via targeting, ideation, incubation, business planning, and commercialization (more on this in point 1 below). Speaking of engagement, let’s talk about gamification.

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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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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. 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". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Allan Snyder director of Centre for the Mind, Australian National University, Canberra, and University of Sydney “Creativity demands that you leave your comfort zone, that you continually challenge yourself and be prepared to confront conventional wisdom. Especially, engage in that for which you have not been schooled.” I was stunned!

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. 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". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? You're busy. You know it.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 13, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients become masterful brainstorm facilitators. IDEATION 2020 TRAINING INCLUDES: 1. We email you a Letter of Engagement for your signature. In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e. The training begins.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

We need to connect multiple thinking, diversity and different experiences that so often diverge initially to then collectively find the path to converge, in a common understanding, to translate the combined creative thinking into real action, achieving valuable outcomes.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. 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". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to MaRS – North America’s largest urban innovation hub, “a culture of innovation is an environment that supports creative thinking and advances efforts to extract economic and social value from knowledge, and, in doing so, generates new or improved products, services or processes”.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients become masterful brainstorm facilitators. IDEATION 2020 TRAINING INCLUDES: 1. We email you a Letter of Engagement for your signature. In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e. The training begins.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Design thinking was looking for those “leaps of faith” and lots of ‘being creative’, seeing failure and diversity was actually something akin to being hard to accept and conflicting in ‘being judged’. Fun and engaging perhaps but it needed to be separated and contained.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions. Design Thinking Projects : Individuals or teams work on projects that require empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing – all key components of the design thinking methodology.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

My response is the more we share the Brainzooming methodology with you, the more you can improve your own strategy work on a daily basis in situations where it would NEVER be practical to engage us for help. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For instance, the team needs to select, adapt and provide ideation and brainstorming tools, platforms to set up programming and ideation challenges like hackathons , ideas processing pipelines, information sharing applications etc. To innovate by example. Communicate, Inspire, Diffuse. IP experts. Guest innovators.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to MaRS – North America’s largest urban innovation hub, “a culture of innovation is an environment that supports creative thinking and advances efforts to extract economic and social value from knowledge, and, in doing so, generates new or improved products, services or processes”.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

One idea in his book, discussed in Chapter 33 on "How to Organize a Squad to Create Ideas", later became one of the most widely used creativity techniques in the world. As Keith Sawyer writes in his book: "Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work. Second-Order Benefits of Digital Brainstorming.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Contrasting with the information age where analysis and thinking have been the main activities. “An An imagination economy is defined by some thinkers as an economy where intuitive and creative thinking create economic value, after logical and rational thinking has been outsourced to other economies.”.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. It is a unique event with clear dynamics and rules of engagement. Why do you think emojis caught on so quickly?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Overcome Creative Blocks: By providing context and clear avenues for ideation, mind maps help overcome common innovation roadblocks. Innovation relies on new ideas and relevant connections to your value statement and mind maps encourage branches of thought that haven’t been previously engaged with. What Is Mind Mapping?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? Define at least 3 different types of innovation.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

This is because they are re-inventing how to engage in the art of applying entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship practices to harness potential & mobilize human energy towards creating better future by; Developing creative ideas & innovative solutions to some of the world’s greatest societal challenges.

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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). Measuring creative thinking preferences. Challenge/Project identification.

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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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