Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. multiple times. I was stunned! I had to have this book!

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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. Like YOU, for example. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We haven’t talked about stealing (or copying) ideas as a creative strategy for some time. There’s a fun example, however, of what might be considered a double idea steal in the marketplace via Snickers wrappers. Translated into a creative strategy formula, it’s an example of “Lead, Copy (1 and 2), Swerve, Integrate, Go.”

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Get them to exercise (mild) – it could even be just laughter therapy. Start by using humour (watch a funny, yet creative video). Ideation and brainstorming is very serious business. Get people to draw something. Have Dilbert or a Jessica Hagy or a Hugh MacLeod cartoon prints around the room. Idea Coach. Stand-up Storms.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. When you’re trying to come up with new ideas, you can use brainstorming techniques such as mind mapping, free association, and ideation exercises to help you generate a broad range of ideas. These include: Reduced cost per unit. Increased output.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

As innovators, we often struggle with coming up with a way to wrap up a piece of work in which we are engaged, whether that is an ideation workshop or a presentation to stakeholders on a new idea. This would show that the innovator has exercised due diligence in the work effort and possibly pre-empt any negative questions from the audience.

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