Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Crowdsourcing can take place at all points of the innovation cycle. Channel : This is the creative thinking part. Implementation – The “How Will We Achieve the Innovation?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas.

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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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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

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. the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. You're busy.

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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.” multiple times. I was stunned! I had to have this book!

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

“Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper to boost creativity.”. Talking with a potential client about an already-planned innovation strategy workshop, the going-in innovation strategy called for giving participants “a clean sheet of paper.”. You’ve been thinking a clean sheet of paper innovation strategy maximizes creativity.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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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. the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. Exercising. You're busy. You know it.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. Enables Tiered Thinking. What Is Mind Mapping?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Specific innovative ideas the organization wants to pursue. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Do you need to take better advantage of your brand’s customer inputs and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Organizational beliefs and biases.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In a recent creative thinking workshop, we spent significant time discussing how to enable consumers to customize and personalize a product. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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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

How much time should you spend improving your existing processes as opposed to innovating new ones? There are two types of companies: those who innovate and those who improve. Regardless of size or scale though, many businesses struggle to decide whether they should invest their resources in innovation or improvement.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Thanks to Val and Mitch, we're challenging our assumptions, asking the right questions, and using creative thinking techniques to bring our best ideas forward." - Natalie Giordano, Director, Purple Strategies "Idea Champions' three-day Conducting Genius training was engaging, fun and informative. And we had fun while doing it!

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Brainstorming Training Creativity Ideation 22

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Like the majority of the world’s population in April 2020, I find myself unable to implement my preferred method of innovation discovery. In the meantime, however, I would like to make use of an innovation technique I have mentioned in previous articles. Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway House, Key West, Florida.

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