Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. To optimise creative sessions. To optimise co-creation.

Creative Thinking 53

Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To assess the alignment of your company’s values with its daily operations, consider conducting regular surveys or focus groups. Culture and Innovation In an era where innovation is indispensable, the culture of your organization can either nurture creative thinking or stifle it.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Get Training!

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Training Creative Thinking Creativity Innovation 62

Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. One of our online creative thinking tools. Select a date for your first session.

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Brainstorming Ideation Strategy Strategy 33

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. One of our online creative thinking tools. Select a date for your first session.

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Brainstorming Ideation Case Study Creative Thinking 33

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools. But without creative belief and culture, advanced tools are likely to fail. It’s not creativity AND innovation.

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Creativity Training Creative Thinking Innovation 71

Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. When more than four people participate, there is a tendency for some people just to observe. Do the participants have to be an intact team, or part of an intact team, or can any four people in our organization participate?

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Technical Review Development Team Review Brainstorming Ideation 26

Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. One of our online creative thinking tools. Select a date for your first session.

Brainstorming 29

Brainstorming Ideation Case Study Creative Thinking 29

Idea Champions

JANUARY 26, 2020

Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. One of our online creative thinking tools. You sign and return our Letter of Agreement.

Brainstorming 29

Brainstorming Ideation Case Study Creative Thinking 29

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. FRESH EYES.

Creativity 69

Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Groups 69

Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

Horst Geschka and his associates at the Batelle Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, developed a variety of group creative-thinking techniques called Brainwriting which, like Feynman=s innovative problem-solving approach, are designed to process ideas in parallel, spontaneous sequences. One idea per card.

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Brainstorming Groups Creative Thinking Guidelines 60

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2021

Join the Creative Flow Challenge, unblock your creativity, learn, and establish the creative habit. Facilitated by Gregg Fraley , author of the seminal business novel about creative thinking, Jack’s Notebook. This leads to better ideas. Establish habits that lead to greater creative effectiveness.

Creativity 52

Creativity Project Brainstorming Creative Thinking 52

Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Ideally, this person would need to build a clear plan about which kind of frameworks that they will use to filter ideas, what kind of creative thinking methods they will use for eliciting creative ideas ahead of time. Also, select the approach that you will use to elicit ideas. One idea per post-it note.

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Brainstorming Creativity Ideation Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Chuck shared the following example to push the participants toward greater specificity in the ideas they shared. But you can’t implement them.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Strategic Thinking 91

Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Brainstorming critics like to cite a 1958 study, at Yale, that showed that students thinking on their own came up with twice as many solutions as brainstorming groups -- and their solutions were deemed to be more effective and feasible. I'm all for people thinking on their own in their dorm room. Think Jobs and Wozniak.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Groups Creativity 20

Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” such as solitary list-writing.

Brainstorming 40

Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Groups Creativity 40

Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Many companies are creating, adapting or partnering with others to provide an innovative space for fostering ideas, creative thinking, exploring new technologies and prototyping. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

Culture 85

Culture Technical Review Software Review Innovation 85

Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2015

So, if it is just something new, but doesn't offer any benefit, it is not necessarily a creative idea.". This semester, nearly 300 students are learning how to crank out more creative ideas in Schrift's class titled "Creativity: Idea Generation & the Systematic Approach for Creativity."

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Creativity Learning Exercises Creative Thinking 40

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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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Importance of thinking diversity. Measuring creative thinking preferences. Involving and engaging a wide group (Open innovation concepts and use of virtual ideation platforms). Challenge/Project identification. Long term innovation road-mapping. Working with market research and insights.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9