IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. Begin with the End . How to Connect with Customers.

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

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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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. LET’S DO LUNCH Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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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! Almost always. And yes, this can be trained.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

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

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. It’s not creativity AND innovation. Creativity IS Innovation.

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Creativity Training Creative Thinking Innovation 71

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.

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Culture Technical Review Software Review Innovation 85

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. So too with ideas!

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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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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.

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Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Groups Creativity 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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

The course explores longer term innovation road-mapping and links to organizational strategy and purpose. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Frameworks compare, and why Design Thinking or any specific framework is just a starting point.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9