InnovationManagement

APRIL 17, 2023

Leveraging the “Pamplemousse Principle” In Creativity Training For more than a dozen years my innovation agency has taught customized creative problem-solving workshops (what we now call “Un-Think” programs), to senior managers in medium and large organizations.

Training 89

Training Creativity Management Innovation 89

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.

Brainstorming 49

Brainstorming Creative Thinking Survey Ideation 49

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!!”

Handbook 52

Handbook Exercises Brainstorming Creative Thinking 52

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2019

Creative thinking can rescue you , but it better be focused, and that’s going to be hard to do when you’re in panic mode, and, without assistance. Research and Homework thinking assignments for team. Challenge Focusing facilitation workshop. A Half-Day Ideation session — to come up with solution ideas.

Underperforming Technical Team 45

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Creativity 45

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Creative Thinking eBook 40

InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

4 Steps of Creative Problem Solving. Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas. Creative Problem Solving Techniques & Activities. There are many techniques and activities that can be used to apply the creative problem solving methodology to your unique challenge. The Creative Thinking Handbook. Impossible!

Training 47

Training Creativity Handbook Design Thinking 47

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.

Design Thinking 217

Design Thinking Innovation Design System 217

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Bookmark this article on the stages of creativity and refer to it again, and again, and again. There are great links to the “Wisdom of the Ages” about creativity and ideation. It also features the 10 Stages of Creativity articulated by filmmaker Tiffany Shlain : The Hunch. We all know “No” is a bad word when ideating.

Creativity 40

Creativity Ideation eBook Creative Thinking 40

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.”. The workshop is already planned, so postponing it to readjust the approach isn’t an option.

Creativity 40

Creativity Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

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. IP experts. Guest innovators.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review How To Software Review Ideation 68

Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

If you’ve ever participated in an ideation workshop, it’s quite likely that you’ve heard a facilitator tell the participants that “there are no bad ideas”. Ironically, most ideation workshops are structured in ways that lead mostly to superficial problem solving and groupthink. How are outside the box innovations born?

Innovation 52

Innovation Creativity Competition Industry 52

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? They discussed a large process graphic we were about to address. The strategic conversation was incredibly rich.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

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. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

Creativity 40

Creativity Strategy Strategy eBook 40

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.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Inquirer; means being positively optimistic, inquisitive & foresighted about the present & the future, having mental flexibility thru critical & creative thinking capability to synthesize, clarify, ideate & develop ideas that embrace people, process & technology to potentially extrapolate the future.

Leadership 40

Leadership Disruption Creativity Collaboration 40

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. Meeting and workshop facilitation.

Design Thinking 9

Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

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.

Brainstorming 26

Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

It requires more than establishing an innovation team or hosting a few ideation workshops. As I describe throughout my book, the tone set by senior leaders is critical when it comes to sparking and scaling creative thinking as innovation efforts flounder without the right vision and commitment from the top.

Culture 59

Culture Tips Leadership Innovation 59

Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. They came up last week in the workshop as well. This means, that nothing truly creative can come out of the brainstorm where ideas are judged right at the idea generation part of the discussion. .

Brainstorming 40

Brainstorming How To Design Thinking Creativity 40

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Shelter-in-place, social distancing, and international border closures make it difficult to conduct innovation workshops or experience other cultures around the world as a way of finding new insights into problem-solving. Tokyo, Japan. In the IT field we perform disaster recovery testing on a periodic basis.

Innovation 75

Innovation Technical Review Software Review Study 75