Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Any work team that has a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity and the commitment to explore it in creative ways. Can we still use Free the Genie? Yes, but only four people can participate at one time. Why only four?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. Businesses have recognized its potential for fostering innovation and tackling complex challenges. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 3, 2022

Innovators present creatively disruptive traits, disrupt old ways, and inspire better ways to do things. Being innovative is a growth mindset and a proactive attitude. They are passionate to connect, to learn, and to explore by understanding commonalities and appreciating uniqueness.

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Disruption Innovation Creativity Learning 101

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Project scheduling (aka Innovation Road-mapping) aligned with purpose and strategy. Project scheduling (aka Innovation Road-mapping) aligned with purpose and strategy.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this? Dyson engineers are never satisfied.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Michel van Hove is the co-owner and partner of Strategos , a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps companies grow. We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how to successfully foster a culture of innovation within a company. Tell us a bit about your background. What drew you to Strategos?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Softer metrics relating to participation and collaboration—such as the number of people contributing to ideas, how regularly they participate in innovation initiatives, and how frequently diverse teams are interacting—can give you insight into the progress you are making on building a culture of innovation, inclusion, and employee engagement.

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Tips Innovation Programs Crowdsourcing Culture of Innovation 49

eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. This is an idea “Generator.”

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

.” The stories of great innovation moments, overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles, and inventive breakthroughs will leave audiences empowered to innovate. The content is about how the best organizations do it; mindset, frameworks, project selections, and how to create the elusive culture of innovation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

The recently published Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation , provides practical techniques to break down many of the barriers to innovation in business. Innovation requires more than just idea generation. Do you like insights into innovation like this?

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 29

hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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Software Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team 40

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Innovation is one of the most popular terms used in the corporate world. It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 42

Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity. What is your definition of “innovation”: The application of ideas that are novel and useful. Innovation is not just Idea generation. Follow @ideatovalue.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Innovation is one of the most popular terms used in the corporate world. It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

Social enterprise networks may engage large and diverse groups, but like email, online forms and brainstorming, they lack purpose and don’t offer any direction or workflow for evaluating and implementing shared ideas. If you view innovation as just an idea generation and capture process, divorced from business execution, you won’t succeed.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. For those that can foster the trait, however, the incentives to become an innovation leader are obvious.

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Leadership Innovation Engagement Examples 60

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Even though it is especially there that creativity is so crucial! This post explains why it’s so important to be open minded to new ideas, because they might end up being revolutionary. In fact many great ideas, which today are widely accepted, were violently opposed when first expressed. And changing perspective is hard.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. They’re often called Innovation Labs. How should you deliver these steps ?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Innovation 22

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. For those that can foster the trait, however, the incentives to become an innovation leader are obvious.

Leadership 49

Leadership Innovation Engagement Examples 49

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 29

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement. Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 29

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 10, 2018

Consider tracking ideas, as in, who contributed, and the level of contribution. If you are interested in building a broader culture of innovation. If people know this is being done you will broaden participation. Check out these services.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 26

Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 22

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Even though it is especially there that creativity is so crucial! This post explains why it’s so important to be open minded to new ideas, because they might end up being revolutionary. In fact many great ideas, which today are widely accepted, were violently opposed when first expressed. And changing perspective is hard.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. Colruyt Group is a great case in point. Qmarkets: That’s awesome!

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

A well-crafted conference design that ensures maximum engagement, teamwork, creativity, networking, commitment, fun, and follow-up. storytelling, and creative thinking. The missing piece? Hint: We know how to do this.

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The same holds true in creativity. We want to resist the temptation of judging ideas depending on where it came from. If we like the person, we tend to like their idea. And what this means for you in practice is that you have to find a way to strip ideas of their identity. Yet, its very difficult for us to do this.

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Groups Creativity Idea Generation Culture of Innovation 40

Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2016

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. Mindset: Organizations don't innovate, people do.

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Training Creativity Innovation Culture of Innovation 20

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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way. This discipline of managing the innovation process harnesses creative ideas and uses them to build a steady pipeline of innovations that are reliable, repeatable, consistent, and profitable.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way. This discipline of managing the innovation process harnesses creative ideas and uses them to build a steady pipeline of innovations that are reliable, repeatable, consistent, and profitable.

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