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Five Magic Imagination Guidelines

Gregg Fraley

Five Magic Imagination Guidelines. It occurs to me that most people have the desire, deep down, to use their imagination more — but have no idea how. You hear it so often that it becomes one of those things that you really don’t think about it. I believe that many of us actually fear our own imagination.

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Taming Blue Sky Ideation: Collecting Ideas that are Both Novel and Valuable

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I frequently hear from some clients the desire or need to hold “general” or “blue sky” campaigns. “We Just submit the idea and we will decide if we can make it happen.”. In two blog entries, I provide guidelines to help you go broad, avoid pitfalls, and collect ideas that are valuable and relevant to your organization.

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The 10 Commandments of Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. The original guidelines of brainstorming (defer judgment, quantity of ideas, build on ideas, combine, etc.) Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. It’s okay to hate Brainstorming.

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AI-Powered Design Thinking: Accelerating Innovation and Insights

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Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. AI complements human creativity, enabling teams to translate complex data into meaningful insights and innovative solutions.

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Unleashing Innovation: Mastering AI-Driven Design Thinking Strategies

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It is a methodology that combines creative and critical thinking to allow information and ideas to be organized, decisions to be made, situations to be improved, and knowledge to be gained. This shift allows design thinkers to focus on higher-level creative and strategic activities. What is Design Thinking?

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Innovation Unleashed: Developing a Culture of Innovation in High Potential Leaders

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Identifying High Potential Leaders To cultivate a thriving atmosphere that embraces innovation, it’s crucial to identify and nurture high potential leaders who can drive change and inspire creativity within an organization. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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How to Solicit Employee Ideas Using the IdeaScale Platform

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Actively soliciting ideas, surfacing new ones, discussing the process, making it easy to find ideas, and offering ways to organize ideas in the front and back end will all help bring more creativity to the fore. Yet, for idea generation, in particular, you need to bring everyone to the floor.

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