Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 3, 2015

Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators. It is understood that creation becomes increasingly defined and tangible as the creative power flows from one realm to the next. The realm of ideation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

These tools facilitate seamless collaboration, ensuring that distance does not become a barrier to productivity and innovation. These tools are essential for fostering creativity and collaboration, especially during the ideation phase of a project. Response Times : Set expectations for response times to messages.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Businesses have recognized its potential for fostering innovation and tackling complex challenges.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Culture Change Understanding the Stakes: Innovation and Business Growth Culture change within an organization is not just about altering the workplace environment; it is a strategic imperative. Innovation is not simply about new ideas; it’s about transforming those ideas into value-creating strategies.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. Undoubtedly, transformation in pursuit of innovation within established corporations is a significant challenge.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2017

Having design principles is like having a set of constraints or guidelines to work with. In her post “Taming Blue Sky Ideation: Collecting Ideas that are Both Novel and Valuable,” Whitney describes how presenting a strong problem statement with clear constraints in an innovation challenge “breeds creativity.”

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. In this blog we will share how crowdsourcing, incremental, and breakthrough innovation can be used as part of your NPD strategy throughout the FFE stage.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS. We can define Design Thinking as: “A structured, human-centered approach to innovation which seeks to generate solutions that align user’s desires and needs with business value generation.” Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Join our innovation movement and solve grand challenges. We will present the tools, methods, and network you need to become an Innovation Master of Excellence. Welcome to the home of innovation, where for two days we will focus on how to solve the biggest challenges our planet will face in the future. Sales Summit 2018.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The original guidelines of brainstorming (defer judgment, quantity of ideas, build on ideas, combine, etc.) We’ve all been in a poorly organized spitball session. It feels energetic for a brief time, then, it devolves into a discussion, boredom, arguments, and ultimately little action. are ignored.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

There's no magic bullet when it comes to ensuring all your employees super creative and innovative. However, having a well-run innovation incentive program in place can help make the task of engaging employees much easier – read on to find out how. Some monetary rewards for innovation are huge. Money Talks – Tangibles.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations do have real differences and my aim is to draw these out in this series. Creativity and innovation : Participants must be able to generate creative ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

” “We acquire innovation.” Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. Go ask some of your co-workers who they think is responsible for innovation. Innovation is somebody else’s job. It’s not my job.” They don’t.

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Betterific

MAY 31, 2017

The idea, to keep clothes smelling good while being stored, was generated by Keonte Smith in a Betterific innovation challenge. But that campaign, and other ideation campaigns like it, didn’t require any creative problem solving. The Innovation Challenge – how and why it was constructed.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Rmukesh Gupta

OCTOBER 13, 2016

One of the most important skill that businesses need to develop is their ability to continuously innovate and stay ahead of their competition. One of the meta skills that organisations will need to develop if they are to flex their innovation muscle is the ability to do great brainstorming sessions. Click To Tweet.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

“We acquire innovation.”. Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. ” Go ask some of your co-workers who they think is responsible for innovation. Innovation is somebody else’s job. “It’s not my job.”

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

What if you had a magic button you could press which would make all your employees super creative and innovative. With the growing realization of the impact that innovation is having on business success , companies are scrambling to initiate innovation inducement programs. Some monetary rewards for innovation are huge.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

What if you had a magic button you could press which would make all your employees super creative and innovative. With the growing realization of the impact that innovation is having on business success , companies are scrambling to initiate innovation inducement programs. Some monetary rewards for innovation are huge.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, we are mostly used to the new digital reality, yet many still feel that online meetings might be appropriate for coordination but not suitable for ideation. What is ideation? We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Brainstorming” as a concept was originally devised by Alex Osborn as a group ideation activity. Alex Osborn’s book Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving is a classic foundational text if you’d like to get into the origins. What are the Rules for Brainstorming? I bet it will!

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

To add to their cup of woes, they have “mundane” tasks—finding top quality hires, retaining them, ensuring there are no pains areas in employee engagement, staving off all kinds of legal hassles—which require them to be the go-to person while being innovative, proactive, and brimming with energy. Build innovative tangible products.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 7, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Creativity and innovation : Participants must be able to generate creative ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems. What specific toolkit is required for cross-sector innovation collaborations?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Every suggestion is easy to understand and build upon, all participate positively, and a new era of ideation descends upon your organization. With this in mind, it’s important to identify and understand the unique - but formulaic - roles which participants fall into within all collaborative innovation ecosystems.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Every suggestion is easy to understand and build upon, all participate positively, and a new era of ideation descends upon your organization. With this in mind, it’s important to identify and understand the unique - but formulaic - roles which participants fall into within all collaborative innovation ecosystems.

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KindlingApp

MAY 13, 2015

Why is an innovation program better for idea management than a suggestion box or an Excel spreadsheet? Structuring innovation means building the foundation for idea submission. Around which topics will people innovate? Can’t we just jump into ideation? Structure breeds creativity. But why is structure important?

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Ideate: Ideas for circular models that go beyond existing solutions are created using our circular pattern cards, resulting in a full ecosystem with innovative solutions that enable to close the loop in a sustainable way. Generating innovative and sustainable ideas After having identified the state of quo, new ideas can be generated.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

25 years looking back at Innovation’s evolution I decided to hold a conversation with Google’s Gemini about how innovation had changed and hopefully progressed since I first became involved 25 years ago, when I lived in Singapore and was heavily involved in my MBA, which had innovation as an elective.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Professional innovators already use brainwriting — and a vast array of other tools — to brainstorm/generate ideas. Writers as well-intentioned as Annie Sneed (by all accounts a respected science writer) don’t know there is a whole culture related to how organizations come up with ideas and innovate.

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