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

IdeaScale

“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. Check back next week for tips on how to help your crowd generate fresh and novel ideas.

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Brainstorming Rules (What are the Rules for Brainstorming Sessions?)

InnovationTraining.org

“Brainstorming” as a concept was originally devised by Alex Osborn as a group ideation activity. Today, many people just consider individual idea generating (or thinking) as brainstorming – when it was originally meant to be a group experience…a brainstorming session. What are the Rules for Brainstorming?

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Unleashing Innovation: Mastering AI-Driven Design Thinking Strategies

Leapfrogging

The Five Stages of Design Thinking The Design Thinking process is often represented by five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Prototype : Building a version of one or more of your ideas to show to others.

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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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How to develop innovative ideas together – online

The BMI Lab Blog

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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The Future of Design Thinking: Embracing AI Tools for Success

Leapfrogging

Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Generate a vast array of ideas and conceptual designs quickly. For a deeper understanding of how AI can enhance the ideation phase, explore our article on ai-driven design thinking strategies. Ideate AI models suggest a diverse set of potential solutions.

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Ten Simple Ways to Establish a User Friendly Ideation Process

Idea Champions

Bottom line, if you want to increase the odds of developing BIG IDEAS that will turn into new products, new services, and better ways of doing business, you will need to plug the holes or, better yet, invest in a new hose. The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?