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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.) Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. It’s okay to hate Brainstorming.

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

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Establish a Risk-Taking Framework : Create guidelines that encourage calculated risk-taking while maintaining alignment with the organization’s goals. Design Thinking Projects : Individuals or teams work on projects that require empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing – all key components of the design thinking methodology.

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The Future of Design Thinking: Embracing AI Tools for Success

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Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences. With the right AI tools for design thinking, teams can unlock new opportunities and drive success in their projects. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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Design Thinking Tools: how to use them to solve complex problems

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Desk Search: search for information on the project’s theme from different sources: websites, books, magazines, blogs, articles, etc. Generation Sessions: meetings with team members and stakeholders to carry out activities to present their views and share their experience with the project thus far. Focus on the problem.

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Economic Development Teams Need Innovation Training

Gregg Fraley

But in the spirit of an Economic Development “What If…” What If all those other Amazon bidders had put that same energy, and money, into doing innovation projects that are smaller in scale, but, new, different, and clever in their regions? What kind of innovation projects might they have done instead?

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Getting started with Innovation Metrics

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Metrics help managers make informed decisions based on objective data, which is especially valuable given the long-term nature and risk associated with some innovation projects. Process metrics – address those variables that affect the movement of ideas through the pipeline process. INPUT – PROCESS – OUTPUT.