Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? 2 Creative Thinking Is Work. Both are energizing.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. After all, they are the ones who know your business and your customers best.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

The core is not so much in what we know or own but in what we can learn from all that surrounds our core and this is increasingly found at the edges and externally. We have data inflows, analytic solutions, and insights, all crowding in on us to deliver sometimes overwhelming choices. The edge is our new emerging adaptive core.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We need to switch from fossil fuel into renewables, and the whole shift of significant invested assets for power generation and distribution have to accommodate an energy mix that provides us electricity certainty 24 x 7. That sense of collective identity has a more significant chance of generating new innovative solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seven Idea Generation Fails. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. Also partly because the lessons of how it ought to be done have simply never been learned.

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Brunner

MARCH 18, 2021

Q8) Are you focused on customer-centric idea generation? . 1 = we come up with occasional ideas, 10 = we continuously engage a community of customers to help us innovate. . . Q9) What is your approach to testing and learning? . Q10) How often do you focus on all the points raised in questions 1-9?

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Ideation is done using tools like mind-mapping, sketching, and brainstorming to create possible concepts. ? Prototyping, Testing, and Iterating: The iteration process tests and refines the ideas generated during the ideation phase, while prototyping helps push the process of delivering a tangible outcome forward.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Human designers with varied backgrounds and expertise can engage in interdisciplinary collaboration more effectively, bringing together insights from psychology, sociology, ethics, and other fields. User Engagement and Feedback : Building relationships with users and collecting meaningful feedback is human-centric.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 97

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Here I want to explain my thinking behind this and provide the visual cascading steps I feel help us succeed in innovation. They need to have a ‘flow’ of knowledge, clarity, and a sense of scale in their learning and dialogues that promote greater successful innovation outcomes as the sense of ongoing mission.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s why I’ve recently published, What Matters At Work , a learning Guide that helps all of us who are determined to provide outstanding leadership and service some important ways to do so. Build agreements by a consensus of those engaged. We define collaboration here as “ working together to achieve a common goal or purpose.”

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Read on to learn more about this fascinating initiative and understand how you might be able to utilize an idea management platform to deliver similar results for your company. The Necessity of Growth Qmarkets : So Michiel, please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your role at Enexis? Michiel : Sure!

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. WHO ARE WE?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. WHO ARE WE?

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

Schedule a phone conversation with us to explore the possibilities. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. THE PROCESS FROM HERE: 1.

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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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Idea Champions

JANUARY 26, 2020

Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions. Ideas generated in our sessions have resulted in millions of dollars of revenue and cost savings for our clients. HERE'S THE PROCESS GOING FORWARD. We schedule a conversation to explore the possibilities. WHO ARE WE?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 16, 2017

The core is not so much in what we know or own but in what we can learn from that surrounds our core and this is increasingly found at the edges and externally. We need to start constantly at understanding the customer, their needs, their individual journey by discovering and engaging with them. Let me explain.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

He later evolved it into a broader model involving opportunity identification, opportunity analysis, idea generation, idea selection, and concept definition — much of what has today come to be known as Innovation Management. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

CREATIVE CORNER Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. LET’S DO LUNCH Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 31, 2017

This week, we take a look at Employee Engagement - the benefits of employee engagement and how to successfully create employee engagement in your organization. Letting employees know the targets of the employee engagement strategy means more than simply notifying them of the program’s formal existence and its targets.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Necessity of Growth Qmarkets : So Michiel, please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your role at Enexis? From the necessity of growth the most creative ideas are often formed.” Qmarkets : Those are certainly principles that also inspire us at Qmarkets! What made you choose us over the other alternatives?

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

Know Thy Customer: Long before we ever get into a room with participants, we do our due diligence -- learning about WHO we are serving, WHAT they expect, and HOW our time with them will be the most significant. Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Or online polls.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Necessity of Growth Qmarkets : So Michiel, please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your role at Enexis? And there is always an enthusiasm from people working out their own ideas, the willingness to start small and grow it from there into something amazing. What made you choose us over the other alternatives?

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the ideas generated all-too-often underwhelm? If so, Idea Champions can help. Our Conducting Genius training is a highly engaging, customizable learning experience that can be adapted to fit the needs, social styles, and experience of just about any participant. The stickiness of the learning.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Employee engagement presented the second major challenge. This left employees sceptical of the idea that future programs would be any different. Want to learn even more about this unique finance process improvement project?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Know Thy Customer: Long before we ever get into a room with participants, we do our due diligence -- learning about WHO we are serving, WHAT they expect, and HOW our time with them will be the most significant. Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Or online polls.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 16, 2023

What I think most of us enjoyed the most were the weekend campouts, where we could sleep in tents, roam in the local forest and, best of all, build fires. We used to challenge each other to see who could start a fire with the fewest matches. Some more intrepid scouts had learned to create sparks by striking flints.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. You might even decorate the area with pictures of employees as infants to suggest the idea that we’re all born spontaneous and creative.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

If you have a big conference coming up and want to make sure it is has major impact, Idea Champions can help. We design and facilitate conferences that make a big difference -- memorable events that are totally engaging, enjoyable, and radically increase the odds of your conference outcomes sustaining over time. Here's how we do it: 1.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

Know Thy Customer: Long before we ever get into a room with participants, we do our due diligence -- learning about WHO we are serving, WHAT they expect, and HOW our time with them will be the most significant. Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Or online polls.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

Know Thy Customer: Long before we ever get into a room with participants, we do our due diligence -- learning about WHO we are serving, WHAT they expect, and HOW our time with them will be the most significant. Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Or online polls.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

Know Thy Customer: Long before we ever get into a room with participants, we do our due diligence -- learning about WHO we are serving, WHAT they expect, and HOW our time with them will be the most significant. Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Or online polls.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Qmarkets sought an interview with Eef Wilgenhof – one of the main leaders tasked with overseeing the IDnet project – to learn more about the rich history of innovation at Colruyt, and the role that Qmarkets’ platform has to play in building the future of the company. Qmarkets was the best match for this idea flow process. Eef: Right.

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