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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

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Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Increased Range of Thought.

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

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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. The most common pitfall when running a “general” or “blue sky ideation” campaign is to assume this means you no longer need constraints or a problem statement.

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

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How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? Regardless of how your organization is structured, you must invest time in teaching your employees how to think creatively and be more innovative. Here are a few of my favorites: How To Build Your Creative Confidence (video). The Corporate Startup (book). Originals (book).

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What is Ideation? Definition, Process, Importance and Strategy Best Practices

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What is Ideation? Ideation is defined as the process of generating, developing, and refining new ideas for a specific goal. It is a creative and brainstorming-driven approach to exploring potential solutions to problems, creating innovative products or services, or identifying new opportunities for business growth.

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How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation

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It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation. Uses Visual Elements.

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Innovation isn’t supposed to be fun

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It’s not about being “creative”, but actually “creating”. When organizations start to look for more innovation, we usually start with all kinds of creative endeavors, such as ideation workshops, hackathons, and idea challenges. As a rule of thumb, most creators are also creative, but the reverse simply isn’t true.

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Here’s how you can come up with outside the box innovations

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There is, without a doubt, lot of creativity involved, but it’s without a doubt a skill that can be learned. If you’ve ever participated in an ideation workshop, it’s quite likely that you’ve heard a facilitator tell the participants that “ there are no bad ideas ”. They force you to be creative. Constraints create creativity.