Destination Innovation

JUNE 19, 2023

In his book, The Expectation Effect , David Robson produces a wealth of research to demonstrate that our expectations have remarkable power to influence the mind and the body. It appears that any activity or icebreaker can improve creativity in your brainstorm meeting provided that you tell people in advance that it will help.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice. Taken from the e-book, How to Generate Ideas. The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? The Random Word method is very good.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the most common and the most popular ideation technique in almost every industry. Brainstorming is all about the quantity of ideas and not the quality. The intention of a brainstorming session is to think collectively. However, freestyle brainstorming might not lead to substantial ideas.

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Beyond the Obvious

JULY 5, 2019

Now comes your challenge: getting this information out of the book and into your organization. I’ve given you my system for using the Killer Questions to generate the quality ideas that lead to great innovations.

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Idea to Value

MAY 4, 2022

Hal Gregersen , Professor at MIT and innovation specialist, found after interviewing more than 200 leaders in business, creativity and innovation that more effective than traditional brainstorming sessions were workshops where the first activity was not to define problems, challenges or generating ideas. Check your emotional temperature.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Prof Firestien has a new book coming out called Create in a Flash: A Leader’s Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:15 the foundational work of Alex Osborn, who invented brainstorming and then the Creative Problem Solving process, which had been validated by more than 150 research studies.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 18, 2024

Read Widely: Read books, articles, and content from different fields to gain a broader knowledge base. Brainstorming Sessions: Organize brainstorming sessions with colleagues to generate a multitude of ideas. Harness the Random: Deliberately introduce random ideas into your thinking. Read fiction and nonfiction.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

When thinking about creativity in teams, we often imagine a bunch of people in front of a flipchart throwing on the paper whatever comes to their mind – brainstorming. But, what actually is brainstorming? This is why: most ideas produced during brainstorming sessions don’t work in reality, because of a lack of essential filters.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Today, we’re proud to share the release of a new book authored by Doug Collins, VP of Innovation Architecture at Spigit. This book, titled Great Question! The book comes in four parts: Setting context. The post Spigit Executive Releases New Book appeared first on Spigit. Identifying the challenge. Framing the question.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. Reading the book is fine, but it's a little like watching a Bruce Lee movie and expecting to break bricks five minutes later. It's not for sale.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. Reading the book is fine, but it's a little like watching a Bruce Lee movie and expecting to break bricks five minutes later. It's not for sale.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 30, 2020

Josh is a talented Jazz guitarist, as well as having written bestselling books and starting and selling multiple technology companies. 00:14:00 – Role Storming, brainstorming while performing a character. Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a ritual in your company. Platypus Labs: [link].

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When is the right time for brainstorming in strategic planning , or really any other type of planning for that matter? Brainstorming CAN make sense throughout a strategic planning process. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning. The short answer?

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

How can we facilitate effective brainstorm sessions? The Prosci Adkar Model is explained in this book: On Amazon.co.uk. Do we prioritise new products, services, cost savings or productivity improvements? What software platforms are we going to operate and how will we use them? We have to teach people how to innovate. On Amazon.com.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 29, 2021

The brainstorm method called Similes involves identifying other walks of life which might have similar problems and then seeing if any of their approaches can be converted to suit your challenge. Before Gutenberg, all books had been laboriously copied out by hand or stamped out with woodblocks.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

There was this great infocomic a few years ago that talked about the virtues of online brainstorming. When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

So how do you level up the entire brainstorming capacity of your workforce? Host a Book Club, an Article Review and Feedback Sessions or a Video Review Party. Take a well-known book or recent article on innovation and discuss and dissect it. The Corporate Startup (book). Originals (book).

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you are looking for easy-to-buy, inspiring, heart-warming holiday gifts to buy your loved ones, you are in the right place -- books, card decks and online brainstorming sessions written and produced by Mitch Ditkoff. BOOKS Unspoken Word: $4.51 Storytelling for the Revolution: $16.36 Storytelling at Work: $15.12

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 10, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll share helpful resources for Jobs to Be Done framework training, including expert articles, videos, and books to check out. Jobs to Be Done Books, Toolkits, Videos, Guides. This downloadable canvas template features space to brainstorm for your own product/service challenge using the framework as a guide.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 22, 2016

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. Reading the book is fine, but it's a little like watching a Bruce Lee movie and expecting to break bricks five minutes later. It's not for sale.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2022

The Blue Ocean 4 Actions Framework is a very simple option for keeping brainstorming sessions focused and productive. So in this circle, place all of your team’s brainstorming ideas. The blank space is free space for brainstorming and other notes. Random Word Brainstorming. 11 Online Templates for Brainstorming.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Another time, we had someone come and teach us the fundamentals of brainstorming, such as withholding judgement of people’s ideas and going for a huge quantity of ideas (the result of which was hundreds of terrible ideas on Post-It notes around the room). Instead of looking for the old stories and advice, I wanted to find the truth.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Michael Michalko is one of the most highly-acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Genius), and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s secret to innovation is the focus of a new book, Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, two former Amazon executives who started working in the company in the late 1990s. After defining the right customer pain point and problem, brainstorm and describe the ideal solution or product that will help.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In my latest book, The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation , I define culture as “ the norms and values that shape behavior.” Bring on Virtual Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a simple process that includes generating lots of ideas, prioritizing them, and the selection the best of the best to pursue.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 16, 2019

00:18:00 – The issue with getting into a work routine, trying to perform tasks ‘correctly’ 00:20:00 – Using cards to trigger more effective brainstorming sessions, by removing the fear of the blank page. Finding Focus Book: [link]. 00:03:45 – The importance of letting go of expectations.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 14, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll share some of the most popular design thinking exercises and activities, validated by research shared in a popular design thinking book, the Design Thinking Toolbox. Learn more about JTBD theory in our article and then check out these top JTBD books for even more learning opportunities. Brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s secret to innovation is the focus of a new book, Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, two former Amazon executives who started working in the company in the late 1990s. After defining the right customer pain point and problem, brainstorm and describe the ideal solution or product that will help.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. For example, if your goal is to brainstorm a solution to a problem your customers are experiencing, perhaps the way to accomplish this goal is to decide on 3 high-impact ideas by the end of your session.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. E.g. suppose you have difficulty closing a particular sale.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Invite your customers and vendors to brainstorming sessions. Initiate cross-functional brainstorming sessions. Read odd books — having nothing to do with your work. Invite an outside facilitator to lead a brainstorming session.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Fifty years ago, a little-known children’s book introduced the “SCAMPER” model as way to help teachers foster creativity in their classrooms. Use SCAMPER for brainstorming sessions, or give it to people as part of an innovation toolkit.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 23, 2022

That is, why are the letters of a book backward but not upside down, and why would Feynman’s double behind the mirror appear to have a mole on the wrong hand? In addition, he created Thinkpak (A Brainstorming Card Set) , which is a novel creative-thinking tool that is designed to facilitate brainstorming sessions.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. E.g. suppose you have difficulty closing a particular sale.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 10, 2022

It was selected as the best innovation & creativity book of the year by 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight). The book contains 40 strategies for driving innovation. It will be like reading the cliff notes version of the book – except it will take 2 months to read.

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