InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“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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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. published a book called "Your Creative Power" in which he shared his secrets. One idea in his book, discussed in Chapter 33 on "How to Organize a Squad to Create Ideas", later became one of the most widely used creativity techniques in the world.

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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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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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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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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 18, 2022

These top Jeanne Liedtka’s books are a great source of information on innovation and design thinking. Design thinking books continue to be a popular topic on our blog, as many find them a useful way to learn about innovation and how to apply these techniques to organizational or personal challenges. Find it here on Amazon.

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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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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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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

To help innovation officers and wannabe innovators in their task, we’ve put together the best books to inspire you and help your company and workforce stay relevant. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Obviously, the books is rife with exciting anecdotes and case studies.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. So whatever your L&D plan for the coming year is, make sure that some training and workshops for innovation and creativity are the first things you book.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Amazon uses four simple steps to innovate as highlighted in the book Working Backward: Step 1: Define the customer problem or pain point. After defining the right customer pain point and problem, brainstorm and describe the ideal solution or product that will help. And this is exactly how Amazon innovates.

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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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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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