Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. By the time this podcast launches, the book has already been #1 on Amazon, so congratulations Todd. 00:07:15 – How the book is structured in order to be useful every day and repeatable.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

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. Let’s dig into why each of these is possible. Avoiding Groupthink.

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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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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

Taken from the e-book, How to Generate Ideas. I have found that this method can work well for new product, service and marketing initiatives. It is quite remarkable how combinations that initially look unattractive can be molded into interesting propositions.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. Most have never learned the basics of ideation. Use an innovation book or online workshop to guide you step-by-step. Think of the difference a higher quality and quantity of ideas could make.

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Beyond the Obvious

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Killer Questions are used in the Ideation phase of FIRE. The point of the Killer Questions is to keep you focused on a specific facet of your organization, your customer, your product, or your operations, but at the same time keep your search for ideas expansive within that area. The Killer Questions will help […].

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Ideation workshops play a critical role in driving innovation. However, running an effective ideation workshop requires careful planning and execution, especially when considering different formats such as online and in-person sessions. These workshops have gained popularity due to their accessibility and flexibility.

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Planview

AUGUST 25, 2017

The thrashing in turn delays ideation—applying the collective intelligence of the organization to advance its charter—because the people who want to pursue collaborative innovation wrestle with (a) identifying the problems worth solving and (b) innovating within the context of the highest priority business challenges. Or, they will thrash.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Some teams may focus on research, ideation and development. Companies that survive do both.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A great book, written by Bill Sharpe, explaining the Three Horizons often comes to mind. You encourage and ideate many solutions, both possible and impossible, and then use convergent thinking to move towards a realizable resolution or solution.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2017

Jeff has been involved in Innovation research and teaching for more than 3 decades ( which is almost as long as I’ve been alive… ), is the author of multiple books on the subject of creativity and innovation, has worked with around half of the Fortune 500 companies and is known as the Dean of Innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks. The intent of the e-book is to offer a practical, direct takeaway of design thinking, the present practices and where it is possibly heading. I recall one comment I read: “ thinking does not convey action ”.

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Flying Fish Lab

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? Ideation is an exciting process. And then what comes next?

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Flying Fish Lab

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? Ideation is an exciting process. And then what comes next?

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 16, 2018

Well, Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant wrote a great book about the future of the workplace with Millennials called When Millennials Take Over that outlines some of their employment expectations and we’re looking at how they might relate to innovation. So how are you empowering millennial ideation at your organization? labor force.”

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2018

Often I read articles or books about top-down vs. bottom-up innovation and why one approach would be better than the other. After spending more than seven years in the collaborative innovation space, I would advise going hamburger style!

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

One of the great things about crowdsourcing ideas, however, is that it is not just an ideation opportunity, but it also help you conduct a new form of market research from which themes emerge. Finding ways to reduce costs here (like providing more secondhand text books) is a great start to reducing out-of-pocket costs for students.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival hammers the point home that innovation is the key to your company’s survival—in other words, “innovate or die.” Ensure that employees are sufficiently and accurately informed of the company’s strategies, goals, objectives, and the like.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). She is also the co-author of the recently released book Innovation Accounting, and the founder and CEO of GroundControl. Twitter: Tiffani_Bova.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

A speaker series can feature subject matter experts who are passionate about a variety of topics, including creativity, ideation, culture, innovation leadership etc. 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.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

In exchange, I will send a copy of Thomas Friedman’s new book , “ Thank You for Being Late ” to the first five people who respond. Additionally, sustainability ideation has been proven to increase overall innovation performance and competitive advantage. As a manager, how are you thinking about these issues?

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? For more information I recommend an insightful book called “ Wiser ” by Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 9, 2017

You can partner with supporters in answering difficult questions and meeting tough challenges much the same way you would in rebuilding a community, delivering a hundred meals, or reading a thousand books. With clear goals, a well-defined process, and a lot of teamwork.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 2, 2024

Readers & Writers: To contribute your own content and to browse amazing content – including articles/blogs, books, interviews, podcasts and videos, from our opt-in B2B thought leader, analyst and influencer community – Join Thinkers360 today ! Good marketing cannot exist without creative ideation and execution.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 26, 2020

These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room. In today’s post, we’ll cover yet another useful tool to help you collaborate virtually with your team members: digital templates for brainstorming and ideation sessions. KWL Chart Template. Conclusion.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s that time of year when organizations close the books for the current year and start focusing on the next. The different stages that you’ll encounter include: Ideate: collecting ideas from your source community. Our newest e-book, Developing Your Annual Innovation Strategy is sure to help you get there.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ideation is a creative process so it can be challenging to come up with great ideas on demand. 6) Six Thinking Hats The Six Thinking Hats technique was developed by Maltese inventor and philosopher Edward de Bono in his 1985 book of the same name. We’ve all been there. It involves exploring an issue from six perspectives.

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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. Interviews.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

Leveraging design-forward thinking and self-reflection, I ideated. Listen to the book “Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans of Stanford University. I credit this book for helping to illuminate a path forward for me. with a leadership concentration.

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Svava

MARCH 8, 2017

Robledo, author of many books such as Idea Hacks, The Secret Principles of Genius, and No One Ever Taught Me How to Learn. This post is written by I. Introducing Idea Hacks Have you ever wanted to come up with a lot of ideas, but not known where to start? For the people who […].

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

For example, the idea layer of the innovation stack might correspond to the ideation tools and resources available on the platform. For example, a platform might provide tools and resources for ideation, problem validation, solution development, and execution.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. I think Jeff addresses most of the common ones in the book, so I won’t rehash it here. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

The creator of MCPS is Gregg Fraley, the author of the creativity book, Jack’s Notebook. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas. Register now for the training , and stay tuned for the white paper and book about this new approach.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 17, 2017

While interviews can reveal a mass of valuable data, it’s easy to fall into indecision paralysis when you’re trying to pick the most important problems to solve and ideating various solutions. You’re all ideated out. Ideating solutions is one of the most enjoyable parts of the design process. Read a book. Action step.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It is worth picking up on Geoffrey Moores’s books around his thinking. I found this a great structure for different innovation “buckets.” ” There’s an incubation zone, a transformation zone, and a productivity zone. Secondly, I did like Ann Tracy.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 2, 2016

The same can be true of a lot of books on innovation. Fortunately, one of the better and more practical books out there is the Innovation Expedition , outlining the FORTH Innovation methodology. Full of case studies and examples from famous companies, but falling short in helping companies actually implement it themselves.

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Beyond the Obvious

MAY 28, 2020

At the end of the ideation part of the workshop, have the team members briefly talk through their individual ideas. Have them take their Post-it notes and place them on a flip chart or other surface that everyone can see. Get through this process quickly. You don’t need master’s dissertations. Start to group the Post-its […].

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