IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

This is an inherent element to in-person collaboration, as most rooms have a whiteboard or sketchpad that can easily be utilized. Online whiteboards provide the perfect alternative to an in-person collaboration experience and create a space where creativity and innovation are enabled to succeed. No shared collaborative space.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Innovation, just like many other brainstorming exercises, can be subject to serious creative blocks.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 21, 2021

Brainstorming is an art and science. Over the past 25 years, I have run hundreds of brainstorming workshops for high-performing teams. The problem is that most brainstorming sessions stop with a big list of ideas. There are many collaborative tools out there for generating ideas. I’m not going to write them here.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These can range from simple brainstorming exercises to sophisticated digital platforms powered by artificial intelligence. Collaborative platforms leverage group input to refine raw concepts into actionable plans. Online Creativity Apps: Platforms with built-in exercises and templates designed for structured brainstorming.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. The process includes hands-on collaboration in the form of prototyping and testing. There are many design thinking exercises and activities.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

They have found that in brainstorming sessions, focussing on quantity of ideas led to more quality ideas as well. So what are some of the reasons there might be a link between quantity and quality of ideas: An effective exercise in many ideation workshops is to start by suggesting or writing out the very worst ideas possible.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Since innovation is becoming a business discipline, training must encompass much more than just the brainstorming phase of innovation. Academic training without hands-on exercises won’t make as lasting an impact. Further, the exercises should require a range of tools and techniques and emphasize collaboration.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Flipping Minimal and Abundant.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

When thinking about ways to drive innovation and design thinking within your business, there is no single right way to do it, but the Saturate and Group model is one of the best tools to use to get started with brainstorming good ideas. . . You can access the tool freely as a download here.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

I was educated as an engineer and have always believed that finding new ways to solve problems required creativity as well as systemic thinking and collaborating with people that have diverse backgrounds. They focus on skill building without having a “landing place” for employees to exercise those skills.

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Innovators Alliance

JANUARY 2, 2025

Try creative techniques like a reverse brainstorming session to identify solutions or create a business highlight reel celebrating key moments. These exercises provide clarity on what to build upon. Dedicate time to brainstorming bold aspirations and use future-back planning to identify necessary steps to achieve them.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. This exercise can either be done in person or online.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. Typically, a group will begin a brainstorming session recommending that everyone should feel free to share whatever ideas they can think of. But there is a huge problem with this.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Imagine Scenarios : Run through exercises that have the team considering different futures and how theyd tackle them. Picture the Future : Lead exercises that help line up everyones sights on the long game. Do a SWOT Dive : Break down Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats to zero in on what matters.

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BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. When Brainzooming starts customizing a collaboration, we shift into design mode. That’s why we invest time developing the structure and exercises that lead to the desired end result.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Exercise during your lunch break. Invite your customers and vendors to brainstorming sessions. Take more breaks.

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100%Open

JUNE 28, 2018

Those percentages are very difficult to prove but nevertheless, they are probably even higher when you are communicating and collaborating across different continents, where communicating across cultures is 100% about eye contact. The exercise is conducted as follows: Invite everybody to stand up and walk around the space.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Prepare brainstorming exercises in advance so that your hackathon team can hit the ground running. These exercises should push people to think differently and open their minds to new concepts.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

In contrast, Design Thinking takes a collaborative and iterative approach that involves empathy, experimentation, and continuous improvement. The next step is to define a shared vision for the future, which is a collaborative effort that aligns with the goals of both teams.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Enhanced Collaboration : Offsites encourage open communication and teamwork, fostering a spirit of cooperation that can lead to innovative solutions. Increased Morale and Engagement : Offsites can also serve as a team-building exercise, boosting morale and increasing engagement among team members.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Problem Solving : Addressing complex challenges that the company faces in a collaborative manner. Innovation : Brainstorming new ideas and creative solutions to drive the company forward. It’s about aligning on the purpose, setting a clear agenda, and choosing an environment conducive to strategic thinking and collaboration.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. In planning how we would help these companies, we realized there were three possibilities whenever we asked people to answer a question inside our strategic thinking exercises: The answer could show their strategic thinking was in the right direction.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. Icebreakers and Team Building Activities Kickstarting your offsite with icebreakers and team-building exercises is a strategic move to warm up the group.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. So we pushed back.

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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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100%Open

MARCH 24, 2020

We believe that this situation could be pivotal in creating a watershed moment, whereby online collaboration rapidly accelerates and pushes for a cultural shift in terms of our daily work structures. And what of our online Collaboration Styles? Twice Daily 100%Open Team Standup .

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. There are simple exercises you can do in a team setting that will help break down the voice of doubt and hesitation. Warm up exercises. I noticed something else. The pep talk.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making. Inspire Collaboration : They foster a collaborative culture that encourages the sharing of diverse thoughts and perspectives. Decision Making Making choices that drive business success.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. What questions or exercises can I eliminate to save time while still getting enough input in all the areas we are covering for each innovation strategy? 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

These profiles, called personas, are three-to-five paragraph descriptions it developed describing specific individuals it serves, seeks to hire, or collaborates with in serving clients. Small groups prepared the personas in advance by brainstorming answers to ten questions on each audience member.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Brainstorming Ideas – How Many Ideas Per Television Series?

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s a vibrant journey, bursting with collaboration, strokes of genius and a collage of viewpoints. Strengthening Bonds Across Business Units Avatars can ease departmental tensions, paving the way for new relationships and interdepartmental collaboration. This article originally appeared on Forbes.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic planning exercises about a new initiative. Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. From Latest to Earliest.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For instance, roundtable discussions or brainstorming sessions can give each member a platform to speak. Fostering Collaboration and Teamwork The synergy of a well-aligned team can lead to breakthroughs in strategy development. Facilitate a session where your team can collaboratively identify each of these elements.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. The right atmosphere can foster engagement and collaboration. It’s also about fostering dialogue, collaboration, and reflection.

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