IdeaScale

MAY 11, 2017

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how we can draw from brainstorming techniques to configure IdeaScale to support your organization in generating and collecting fresh and novel ideas. Last week, I enjoyed the latest episode of the Stanford Innovation Lab podcast about effective advance planning for a successful brainstorming session.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 29, 2022

Researchers have found that Zoom, Teams and other videoconference tools can stifle creativity. According to a new research study just published in Nature , collaborating with someone using screens instead of sitting face to face resulted in both participants being less creative.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In the fast-paced and competitive world of business, innovation is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity. One powerful method I use for generating innovative ideas is called Tri-Force Ideation. Building on Strengths The first step in this brainstorming process is to identify and leverage the key strengths of your company.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. Discovering New Ideas.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

You want to hold a meeting with the team you manage in order to generate some really creative ideas. With you there, it is very hard for your team to switch from normal meeting mode to creative brainstorm mode. It is hard for the manager to change from their normal management persona into a creative cheerleader.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Today I want to begin telling you about ‘ True Creativity ‘ As I mentioned last week, I have made it my mission to help a billion people transform their ideas into reality. When I was still working at my previous management consulting company, we had several workshops with facilitators to help make the team more creative.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. Unlike free-form brainstorming, SCAMPER provides a scaffold framework that guides teams through a wide array of mental shifts. What is SCAMPER?

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 10, 2020

As an author and trainer, I have run master classes around the world on lateral thinking and innovation. Advanced Brainstorming Techniques. Boost Your Personal Creativity. The post Online Courses to Grease the Gears of your Brain appeared first on Destination Innovation. Please take a look at these courses.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

Brainstorming sessions sound like a great idea, especially for breaking out of creative ruts, but too often brainstorming fizzles out. The main reason for this is that organizations don’t actually use any of the ideas that come out of brainstorming sessions. The key is to have the right brainstorming tools in your kit.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Green Hat Creative and exploratory. Six Thinking Hats in Innovation In innovation projects, decision-making is rarely linear. This model is particularly valuable when: Generating and filtering creative ideas. Green Hat: Brainstorm alternative delivery models or pricing strategies. Red Hat Emotional and intuitive.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

The Design Thinking Toolkit provides practical tools and frameworks that help organizations innovate, solve complex problems, and drive growth. It guides users through a structured process that includes empathizing with customers, generating creative ideas, prioritizing solutions, and prototyping for rapid learning.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Brainstorming Sessions : Organize brainstorming sessions with colleagues or friends. Reflecting on your experiences can help you identify patterns and potential innovations. Nature and Outdoor Activities : Spending time in nature can stimulate creativity. appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 4, 2019

Brainstorming is the start of innovation, but sometimes you need a little push. These brainstorming tools will help you find the creative momentum you need. Google Docs offers a sort of collaborative scratch paper for brainstorming, while Google Sheets offers a more organized approach to sort ideas and leave notes.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

In order to succeed as a professional innovation manager, you need a variety of skills. From being able to manage bureaucracy to coming up with ideas in the first place, here are the 6 Most Important skills you need to be an effective innovator: 1. Creativity. Innovation relies on the implementation of a creative idea.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 30, 2020

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with multiple entrepreneur Josh Linkner, about how to apply discipline to creativity. Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a ritual in your company. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Everyone can be creative.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Takes a Holistic View of Problems.

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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. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. Forms Instant Relationships: Automatically connects ideas and demonstrates their relation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

So, your company is investing in innovation, but do you lack the confidence to be creative? A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s a peek at how strategic planning can jazz up your business performance: Key Metric Wingin’ It With a Plan Revenue Growth 2% 7% Market Share 5% 12% Operational Efficiency 60% 85% Want the scoop on mixing strategy with a hint of creativity? Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice. The post Harness the Random with this Method appeared first on Destination Innovation. The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. The Random Word method is very good.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to creative ideas, they need to be executed. This is one of the major problems with companies trying to become more innovative: They think that all they need to do is generate more ideas. But in order to become innovations, or even just make an impact on the world, the ideas need to be executed.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 19, 2023

These participants then took a standard test of creativity in which they had to generate original uses for common household objects. It was not the smell of the spice which improved creativity. Icebreakers and Energizers online course on Udemy The post Expectation can Improve Creativity appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing advanced tools and methodologies to enhance creativity and efficiency. As an innovation professional, you can leverage AI to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and predict future trends.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022. With the global economy stalling and fear of an upcoming recession, many companies have significantly slowed their investments into new innovation teams. Ensure everyone in the organisation still feels creative.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

You should brainstorm strategic and innovative options. Here are some questions which I use in corporate brainstorm meetings. They will generate creative and sometimes drastic suggestions. What is the most dramatic business innovation you have seen in the last two years? How can we surprise and delight customers?

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 10, 2018

Short video with ten tips and techniques to help you use lateral thinking for idea generation and creative problem solving. The post Ten Ways to use Lateral Thinking for Creative Problem Solving appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Innovation Rate Anything fresh on the menu lately? For a deeper dive, see how to marry business strategy and innovation. Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. For further intel, drop by our piece on integrating innovation into planning.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Corporations launching internal innovation programs.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 14, 2019

“Creativity is contagious. Creativity is the true driver of innovation. In order to develop your business and always stay on top of the game with innovative ideas, promoting and preserving creativity in your team is of vital importance. Brainstorming is a process, which allows you to come up with new ideas.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Almost every business leader will tell you that they value innovation and that it is a positive & important factor for their company. However, why is it then that approximately 96% of innovation efforts fail ?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brainstorming doesn’t work. And that is because most brainstorming sessions are not designed to deliver results for the company , only for the facilitator. You may have seen the four basic rules of brainstorming, taken from Alex Osborn’s Applied Imagination : The Four Rules of Brainstorming: Go for Quantity.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

Is your organization centralized or decentralized when it comes to innovation? In a company where innovation is centralized, a specific department is tasked with innovating for the entire organization. So how do you level up the entire brainstorming capacity of your workforce? G et Out of the Building.

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