IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

To do this, Betterific offers a platform where users join brainstorms where a challenge is posed to its 25,000 strong and growing crowd team. Each brainstorm offers prizes for the best ideas, and the ideas can range from overhauling menus to coming up with new use cases for items. Your team and ours are better when they work together.

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Sopheon

APRIL 25, 2024

Have you ever been in a magical brainstorming session? Depending on who’s invited, a typical brainstorming session may consist of throat-clearing, eye-rolling, and apathy. This is why you’ve likely never been to a magical brainstorming session. Ready to learn how? Me neither. They simply don’t exist.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING. In the same way, if we start a brainstorming session cold with a serious, uptight facilitator throwing out questions and problems to a stiff, conservative group, the chances of producing healthy ideas is minimal. Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their imagination.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

While many innovation experts focus on helping individuals learn techniques to come up with more ideas, like brainstorming or design thinking, the most valuable skill is being able to select which ideas to focus on based on the value they will deliver. Click here to learn the best ways to build psychological safety in your teams.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

To do this, Betteriffic offers a platform where users join brainstorms where a challenge is posed to its 25,000 strong and growing crowd team. Each brainstorm offers prizes for the best ideas, and the ideas can range from overhauling menus to coming up with new use cases for items.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2022

Being able to quickly add and erase information makes this possible and allows everyone to learn together. While classrooms and education are where whiteboards were created, the main purpose for using them was to learn and explain new ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Find out what the round robin brainstorming technique is and how to utilize it below. We’ve talked about brainstorming and ideation many times before, and that’s because it is an essential part of the innovation and design thinking process. What is Round Robin brainstorming? . Round Robin brainstorming templates.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Learn how to get those creative juices flowing with tools such as: Google Docs Visual Thesaurus Coggle and more. The right tools will net you with better ideas.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 23, 2021

It is how businesses learn ways to make the workplace more sustainable. Brainstorming is the first step to idea-sharing. Research shows 82% of Millennials support brainstorming meetings. Idea sharing is where innovation begins. It helps businesses gather ideas from inside and outside the organization.

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Betterific

AUGUST 22, 2016

In this installment of brainstorming with an innovator , we invite Laurie Steiner , who won our wireless innovation competition. I love doing these series, because we get to learn more about our members – what gets them going, why they do what they do, and how they come up with such creative ideas.

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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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As you can see from the visualisation below, these foundational elements fit into the three primary groups of people responsible for various aspects of innovation (Delivery, Management, and Leadership), while the Enablement stream is applicable to all people in an organisation. The Three Pillars of what makes innovation work in any company.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming. And this isn’t necessarily their fault, as most professional brainstorming facilitators are using rules which were first introduced in the 1950s and have long since been proven to be ineffective.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. In order to create innovative ideas, Osborne suggested that a group of people should engage in a "brainstorm", i.e. "using the brain to storm a creative problem—and doing so in commando fashion, with each stormer attacking the same objective."

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2018

Here’s how it happened and the lessons we can learn from it. It started with Standard creating an internal innovation group called Up Squad. Employees could brainstorm, spot issues other departments might face and have them filtered out before the idea got too far along in the process. Lesson #1: Spot The Right Problems.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip. I always suspected there was a closer connection.

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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. Brainwriting: Allowing team members to write down ideas individually before sharing with the group.

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Betterific

AUGUST 2, 2016

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. You can check out our first Brainstorming with a winner edition, where we interviewed Dan Pick.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Creative thinking exercises are sometimes done with a group and sometimes individually. Group Problem Solving. Group problem solving is possible both in-person and remotely, and is an exercise that benefits greatly from the use of an online whiteboard like Fresco. Improves Team Alignment. Conclusion.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. In physical workshops, groups try these things out together, often with a facilitator to help. Face-to-face magic: People often talk about the buzz that comes from actively collaborating as a group when doing design thinking work.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I decided to try to question it about design thinking and what were the most important things to learn. If I wanted to succeed in design thinking, what should I learn or do? Finally, it can be helpful to learn about different design thinking methodologies and tools, and to practice using them in real-world scenarios.

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Stephen Shapiro

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The traditional approach to brainstorming is wildly ineffective. Fortunately there is a better way… Brainstorming sessions are often the lifeblood of many corporate innovation efforts. Most brainstorming sessions start with ideas. Most brainstorming sessions do a poor job of thinking through the challenge.

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Stephen Shapiro

JANUARY 20, 2021

Everyone loves brainstorming. In todays’ episode, I explore the 5 problems associated with traditional brainstorming. The 5 problems with brainstorming: Poorly defined challenge. Group think. Learn more about Best Practices are Stupid. Learn more about Personality Poker. Lack of diversity. Event-based.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

A wealth of research has shown how powerful reflection is for learning and development. In my own research on high-impact leadership development programs, we found learning happened through reflection activities. Please contact us to learn more about the reflection workshop or session we can lead for your group virtually or onsite.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Also partly because the lessons of how it ought to be done have simply never been learned. Call it whatever you like!

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Since you have worked on innovation “from the inside,” what lessons have you learned from that process and how have they helped you assist other companies in their innovation efforts? You learn that having a big-picture view of what you want to achieve plus executive buy-in and sponsorship is critical.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Is it groups of people collaborating on the challenge together, or individuals working alone? Where the group works alone and never sees the anyone else’s solutions (no collaboration, labelled No Ties – NT). In particular, groups are capable of handling complex problems that individuals themselves cannot.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a great opportunity not just to learn from some of the leading innovators globally, but also a great chance to connect and have fun. Different organizations name and order stages slightly differently but everything moves between periods of broad brainstorming to concentrated decision making – sometimes in a cyclical manner.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this post, you’ll learn: Why Putting People at the Heart of Change Matters The Exciting Future Ahead for the PMO How AI Can Help Prioritize Impactful Work Meet Athena Smith Athena Smith hails from Georgia and is based in Atlanta. Then, we brainstorm ways to address it. ” Our approach is designed to be accessible.

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Svava

MARCH 1, 2022

Brainstorming workshops are powerful tools for ideation, collaboration and innovation as a team and company. Pre-pandemic most brainstorming sessions were hosted in a conference room, using a whiteboard and several post-it notes. In 2019 most of us learned how to make due brainstorming in fully digital meetings.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 22, 2016

Benjamin Franklin once said: “Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn.”. Brainstorming: The Walt Disney method. Brainstorming: The Walt Disney method. We love brainstorming—and the Walt Disney Method is a quite simple technique for everyone. According to Robert B. Ready, steady, go!

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

I love the association of the “fuzzy front end” with ideas, brainstorming and all those creative energies bringing ideas to life, but sadly unless that final ‘rugged terrain’ at the back end is not traveled we never see the innovation come to life in the market place. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part.

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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 9, 2018

But the most fun that you can have in innovation workshop these days is getting a group together to brainstorm ideas around an emerging trend to find out how it might impact your business. To learn more about innovation in the technology sector, download our infographic on the subject.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 24, 2014

It’s fun, simple, and quick; in fact, I recently tried it out with a group at the Re:Design conference and it seemed to work well. Take as much of the ten minutes as you wish, and make it clear that there will be opportunities to discuss your story and brainstorm after you’re done. Learning by teaching. Shapeshifter.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How many brainstorming sessions have you been in? You probably think brainstorming isn’t that bad. But research after research actually shows that brainstorming doesn’t work. Why Brainstorming Doesn’t Work. Five pairs of people can outperform one group of 10 on any task. What really came out of it?

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