Brainstorming, Innovation Processes and Open Innovation

Putting Brainstorming in its place

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 18, 2016

I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. Strange that the activity that should be the easiest, most natural activity in an innovation process is singled out as the most complex, difficult and dangerous. Everyone knows this.

Brainstorming

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Open Innovation as a paradigm on itself is on its quest to touch base.

Open Innovation

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New Year’s Resolution: Catch Up on These Must-Read Innovation Blogs from 2019

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Check out five of the top women innovators of all time in this entertaining blog.

Crowdsourcing

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Webinars

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally.

Company

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99 Mental Barriers for Innovation Infographic

Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

Many of our students work on innovation projects for SME. When asked to organize an ‘open innovation session’, students enthousiastically start to read details about open innovation, open sessions and different ways of creating an open innovation-mindset within SME.

Open Innovation

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Projects Are How Innovation Happens

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. Lean is not innovation.

Project

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Effective Non-Contact Innovation

100%Open

JULY 7, 2020

Since 2011 we have hosted a grand total of 36 Union events, but Summer Union 2020 was the first of its kind as it was entirely virtual from farm to fork – from our first brainstorm to the execution of the event itself. The second breakout session was around the topic of how to fashion a new innovation process, exclusively online.

Innovation

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7 Key Benefits of an Idea Portal for Enterprises Copy

Qmarkets

MAY 2, 2024

Consider the massive brainstorming sessions at IBM, where employees, partners, and clients around the world contributed to innovation jams, or Dell’s “IdeaStorm,” which invited customers to suggest product improvements. What is an Idea Portal?

Idea Management

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7 Key Benefits of an Idea Portal for Enterprises

Qmarkets

APRIL 26, 2024

Consider the massive brainstorming sessions at IBM, where employees, partners, and clients around the world contributed to innovation jams, or Dell’s “IdeaStorm,” which invited customers to suggest product improvements. What is an Idea Portal?

Idea Management

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7 Key Benefits of an Ideas Portal for Enterprises

Qmarkets

APRIL 26, 2024

Consider the massive brainstorming sessions at IBM, where employees, partners, and clients around the world contributed to innovation jams, or Dell’s “IdeaStorm,” which invited customers to suggest product improvements. What is an Ideas Portal?

Idea Management

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How to Nurture Innovation in the Workplace

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

From there, teams define the problem, brainstorm solutions, create prototypes, and test them in real-world settings. This adaptability makes Agile ideal for fostering innovation in the workplace, as it allows organizations to refine ideas in real time and improve outcomes based on constant feedback.

How To

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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Here are details regarding innovation courses you can attend in the near future, Denver, August 28 – 31.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Looking for innovation opportunities in new digital technologies. Involving and engaging a wide group (Open innovation concepts and use of virtual ideation platforms). Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”). Hands-on practice of advanced innovation tools and techniques.

Design Thinking

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Innovating HR: How Hackathons Foster Organizational Change

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

For many organizations, brainstorming, building, and implementing new processes can take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to put into effect, and that doesn’t include the time it takes to train internally and get everyone on-board with embracing the change. We call it Project WOW. Project WOW.

Change

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50 Research Methods for Innovation Infographic

Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

In innovation processes, we usually run into companies that mostly use ‘questionnaires’ and ‘expert interviews’ as part of their ‘research process’ Sometimes, if engineers or psychologists are involved, they use experiments too. Now that’s a goal.

Technical Review

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Choosing the right innovation approach for your business

hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

Internal innovation teams or labs also use hackathons as an external source of innovation. These open-innovation based models are often combined to achieve the desired effect by companies. The Innovation Process. “In Broadly speaking, the innovation process has three key stages: Discovery.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.

Technology

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5 Corporate Innovation Tools and Tactics: How to Chose the Best Option for Your Company

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Here are a few of the benefits these social collaboration tools offer: Streamlined Brainstorming: Enterprise social platforms make it easy to create dedicated groups where authorized users can take part in brainstorming sessions. Combining long and short term approaches to innovation can result in gaining the best possible returns.

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LEAD Innovation Selects Qmarkets’ Platform to Help Global Businesses Crowdsource Solutions to COVID-19 Challenges

Qmarkets

APRIL 6, 2020

Once a company submits a challenge, it is open for other users from relevant companies to brainstorm around it and contribute potential solutions – adding comments and attachments (documents, videos, images, etc.) The innovation management solutions offered by Qmarkets are completed by a commitment to customer success.

Crowdsourcing

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Online innovation has become very popular in the past few years, and for good reason. This variety of perspectives significantly enriches the innovation process. To overcome potential resistance and develop open innovation, enterprise architects must deploy a range of strategies. Create Community. 27 May 2016.

Technical Review

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Online innovation has become very popular in the past few years, and for good reason. This variety of perspectives significantly enriches the innovation process. To overcome potential resistance and develop open innovation, enterprise architects must deploy a range of strategies. Create Community. 27 May 2016.

Technical Review

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What is Innovation Software?

eZassi

MAY 11, 2018

Different innovation software programs provide one central location for people from around the world to participate in the submission and evaluation process. Various functionalities are also meant to improve communication, collaboration and brainstorming. Idea Advancement.

Software Review

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4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate. Once alignment is in place, broaden the innovation team to include more people from across the organization. Have a cross-domain, diverse team.

Technical Review

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Best Practices for Leading via Innovation

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

For instance, Unilever (#10) recently unveiled its Open Innovation Initiative that solicits new ideas for designs and technologies to tackle a range of challenges around health, hygiene and the environment. They can brainstorm while playing ping pong, going for a walk or lying on a couch.

Innovation

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