Idea to Value

MAY 4, 2022

Hal Gregersen , Professor at MIT and innovation specialist, found after interviewing more than 200 leaders in business, creativity and innovation that more effective than traditional brainstorming sessions were workshops where the first activity was not to define problems, challenges or generating ideas.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Encourage brainstorming sessions that prioritize defining the problem first. Hold collaborative workshops to refine and validate the problem statement. Jumping to Solutions Too Early Clearly define the problem before developing solutions to avoid misaligned efforts.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For teams which are struggling to overcome risk-averse behaviour, organise a workshop to help them identify the biases and behaviours which may be holding back their creativity. innovation framework can be taught to teams in a simple series of workshops, and implemented quickly within 1 – 2 multi-week sprints].

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs. Ultimately, we like to design our workshops for our clients and can go in many different directions.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s amazing what you can achieve when a bunch of brilliant minds come together like a brainstorm in a teacup. Regular Idea Bashes : Create a rhythm by scheduling these brainstorm fiestas often enough to keep the ideas flowing. Gather a Brainy Bunch : Toss together team players from varied departments to cook up new ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

Design thinking is defined on Fresco as: “a process in which teams attempt to understand their customer, reimagine problems, and brainstorm solutions previously out of reach. Most typical ideation exercises surround brainstorming and textual ideation, which is inherently the easiest way to get down as many ideas as possible.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 24, 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? What happens to the list of great ideas from the workshop?

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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. Because successful brainstorms aren’t about technology at all. Get focused.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 24, 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? What happens to the list of great ideas from the workshop?

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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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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. Interested in templates for brainstorming that you can even use with a team online? In this guide we will share some of the most popular brainstorming frameworks. Blue Ocean 4 Actions Framework. 5 Whys Template.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Virtual or Onsite Naming Workshops. What’s in a name? It turns out, a lot!

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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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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Learn about this brainstorming technique and find resources below. Sometimes called “negative brainstorming”, “ reverse brainstorming ” is one approach to problem-solving sessions that can be a useful way to explore different options in an innovation or design thinking project.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When I was still working at my previous management consulting company, we had several workshops with facilitators to help make the team more creative. In one case, we had a professional Improvisational Comedy performer come in and teach us how to Yes, And… to build on each others’ ideas.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Mix intense brainstorming with chill-out time and just-for-fun chats. Include Varied Activities: Mix it up with workshops, breakout sessions, and team games. Team Tasks : Get into team tasks that make folks collaborate, like brainstorming or solving challenges together. Set clear goals to keep everyone on the same page.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 14, 2019

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. Gather a cluster of strangers and share this brainstorm method. We ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

We have designed innovative reflection workshops and training to guide your participants through reflecting on themselves and their experience. Please contact us to learn more about the reflection workshop or session we can lead for your group virtually or onsite. Reflection Workshop & Reflection Activities Conclusion.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer. It’s lunchtime and a colleague asks you what you’d like to eat.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

Teach you how to design a VR workshop using an app called Zoe Immersive. In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation. One workaround is to brainstorm out loud in VR while recording the session. How to Run a VR Design Thinking Workshop.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To get the convo flowing: Hands-on workshops: Create spaces for members to swap ideas and get creative. The post The Power of Creating Executive Team and Board Synergy first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops. Encourage a culture where everyone feels like they can speak up about their thoughts and doubts.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Brainstorm ideas for your next campaign. Restore calm and focus in a noisy workshop or seminar. Start a prototyping workshop to bring community ideas to life. There are numerous use cases for these exercises — here are some examples: Inspire your users and help them with ideation.

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InnovationManagement

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The post Five Innovation Workshop Questions appeared first on Innovation Management. But there’s another piece of simple advice that we give to all of our customers when they’re preparing an innovation challenge: seed your community with a few ideas before you launch.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 27, 2017

If you aspire to be an intrapreneur, (an intrapreneur is an employee of an organization who follows entrepreneurship training to create a new product or service) this framework can help you and your peers not only brainstorm but also prototype and finally implement your idea. Next, apply your creativity.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Traditionally the practice of design thinking has involved bringing people together in a physical space to share their customer insights, brainstorm ideas with countless post-it notes, and work together to create prototype concepts of new solutions to then iterate and evolve with customer feedback. Tips for getting great results.

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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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

What better way to do this than with a creative workshop? Another way to foster innovation is to have your employees working and brainstorming together through the medium of education. A creative writing workshop is a great example of this. Teach Something Creative. Employees Teaching Employees.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions.

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Svava

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Online Brainstorming need a bit of a boost? Improve Your Online Brainstorming Workshops Brainstorming workshops help solve a number of challenges, source new products, procedural improvements and more. Make sure you present it and allow for questions at the very start of the workshop.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 9, 2022

When it comes to developing innovative solutions to unique organizational challenges or your own life, using tried and true methods to brainstorm ideas and find the best possible solution can be a great way to achieve your goals. Want personalized help using this method in your workshop or innovation event?

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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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 11, 2019

Most “innovation” and “creativity” training and workshops (even the most expensive ones) don’t actually produce any tangible results! Brainstorming sessions , where a facilitator will help you fill an entire wall with post it notes of “Great Ideas!” (but but then disappear when it comes to trying to execute any of them).

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Svava

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

How to get the most from your team Setting up a brainstorming session can seem easy enough. Svava’s digital tool makes your brainstorming sessions more fun, and higher engagement leads to better ideas. I have gathered the best techniques for succeeding with your brainstorming session. Or is it really that simple?

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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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Planview

JULY 3, 2019

Are you utilizing concept development workshops as part of your ideation processes? This blog post will help you understand the value of concept development workshops and the steps you can take to find out if those winning ideas you have are the right ones to implement. Why bother with these workshops at all?

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