Idea to Value

JANUARY 16, 2021

Creativity and innovation are key tools in the marketing professional’s toolbox and ones that aren’t always as accessible as we’d like. Marketing requires many types of creativity and innovation to be successful. There are several reasons marketers may feel blocked from their creativity. Stay Curious and Change Perspective.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 16, 2021

00:08:30 – The personality profile of innovators and their creative process is based primarily on ideation. 00:19:00 – The challenges of handovers and delivering change across an organisation. 00:22:00 – The need to involve people at all stages of change planning and working across silos.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Imagine what you think a “creative person” looks like, and what they behave like. You might see a trend developing here, and you would be doing the same thing that the vast majority of people do… … most people think that more extroverted, outgoing people are the most creative ones.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 17, 2021

How is it that some people are able to be creative on command, while other people find it so challenging to come up with new ideas? Many neuroscientists have tried to find out what changes in the brain when someone is able to improvise successfully, which would indicate that this is one brain region involved in certain creative processes.

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 18, 2023

"Creativity, Inc. The Expanded Edition)" by Ed Catmull, Pixar's co-founder and longtime president, and Amy Wallace is a must-read for anyone interested in the creative process and leadership. Ed Catmull teaches readers about the creative process and how it applies to everyone - not just creatives.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Joshua has been the voice of characters in over 100 animated TV shows and movies and has a diverse background across creative disciplines like music, theatre, and stage illusions. In today’s episode, we talk about how we need to become more comfortable letting go of expectations in order to unleash our innate creativity.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Often it became the promise of having creative ways to solve solutions and work in harmony with all the rational thinking that dominates much of business thinking today, DT sounded so appealing, it quickly became “oh, we need some of that.”. Yet it feels useful and needs to be more embraced for its creative value.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Working together means more creativity. Teaching people to think creatively may feel like a freeform exercise, and it can be. Here’s how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive. Look for someone who embraces this role and can roll with structural changes as needed.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. These barriers do not ‘magically’ change by delivering what I believe moves us to a better system for innovation, that of an ecosystem and platform architecture.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. Innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

Creativity started taking more effort than it had previously. My creative process at work started to go into overdrive. It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. The science behind creativity.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2016

In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Here I revisit the article with all-new evidence showing how close we are to artificial creativity. Over the passing years, this ability has grown by leaps and bounds. So what comes next?

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 17, 2015

Otherwise, you’re really just guessing, and all that data you have showing the spike doesn’t change that. Unfortunately, many designers are relying on data instead of creativity. Data won’t tell you what to do during the design process. Innovation and creativity have to happen before data collection, not after.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

When DT is applied to business or social issues it is by making creativity logical, you have its power of contribution, it can transform our innovative solutions. Design thinking is a highly creative problem-solving approach with a toolkit of methods but more a specific mindset where adapting is constant.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 15, 2023

The creative process is a most mysterious one -- the inner journey a person takes to transform an impulse, idea, or inspiration into a manifested form that other people can enjoy. For most of us, the creative process begins with the undeniable recognition that we are being called to express something -- to give shape to the invisible.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Should innovators be more attuned to details, nuances and changes in their environment, potentially allowing them to gather and process information uniquely to generate new insights and make more significant connections? This heightened awareness could contribute to their ability to navigate and adapt to changing circumstances.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2016

” Most of them scoff at it as an amateur question from a novice writer, but Tan, while discussing the flawed premise in the question, takes a strong and incisive look at her own creative process and how it’s changed, and hasn’t, over the years.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Importance of Keynote Speakers in Team Innovation Harnessing the collective creative power of a team is essential for innovation and growth within any organization. Keynote speakers play a significant role in this process. Their impact can often extend beyond the event, influencing long-term team dynamics and innovation.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 6, 2024

The impact of disruption, hyperconnectivity, and uncertainty, coupled with the pace of change, causes many people to feel fearful and anxious. Emotional energy is the catalyst that fuels the creative process.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. We’ve all been there. Think of an innovation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 14, 2016

He answered questions on a whole slew of subjects, especially the thoughts behind people’s favorite films, and his creative process. Here I have collected some of his answers which I believe can teach everyone about what goes on inside the mind of a true creative genius. Very basic things have never really changed.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 2, 2017

I wrote a post “ Needing to Think Applied Innovation Services ” recently, it was extending my view that innovation needs to change. I suggested in that post “we need to pull down what is needed” and design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit a specific need. Surely this has to change?

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Brunner

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This year, instead of an open “whaddya got” review of concepts, we tapped into artificial intelligence during a creative team happy hour. The creatives pulled those images into trusty old Photoshop for further refinement. Unless some online behavior changes, everyone is getting coal this year. Plus, it’s fun as hell.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. AI complements human creativity, enabling teams to translate complex data into meaningful insights and innovative solutions.

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Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. Check out our conversation to discover more about the REframe workshop and Vlad’s perspective on creativity and innovation. What does creativity mean to you?

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Whether you’re seeking to action a single game-changing idea or manage a high volume of concepts, this guide will provide practical steps to ensure success. Idea implementation is the process of taking a concept and turning it into an actionable plan that is executed to achieve measurable outcomes.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 21, 2021

The creative process is a most mysterious one -- the inner journey a person takes to transform an impulse, idea, or inspiration into a manifested form that other people can enjoy. For most of us, the creative process begins with the undeniable recognition that we are being called to express something -- to give shape to the invisible.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 11, 2021

Once a week, for eight weeks, participants in The Year of Living Creatively course receive three, online self-inquiry pages from the list below. Once submitted, the facilitator of the course responds, via email -- providing participants with yet another opportunity to dive deeper into their own creative process.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 11, 2021

If you are a reader of this blog, you most definitely are committed to becoming more innovative and creative. Covid-19, however, changed everything. That's when I had the realization that the FORM of my work needed to change, as well as the AUDIENCE. a GPS for the creative process. Corporations were out.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Here are situations where you can use it: If it’s a discussion for or against an idea, shift the protagonist and antagonist roles to see how the argument might change or develop. This is different, however. If it’s an interaction between people in different groups, flip the roles, characteristics, or natures of the parties.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. This shift allows design thinkers to focus on higher-level creative and strategic activities. What is Design Thinking?

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 3, 2015

” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators. Continual improvement.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Every great product or service in the market today started out as an idea in someone’s head, and it was brought to life by a group of creative, motivated, and inspired people. Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity. Knowing what ideation is and that it’s needed in the creativity process is one thing.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Every great product or service in the market today started out as an idea in someone’s head, and it was brought to life by a group of creative, motivated, and inspired people. Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity. Knowing what ideation is and that it’s needed in the creativity process is one thing.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Organizing the types of innovation can help streamline your processes and boost results. The pool from which innovation emerges is filled with big ideas and endless creativity. Thus, in a way, innovation is infinite, bound only by the depth of thought processes. It introduces predictability into the creative process.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If you like creativity and innovation, there are a lot of great books out there that cover just a wide range of topics. It talks about how the evolution of the industry will change and transform over time through innovation. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by Margaret Boden. So how do you know which ones to get? .

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This blog explores how Design Thinking, with its human-centered, creative problem-solving approach, can be pivotal in capturing and sustaining attention in a world where it is increasingly scarce. Each stage offers a distinct perspective and set of tools, paving the way for solutions that are not just creative, but also deeply user-centric.

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