Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2022

The Year of Living Creatively is a two-month, online course for anyone committed to manifesting an inspired idea, project or venture and knows they need some support to do so. The next course will begin in September. An invitation to dive deeper into your own creative process. Who is the course really for?

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. 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. But it’s easier said than done.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. 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. But it’s easier said than done.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 18, 2021

Here they are: 1) Time; 2) Money; 3) Identifying a specific project. Those are the three most common reasons why people hesitate to enroll in The Year of Living Creatively , even if they understand the value of the course and have been referred by a trusted friend. Of course it will. That's it, folks. A total of 5.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One reason projects are poorly scoped is our clients’ discomfort with ambiguity. In this article, I’ll discuss three methods we use to reassure our clients when trust the process isn’t enough. Involve clients throughout the project. To bring these points to life, I’ll share an example from a 10 week project we completed in June.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 16, 2021

The Year of Living Creatively is a project-driven course. Each participant, before the course begins, identifies a meaningful goal, opportunity, or vision they want to breathe life into for the two months of the program. COMMITMENT: Your Year of Living Creatively project will be more like a marriage than a fling.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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Idea Champions

MAY 6, 2021

For the past two months, I've been facilitating an online course whose purpose it is to help people transform their inspired ideas, dreams, and ventures into reality. Baked into the learning process are some simple ways to help participants become aware of the places inside themselves where they may be tangled or challenged in their approach.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions." - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Coming from a filmmaking background where it’s a matter of course to see an army of people with specialized roles focus their efforts around bringing the story of the “project&# to life, it often seemed as if our practice as UX designers neglected an important approach. With a theme, of course. Go team, go!

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

"Mitch is part creativity shaman, Muse whisperer, writing coach, and mad poet. He employs all of these characters in the service of helping participants launch and bring to fruition their cherished projects." -- Mira Rubenstein. The Year of Living Creatively is a wonderful course. I had lots of fun reading the stories.

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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. Of course I grew up with my own films.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 18, 2021

Maybe you thought it would be indulgent of you to take on this project or had other responsibilities you needed to attend to. Simply put, The Year of Living Creatively is for anyone with a big idea, dream, vision, wish, aspiration, project, goal, or desire who wants to enter into a conscious process of transforming that "thing" into reality.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

"You can do anything, but not everything." -- David Allen Last year, I facilitate an online course whose purpose it was to help people transform their inspired ideas, dreams, and ventures into reality. Make a list of everything you don't know about your project. For starters, consider some of the following options. Be very specific!

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Mills-Scofield

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Often, the most difficult part of any creative process is just getting started; preparing for the tasks at hand by putting the necessary structures in place that will bring the project to fruition. Neologisms and provisional project titles, for example, create space where new ideas can emerge.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

IDEA Conference theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes Day 1 @idea09 | Day 2 @idea09 Innovation Parkour – Matthew Milan Insight is one of the most widely used and poorly understood concepts in the creative process. Of course, there’s no one “right way&# to do things in this dynamic environment.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

And of course, our much-loved full campaign creation wizard isn’t going anywhere. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Monthly Update Tracking Innovation management is a dynamic process where things are constantly changing and evolving.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

And of course, our much-loved full campaign creation wizard isn’t going anywhere. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Monthly Update Tracking Innovation management is a dynamic process where things are constantly changing and evolving.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

And of course, our much-loved full campaign creation wizard isn’t going anywhere. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Monthly Update Tracking Innovation management is a dynamic process where things are constantly changing and evolving.

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Planview

MAY 31, 2023

I started as a trainer and then was promoted to manage the Global Enablement Team, designing the training courses, coordinating and identifying training needs. I enjoy spinning fiber into yarn and use it in knitting and crocheting projects. I also enjoy the creative process of designing and sewing complex quilts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Consider implementing a blend of training programs, workshops, and online courses that cater to different learning styles and schedules. Co-creation workshops, beta testing groups, and customer advisory panels are effective ways to involve customers in the creative process.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. WRITE CRYSTAL CLEAR BRIEFS: I'm sure you've heard the phrase "garbage in, garbage out".

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2021

You have a big, beautiful idea that you want to manifest -- a cool project, venture, or aspiration that you want to get out of your head and into the world. Follow Your Calling: "Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. This just in! sometimes feel doubt, disengaged, or despair.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And in fact, the creative process at Pixar has a ton of lessons for both startup founders and corporate innovators. At Pixar, if you’re a director with a passion for a project you pitch a very simple minimum viable product – in this case storyboards which are just rough illustrations that help to tell the story page by page.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. WRITE CRYSTAL CLEAR BRIEFS: I'm sure you've heard the phrase "garbage in, garbage out".

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Idea Champions

MAY 1, 2021

You have a big, beautiful idea that you want to manifest -- a cool project, venture, or aspiration you want to get out of your head and into the world. Which is precisely what The Year of Living Creatively is all about -- a two-month online course for anyone committed to transforming their creative aspirations into reality.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. For the most compelling project now on the table, what are five criteria you will use to assess the viability of ideas presented to you? The reasons?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

To them, this stuff is usually interpreted as a "loss of freedom" -- the result, they imagine, of upper management trying to micromanage them or over-engineer the one thing they value most in the world -- their free-flowing, highly spontaneous, super-animated creativity. This, of course, is perfectly understandable. The reasons?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 15, 2016

REFRAME THE CHALLENGE: As an innovation catalyst, one of the biggest contributions you can make is to ensure that the innovators in your life have clearly defined their projects. Immersed in their own creative process, they lose perspective, with only the sound of their thoughts for company. or "How can we?".

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

To them, this stuff is usually interpreted as a "loss of freedom" -- the result, they imagine, of upper management trying to micromanage them or over-engineer the one thing they value most in the world -- their free-flowing, highly spontaneous, super-animated creativity. This, of course, is perfectly understandable. The reasons?

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Dedicated to the super-creative, very cool, and forward thinking people of Mirrorball.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

To them, this stuff is usually interpreted as a "loss of freedom" -- the result, they imagine, of upper management trying to micromanage them or over-engineer the one thing they value most in the world -- their free-flowing, highly spontaneous, super-animated creativity. This, of course, is perfectly understandable. The reasons?

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

day, if I’m going through a creative process there might be some days when certain activities are more appropriate than others, So if you’re at the beginning of a journey, it might be more about ideational, or refining ideas but at a certain point you might need to to get into the thick of actually pretty. including me.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

Innovation is, of course, difficult, and it usually feels a bit overwhelming when you’re first getting started with it, or even just starting to work on a new innovation project. For that, our blog and our online course The Innovation System are great resources. Innovation can’t be taught or learnt. The Reality. The Reality.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Does one need to take a Stanford course or read 35 books about innovation to get started? That provides context for the 35 books or course in advanced practice you’ll do later. For more detail on the course content, review the Eventbrite page and Register! No, but, you do need good training in the fundamentals.

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Innov8rs

JUNE 8, 2024

Supercharged ideation processes The creative potential of generative AI can help teams to generate hundreds of ideas for new projects, products and solutions in a matter of minutes. This ensures work isn’t repeated, and captures learnings and research findings from previous projects for use in the future.

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