Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification? To optimise creative sessions.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

He is an entrepreneur, artist , teacher, author and an innovation consultant and not your typical Innovation consultant. He is the author of the books, “ The Way of the Innovation Master ” & “ The Insane Journey ”. He is not your typical innovation consultant or author. Why is he on the show.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

So part two of my reflective summary: Design thinking becomes the best friend to innovation, strategically and tactically. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In our innovation activities there is an even greater pressing need to build into our thinking the ability to find more dynamic capabilities. It is a constant innovator’s dilemma to think through and get right. We need to manage with one eye on austerity, the other on emphasizing the need for innovation.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

While innovation is now very topical it doesn't appear to be a well understood term. Some people support innovation, others are frightened of it and many just don't care- they think it's someone else's responsibility. One member also said "Everyone loves innovation but no one wants to change". Top definitions 30.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

In today’s world, where innovation is the lifeblood of success, the challenge lies not in having ideas but in generating truly transformative ones. They can be employed in various settings, from corporate brainstorming sessions to individual creative projects. Source: Board of Innovation 2.

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Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

REframe co-founder and trainer Back in November 2018, Innovation Walk had the pleasure to interview Vlad Dumitrescu-Petric? , Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. What does creativity mean to you?

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 9, 2022

Yet this enhancement of creative thinking exists completely beneath the radar screen. In other words, people are more creative after they forget about the problem for a period of time, but they don’t know it. Sometimes it came while they were traveling, shaving or thinking about other matters.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zoomstorming is a 60-90 minute online brainstorming process that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, problem, or opportunity. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool."

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Idea Champions

MARCH 25, 2022

Free the Genie is a 60-90 minute online creative thinking session that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, commitment, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, or opportunity. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool."

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What are open innovation hubs? Startup, Corporate Venture, Open Innovation Hubs: who is who in the world of digital transformation. It is in this context that terminologies such as Startup, Corporate Venture and Open Innovation Hubs arise. Open innovation hubs. After all, what is a Startup? What is a Corporate Venture?

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). For corporate innovators, there is a unique set of WFH concerns and questions. Can innovation be done effectively in a WFH mode? Some innovation tasks are naturally individual, computer-based and easily performed in the home.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

My intention not to call attention to myself, but to let you know that I've been deeply immersed in the creative process for decades and, along the way, have learned a lot about what enables the origination, development, and implementation of new possibilities and what obstructs it. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2021

The service we've created is the distillation of 33 years of being "innovation provocateurs" for a wide variety of forward thinking organizations. Think of it as a kind of chiropractic adjustment for your creative mojo OR, if that analogy doesn't work for you, a GPS for your sometimes challenging creative process.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

Free the Genie for Teams is a simple, online, collaborative process that enables teams to unleash their collective genius and generate breakthrough ideas in service to a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. question for your team to brainstorm.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Innovations happen everyday — one of these days, it might be the next big thing that puts you out of a job. Being pre-active and as it applies to innovation the disrupter, however, is easier said than done. More often than not, we are taught conformity rather than innovation. Culture of Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

This is particularly engaging because solving problems is directly rooted in our evolutionary need to innovate. But breakthrough innovations are only realized when you discover and focus on the real issue at hand. True innovators question if they’re even actually solving the right problem. Sherlock Holmes. Apply the Six Ws.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Through innovations, the knife was transformed from a stone in a dirt to that useful gadget in modern-day kitchens. This process of thinking that generates or recognises ideas and alternatives to problem solving that are workable or functional is called creativity. Without creativity there is no innovation.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is lateral and creative thinking. It’s the creativity you use in understanding, interpreting, and acting upon the information you have that will set you apart. No matter the industry you are in you can approach your challenges in novel ways in order to find new, innovative solutions.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

A structured ideation strategy can be the driving force behind a company’s ability to innovate and remain competitive. Rather than leaving the creative process to chance, a well-crafted ideation strategy provides a roadmap for systematically generating, evaluating, and implementing new ideas.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And so, in the spirit of full disclosure, here's the back story of The Year of Living Creatively -- a bold, new online service of mine with the potential to make a profound difference in your life. Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you -- something to adapt to your particular company/team culture/ It's not like you have to implement all ten of them. That is IF you want to increase the odds of you and your team increasing the odds of innovation actually happening on-the-job. The results?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

The long-standing view in psychology is that positive emotions are conducive to creativity because they broaden the mind, whereas negative emotions are detrimental to creativity because they narrow one’s focus. when trying to stimulate creativity. But this view is too simplistic for a number of reasons.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

And besides, even a casual scan of the literature will reveal an extraordinary number of innovation-leaning people who joined forces with others to conceive something brilliant that none of them could have conjured on their own. Think Jobs and Wozniak. How can brainstorm sessions be improved?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking. Do not lose heart, oh facilitators of the creative process. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process. Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Identifying and communicating clear criteria before engaging a mass of people in a "creative process" is another way to plug one of the big holes in your ideation hose.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation. Most organizations have a surplus of creative ideas that are never implemented, and more diversity is not going to solve this problem.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. What ARE the holes?

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