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Top Ideation Techniques for Innovation Programs: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Ideation techniques serve as powerful tools for unlocking creativity, enabling teams to think outside the box and explore new possibilities. While some methods like SCAMPER and brainstorming cards are well-known, there are other effective techniques that can greatly enhance your innovation program.

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Practical Innovation throughout the business

Jeffrey Phillips

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. I happen to be a fan of the big, platform basis innovation programs, where an organization sets out to build innovation capacity as a core competency.

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Creative Thinking Exercise – Rethinking Shrimp

BrainZooming

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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Creative Thinking and a Day of Creative Self-Talk

BrainZooming

That conversation, and a related one on creative thinking and what is funny got me reflecting on a day in my life and the creative thinking and creative self-talk that goes on behind the scenes. As I started to jot down ideas from the day, it read like a bunch of creative thinking policies and non-policies.

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

BrainZooming

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. – Mike Brown.

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Creative Thinking – We All Have Our “Pizza Meeting” Weak Spots

BrainZooming

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II

Gregg Fraley

But none of them, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. You need focused imaginative, divergent, visioning, strategic, and conceptual thinking.