Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

From the invention of the lightbulb to the creation of the smartphone, some of history’s most significant breakthroughs began as simple ideas. But what is ideation, the process behind these transformative moments? What is Ideation? Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ideation sessions have become an essential tool for businesses striving to stay ahead. These sessions aren’t just about generating ideas; they’re about fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration that can lead to breakthrough solutions. What Is an Ideation Session?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, hackathons have gained traction as powerful events for rapid problem-solving and innovation. Originally rooted in software development, hackathons have evolved into a strategic tool across industries, fostering creativity, team collaboration, and idea generation under tight timeframes. What is a Hackathon?

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 9, 2022

While divergent thinking, or brainstorming, generates lots of potential possibilities, convergent thinking involves evaluating and choosing the most promising one. Oftentimes, we suffer by combining these two processes into one, stifling idea generation. Four principles of creative problem solving.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Additionally, we’ll explore why software dedicated to idea management is not just suitable but ideal for serving as a hackathon platform, ensuring that the best ideas generated don’t just stay as concepts but evolve into impactful solutions. What is a Hackathon?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It encompasses five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. By incorporating AI-driven design thinking strategies , businesses can enhance their ability to empathize with users, define key problems, ideate solutions, prototype concepts, and test their effectiveness with greater accuracy and efficiency.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming. Perhaps the most damning comment is simply “why did we bother?”

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 8, 2019

At least your leadership team will not be able to rationalize that everything will be okay because you have an active idea generation engine. Reason 1 – it’s not an innovation session, it’s an ideation session. First, define the customer of the ideation event. Ideas are inexpensive to create but deliver no value.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Back in the 1970s, Colruyt pioneered the use of a telephone-based system to give their workforce a voice, and now in 2019 they are using Qmarkets’ cutting edge idea management platform to facilitate ideation on a whole new level… Colruyt Group’s Subsidiary Stores and Franchises.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

During the ideation or brainstorming process, you’ll work in teams to rapidly generate as many solutions as possible. You are not necessarily looking for the best solution, but simply trying to generate as many ideas as possible. The next steps are to test out those ideas in practice through prototyping.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. Participants in MoshPit sessions do extensive preparation, including research and ideation, alone, before the group event.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Our naming challenge can be directed towards anything that needs a name – from a business, product, website, feature, or even an event. This serves to bring team members together in the process and structure the ideation itself. Design Thinking for Naming.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It requires a deliberate approach, using structured techniques that not only generate fresh ideas but also solve complex problems and bring those ideas to life. Ideation Techniques to Generate Innovative Ideas Generating fresh, innovative ideas is at the heart of any successful enterprise.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Hackathons have become a go-to strategy for driving innovation, solving complex challenges, and generating fresh ideas in a short time. As these events have evolved, three main formats have emerged: online hackathons, offline ones, and hybrid formats combining the two. That’s where idea management software plays a crucial role.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Training, a skilled facilitator, and frequent practice are essential to effective ideation sessions and creating a broad and systemic organizational innovation culture. Get Training!

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session. If this is done, the brain will make fresh combinations and innovative ideas emerge. Be Prepared.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Common integration points include: Idea Generation and Screening : AI can analyze trends and patterns to suggest new product ideas or enhancements and screen them for feasibility based on predefined criteria. Metric Before AI Integration After AI Integration Time-to-Market 12 months 8.4

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Idea Champions

JUNE 27, 2016

Big thanks to Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, for this timely article on the importance of deferring evaluation during the ideation phase of a brainstorming session. Enforcing the ground rule of "deferring judgment" during the idea generation segment of a brainstorming session is very important.

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 22, 2018

At the award event that concluded the SOS Alarm hackathon, CEO Maria Khorsand announced that the company would move forward with all five concepts presented instead of just the winning team’s concept (which was the original plan). Making some noise on social media later helped get Swedish IT magazine IDG to cover the event ( link ).

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At the award event that concluded the SOS Alarm hackathon, CEO Maria Khorsand announced that the company would move forward with all five concepts presented instead of just the winning team’s concept (which was the original plan). Making some noise on social media later helped get Swedish IT magazine IDG to cover the event ( link ).

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Ideate by challenging assumptions and creating ideas for innovative solutions. Continuous Improvement and Adaptation Innovation is not a one-time event but a continuous journey. Iterative approach: Implement an iterative process where you can refine ideas and solutions through regular feedback and testing.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Source: The Power MBA Innovation management is the systematic process of managing innovations within an organization from ideation through to implementation. It involves a structured approach to fostering creativity, developing new ideas, and ensuring these ideas are effectively integrated into the business.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

We were at a social event. The information they gather is a necessary jumping off point for invention and ideation. Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. Tell me what I should be thinking about.” The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere. Then he popped the question.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A mind map of mega trends and technologies, discussing current events and possible trajectories. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Trends Facilitate Focused & Efficient Ideation: Within innovation, knowing where to focus your ideas by basing them on trend data is extremely efficient.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

It’s more like a focused psychedelic ideation experience, but without drugs. I’ve spent the last ten years figuring out how to do that artful scaffolding — and do it consistently. This is not Post-It Note brainstorming folks. It’s better than drugs! What you will get is business results.

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Planview

JANUARY 30, 2018

When we think about ideation as a business discipline , there’s one topic that’s important to talk about when it comes to the value a company derives from an innovation program: scale. In other words, more people from different parts of the business (or outside the business) participating in ideation challenges. Scale is good.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

The course includes extensive take home materials, including: a shell innovation cycle and innovation mandate documents, idea development templates, post-session coaching, and strategy and ideation session design consultation (after the course). Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”).

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. The weekly sessions are FREE. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

One key to Pfizer’s ability to generate impressive employee engagement – nearly 80% of its 90,000 employee workforce have participated across 200+ ideation challenges – has been its worldwide network of 250 employees, better known as champions. Key takeaway. New Program of the Year.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

One key to Pfizer’s ability to generate impressive employee engagement – nearly 80% of its 90,000 employee workforce have participated across 200+ ideation challenges – has been its worldwide network of 250 employees, better known as champions. Key takeaway. New Program of the Year.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

Let’s start by reviewing the 5 steps of the Design Thinking process ( Empathize / Define / Ideate / Prototype / Test ) from a VR use case POV. In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation. A group of happy participants.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Find ways to pull intrapreneurs out of the woodwork through idea challenges, hackathons, or events that spark their curiosity and entrepreneurialism. Help them see the structure and support provided if they decide to pursue a new idea. Ineffective brainstorming/idea generation efforts. Ideation is hard.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It has three major phases discovery, ideation, and execution. Similarly, you will need a robust process to collect and evaluate ideas in the ideation phase. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it.

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hackerearth

JUNE 29, 2017

“Idea Management is a structured process of generating, capturing, discussing and improving, organizing, evaluating, and prioritizing of valuable insight or alternative thinking that would otherwise not have emerged through normal processes” (Karlsson, 2010). Why is idea management important? How can you manage ideas?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Find ways to pull intrapreneurs out of the woodwork through idea challenges, hackathons, or events that spark their curiosity and entrepreneurialism. Help them see the structure and support provided if they decide to pursue a new idea. Ineffective brainstorming/idea generation efforts Ideation is hard.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

For results in idea generation you need a system, a framework, and a wide, deep chest of tools. How can you generate great ideas with a more systemic approach to “brainstorming”? But wow, this is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to effective idea generation. That’s the good news.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Find ways to pull intrapreneurs out of the woodwork through idea challenges, hackathons, or events that spark their curiosity and entrepreneurialism. Help them see the structure and support provided if they decide to pursue a new idea. Ineffective brainstorming/idea generation efforts. Ideation is hard.

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