Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Colruyt Group is a great case in point. Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. Eef: Sure, no problem! Qmarkets: Great.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Originally rooted in software development, hackathons have evolved into a strategic tool across industries, fostering creativity, team collaboration, and idea generation under tight timeframes. Inspires Innovation : Rapid idea generation and prototyping can yield viable solutions.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Crowdsourcing allows businesses to gather ideas, insights, or solutions from a large, distributed group rather than relying solely on internal expertise. The definition of crowdsourcing refers to the process of obtaining ideas, solutions, or services from a large, distributed group of people, typically through an open call.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them. “TRIZ is a problem solving method based on logic and data, not intuition, which accelerates the project team’s ability to solve these problems creatively” Using the FORTH Method to Navigate Your Innovation Journey.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Internal processes arent designed to support something new, your project gets deprioritized in favor of more urgent initiatives or leadership priorities change. If leadership pulls support, the project is dead in the water. Because when its time to scale, things can start slowing down. Does this sound familiar? So, what can you do?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

Often you are the initiator and the evangelist as well as the project manager and team leader. We provide our clients with a step between brainstorming ideas and picking out the most promising ones called “domaining.” ” Individual ideas are rarely big enough on their own.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I do like the fact that Bensaou creates a new framework that he calls the BTI Framework, which shows what and how three different groups within a company participate in innovation - Frontline innovators, Mid level coaches and Senior leaders. What is interesting in his process is that there is no specific idea generation "step".

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Idea Generation Once the problem is defined, the next step is idea generation, where teams brainstorm a wide range of potential solutions. Implementation Planning Once the best ideas have been selected, the final stage involves planning for implementation.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovative companies use innovation to differentiate themselves by: Conducting regular idea generation workshops within business units. The most innovative companies flex between different styles of creating opportunity by: Sponsoring employees for taking risks and championing new ideas through to execution.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions. Additionally, ensure that the venue has the necessary facilities and technology to support your sessions—such as reliable Wi-Fi, projection equipment, and breakout rooms.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Problem: Game-Changing Ideas Get Stuck at Square One Without a reliable system for testing early-stage ideas, orgs are leaving innovation ROI on the table. Gartner has found that business leaders underfund transformational projects by ~33% due to ineffective innovation project evaluation methods.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work. Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

Additionally, using your audience for idea generation can lead to direct investment on the part of the customers, and they will be more interested in seeing the process unfold from idea to product, which can inherently make your digital marketing more successful. Your firm is showing that you truly care about your consumers.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To identify these barriers, consider conducting surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one interviews with employees at all levels. This includes reviewing how ideas are generated, developed, and implemented. Key questions to consider might include: What systems are in place to capture and evaluate new ideas?

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate. Census Bureau.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, set aside time and resources for employees to work on passion projects or host regular brainstorming sessions where all ideas are welcome. This could include the number of new ideas generated, the percentage of projects moved to the pilot stage, or the number of successful innovations implemented.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Idea Generation ChatGPT can help you generate new and innovative ideas by using its advanced natural language processing capabilities to analyze large amounts of data and information.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Whether you’re looking to solve a specific problem, develop a new product, or simply encourage creative thinking, the approach you take to an ideation session can significantly impact the quality and feasibility of the ideas generated.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

But what we should be asking, in much the same way the "lean startup" folks are asking about bare essentials and "minimum viable products", is: what is the minimum investment it takes to make my (team, product group, line of business, company) more innovative? It does not start and end with idea generation.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 29, 2016

To ensure diversity and freshness people are rotated out of the group after a maximum of four years. They encourage ideas from within and without Shell. The criteria they use in evaluating ideas are as follows. Novelty – is the idea fundamentally different? Value – could the idea generate substantial new value?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

They help groups (or an individual) efficiently explore many more opportunities and ideas than they otherwise might. Three groups rotated through posters focused on their shared services organization’s internal branding. That meant more than forty perspectives from which to generate ideas for potential behaviors.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Neutrality allows a group to be fully expressed within a structure, a plan. What happens, for instance, when someone is dominating a group? Seven Facilitation Fails.

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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

If you are just starting your innovation journey it requires a core group of dedicated people to make innovation happen. Isn’t putting some dedicated resources on developing ideas for the company’s future at least as important as battling the urgent issues of the present? Recruit a team with passion and drive.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Does your team have regular standup meetings to discuss current and upcoming projects?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Streamlined management of innovation projects. This is a one day deep-dive, hands-on workshop in facilitation of innovation projects.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Is your organization doing continuous projects? ” “What!

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seven Idea Generation Fails. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. Brainstorming is all group work. 80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. GFi guarantees its work.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

From identifying the problem to brainstorming ideas and taking action to solve your problem, this simple framework can be incredibly easy to follow and helpful when you begin planning and implementing your own innovation or design thinking project. Interviews, focus groups, surveys, and other means can help you accomplish this.

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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. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. To start an innovation project. To identify profiles for innovation projects.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The team cranked out 320 ideas, wrote up 20 as elaborated concepts with mini-plans, and we roadmapped innovation projects for the next three years. The other project did my heart some good, helping small business people recover from Covid19. This is not rocket science, but it’s work that needs done. It’s brilliant.

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Roadmap Technical Review Innovation Processes Technology 98

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I personally find this solution has not worked as well as intended, as they, the internal consulting team, over time, get sucked into issues detracting them from being the internal force of change, desperately trying to influence the leadership but eventually ending up as being allocated specific projects as project overseers or implementers.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Analysis and Synthesis: grouping collected data and reframing the initial situation based on transforming data into insights. Analysis and Synthesis Tools.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. The content is about how the best organizations do it; mindset, frameworks, project selections, and how to create the elusive culture of innovation. Making innovation a continuous effort.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

There are various instruments at your disposal, ranging from surveys and questionnaires to interviews and focus groups. This could take the form of company-wide recognition, rewards, or highlighting successful projects and the teams behind them. Your choice should align with your specific goals and the size of your organization.

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