Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Ideation techniques serve as powerful tools for unlocking creativity, enabling teams to think outside the box and explore new possibilities. This article delves into the top ideation techniques beyond the usual suspects, providing insights into how these methods can be leveraged to foster innovation.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ideation sessions have become an essential tool for businesses striving to stay ahead. 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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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We speak about some interesting research into the personality profiles of innovators, and how understanding these can make groups work more effectively together. 00:08:30 – The personality profile of innovators and their creative process is based primarily on ideation.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

First coined by founder of the creativity research field JP Guilford in 1956 as two of his Structures of Intellect , and popularised following his research in the 1960s , divergent thinking is often used to assess how good an individual or group is in coming up with lots of ideas to a specific challenge.

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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

Ideation: “What’s Our Unfair Advantage?”. The ideation process will clearly be different depending on the type of parent organization. Ideation in the health and beauty industry will be different from ideation in the shipbuilding industry. Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

To scaffold thinking, participants should explore the domain first, and related domains, before group ideation. This might include brainstorming alone, prior to a group session. Empathy is great, because that immersion into a user’s thinking — scaffolds your thinking towards ideation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the book, author James Surowiecki builds the case for the efficacy of “intelligent groups,” or “…under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.”. Trust: Individuals must trust that the collective group will be fair.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

These top ideation activity templates from Miro can be used when working remotely or in the same room. In today’s post, we will go beyond our previous brainstorming templates post to share additional templates you can use in regards to ideation activities and exercises. Ideation Space. Lotus Flower Ideation Session.

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Beyond the Obvious

MAY 28, 2020

At the end of the ideation part of the workshop, have the team members briefly talk through their individual ideas. Start to group the Post-its […]. Have them take their Post-it notes and place them on a flip chart or other surface that everyone can see. Get through this process quickly. You don’t need master’s dissertations.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2020

Here is a brainstorm method I call ‘The Postal Service’ You gather a group of say 6 to 10 people on a Zoom meeting and explain the challenge. The group now reassembles in threes – typically in Zoom break out rooms. Each group of three shares their proposals – six in all. I recommend it to you.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You can use these pictures as a random stimulus where the group calls out ideas based on a picture. In small groups of two or three people pool their ideas and develop one or two to feed back to the whole group. In small groups of two or three people pool their ideas and develop one or two to feed back to the whole group.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. We will first elaborate on these 7 factors and then we will explain how an ideation platform such as Qmarkets can help in achieving this. Defining a Clear Innovation Strategy.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 30, 2018

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. Ideation: With a properly defined problem and a ton of knowledge resources, you can start ideating. Ideation also means connecting and building ideas so that they become even more impactful.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Other studies have also supported a link between higher rates of responses on ideation tasks and the creativity of the output. So what are some of the reasons there might be a link between quantity and quality of ideas: An effective exercise in many ideation workshops is to start by suggesting or writing out the very worst ideas possible.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It is just as useful in ideation sessions where a group needs to come up with new ideas. So the best time you and a group needs to come up with lots of divergent ideas, instead of playing devil’s advocate, try playing “yes, and” instead.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria carried out a study in which they sent out the same academic paper to three groups of reviewers. The second group were told the paper was written by Sabiou Inoua, a relatively unknown PhD student. The third group were not told who the author was.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Creative thinking exercises are sometimes done with a group and sometimes individually. Regardless of how they’re done, they provide a shared method of ideation for your whole team. It does this by adding a level of creative freedom that is hard to accomplish through individual ideation. Group Problem Solving.

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IdeaScale

MAY 11, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed blue sky ideation. Use the “Campaign Brief” to highlight articles, images, facts, quotes, videos or other material that can stimulate free-association and ideation. Incentivize quantity over quality by setting an ambitious target for number of ideas submitted by the group during the sprint.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training In his TEDx talk, Dr Friis-Olvarius also noted that when they tried this training with a small group of 25 experts, the improvement was over 71%. We therefore never attempted to publish it.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? The book focuses on how to develop and leverage smart groups, specifically how incentives can lead to best solutions.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming on a whiteboard.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By offering a structured approach to ideation, idea generators help bypass creative blocks and ensure that every voice, concept, or possibility is given the chance to shine. Collaborative platforms leverage group input to refine raw concepts into actionable plans. How Do Idea Generators Work?

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus. Let’s dig into why each of these is possible. Avoiding Groupthink.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2020

When organizations start to look for more innovation, we usually start with all kinds of creative endeavors, such as ideation workshops, hackathons, and idea challenges. A tight-knit group with a fun-loving culture is a common example of a survival mechanism that many innovation teams use.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Ideation workshops play a critical role in driving innovation. However, running an effective ideation workshop requires careful planning and execution, especially when considering different formats such as online and in-person sessions. These workshops have gained popularity due to their accessibility and flexibility.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2018

Even if your campaign goes through a round of ideation without resulting in any ideas that you’re going to implement, there’s still a wealth of information that you’ll want to parse, manage, and explore.

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IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2017

When someone embeds a dedicated innovation group at their company or organization, there are several different approaches to managing research and idea stewardship and numerous problems to be solved. Crowdsourcing helps scale and prioritize the effort of new ideas. They don’t have enough quality ideas. Is it popular? Can you measure its ROI?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 23, 2021

They needed it to align with strategic priorities, require strong clinical leadership and benefit from the ideas of a diverse group of VCH stakeholders. After four weeks of ideation, all ideas were evaluated by a multi-disciplinary team. The team began searching for a problem to showcase what the platform can do.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old). We also found out that their passionate about SSO, Ideation, Moderation, and IdeaScale’s excellent security features.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2018

The QED Group has been a pioneer in the area of Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting, an approach designed to foster continuous improvement through stakeholder engagement and change management. QED : Make sure to think out your process past Ideation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I bake into my schedule each day is at least 15 minutes to walk, pray and ideate. #2 Once when I was catering for a very large group, I needed to obtain a large clear serving platter. Studies have shown that taking breaks help to reboot your cognitive thinking. I had little time before the event to get one.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

It works well with groups of 4 to 6 people and is excellent for forcing unusual combinations of ideas and settings. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? The Random Word method is very good. Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 14, 2019

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. They then described this to the group for comment and feedback. In this case each delegate in turn would answer the four questions orally to the group and people could quiz them on various points before making their suggestions.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 18, 2018

The Ideas Exchange is a brainstorm method which works well for larger groups. It is easy to run, quick and effective. This is the procedure: The problem is clearly stated. Everyone is given two colored cards (or post-it notes). Say one white and one pink. Working silently and individually they write down a sensible.

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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. What is an Ideation Strategy?

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