Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Industry specific solutions: Offering solutions that are tailored for specific industries, such as healthcare or manufacturing, could increase adoption. For example, some software solutions may include features such as: Idea generation and submission: Allows employees to submit ideas and collaborate with others.

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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. These features help decision-makers identify high-potential ideas efficiently.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. They may also advise on innovation culture, ideation processes, and identification of new markets. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation consultants earn around $97,000 per year.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Instead of fighting over market share, companies that embrace value innovation redefine industry norms and unlock new growth opportunities. Well also break down the steps to implementing value innovation and examine how idea management and technology scouting can accelerate its success. What is Value Innovation?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Ideation is a creative process so it can be challenging to come up with great ideas on demand. We’ve all been there. Oftentimes, we ‘reason by analogy’.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Organizations across industries leverage this approach to generate ideas, solve problems, and gather insights from a large, diverse group of contributors. Idea management software (such as Q-ideate from Qmarkets) helps organizations streamline crowdsourcing with a proven, data-driven approach.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The two reports, one from CB Insights, who I believe do a consistently brilliant job at “tear downs” and evaluations of industries, markets or topics. Even the majority don’t have processes for ideation and development phases. Now that is shocking!

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the activities and skills which are required for a team to ideate, design, test, iterate and pilot a new innovation. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. These 23 capabilities are as follows: 1.

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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. Originally a coding challenge, hackathons now span industries, targeting various challenges and fostering innovative thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

First, we have the growing impact of technology on Design Thinking Technology continues to provide designers with powerful ideation, prototyping, and visualization tools. These ecosystems integrate various stages of the Design Thinking process, from user research and ideation to prototyping and testing.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

To maximize the ROI of your innovation initiatives, it’s vital to gain input from as many sources as possible and ensure all departments take part in a culture of ideation. This, in turn, made the prospect of total innovation management a practical exercise for companies in all industries.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

Collaborating with startups, research institutions, or industry partners can accelerate product development and inject fresh thinking. Each stage builds on the last, moving from raw ideas to tested, refined solutions ready for launch. Idea Generation and Validation Effective product innovation starts with strong idea generation.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. Businesses that adopt this usually start off by narrowing down their challenges, gathering ideas around them, reviewing said ideas, and then implementing them.

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Planview

JANUARY 23, 2018

The MIT Sloan Management Review article highlighted one component of the overall study, which we take a closer look at in this article: ideation rate. What is ideation rate? employees) in a given ideation challenge. More ideas are being explored and implemented – the most critical part of creating a culture of innovation.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. Businesses that adopt this usually start off by narrowing down their challenges, gathering ideas around them, reviewing said ideas, and then implementing them.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Verification and Validation: It’s critical to validate the generated ideas to ensure they align with your organization’s goals, are technically feasible, and have real-world applicability. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Enexis Group finds itself in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Five Stages of Design Thinking The Design Thinking process is often represented by five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Prototype : Building a version of one or more of your ideas to show to others.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 9, 2022

Despite its long history, creative problem solving is still incredibly valuable today and is used in many creative pursuits and industries. Using a trusted approach like creative problem solving can help you develop the ability to find these innovative solutions and generate many different ideas to use in your project or challenge.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team. The journey from the seed of an idea to its full-fledged implementation involves several stages, each demanding attention and expertise. Ideation and Creativity Ideation is the heart of innovation, where creativity blooms.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Employing AI can prove to be a valuable resource in innovation, design thinking, and ideation projects. The course illustrates how to employ well-known tools to create and refine ideas in response to various inquiries and objectives. With the aid of a blank canvas, you will have a wealth of ideas at your disposal.

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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. This information can inform your product development and marketing strategies and help you make data-driven decisions.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Spigit’s 2018 fall product release is here, complete with industry-first capabilities and exciting new enhancements! Boost efficiency with new machine learning capabilities for both ideators and administrators accelerating the idea generation process. The wait is over. This is important now more than ever.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions.

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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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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed? The dots most people leave out are from domains outside your industry and expertise. Innovation frameworks are important, but something powerful is being systematically left out of the ideation step. Every innovation process has an ideation step.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 26, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The approach can be applied to nearly every industry and discipline, making it a useful tool when brainstorming solutions to challenges and testing them in action. During the ideation or brainstorming process, you’ll work in teams to rapidly generate as many solutions as possible. Prototype and Test.

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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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Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients continue upgrading the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Idea Champions is one of the world's premiere facilitators and trainers of organizational brainstorming sessions.

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Divergent tools All the creativity tools focused on divergence try to generate as many ideas as possible during a short time span, usually a few minutes during an ideation session. A basic rule here is not to criticize or judge new ideas as they come, as negativity is probably the best way to kill any ideation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Generate a vast array of ideas and conceptual designs quickly. For a deeper understanding of how AI can enhance the ideation phase, explore our article on ai-driven design thinking strategies. Ideate AI models suggest a diverse set of potential solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. Digital Technology MoshPit finds undiscovered tactical and strategic innovation project ideas. This is not typical in the innovation services industry. This contemplative pre-ideation starts the group meeting at a more advanced stage of thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 15, 2016

The value of ideas is not valuable unless connected. We are long past “ideas for ideas sake” although I’m still told I’m very wrong here with all the continued calls to create those ideation ‘hotspots’ as that seems to engage those within organizations or so many think.

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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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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, we are mostly used to the new digital reality, yet many still feel that online meetings might be appropriate for coordination but not suitable for ideation. What is ideation? We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas.

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