Brainstorming on a White Board: Prompts and Techniques
Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about [...]
3 First Steps From Idea to Your Start-up
Startups are all the rage these days. More and more people are starting up their own small businesses in the hope that they can grow their company and make a [...]
Finding the Ideation and Product Development Balance
Ideas are great, but what about the followup? The value of an idea is limited by being able to execute it. At some point, you have to stop ideating and [...]
Can Ideation Build Community?
Ideas pull us together. The history of communities shows they're formed around ideas. Those ideas can be anything from colonizing space to just the idea that this particular place on [...]
Mindfulness and Innovation
The start of a new year is so motivating. A fresh start, a new leaf - we usually enter a year with a lot of good intentions and plans to [...]
Brainstorming with IdeaScale
In my previous blog post, I discussed blue sky ideation. In this blog post, I'll discuss how we can draw from brainstorming techniques to configure IdeaScale to support your organization [...]
Brainstorming Tools on Steroids: Using Triggers to Stimulate Ideas
Triggers are a more effective way to brainstorm. Most people are familiar with brainstorming, the process of coming up with as many ideas as you can to solve a problem [...]
5 Ways Crowdsourcing can Help You Maximize Your Non-profit’s Impact
Think crowdsourcing is a small, trendy gimmick? Think again -- as of last year the crowdsourcing market generated an estimated $34 billion, much of it for non-profits and fundraising. Crowdsourcing [...]
How To Use Lateral Thinking To Find Innovation
Lateral thinking can unlock creativity. Innovation strategy is far more than just holding a meeting and brainstorming. The best innovation strategy encourages new kinds of thinking, new approaches to challenges, and [...]
Innovation Without Borders: Creating Change Movements November 19th, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. PST
What if your brainstorming group went global? Building a successful innovation program requires flexible boundaries between disciplines, a focus on multiple organizational goals, and the ability to measure value beyond [...]