Idea Generation

Conducting creative conversations is essential to building a culture of innovation. Learn how to hold these conversations with these three tools.

Innovation is essential for businesses to avoid becoming commodities. Here are six steps to spark innovation in your company.

The stage gate innovation process has many drawbacks, so a simpler and faster process called small wins innovation has been developed. It consists of 6 steps: goal, create, test, measure, learn, and share.

Learn creative thinking exercises for borrowing ideas and finding new approaches from other industries and environments while ensuring ethical and productive use.

Your team or firm might not be ready for open innovation despite its importance. Organizations have difficulty managing internal innovation and defining innovation, culture and processes.

Generate ideas by freely sharing thoughts and ideas in a group or use more advanced methods like SCAMPER or The Charette Procedure.

Jumpstart your creativity and become more innovative with techniques like the braindump, free association, mind mapping or the 6-3-5 method.

Generate new ideas, to improve problem-solving, and to make better decisions.

An analytical prototype is an initial version or model of a product with essential functionalities to be tested, measured and observed.

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining ideas, services, or content for a common goal by enlisting contributions from a large group of people, typically via an online platform.

Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a new business venture, typically with considerable risk and effort. Entrepreneurship creates and extracts value and drives economic growth in society.

A hackathon is basically any event where people come together to solve problems (mostly over 1-3 days).

Idea Generation is the first part of any innovation process. Idea generation is the process of coming up with new, creative concepts or ideas. It focused os generating ideas with methods like brainstorming, research and exploration.

Idea Management is a process of capturing, collecting, and organizing ideas to identify their potential value - and implementing the best.

An Innovation Lab is a physical space where people come together to explore and develop new ideas, products or services.

The Innovation Life Cycle is a framework for the stages of an innovation from its inception through to adoption and diffusion.

Innovation management process is the system of tools and techniques used to foster creativity and convert ideas into successful products, services or processes.

Internal Collaboration is the process of engaging multiple people within a company to work together on a shared goal or project.

Knowledge management is about how an organization not only obtains but also uses and stores collective knowledge.

A napkin sketch is the simple drawing of one single idea, explaining what the idea is about without going into details how it works.

Open Innovation is an approach to innovation which sources outside knowledge and resources from outside of the organization in order to find new solutions.

What is Opportunity Identification? Finding a problem in the market that needs a solution in the form of a product or service.

What are Sensing Capabilities? The skill of a firm in sensing opportunities in the market before competitors. This is often done through the use of data, analytics and technology.

The House of Quality is a brainstorming framework that links customer needs to product features.

In the latest episode of ’idea talks’ I talk about a mindset of ’practicing in public’ and how it can help overcome idea generation struggles.

In this episode I have the pleasure to speak to the founder of Really Good Innovation. How about that!

In this episode I have the pleasure to speak to Jakob Storjohann, the founder of ideanote.io. Enjoy!

Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor at Berkeley, coined the term “open innovation” over a decade ago.

Great ideas don’t just happen. Innovation springs from creative thinking—a method of the human mind that we can study and learn.

This episode of Idea Talks is less about ideas and more about YOU - the Idea Generator. We are talking about personality traits you need to successfully come up with ideas.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! The podcast is back! How to generate good ideas? Listen to these four quick strategies.

This episode is all about four quick hands on strategies for finding your next business idea big or small.

Stefan Thomke, professor at Harvard, says companies should focus more on experiments instead of intuition.

In this episode Magdalena Bibik is answering some interesting questions on Idea Generation that she got on Quora. Listen in!

Catalyzing inquiry, integrating improvisation, and elevating intuition will help you to discover true creativity and thereby drive innovation in any organization.

Innovation expert Ron Price discusses the six stages of innovation and how businesses should use them to have success.

Readytouse templates for you to collect more of the right ideas for your product, process or project.

Plot the performance of your value proposition against competitors or against potential substitutes to develop new strategies.

Transfer cross-industry insights and come up with new ideas for your challenge!

Use this template to describe the details of how your organization creates, captures and delivers value to its customers.

Understand a specific target group by designing a customer persona profile in order to address their needs appropriately.

This is a toolkit on how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results.

Do you know what your customer wants? Use the customer empathy map to get a deep understanding of your users and capture what drives them emotionally and cognitively.

Structure feedback from stakeholders and draw conclusions on how to change your value proposition for the better.

A free mind map template that shows you the most important aspects when developing new innovative products.

Capture insights from your experiments with the help of learning cards and thereby prove or disprove your hypotheses based on data

Use the test card to design experiments to test and validate your business hypotheses in a structured way.

Evaluate different trends and their potential market impact by using the trend profile as a structure for your data.

Map the most important drivers of change that could influence your business and bring opportunities for innovation.

Develop a thorough understanding of your customers, of what value proposition you offer them, and how the two parts fit.

We have to re-learn creativity as we grow up, and luckily there are multiple ways to do so: Balder Onarheim at TEDxCopenhagen

Listen to 50 successful entrepreneurs, including Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban, sharing their insights about what you need in order to make it

The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic and entrepreneurial tool to describe, design, challenge, and pivot your business model.

How can we accelerate positive change? How can technology help to redesign classes to meet 21st century learning?

Learn how to be BETTER at adapting to change and FASTER at finding new business ideas. This keynote speech is one of his most-requested TED Talks style speeches.

Brainstorming is a good way to come up a solution or two. As the name suggests, the idea is that you storm on the neural pathways through the brain to pick a lot of thoughts quickly and intuitively!

Business Modell Innovation: The video shows how innovations come into being and what myths they are associated with.

How could you improve your creativity at work? Have you ever wondered why your best ideas don’t come to you while on the job? Why is this? And, what’s needed to be resourceful in the workplace?

A quick jump out of the box is more insightful than a lifetime of standard thinking. Corazza teaches science and the applications of creative thinking.

Creativity is our ability to look at a problem and come up with a good solution to solve it.

From the Industrial Revolution to WWII to the hippie movement, the culture of fashion has always blended the cutting edge of self-expression with the latest innovations in technology.

As businesses and organisations look towards the post-pandemic era, what lessons can be learned about innovation?

Mindmapping is a great solution. What would it be like to be taught mindmapping by someone who’s used it to harness his dyslexia?

Find out how to Mind Map and why it is so effective from the inventor of the process, Tony Buzan.

Want to learn by seeing how experts brainstorm? See brainstorming in action with IDEO’s Toy Lab. This brainstorm - about attracting more visitors to a zoo - was recorded as part of a course by IDEO

Design leader Catherine Courage challenges us to drive innovation in the workplace by igniting our innate creativity from childhood.

Design Thinking helps you break through your messiest business problems with a systematic approach to uncovering creative insights

Here is a powerful tool to add to your arsenal. There are numerous ways to customize and personalize this for your own use, such as adding color to define pathways, using different sizes and orientations of paper, using multiple pieces of paper, and so on and so forth. Remember the only rules are the ones you make for yourself.

I first picked up mind mapping while at Google. It’s been my secret weapon for everything from managing projects, designing products, strategizing business deals and accelerating learning curves.

Examples of how companies radically innovated and disrupted whole industries.

Six pieces of strategy to help create ideas that have the potential to become successful products and services

Choice, Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking and Creativity should be present in all classrooms.

This video sponsored by Bill Gates is all about showing the path of innovation through the history of mankind.

Guy Kawasaki at TEDxBerkeley 2014: Rethink. Redefine. Recreate. His talk is titled The Art of Innovation.

The real story about how Airbnb was founded - Nathan Blecharczyk Co-founder Airbnb. Let’s go back to the start.

In a talk and concept demo, Kraft shares his vision for a future of personalized medication, unveiling a prototype 3D printer that could design pills that adapt to our individual needs.

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Listen in on Adam Grant’s TED talk.

How do nonprofits create social change?

Hazel Wagner has spent her life learning how to learn. Hazel shares her work on mind mapping and what it can do for understanding, memorization and retention.

Whats the secret to innovation success? How can companies and teams define innovation in a way that results in successful products or services being produced?

Johnson explains that we need to be more creative in order for our organizations to be more innovative. The question is thus how can we be more creative and innovative?

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes onin exhilarating styleone of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

Idea Lab is for all who want new ideas. You will learn where to look, get tools to establish if your idea will be successful and help sorting out your existing ideas. Use code GOOD for 30 off.

Understand what innovation is, what it contains, and how to identify and define specific innovation challenges.

An accelerated-learning program by MIT Bootcamps for students to learn and practice leadership and innovation principles.

Our Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is designed for graduates with entrepreneurial flair who are looking to establish their own business, educating them through practical courses.

Gain the ability to develop, implement and lead innovation strategies in your organisation.

The foremost thing I wish someone had taught me years back in a short and fun way is what creativity is, how it works, and how I can use it—so that’s what this mini course is all about.

The Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program teaches you essential skills and effective strategies for working in and managing innovative organizations.

A unique opportunity to network with innovation leaders in different industries. June 15 to 17, 2021 in Copenhagen.

Board of Innovations corporate ideation game, with 52 triggers to generate new business ideas.

Transform your ideas dreams into real profitable innovations in record time, minimize your risk of failure, overcome challenges, find solutions, achieve goals come up with new ideas.

Collection of thinking tools & frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. Work smart, not hard!

Get validated business ideas once a week including information on the business plan.

Voteboards is a real-time idea and voting board app.

Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight is a specialist software designed to make the process of idea generation, evaluation, filtering and early progression as effective and engaging as possible.

A global innovation consultancy delivering sustainable, profitable growth for companies by pairing business acumen and consumer empathy.

Global innovation firm that combines leading business experience, user research, and a design-led approach to help clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

IDEO is a global design company committed to creating positive impact. Human centred design based approach to innovation, being early leaders in the practice of desing thinking.

A design-focused innovation consultancy, LUNAR’s broad array of skills serve their clients all the way through the development process.