by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 8, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, Workshop Facilitator
One of the most common questions I hear as a strategic planning facilitator is how to evaluate our new product ideas? This is an important question as you do not want to invest all your creative energy into generating lots of ideas if you do not have a way of...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 8, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, Workshop Facilitator
I am often asked my managers and leaders to help them facilitate ideation or brainstorming sessions as part of a new product development process. One thing i do have in my favour is that I can see new products everywhere (or at least lots of new product ideas). It is...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 2, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session
In a fast-moving, time-poor world we need big, new ideas right now. We often cannot wait for the right time or people or when a meeting room is available. I have outlined in this post a number of idea generation techniques that you can use. 1. Create some ideas by...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking
Groups and teams have two key tools to solve problems, generate ideas and making decisions. These are meetings and brainstorming. Yet both of these tools have pluses and minuses. But imagine if you could take the best bits of Brainstorming and mix it with the positive...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session
I just read the following tweet from a frustrated student; Group projects: one person does all the work. Everyone takes credit. Does this sound familiar? In my 10 years of teaching at a graduate level (part-time) in a business school the most common area of complaint...