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Paul Van Zandt is the founder of Fresco, a startup enabling real-time collaboration for people everywhere. Fresco allows you to collaborate with your team on an incredibly simple interface customize your workspace, and save all of your changes online in digital permanence. If you liked this article, make sure you check out Fresco to see how you can begin utilizing a futuristic brainstorming method.

What Is Innovation Strategy?

Innovating doesn’t just happen when inspiration strikes. In order [...]

Josh Noorily2022-09-30T13:14:50-07:00September 30th, 2022|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Strategies|Tags: Innovation Strategy|

Ambition Matrix: What It Is and How To Use It

Creating an innovation strategy means improving what you currently offer and finding ways to differentiate from your competition in the future. This is easy in principle, but applying this practice to your business can be very difficult.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-07-18T13:34:06-07:00July 18th, 2022|Categories: Enabling Factors, Idea Management, Strategies|Tags: ambition matrix|

What Is Idea Management?

Traditional innovation can only take your business so far, and without an evolution of processes, you might find it harder than ever to move new ideas forward. Introducing structures and systems to formulate, organize, and act upon new ideas is one of the best ways to optimize internal innovation. This practice is better known as idea management, and in this article we will define and discuss idea management in full.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-06-23T15:51:03-07:00June 27th, 2022|Categories: Idea Management|Tags: brainstorming, Collaboration, idea management framework, idea management software, Ideation, online whiteboard, Problem Solving|

6 Innovation Exercises to Try With Your Team

Creative thinking and innovation don’t come naturally to everyone, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good at them. Sometimes, teams need practice and routine to improve their creativity skills. This article will highlight some popular innovation exercises you can conduct with your team to get your creative juices flowing. These will be a combination of workplace exercises and ice-breakers. Let’s get started.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-05-25T10:03:59-07:00May 25th, 2022|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: brainwriting, collaborative ideation, creative thinking, market adjacencies, mind mapping, online whiteboards, solution laddering, structured collaboration|

How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

To run a successful business, you must be able to complete individual and shared tasks regularly and reliably. One of the most significant components to achieving this is making sure you create actionable results in your meetings, conversations, and workflow.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-05-12T15:41:03-07:00May 12th, 2022|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, data integration, digital permanence, Ideation, online whiteboards, project management, project planning, task management, whiteboard|

How to Innovate Your Business to Make It Climate Efficient

Climate efficiency is key for the future of everyone on this planet. With an issue of such magnitude, you may feel that individual actions cannot make a large impact. While your business by itself cannot solve global warming, the actions you take can inspire others and can have a much bigger impact than you may realize.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-04-21T14:47:23-07:00April 5th, 2022|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: climate change, energy efficiency, sustainability|

The 4 Golden Rules of Brainstorming

When innovating with your team, there are a few rules that are important regardless of the ideation session you’re conducting. In this article, we’ll outline the four golden rules of brainstorming and talk about how following them can improve your team’s innovative capabilities.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-03-14T13:23:50-07:00March 14th, 2022|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: brainstorming, Collaboration, Ideation, note taking|