Thank you

Thank you

You rock

What a journey! Together we learned a lot about ideation. As a reminder, here a few of the things you learned: 

  1. What ideation is, why it's important and when it can be dangerous stupid thing

  2. What the core principles for a positive and healthy ideation session are

  3. What are some tools to help you kickstart your ideation process and where to find more

  4. How to prioritize the hundreds of ideas you have created

  5. How to run a typical idea generation process with friends or colleagues

  6. Where to find more content about ideation to learn even more


That's a lot of learning there! So a big bravo to you for sticking until the end of this course. You can be very proud of yourself 💪

Thank you for joining

As I said at the beginning of this journey that we spend together: the fact that you joined this course gives me a tremendous amount of motivation to keep on investing time teaching, building courses and creating templates and tools. It's work that doesn't make any financial sense, but when I see the number of people who benefit of it, it gives a lot of sense to my life. So thanks for that mate.

Thanks to those who make it possible

I want to thank a few other people who are big motivators and who make it possible for me to keep on writing courses.

The first and most important person I want to thank is obviously my wife Joëlle. She pushes me in this adventure of being a teacher and I'm so thankful for her support.

A big thank you goes also to my mate Loris Olivier, with whom I can share the advancement of my writing process and who always reacts with an enormous amount of positivity and encouragement. Thanks mate.

Basics of Ideation for Innovation (Alpha version)

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Introduction

  • Lovely to meet you
  • What you'll learn and what you won't1

WTF is ideation?

  • WTF is ideation? Introduction
  • What is ideation?
  • What are the benefits of ideation?
  • The myth of creativity
  • What are common dangers and mistakes of ideation?

The core principles of ideation

  • The core principles of ideation: Introduction
  • Diverge
  • Quantity over quality
  • Pause criticism until later
  • Different people bring different ideas
  • Constraints and pressure help
  • Serendipity and context help
  • Based on research

What are the different types of ideations

  • What are the different types of ideations: Introduction
  • Group ideation
  • Solo ideation
  • Asynchronous or remote ideation
  • Crowd sourcing

A selection of ideation techniques

  • A selection of ideation techniques: Introduction
  • Brain dump
  • Silent brainstorming
  • Crazy eight
  • Brands like these
  • Fast idea generator
  • Mash-Up Innovation
  • Future scenarios and trends
  • Lotus blossom
  • Lightning demos
  • Ideation cards
  • A few good practices for every technic
  • Where to find more ideation techniques
  • Apps for the ideation process

How to prioritize ideas

  • How to prioritize ideas: Introduction
  • Affinity sorting
  • Dot voting
  • Multi parameters vote
  • Evaluation grid
  • Impact versus Effort Matrix
  • Mix the methods

How to run an ideation workshop

  • How to run an ideation workshop: Introduction
  • How to prepare an ideation workshop
  • The basic structure of an ideation workshop
  • The facilitator role in an ideation workshop
  • What happens after the ideation workshop?

Going further

  • Going further
  • Recommended books on ideation
  • Recommended academic papers on Introduction
  • Recommended videos on ideation
  • Recommended critical articles on ideation
  • Recommended resources in Portuguese1

End note

  • Thank you2
  • Licence