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What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

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Candace Thompson, First Chicago
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Top 5 Speaker

Mitch Ditkoff, the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions, has recently been voted a top 5 speaker in the field of innovation and creativity by Speaking.com, a leading speaker's bureau. Raise the bar for innovation now!
World Business Forum 2011 Featured Blog Our Blog — "The Heart of Innovation" has been named one of the World Business Forum's Featured Blogs for 2011.
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Awake at the Wheel, Book about big ideas If you're looking for a powerful way to jump start innovation and get your creative juices flowing, Awake at the Wheel is for you. Written by Mitch Ditkoff, Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions.
See Mitch's keynote address Enjoy a 7-minute interview with Mitch at the Ethical Sourcing Forum in NYC: 3/28/11
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     What's the Problem?
Identifying the Challenges, Bottlenecks, and Weak Links of Your Innovation Process

On a scale of 1-5, "5" meaning "it's a BIG problem," and "1" meaning "it's not a problem at all," please rate the following statements re: your company's attempts to generate, develop, and implement new ideas (both incremental and disruptive) to grow the business.

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1. We have too many ideas.
2. We don’t have enough breakthrough ideas.
3. We’re not asking the right questions.
4. We tend to avoid conflict.
5. We’re not very good at prioritizing projects.
6. Follow through is not one of our strengths.
7. Our brainstorm sessions are poorly facilitated.
8. Our meetings are poorly facilitated.
9. We lack the tools and techniques to spark creative thinking.
10. We don’t have enough time to originate & develop ideas.
11. We lack a company-wide innovation process.
12. We have an innovation process, but not everyone understands how it works.
13. Employees are unclear about our company’s vision and strategy.
14. Senior leadership is not committed to innovation.
15. Our decision making process is unclear and takes too long.
16. We never seem to have enough data to make decisions.
17. We’re not flexible or agile enough to innovate.
18. Our middle managers feel burdened by new projects.
19. We share neither our best practices nor the learnings from our failures.
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