Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
Peter Drucker

Idea Champions has been a tremendous help in getting our innovation efforts reignited.
Joe Belinsky, Goodyear
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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.
Free the genie card deck A deck of 55 cards to spark new ideas, breakthroughs and extraordinary results. Buy now! Or brainstorm with our online genie.

"This is really, really good stuff." — Seth Godin

Ingenuity Bank!
Enterprise software to help you create a virtual community of inspired, committed, collaborative innovators cranking out great ideas. Read More!
BrainTrust.
Idea Champions' "rent a brain" network of visionaries, wizards, and creative thinkers ready and able to conjure up breakthrough ideas, products and services on your behalf. Read More!
Face the Music Blues Band The world's first interactive business blues band. A great way to help your workforce go beyond complaint.

"In tune with corporate America." — CNN

Innovation Kits. Here's your one-stop shopping for everything you need (but forgot to ask for) in order to jump start innovation. Read More!
The Sales Force Is With You! Go beyond the commodity trap and help your sales force master the art and science of selling ideas. Taught by Farrell Reynolds, former President of Turner Broadcast Sales.
Our 360° Mission Statement ProcessTM helps your entire workforce dissolve silos and realign with new purpose while drafting your new company mission statement. Read A&E Television Network's rave about it here.
Breakthrough Cafe.
A totally unique brainstorming salon. Great food. Great food for thought. Great people. Collaborate, have fun, get out of the box.

"Inno-waiters With Whine Lists" – The Breakthrough Cafe featured in January 2006 issue of
Breakthrough Thinking
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Creative Thinking Guidebooks

This series of five, visually compelling guidebooks gives aspiring innovators a simple way to get out of the box and tackle pressing business challenges in new ways. These 16-page books are the distillation of 20 years' experience teaching thousands of people how to tap into a higher level of creativity. Can be used by facilitators, managers, and change agents as a teaching tool for meetings and trainings. They are also useful for anyone looking for a simple way to solve tough problems, generate breakthrough ideas and achieve extraordinary results.

What They Do

  • Helps aspiring innovators get unstuck
  • Provides a clear process to spark breakthrough thinking
  • Increases the quality and quantity of original ideas
  • Makes creative thinking techniques accessible to everyone
  • Complements analytical Six Sigma tools
1. Blue Sky Thinking.
Learn how to use structured fantasy to trigger breakthrough business solutions (and understand why Albert Einstein and the Soviet Union Grand Chess Master both claimed their ability to fantasize was essential to their extraordinary success).

2. Qualities of an Innovator
Describes the 20 leading indicators of a corporate innovator. But more than that, it engages you in a step-by-step process of developing the kind of mindset necessary to turn top-of-the-line ideas into bottom-line realities.

3. Lead Into Gold
Helps you identify (and go beyond) the limiting assumptions preventing you from creating breakthrough results on the job. Unlocks your potential to be an inspired, boundaryless force for change and innovation

4. The Idea Lottery
Takes one of the key principals of creative thinking — the ability to synthesize new possibilities from pre-existing elements — and translates it into three easy-to-do problem-solving techniques. Increases flexibility and fluency of ideation.

5. Metaphors Be With You
Teaches you how to use "mental pictures" (i.e. metaphors, similes and analogies) to solve pressing business challenges in new ways. Especially useful for word-driven, analytical thinkers. "I rarely think in words at all." — Einstein

Now available as downloads in PDF format
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