Creative Thinking Tools, Services, Education, Consulting.  
The man with a new idea is a crank-until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

You don't just teach creativity, you teach it creatively.
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
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

Featured in Alltop Guy Kawasaki's Alltop "online magazine rack" has recognized Idea Champions' blog as one of the leading innovation blogs on the web. Check out The Heart of Innovation, and subscribe!
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!
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
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!
Jump Start

Coming up with breakthrough ideas sometimes requires nothing more than a spark -- a catalytic "oomph" that gets you going. Like jumper cables for a car whose battery is low. That's what Jump Start is all about. It's a creative thinking technique that will take you less than five minutes.

How it Works

  1. Define your challenge in the form of a "How can I?" question.
  2. Click on "generate adjectives" to jump start your thinking.
  3. Brainstorm your challenge, using our randomly generated adjectives as idea sparkers

Ready to begin?...

Step 1: Define your Challenge

How can I ...  

Step 2: Generate Adjectives
Click this button to spark some original thinking.

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