It can be all too easy getting caught up in the dreaded daily work routine. It's oftentimes these repetitive rhythms and workflows which lead to the same, ordinary ways of thinking.

When looking to inject some creativity into your next meeting or project, look no further than organizing a brainstorm to uncover your next, great idea. 

Have you ever wondered how to enable your people to deliver innovative ideas to your most pressing challenges?

Those individuals and teams who deliver on this promise have a honed set of skills, techniques and creative habits to arrive at better solutions faster. Innovation will play a pivotal in generating breakthrough results in 2018 — unleash new ways of thinking and working with ExperiencePoint.

We’re excited to share that ExperiencePoint’s latest product, ExperienceInnovation™ | Aware, has been featured in Ignite Magazine - a resource for people who plan and manage meetings, events, business travel, promotions and incentive programs. 

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What makes creative people different? How are they able to consistently arrive at more innovative solutions than most?

They have calibrated their problem solving reflexes to practice key Creative Habits. It’s these habits that ensure they arrive at better solutions faster.

In 1958 the average lifespan of a top performing company was 61 years. Today, it is a mere 18 years (and shrinking). To stay competitively relevant, organizations must find and flex their creativity.

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As the Innovation Facilitation Lead at Liberty Mutual Insurance, David Lanphear works with internal and external agencies to develop new innovation initiatives for Liberty.

A highlight of his work has been designing self-sustaining communities of exploration, ideation, and experimentation. We spoke with him recently about building a culture of innovation, how design thinking works in tandem with other methodologies, and why a meeting with Mickey Mouse just might spark some entirely new ideas.

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We’re lucky to have an office environment that truly reflects and, in many ways, is an integral part of the ExperiencePoint culture. But with more EPers joining the team at a fairly rapid pace in 2016, our hallways started filling up as we began to run out of assigned homes for people.

How to solve the problem? Well, we had a few assumptions about what we should do, but we soon realized, the answers aren’t always as obvious as they may seem on the surface.

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As we discussed in a previous post, we recently looked at a variety of different organizations that have succeeded in their efforts to build innovation capability, and a number of common patterns emerged—foremost of which is a multi-year change journey with key waypoints along the path.

The next question, of course, is how did they get from point A to point B?

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Based in Barcelona, Ignacio Guitart is a partner at the consultancy firm Bee & Butterfly, as well as an academic collaborator at ESADE Business School. In his various roles, he facilitates both ExperienceInnovation™ and ExperienceChange™ sessions for a diverse group of multinational industries.

We recently talked with him about his insights from twenty years of executive experience, why mindset matters and why it takes more than a single session to make a big shift.

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More organizations than ever are embarking on the journey to build innovation capability as a way to improve agility in the face of market disruption. But many of these initiatives will hit roadblocks, veer off course or run out of gas along the way.

Just what is it that separates the successful journey from the bumpy ride?

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Dyaneshwaran Periyasamy is a consultant, trainer and coach specializing in design thinking and Agile at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bengaluru, India.

We spoke with Dyanesh about the relationship between Agile and design thinking, how he moved from programming to facilitating, and how every facilitation experience is a learning experience, too.