Monthly Event - Melbourne - Third & Fourth Thursday of every month: 01:00 PM to 05:15 PM

Begins Thursday March 6th 2009 - Sector: Community - Youth Services Topic: How to increase communication across services

Melbourne, Hotel Kew - Lounge Bar - $65.00/$55.00 *You are paying for two sessions

Max 45 participants - Open to anyone who is willing to participate from within or outside the sector.

Facilitated by Brendan O'Keefe & The Idea Evangelists

 

We meet twice a month in Kew with a between sessions meet up online in a virtual brainstorming room and online idea management toolbox. Participate in an on topic business challenge to brainstorm.The topic for the month will be emailed to the goup the day before so you can sleep on it just prior to the event.

We use the very best techniques for idea generation and evaluation. We provide a non-judgmental and safe space for you to express your ideas. Listening amplifies the life of an idea. It creates the kind of fertile environment that makes it easier for it to take root and grow.

First we brainstorm the questions you need to answer, then brainstorm for answers. It doesn't matter how good your answers are when you're asking the wrong questions.

Most people think of brainstorming as a way to generate ideas, answers or solutions.

One of the basic principles of productive thinking is to brainstorm for questions before brainstorming for answers. Then the magic happens.

Session 1 - Generate Questions - Generate Answers

Questions & Ideation (brainstoriming)

The main idea generation technique we use is Stick em Up Brainslipping. This uses post it notes to capture all the ideas so that they are easy to be built on by others and can be culled, clustered and combined quickly.

• What's Going On? (questorming)
  
• Brainslipping
• Brainwriting
• Synetics
• 6 Thinking Hats - Initial Ideas - Blue, White, Green, Blue
• SCAMPER*
• ThinkCube®

Online: You can visit the private online Idea Management Toolbox and collaborative mind map between the two sessions to add and refine ideas. Also use the SMS Idea Box to send in ideas anywhere, anytime.

Session 2 - Define Critera for Success - Evaluate Ideas

Evaluation

• PMI decision making tool
• Opportunity Assessment System
• Collaborative Online Mind Map
• C5
• POWER

Open to anyone who is willing to fully participate.

 

You will be assigned a URL to the private meeting room when your payment has been processed.

Any questions, feel free to contact me anytime.

Brendan - 03 9005 7877 or book online via Event Brite below.

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Breakfast Brainstorming. What a way to start the day!

Weekly Event - Melbourne - Every Friday: 06:00 AM to 08:30 AM

Max 20 participants - Open to anyone who is willing to fully participate.

Facilitated by Brendan O'Keefe

 

This naturally occuring state in the early hours of the morning is ideal for generating new ideas.

We provide an entertaining, interactive, energizing experience that radically increases the odds of you getting out of the box and meeting new and interesting people.

The concept is simple. Local business leaders, executives and entrepreneurs get together
over a wonderful breakfast and are provided a series of topics to think through.

They then brainstorm with their peers about new ideas, relevant challenges and issues their business is facing.

• It’s Networking
• It’s Problem Solving
• It’s Relevant
• It’s Brainstorming
• It's fun
  

We gather to brainstorm your challenge or idea which includes these creative brainstorming techiques.

• Quick Questionstorming
  
• Brainslipping
• Ideas Lottery
• The ThinkCube
• ASSumption buster
  

This breakfast session is the beginning of a 3 day private idea campaign (idea jam) using the idea management tool.

• The SMS Idea Box

SMS Idea Boxis active for 3 days so all participants can capture ideas anytime-anywhere. We can also provide you a copy of your data on CD for $35.00

Seats are limited for this public event however this event can be customized for your next function, corporate event, conference or as a morning team building experience.

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Monthly Event - Melbourne - First Friday of every month: 06:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Begins Friday, February 20, 2009 from 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Melbourne, Hotel Kew - Lounge Bar - $55.00/$45.00

Max 40 participant

Facilitated by Brendan O'Keefe & The Idea Evangelists.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The feeling and flow of the Brainstorm Bar & Cafe is a mix between a party, cafe, and idea jam session. Finger food and entertainment are provided, and a variety of props and creative thinking catalysts await you. Participate in The Idea Wall challenge, connect with others, and get the inspiration you need to make a quantum leap of thought and forward motion.

Bring your challenges, business or otherwise and informally ideate with others throughout the evening.

The Brainstorm Bar & Cafe provides the amosphere, the space, and the process. Upon entering the event, each participant declares their intention, challenge, goal, or idea they want to explore and brainstorm during the evening. This is put on a name badge. To book the Brainstorming Bar & Cafe for your event or for more information contact Brendan O'Keefe on 03 9005 7877

* Perfect for business owners, managers, artists and ceo's
* Learn key ideation techniques and innovation strategies
* Wine, dine and let your ideas shine
* Designed to spark insight and collaboration
* Trained catalysts will wander and ignite brainstorms
* Play, learn, create and relate your dreams
* Capture ideas. Use the latest idea management technology

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The first social innovation programme will be designed to bring students closer to the unsaid needs of the elderly, by reaching out and stepping into their shoes, generating and evaluating ideas for them and creating tangible prototypes of their ideas for an exhibition.

Part experiential learning, part ideation, evaluation and rapid prototyping, this 3 day program is aimed at improving the lives of the elderly and building trust, compassion, critical thinking skills and collaboration in all the participants.

An example of experiential learning is going to the aged care facility and learning through observation and interaction with the environment, as opposed to reading about aged care facilities from a news article or book. Thus, one makes discoveries and experiments with knowledge firsthand, instead of hearing or reading about others' experiences.

We use techniques like ethnography, depth interviewing, shadowing, day-in-the-life-ing, diary studying, concept mapping, and other fun stuff to work out who your audience is, what they do, what they want, and what you can do for them.

An example of rapid prototyping is building process diagrams, sketches, cardboard models, putty models, computer aided designs, and even Lego models.

By creating interactive prototypes you discover and work with the constraints of the technology – Play with the configuration of the prototype to change constraints and discover new design opportunities – Observe others interact with your prototype, sometimes in unexpected ways, and discover new pathways to discovery.

Stay tuned for the first social innovation workshop'Improving the lives of the elderly' in early 2009. Subscribe below.

Let us design and facilitate a social innovation workshop sponsored by your organisation and for your community.

Contact Brendan O'Keefe on 03 9005 7877 for more information or to sponsor the event.

 

 

Urban Diversion Ideation Game

Get out of the office and let the world answer your questions and stimulate creative problem solving.

Urban Diversion is a fun group adventure game using mobile phones and digital cameras in a selected environment. When you play The Urban Diversion Game, the rule book is reality, the board is your city, and the pieces are you and your team.

Teams will use their mission, the journey and the environment around them to stimulate new ideas and problem solve their business challenges out in the field.

This is a prefect alternative brainstorming & team building event. 

Urban diversion is fully customizale. Either played as individuals or as teams.

For the duration of the game, each team of 5-10 will be provided with a kit containing a web enabled mobile phone, local map, digital camera and a note book.

Clues and missions are delivered via SMS, MMS photo clues, hidden envelopes, mobile Internet and SMS quizes.

Missions are either creative challenges, brain teasers or a combination of both. Each mission has a set time to be completed and rewards, prizes or points can be awarded according to the challenge.

Creativity is the winner in this game. Using the digital camera and taking notes, team members will be responsible for documenting how the team completes each task. 

 

As each clue is successfully discovered by your team you send an SMS on the mobile phone to the game command centre which will send you the next clue and you head off for the next challenge.

In some cases props will be supplied via actors and secret agents who pop up throughout the game.

To explore the possibilities for a real innovation experience or for more information on our consulting services and idea management tools contact us for a free consultation.

Stay tuned for the first public urban diversion early 2009. Subscribe below.

 

 

The mind camp 2 day getaway features creative games, a version of urban diversion, brainstorming sessions, walkabouts and wonderful food. Book the Mind Camp for your next team building or ideation event.

The next public Mind Camp is set for July 2009

For more information or bookings contact us.

 

 

ThinkCube®

The brainstorm Facilitator is also an accredited trainer and Australian distributor for the ThinkCube® Professional Innovation Tool. Read More

 

 

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