The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson

Idea Champions was at the heart of our success and masterfully made it comfortable and fun to leave our comfort zone.
Melinda McLaughlin, A&E Television Networks
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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 Speakers Platform, a leading speaker's bureau.
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!
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

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!
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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