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A 4-STAGE
PROBLEM-SOLVING CONSULTING BUSINESS

to increase creative & strategic efficiency, by accelerating processes through collaboration & creativity, and fun.

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People driven by people

A fully collaborative way of working with real-time and on-spot doing and decision-making.

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Strategy and Leadership

Our consultants expertise ensure that the outputs of the co-creation processes will be strategic for your business.

From half-day to 1 week, or several in a month
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A seamless path for success in co-creation.  IDEATORS sits on a 4-stage approach, and more than 50 exercises to unleash the creative beast in every organizations, group, and individual.

framing, observing, analysing

exploring, brainstorm, creating

building,
refining, evaluating

planning, developing,  implementing

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1st Stage

To fully understand the scope & challenges, context & background, opportunities & threats, goals & benchmark, and every bit of relevant info to solve the problem. Used for the perfect briefing, putting everyone on the same page and updating everyone on various sources of information.

Freebie:
TARGET EXERCISE

A great exercise to define goals and KPIs.

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2nd Stage

To creatively explore solutions, scenarios, ideas and generate insights. To literally be co-creative. Brainstorm 2.0, start from quantity over quality, but keeping in mind the outputs from phase 1 - learning - which should always be the north.

Freebie:
AROUND
THE TABLE

A personal fav to unlock creative thinking.

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3rd Stage

To fine-tune and further explore initial ideas. To evolve from quantity to quality, from ideas to concepts & strategies.

Freebie:
SHOPPING CART

A fun way to address decisions based on available budget.

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4th Stage

Important for planning, road-mapping and defining an execution plan. And when co-creating for product innovation it’s the stage for prototyping and testing.

Freebie:
EFFORT VS IMPACT EXERCISE

A great exercise to define goals and KPIs.

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PARTNERS
WHAT CAN IT BE USED FOR?

 WE SOLVE CHALLENGES

From processes to company culture, from business development to product innovation, IDEATORS co-creation thinking is always relevant when there’s a clear challenge and the right people in the room.  

OUR LOCATIONS

MORE THAN 300 CO-CREATION SESSIONS

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Originally from Lisbon, we also have an office in Timor-Leste and have done sessions in 17 different countries, engaging with over 25 nationalities.

We can be wherever you need us.

AMERICAS

Brazil, Canada, Colombia and Mexico

AFRICA

Angola, Sao Tome & Principe and South Africa

ASIA

China, Myanmar and Timor-Leste

EUROPE

Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain

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WHAT CAN YOU TAKE FROM THIS?

SOME SERIOUS BENEFITS

Problem Solving Methodology

All it needs is a challenge and the right people in the room.

Boost to Creative & Strategic Efficiency

A fully collaborative way of working, making everyone’s expertise count through exercises that help unveiling the creative thinking
in everyone.

Risk Reduction Tool
Get everyone on the same page, explore scenarios together, identify hurdles and wrong turns from day one, and reach one voice and long term commitment on-spot.

Process Accelerator

A dynamic and efficient way of working for real time doing and on-spot decision making. It will save your organisation weeks of meetings and emails.  

Creative & Collaborative Culture Booster
Its principles and tools empower people for solving future problems, together and creatively. Beyond team building we’re boosting creative confidence within organisations.

 
A COMMUNITY OF IDEATORS, CREATED COLLABORATIVELY
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3-day co-creation session in São Paulo - Brazil, with a multidisciplinary and international team from Nestle, from which 10 new product ideas for the Brazilian market arose.

Ideators offers a human centric approach to innovation, leading the multicompetence teams to create structured and meaningful differentiating solutions for business growth.

Strategist, Innovator and Intrapreneur at Nestlé HQ

TESTIMONIALS

The best partners for unlocking the creative potentialof your organisation.

Regional Manager for Middle Americas at Dunnhumby

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Beyond helping them with tackling challenges through co-creation we’ve simultaneously been training some of their teams in different geographies, namely; Canada, Colombia and South Africa.

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WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Show up for a coffee, call us or drop us a message.
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