IDEATORS belong to the Independent Creative Group
People driven by people
A fully collaborative way of working with real-time and on-spot doing and decision-making.
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
A seamless path to success in co-creation. IDEATORS is built on a 4-stage approach and tailor-made exercises to unleash the creative beast in every organization, group and individual.
framing, observing, analysing
exploring, brainstorm, creating
building,
refining, evaluating
planning, developing, implementing
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.
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.
FOUNDERS & PARTNERS
Consultant with over 25 years of experience across agencies, retail, fashion, talent and healthcare. She likes to dive deep into a business until she understands how it works, and to bring to every project the questions she has learned to ask in other sectors. She believes many of the best answers are hidden in the industry next door. At Ideators, she brings this cross-sector perspective when a company needs to rethink its direction and turn it into concrete decisions about its brand, the way its teams work and the customer experience.
PARTNER IDEATOR
Susana Coerver
Lasting Strategy
Innovation ecosystem specialist, with a career built alongside those who turn ideas into companies. At Startup Portugal he was Head of Growth and Accelerator and Head of RNI. He is an advisor to Unicorn Factory Lisboa and leads LabToMarket, where he helps science-based and health startups take knowledge from the lab to the market. He knows the path from intuition to product from the inside, and knows it is rarely a straight line. At Ideators, he brings the perspective of someone who has followed hundreds of projects and the conviction that...
PARTNER IDEATOR
David Magboulé
Serial Innovation
Creative Director with over 20 years of experience. Naturally curious, he enjoys bringing disciplines together, questioning the obvious and finding unexpected connections. From advertising to cinema, and from comics to forest regeneration, he considers himself an expert in knowing a little about a lot. At Ideators, he brings constant creative curiosity and the conviction that great ideas begin with great questions.
PARTNER IDEATOR
Hugo Tornelo
Restless Creativity
Serial entrepreneur, he founded Portugal’s first guerrilla marketing agency and is co-founder of the creative group TORKE CC and of Ideators. Used to building companies out of ideas, he approaches every challenge with a disruptive mindset and no fear of getting it wrong. He asks the questions no one else asks and opens up unexpected creative paths, always in service of what organisations and people need in order to innovate. At Ideators, he brings the irreverence of someone who knows that the most transformative ideas rarely come from the obvious place.
FOUNDER IDEATOR
André Rabanéa
Fearless Creativity
Partner at the creative group TORKE CC and co-creator of Ideators. Having lived in seven countries, he turned that experience into a way of seeing: he grew used to shifting contexts, questioning ready-made answers and noticing that every culture solves the same problems differently. He teaches creativity and researches the role of design thinking in organisational change, connecting his work in the classroom and with clients to a broader reflection on how organisations learn to think differently. At Ideators, he brings the methodology he helped build and the conviction that changing...
FOUNDER IDEATOR
Pedro Alegria
Unstoppable Change
OUR LOCATIONS
MORE THAN 300 CO-CREATION PROCESSES
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 Tomé & Príncipe and South Africa
ASIA
China, Myanmar and Timor-Leste
EUROPE
Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain
WHAT CAN YOU TAKE FROM THIS?
SOME SERIOUS BENEFITS
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.
Problem Solving Methodology
All it needs is a challenge and the right people in the room.
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.
TESTIMONIALS
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.
The best partners for unlocking the creative potential of your organisation.
Sebastián Duque
Regional Manager for Middle Americas at Dunnhumby
