IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives Over the Next Five Years from PhysOrg.com Unveiled today, the second annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. […]
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Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn’t have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems. Ideo creative director Bennett shows how his firm works to reframe the everyday realities of its diverse clients to create results […]
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Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. One person was bugged by his inability to remember important dates such as anniversaries, birthdays and so on. He was always a day late with presents. He made his bug into a challenge and created a product: vacuum packed canned roses to be stored and used for emergencies.
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This is the first part of a 4 part series of articles regarding challenges.
Imagine 5 brilliant entrepreneurs sitting down to consider new ideas. They can’t get started until someone proposes something. But where does the proposal come from? How do they decide what problem to solve? Who decides the focus? How do they determine the […]
Everyone has creative talent, but many people lack confidence in their own creativity. “I’m not very creative” is a common lament, even from people who manage their careers well and are extremely successful in bringing value to the business where they work. In fact, developing a more efficient approach to your own workload requires […]
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Here’s a video of Gary Hamel explaining what management innovation is giving some insights from his new book The Future of Management. You can go to Gary Hamel’s website to find more information, I’ll be reviewing his book in a couple of weeks so stay tuned for that. Other books that he has:
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When we think about innovation we associate it with products like ipod’s, cell phones, computers, video game consoles, etc. But now companies, consultants and researchers are shifting their focus from products to services.
So what is service innovation? An example is the story of Thomas Edison, the inventor and innovator who came up with the lightbulb. […]
In looking back on unpleasant situations and experiences, the thought occurs to us: if only we had done or said x or y, if only we could do it over. Which is precisely the wrong approach. What makes us go astray is in the first place is that we are unattuned to the present moment, […]
So last week I started the Creative Whack of the week, every Monday I’ll be doing this. For today the whack is card number….
43 Flex your risk muscle. Bull’s-eye every time? If so, you’re standing too close to the target. As comedian Woody Allen puts it, "If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s […]
Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That’s the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we’ve constructed about how we got here. This talk, will help you to recognize the myths, understand why they’re popular (even if you don’t believe in them), and how […]
