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The Big Mistake: Failing to Support With Proper innovation Resources
If you want to build a company that is a leader in innovation, creativity, and change within your industry, you need to have the proper innovation resources to power it. Money, people, equipment, and time are all critical parts of the innovation cycle. Without them, you will never learn what your bu
Using Resources to Power Innovation: Success Stories
If you truly want to encourage innovation in your organization, you have to dedicate the resources to achieve it. No true innovation can occur in virtual space alone. In order to provide workers with the best tools for innovation, you must commit time, money, people, materials, and equipment to the
Design Thinking and Innovation: A Real Life Example
What is design thinking? How does it contribute to innovation? Are design and innovation fundamentally integrated? In a nutshell, design thinking is problem-solving that uses design principles: human-centered ideation, pattern recognition, marrying meaning to function, and prototyping. There aren’t
How do you find inspiration? S11 Ep24
Download How_do_you_find_inspiration_S11_Ep_24.mp3 Innovation Needs Inspiration [social align="center"] Every August, I host an annual event for about 600 people, discussing tech and innovation. This event has been going on for more than decade and I’ve been hosting it 4
What is the linkage between travel and creativity that inspired Hemingway, Twain and others?
What is it about travel that has developed a reputation for increasing creativity within an already-flexible mind? Many sources reference Hemingway, Twain, and others as traveling creators – that is, authors who did some of their best work during or following international travel. Something about th
A Moment of Inspiration
A wonderful piece on Inc.com highlights how a moment of inspiration — extracting a cork from a wine bottle — resulted in The Innovation Story of the Year — a new way to safely extract babies stuck in the birth canal. Also reported in the New York Times last month, the story of Argentine car mechanic
4 Ways To Find Motivation in Times of Burnout
Some days, we wake up raring to get at our day, fueled with passion and creativity to do the work we know sets us apart from the crowd. No need to go on a search and find motivation. Its just there! Other days…not so much. There are times when even the most inspired and resilient […]
How to Find Your Free Range Muse: A Cruelty-Free Guide to Cultivating Inspiration
For millennia, a muse – those mythic goddesses of inspiration – existed only in the wild. High-strung, fragile, and more than a little skittish around humans, the wild muse resisted domestication with a fierce and unbreakable spirit. Though no one has succeeded yet in taming the wild muse, over th
Surprising Inspiration for Personal Creativity
Whether a businessman, chemist, a doctor, or a poet, personal creativity is essential to success. From creativity, new ideas are spawned, and thus, new innovations. Unfortunately, creative thinking isn’t always a switch to be flipped… or is it? Instead of banging your head against the closest door,
Could Your Innovation Failure Be Innovation Progress?
Is innovation failure a contradiction? Innovation leaders and analysts say no. Venture Capitalist and Forbes writer Henry Doss observes that “…failure is a feature of highly innovative organizations….[T]here is a strong correlation between failure and innovation.” According to Doss, in a culture whi
