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2010-08-18T05:01:00.000-07:00

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Creating a culture of innovation

2010-08-11T00:56:00.000-07:00

Business environment Is growing so complex, that there is a need for new ways of thinking.

But are management willing to make the transformational moves neccesary to foster real cultures of creativity and innovation?
Here is few steps to concider:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/08/six_invisible_secrets_to_a_cul.html

Innovation - a tought discipline

2010-08-02T08:59:00.000-07:00

Josh Makower, CEO of ExploraMed, says that innovation is a learned skill, and by learning the discipline that propels innovation, people can gain the knowledge to develop their skills and become experienced in the practice

Part 1

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2469

Part 2

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2470

OECD is Getting a Head Start on Tomorrow

2010-08-02T03:39:00.000-07:00

The OECD say that innovation is an important driver of economic growth and social progress that holds a vital role in the economic recovery and creating jobs.

Human capital is the foundation of innovation, and empowering people to innovate requires not only broad and appropriate education and training but also opportunities to influence these skills through the economy and society.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/3/14/45302349.pdf

Great Creativity Techniques

2010-08-01T01:17:00.000-07:00

Ideation techniques, helps teams to deal with challenges in a way that they would not otherwise consider, see issues from new perspectives, or to stimulate the imagination and to facilitate effective teamwork. From a typical organizational perspective, a superior ideation technique would be one that produced more good ideas, not necessarily one that simply produces more ideas.

Brainstorming has been around since the 1930s and even today it is the most popular ideation technique. The tool is often the only or one of very few creativity tool that organizations use and stubbornly doing so over and over again. A better organizational knowledge about ideation techniques would influence mood and motivation for innovation.

Here’s a great list of ideation techniques to be used for producing more good ideas: http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques

Innovation Happens When Ideas Have Sex

2010-07-31T02:18:00.000-07:00

Manufacture the best bicycles, and you profit handsomely; come up with the idea of the bicycle, and you get nothing because it is soon copied. If innovators are people who make ideas, rather than things, how can they profit from them? Does society need to invent a special mechanism to surround new ideas with fences, to make them more like houses and fields?

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100721/15291810311.shtml

If you're not imaginative, then your university degree is worth less!

2010-07-29T05:24:00.000-07:00

The trend shows that the mass population is increasing exponentially and equally so the number of academically trained.

Prestigious universities like MIT, Yale, Stanford, and Berkley have for some time used OpenCourseWare to distribute many of their courses for free on the web. Academically knowledge has traditionally been limited and even sometimes protected by institutions, now they have opened up and are reaching a global audience; almost everyone can have access to academic knowledge.

Both India and China has an increasing trend in the number of university graduates. According to UNESCO, China has twice as many university graduates as the United States, which used to be the world leader. (Http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/wei/2007/WEI2007report.pdf).

The values of academic knowledge decrease dramatically and are doing so rapidly, while the value of creativity and being innovative is increasing significantly.

To compete only with knowledge becomes more and more irrelevant. Things that used to be impossible to solve, suddenly becomes possible because of the technical revolution. But old knowledge is no longer applicable; it must be solved with imagination and creativity.

Today, academic knowledge can be bought for less than 4 euro in India or in China. So why do organizations continue to employ people only for their knowledge instead of employing inquisitive people who dare to see things in a new perspective and challenge the old?

How far can the developed countries allow developing countries to take the evolutionary lead in field after field? Will Web 2.0 be historically associated with the era in which developing countries became developed countries and vice versa?

Sure, academic knowledge and information are necessary compounds but it´s not enough if organizations wants to be innovative and competitive. Organizations in developed countries need to recover something they previously had, and that developing countries possess…. Curiosity.

China and India are among the world's largest countries, can you name their leaders? How many athletes do you know about in these countries? Can you name at least ten Indian or Chinese companies? Well, probably not! They may. Why? Well they are both inquisitive and have knowledge.

Albert Einstein once said "The True Sign of Intelligence Is Not Knowledge But imagination"

What is your view on things?

For Managers..

2010-07-17T18:21:00.000-07:00

Do Your Innovation Emperor, Rules & Idea Management Help or Hinder the Process?

http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/07/innovation-acceleration-or-deceleration/

Light bulb moments

2010-07-17T11:31:00.000-07:00

Eureka, I’ve got it!!

When was the last time you had one of those "light bulb" moments? You know, like a cartoon character that suddenly gets a brilliant idea and a light bulb appears over his head…..

Well the challenge lies in knowing why these moments happen and what can be done to encourage them.

From scientific research on the brain, it seems that our usual logical thinking approach is handled by the left side of the brain. But those sudden insights appear to come from the right side of the brain. And when those aha moments come, your brain does literally "light up" – there is a burst of high-frequency brain waves. It seems that the right temporal lobe of the brain is used for drawing together distantly related information, so when it all comes together, it's like all the pieces of a puzzle suddenly falling into place, and you've got your "light bulb" moment.

So how can you encourage these sparks of insight? The most important thing seems to be not to think about it! Using the left-brain logic sometimes just doesn't help us solve problems. You can block your brain by thinking too much. Instead, try doing something else, put your attention elsewhere. Take a walk thru new environments, talk to a friend or why not with a stranger, do something you never have done before. Maybe even have shower!

I’ve know what triggers my sparks of insight, I hope you find yours J

Innovations - Seedbed for anxieties or solutions to everyday problems

2010-07-17T08:58:00.000-07:00

Life itself can be unreasonably complex. For the most part, the needs, anxieties, and challenges of people are similar. Yet, each one of us goes about solving the same challenges over and over again. What if innovations could solve our everyday problems more efficiently and effectively, so that we can use our time for important things like peace of mind, health and a higher quality of life? What if life was easier? What are the ways to make life easier for us all? Is it by innovation or is it by change of mind?