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Where Innovative Solutions Come From
An animation of the origins of innovative solutions
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Insights into Creativity from Comedian, John Cleese
Some excellent observations and thoughts on Creativity. It’s not very long, take a few moments to listen to his perspectives.
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Is There a Will For The “Why?”– Uncovering Innovative Product Opportunities
One simple question can uncover amazing product opportunities! Do you have the fortitude to see it through?
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Censoring the Censor – The Key to Increasing Creativity
Paying attention to what's being censored is key to increasing creativity.
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A Look at Different Approaches to Innovation via NeoCon 2012
After a visit to Neocon 2012, I share some different approaches to innovation in the realm of commercial interior design.
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The Tale of the Tape – Lo Fidelity Solutions Get Innovation Rolling
Lo-fi provocations lead to hi-fi rewards
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Want to Innovate? No Excuses, Make it Happen!
There are always reasons why something won't work. Innovations await those that find ways to make it happen.
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A Review of ‘Creative Milwaukee at Work’
Thoughts and images of the "Creative Milwaukee at Work" Summit
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Tips for Innovative Problem Solving, or, How to Shovel Snow Without a Shovel
How to solve problems in an innovative manner when it's snowing...
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Three Guidelines For Enabling Innovation (Via a 7 Year Old Crossing the Street)
If you want to enable creative design and innovation be sure to follow these three guidelines. Courtesy of a seven year old girl crossing the street.
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Do You Want to Be More Creative? Please Help Me Help You With Your Creative...
Hi, it’s me! I’ve always been fascinated with how things work: machines, products, nature, the universe, and yes, even people. (It’s the scientist in me). At the same time, I’ve always enjoyed making...
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Making Lightning – The Creative Spark in All of Us
The sky went from sunset blue to thick blackness that the windshield wipers swiped at with futility. The rain pounded the the car and an uneasy, queasy feeling filled the air as a tornado warning was...
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How Creative Dialogues With the Past Can Inform Design – Lessons Inspired by...
Great piece on the value of creative traditions over at Lateral Action – about how understanding them can lead to greater creative output. Mark McGuinness talks about the 400+ year old, Japanese form...
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Ramifications in Innovation (Lessons from Bonsai)
When people say, “There will be ramifications if you do that,” most people interpret that to mean that there will secondary, negative consequences to an action. In the world of Bonsai, ramification...
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Uncovering and Creating Innovation in a Sequence of Events (Even the Most...
Sequences of events are often taken for granted. It’s winter. It’s 2 degrees Fahrenheit and there are 20 mile per hour winds outside. The fridge is empty. You need to make a food run. So, you go to...
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Six Essential Guidelines to Failing Forward — Relishing Failure (Even When it...
In the span of a couple seconds a wonderful orange, blackberry fragrance turned caramely, then malty, then char… I quickly turned around and saw that my blackberry sauce had become a gooey burning...
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Are you doing this simple thing to help think “Big Picture”?
We’ve all done it. We forward reams of information to people in preparation for a meeting. It’s convenient and it saves trees. But there’s a problem. We may be unwittingly influencing how the reader...
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Lessons on Innovating Using Cornstraints (It’s Not a Typo)
Now that we’re in the season of barbecues and beer, let’s delve into innovating using constraints. For this post we’ll look at innovating how we eat corn on the cob, so we should probably call them...
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Don’t Worry About the Elephant in the Room, Look for the Chameleons
You’ve got multiple experts in a room. They’re all giving their opinions on the state of a market, or a new product. Very often this leads to the manifestation of proverbial Elephant in the Room...
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Six Rules to Keeping Your Innovation Spaces Innovative
An engineer on an interview walked into a pristine R&D lab and quipped, “Does anyone do any work in here?” Turns out, that when creating environments conducive to creative thinking and problem...
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