Why do people say no? Collecting thoughts
I’m often brought into companies who want to overcome hurdles to innovation. They want to move forward and at the same time are reluctant to adopt new strategies and metrics, and to influence new behaviours and attitudes to create new futures. What’s that all about? Time and again the largest obstacle to moving innovation forward [...]
read moreBoomer Creativity may be on the Rise
Our friends at Idea Champions prepared this slide show to prove creativity is available to people who are 50+. If that’s you, a quick flip through will surely put a smile on your face and breathe some inspiration to your soul. Creativity Late in Life
read moreIs a Runner’s High the Same as a Creator’s High?
Getty Images Mishmash contest is on. They are looking for looking fresh talent. Creators. People who can create something new from a mash-up of their content and their own – by making a short story, video art, music video, ad, mini-documentary or spoof movie trailer. Here’s last year’s winner. Got me thinking about a creator’s [...]
read moreDid You Know…why creativity is important for leaders and managers
Organizations that win/create the future are rebels and subversives. They break rules, they cheat. (Gary Hamel, Competing for the Future, 1994). They use creative thinking processes and behaviors to invent exciting futures that are not extrapolations from the past. These three videos peak at what is happening outside of your pc, your household, your company, [...]
read moreIs there a place for creativity in innovation?
Just back from the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Dynamics of Innovation conference in Bilbao, Spain. Its purpose: to support professionals who are influencing changes in business and government through open innovation and collaboration: external, implementation, networks, customers, management, knowledge, intermediaries, approaches networks and technology transfer business models and value ideas and crowd sourcing [...]
read moreCreativity is fun and games for innovation professionals
At ISPIM. Opening keynote speakers say creativity is fun and games, used for idea generating alone. Show limited understanding of the scope of creativity. Seems they are unaware that creativity involves using new ideas and making new decisions. Creative thinking can and is used throughout sophisticated innovation processes to generate options for alternative, beyond-the-knee-jerk responses. [...]
read moreIs innovation the new creativity?
At ISPIM, see the group, in their 30′s and 40′s. A family At ISPIM conference opening reception. They call themselves the family of innovation worldwide. 60% academics; 30% consultants and the rest entrepreneurs. They hug upon greeting; form international projects and initiatives and resist defining innovation because there are so many kinds. Stay tuned…this should [...]
read moreWhen leading innovation, does the male/female ratio count?
I’m not sure, though it’s likely. It’s a question I’ll be putting forward at the International Society for Professionals in Innovation (ISPIM.org) conference in Bilbao, Spain in a few days. Here’s the story. We developed a program called Passport to Innovation® several years ago. Over time it instills an innovation mindset throughout an organization while [...]
read moreWhat does creativity mean to you, your boss, your clients?
The chart below, drawn from research done by the American Association of School Administrators and Americans for the Arts, shows the difference between how employers and school superintendents interpret what creativity means. How do you understand creativity? Is it the same understanding as that of your colleagues, friends, customers? Does it matter? What if it [...]
read moreNew Creativity Master's Degree in London, UK
When I decided to go to the International Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, NY to study creativity in 1977 many asked, “You are going where? Do do what? Can’t you study something real?” After earning the master’s degree in Creativity and Change Leadership years later, people were still uncertain of its value. In [...]
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