The main purpose of the 50 Breakthroughs study is to identify where game-changing technologies are most required. The study’s main objectives are to: Foster a thought-provoking conversation about the role of technology in solving the world’s most pressing problems, and focus effort on the breakthroughs that really matter. Provide contextual background for technologists, so that […]
The Adaptive Cycle – phases of social innovation
The Adaptive Cycle is a model that can be used as a tool to understand the phases where new social ideas emerge are launched as initiatives become successful and inevitably adapt and change over time. It also gives clues to why great ideas may get stuck. This slide deck shows a visual overview of the […]
The Rise Of Creativity As A Key Quality In Modern Leadership
By David Slocum To speak of a creative leader, or manager, is for some a paradox: creativity is chaotic and unrestrained while leadership is orderly and controlling, and setting the two together makes for an uneasy, potentially volatile combination. It was not always thus. A century ago, as businessmen entered the 20th […] Source: www.forbes.com […]
The Hard Work of Invention – Annotated Book Review Link
Walter Isaacson, the author of definitive biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, finds that brilliant ideas invariably have a history, and that brilliant innovators are people who know how to build on the work of others to turn ideas into reality. As he puts it, “Only in storybooks do inventions come like a thunderbolt.” […]
Innovation – playing it safe is risky
“Championing innovation means finding a way through, addressing risks without diluting what makes the idea remarkable. We have to remember that in innovation, playing it safe is risky.” http://tomfishburne.com/2015/01/stage-gate-innovation.html
Emotions of Genius
So many emotions in the creating process. Illustrator Grant Snyder shows something of it in his work, Genius is… [two_third_last] [/two_third_last] Genius, in other words, is a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Can a process be structured to embrace it all? Perhaps. We’re working on this now. Care to chat? […]
25 peintures aux illusions d’optique absolument hallucinantes ! Un truc de fou, vous n’allez pas en croire vos yeux…
Les illusions d’optique incroyables et magnifiques du peintre canadien Robert Gonsalves rendent la frontière… Source: www.demotivateur.fr These optical illusions are brilliant! Thanks to Isabel Jacob for posting this link in CREA France Facebook page. See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights
5 ways to build jumpstarting innovation into your business
Innovation is the output of creativity thinking – new ideas, new decisions, new actions, and the human dynamics that enable it to occur. Marci Segal. Listen to feedback, good or bad. Put brainstorming sessions on your calendar. Take someone else’s idea. (then change/adapt it) Start asking better questions. Find creative solutions. Further info at: fortune.com […]
Creativity – Issue 20: Creativity – Nautilus
Nautilus dedicated an entire issue to Creativity. Browsing through the pages you’ll find ample reason to support engaging in World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21, this year, and the next. You’ll also appreciate how new ideas, new decisions and new actions enable businesses and organizations to transform and evolve. In 2010, IBM […]
New Year, New Look…coming soon
We moved from Toronto, Ontario to Canmore, Alberta and among the unexpected changes was the new server’s refusal to accept any pre-existing media files. Great opportunity to streamline the creativityland website, so watch for new things to come over the next few weeks.
