Collaboration has become a hot topic lately, and a recent IBM global study of CEOs revealed that collaboration is key to innovation success, especially when collaboration occurs beyond company walls. Projects are often too complex for individuals or even teams in one company to tackle. Collaboration can be a challenge depending on the culture of [...]
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Posted in Creativity + Innovation, Home on May 15th, 2008
BusinessWeek asked Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google this question. His response:
Innovation has nothing to do with downturns. A hot product will sell just as well in a recession as it will in a non-recession. Let’s imagine that we invented a better advertising product for television. What would our revenue growth be for that? Well, [...]
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Highlights from the American Creativity Association Conference in Singapore
I was invited to speak at the ACA conference which took place the last week in February in Singapore. 200 people attended from 33+ countries, making this a truly international meeting. I love being part of conferences in far off lands, because it is an [...]
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My wish for the New Year is for all of you dear subscribers to find the time for contemplation and creative expression. I know some of you are closet artists too busy being captains of industry to take the time to paint, but as the Talmud asks, “If not now, when?
My second wish is for [...]
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Creativity and Innovation Skills Development
with Linda Naiman
Date: March 3, 2008
Our simple survey indicates that professionals desire creativity training that could help them generate solutions to address issues and problems in the daily course of their work.
Creativity at Work uses a balanced approach to developing creativity that includes both analytical and imaginative thinking derived from the [...]
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Led by Linda Naiman, Founder, Creativity at Work and global pioneer in the business and arts interface and Ralph Kerle, Creative Strategist and CEO, the Creative Leadership Forum
March 7, 2008
Ernst and Young, 680 George Street
Sydney, Australia
Price $750.00 inc GST
Why Artful Leadership?
The mark of an authentic artful leader in any organization is how the leader is [...]
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Posted in Design, Home, Trends on Dec 22nd, 2007
Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes:
Collaborative Thinking
Process Mindedness
Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Human-centered
Tech/Business focus
Systems thinking
Synthesis
Rapid Concept Generation
Envisioning
Rapid Prototyping
Visualizing
Catalyzing decision-making
Storytelling
Realizing
Roadmapping
Managing transformation
Source: Nussbaum on Design
I would add empathy, aesthetics, creativity, and customer-focus to the list.
Stanford’s D school believes great [...]
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Posted in Home on Dec 22nd, 2007
Food for thought:
“Sound when stretched is music.
Movement when stretched is dance.
Mind when stretched is meditation.
Life when stretched is celebration.”
~Shri Shri Ravishankar Jee ~
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