The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Innovation 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, [...]
Posted in Art, Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, arts-in-business on Apr 30th, 2008
Lisa Canning has devised a quiz based on two lists of competencies.
The first is a list that Eliot Eisner from Stanford University developed on how the mind processes art
Qualitative relationships in the absence of rules
Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal
Learning to explore possibilities within a medium
Using imagination to see multiple perspectives
Learning to pay [...]
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, arts-in-business on Apr 30th, 2008
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Posted in Design, Innovation, Leadership on Apr 21st, 2008
One of the highlights of the ACA Singapore 2008 conference, was the keynote delivered by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO / President of The LEGO Group.
He said the purpose of Lego is to help children become creative in an extremely logical fashion. Did you know all ten thousand pieces of Lego fit together [...]
Posted in Innovation, Trends on Feb 4th, 2008
Paul Williams, in The Marketing Profs blog, says
The foundation of managing an innovative (company, brand, product, service, or individual) involves constantly monitoring and maintaining awareness of your broader environment - the big picture. On a regular basis, look away from the minutia found in the microscope of your day-to-day operations and use a telescope to [...]
Posted in Design, Home, Innovation, 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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Design, Innovation on Sep 30th, 2007
Today like every other day
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down
a musical instrument. Let the beauty you love
be what you do. There are a thousand ways
to kneel down and kiss the ground.
– Rumi
Pure Poetry
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon in Vancouver and I am listening to [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Innovation on Jun 29th, 2007
Creativity At Work Newsletter
June 2007
This month’s newsletter is guest authored by Peter Roosen & Tatsuya Nakagawa, two experts in bringing new products to market, but first I have a couple of announcements:
Book review
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, an arts-based training book which I co-authored with Arthur VanGundy has been reviewed by Mireille Massue for [...]