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 Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, arts-in-business on Apr 30th, 2008
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Posted in Conferences, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Apr 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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 Creativity and Innovation Workshops, Home, arts-based training on Feb 5th, 2008
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 [...]
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 and Innovation Workshops, arts-based training on Nov 2nd, 2007
Date: Thursday & Friday, January 31, & February 1, 2008
Place: Royal Roads University, Victoria BC
Length: 2 days
Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate when it comes to innovation. Explore the strategic dimensions of Whole Brain Thinking and learn practical tools and techniques that integrate right-brain imagination, artistry and intuition with left-brain [...]