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Three Reasons People Reject Creative Ideas… and Three Things You Can Do About It
We have all experienced it. You have a great idea but it’s rejected by your colleagues, your boss or your CEO. Rejection is common. While most people admire creative individuals, entrepreneurs or writers they can find it difficult to back … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation
Tagged creativity, execution, feasibility, idea, innovation, Investment, people, resistance
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Invention is Reinvention
So, you don’t have a new idea for a wonderful product. Not a problem. Sometimes invention is reinvention. Many successful ideas are new ways of reusing existing ideas or new combinations of existing things. Here are three examples:
Posted in Collaboration, Innovation
Tagged aristotle, business, creativity, idea, innovation, invention, market, newton, plato, population, reinvention, socrates, target
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Tablecloths for Idea Generation
I recently organised a workshop with Sara Jones of City University, London. Sara wanted to use the Digital Shoreditch Festival as an opportunity to generate new and useful ideas on ‘How to foster a culture of collaboration between universities and … Continue reading
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Tagged business, communicate, creativity, dialogue sheet, idea, participation, people, tablecloth, university, workshop
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Capture the Creative Energy of Everyone in your Organisation
Have you thought of running innovation challenges? They can: solve your most pressing problems increase productivity, reduce costs capture the creative energy of everyone in your organisation They’re engaging, interesting and motivating.
Posted in Innovation, Open Innovation
Tagged challenge, collaboration, costs, idea, innovation, motivation, productivity, social
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Creativity – Making Sense of the Mystery
Creativity is rather mysterious. What is creativity? How are people creative? Are some ideas more creative than others? I thought I’d share some of the concepts that have helped my understanding of creativity. Hopefully they’ll be of use to you … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, elaboration, evaluation, idea, illumination, immersion, incubation, innovation, margaret boden, surprise
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What is Innovation?
If you want a lively discussion get ten of your friends together and ask them to produce a definition of innovation.
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