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Take Your Good Idea One Step Further
Whether you're an executive, manager, professional, or entrepreneur, you need to think ahead. When you do it in a formal sense, it's called it planning, when you do it informally it's something like speculating.
A New Pair of Shoes
Do the New An old pair of shoes Do you have a really comfortable pair of shoes? They may be slippers or tennis shoes. It doesn’t matter what kind of shoes, just so comfortable that you can slip into them like an old habit. These are the kind of shoes that you can’t wait to get into after a hard day of work. Like Mr. Rogers slipping on his blue pair of Keds. Won't you be my neighbor? I have a pair of shoes like that. They are so comfortable that I could ...
Creativity Management and Good Ideas
Some ideas occur in the office and others occur away from the office. If you think of creativity as problem identification and idea generation, then it follows that problem identification and some of the more straightforward ideas will be generated in an office environment. An office environment is also helpful in that, with goals, targets, people management and so on, it forces output, which produces better results than a “do your best” approach. There is a positive ...
Do You Need A Business Plan If Your Idea Is New, Untested, or Unproven?
Who Should Read This Article? Anyone nursing a new (especially untested and unproven) - idea for a business, and/or who is at a loss as to whether or not it will be beneficial to undertake a formal business plan preparation process. The ideas presented in this article are just that - ideas. You are expected -- and strongly encouraged - to apply your discretion in assessing their usefulness or relevance to your situation. “Market research does not work. One cannot do market ...
Innovation
Innovation, in a business context, is generally thought of as the product or application of creativity. Peter F. Drucker suggests that innovation "is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship."
Create An Idea Journal
When I first heard Jim Rohn talk about the importance of keeping an idea journal I was immediately captivated. So what is it you ask?...
Can A Simple Idea Change Your Life?
Ideas happen all the time. And when I say an idea, I don’t just mean a mere thought. An idea is more than a mental opinion and it is loftier than a sentiment. An idea is a special thought. It is a thought that gives you a rush, a sparkle, a feeling of exhilaration.
Three Step Problem Solving
How do you like to solve your problems? Do you prefer to use the more creative problem solving techniques, or the systematic ones? You'll get the best of both with the add-subtract-change method.
Think Outside The Cup and Saucer
There were four of us at dinner. Three ordered “regular” coffee, the fourth requested “decaf.” Every so often a server, carrying two pitchers, refilled the coffee cups and knowingly poured three cups from one pitcher and one from the other. He never asked who wanted which type of coffee.
Solve Problems With A Word List
To creatively solve problems you need to get your mind looking in new directions. You can systematically do this by using a list of words, primarily adjectives, to create "what if?" scenarios. You start with the question, "what if it was..." and then insert a word from the list. The "it" in the question is the problem you're trying to solve, or the solution or situation that exists now.
Fire Evacuation Drill with a Difference
I had been given the task to organize a fire evacuation drill specifically for only a certain area in a building.
The Pendulum Swings Right A Major Shift is Happening Inside Our Brains
The world is now changing again, it appears. The logical and analytical skills that continue to form the basis of Western economies is slowly shifting, according to the savvy American business observer Daniel Pink in Wired (February 2005). The current “information age”—in which access to information (read: knowledge, education) is the most important economic engine—is changing into the “conceptual age,” characterized by a new concern with context, patterns, and emotion. And that shift is ...
Prevention is Better Than Cure... Says Who?
You've likely heard this before... "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Says who? I mean come on. If prevention was so popular why would we see so many "cures" being marketed. Why? Because of basic human nature that's why. We play the odds, we 'wait and see'. We figure that if it breaks then we'll fix it. Afterall, if it never breaks maybe the prevention was never required - who can tell... Prevention is the smart thing to do - no doubt ...
Intuition: Your Best Career Coach
Since I derive most of my life lessons from reading murder mysteries, I am reminded of a mystery by Marcia Muller, Listen to the silence. The heroine, Sharon McCone, turns her prodigious investigative talent to researching her own background. As she interviews family members, her significant other, also a heavy-duty detective, says, "Listen to the silence."
More Problem Solving Success Tips
The ability to solve complicated problems quickly is more important than ever in today’s tough economy.
Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
Facing a Resource Crunch? Read On!
Recently I read an excerpt from a new business innovation book wherein the author went to great lengths to instill the need to provide sufficient resources for every innovation effort, without which the effort would be almost certain to fail. The cited leadership's frequent failure to ensure adequate resources as the single most important reason for innovation failures.
Great Ideas and Radical or Disruptive Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
Knowledge Gains in Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
Creativity for Success
Creativity and innovation are important keys to success in today’s rapidly changing world. Process improvement, problem solving, recruiting, retaining and motivating employees, decision making, dealing with limited resources, satisfying customers, and rapidly changing technology are all examples of business realities that require creative solutions. Yet, innovative thinkers are often tough to find today.
Cumulative Gains in Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
Types of Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
How To Do What You Don't Want To
Before I reveal it, shall we review some things that will help you understand it? Let's start with the premise that you are made up of seven centers (all within you). Each one of these centers--"majestic workhorses"--has influence over your life.
Change Is a Skill Development Learning Process
Change, like almost every other life experience, is a learning process. With each new idea or situation comes the need to learn about it…what is it? How does it work? How do I fit in? What are the good and bad aspects of it? So let’s talk for a moment about the process of learning. LEARNING is a lifelong process. It neither starts nor ends with formal schooling. In fact, school mostly teaches us how to learn. Experience teaches us what we need to know, but it’s up to us to go out there ...
Humankind's Greatest Inventions
There are a number of amazing inventions that have been created during the course of human history. Some of the great ones that come to mind are:
Discover the Secret to Success in Your Own Back Yard
Yesterday, I went above and beyond the call of duty for community service. Thanks to me, not one black fly within a five-mile radius of my home went to bed hungry last night, and because of my loyal patronage and recurring need for calamine lotion, my pharmacist can now put his youngest through college. All in a day's work. :-) Some people may think I’m crazy for spending hours on end in my back yard, but the truth be told, I have answered many pressing questions, ...
Creativity and Innovation Management – Joy and Sustainability
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
How To Be An Innovator In A World Of Change
Innovators are opportunity-oriented. What’s the hidden opportunity in that problem? Where is the opportunity in that trend? How can this be made to work better? Innovators search for the unsolved problems, the markets inefficiencies, and the unmet needs and wants of existing customer groups. They also search for unmet needs and wants and build new customer groups. Innovators are strategists. They attempt to anticipate the future to maximize their ability to thrive and ...
Use Your Intuition As a Valuable Tool for Change
Here’s a subject that we don’t normally think of when we think about change. Yet, intuition can be a very powerful force for change if we honor it fully. So let’s take four minutes to look at intuition. First we’ll look at what it isn’t, then at what it is, then at just how it relates to change in our lives.
Creativity and Innovation Management – Fast Feedback
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
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