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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

Creativity training can encompass a huge variety of activities and training methods which aim to help people better able to come up with creative ideas, and may include things like: Teaching them techniques to multiply the number of ideas they come up with during ideation or brainstorming sessions Practicing divergent and convergent thinking and coming (..)

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations. We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create. I have to admit, I was skeptical at first.

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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion.

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, and Examples

Acuvate

The best way to inspire innovative thinking isn’t to force a brainstorming session, it’s to create an ongoing conversation. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin addressed in their 2004 IPO letter that “We support our employees to contribute 20% of their time to work on the innovation that will benefit organization”.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

In 2004, CEO Knudstrop embarked on a back-to-the-basics journey, and went from a loss of $292 million that year to a profit of $117 million in 2005. Many of its outside-the-box experiments—LEGO theme parks, TV shows, clothing, accessories, electronic toys, learning centers, and Harry Potter- and Star Wars-based toys—failed.

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Innovation in the Era of COVID-19

Innovation Excellence

In terms of “stopping in a place where you know what will come next,” this approach to avoid writer’s block in a novel can also be helpful for an innovator leading a brainstorming session which, inevitably, has to end at some point and resume later. John Reader, Cities (London: William Heinemann Random House, 2004).

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

This is the key takeaway from this book published by Harvard Business School Press in 2004. Michalko tell you how to amp up creativity intuitively and indulge in some practical brainstorming through interesting exercises, analogies, and stories.

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