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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

This principle helped Walt Disney bring his fantasies to life and also enabled Albert Einstein to engage in thought experiments that led to revolutionary ideas about space and time. Therefore when trying to produce new ideas, do not evaluate them as they occur. Both are energizing. The only certainty in life is uncertainty.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers. On-site gatherings: Invite customers and prospects to your site to test new products, provide feedback on existing products, and for idea generation.

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SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE CREATIVITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Michael Michalko

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. You might even decorate the area with pictures of employees as infants to suggest the idea that we’re all born spontaneous and creative. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE CREATIVITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Michael Michalko

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. You might even decorate the area with pictures of employees as infants to suggest the idea that we’re all born spontaneous and creative. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

CREATIVE CORNER Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. You might even decorate the area with pictures of employees as infants to suggest the idea that we’re all born spontaneous and creative. LET’S DO LUNCH Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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50 Research Methods for Innovation Infographic

Open Innovation EU

The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research. In order to categorise the different research methods, I combined a few sources to create a general ‘research process’ On average we could state that each R&D-trajectory consists of the following steps: Explore. Bodystorming: more active forms of idea generation.