Digital Tonto

JANUARY 28, 2024

That’s what led its visionary CEO, Peter McColough, to create PARC, which invented breakthrough technologies, incredible profits and saved the company. But you don’t judge a strategy on what could have been, but on whether it solved the problem it was designed to solve. In the late 1960s, Xerox faced a problem without a clear solution.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 7, 2023

That in order to become more creative, you should reconnect with your “inner child” Yet what does the science and research say? How children are more creative than adults Numerous research studies have found that children can be much more creative than adults in certain instances. The answer is a little complicated.

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Idea to Value

JULY 10, 2023

What if someone else’s truth is different from yours? According to research, naïve realism shows that people believe that they see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with them must be uninformed, irrational, or biased. Can you know the truth? Who is right or wrong?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 21, 2021

In fact, over the past few decades , a huge amount of research has begun showing us exactly what causes our creativity, what reduces it, and even what enhances it. In this article, I want to highlight some of my favourite examples of scientific research which can help you enhance your creativity.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While it is true that in order for something to be creative, it must be at least partially novel, unique or original, what this means is often blown out of proportion. There is a fear that it will make the creator look like a fraud, just copying what others have done and not having any original ideas of their own.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 14, 2023

The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes we encode experiences in our bodies as somatic markers and that our emotions often alert us to things that our brains aren’t aware of. Another researcher, Joseph Ledoux, had similar findings. Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman suggests that we have two modes of thinking.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 10, 2023

We have all heard that laughter is the best medicine. In two sets of research studies, participants were either shown humorous film clips or were allowed to listen to humorous records before doing a creativity test.

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Idea to Value

JULY 20, 2023

According to research, the answer is: no. From analysing the content of the journal entries, they could determine what sort of activities were performed on the day, and whether people made note of mindsets, feelings or actions which indicated they had been creative. So is time pressure actually good for creativity ?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And that you could get a sneak preview of what was coming up by registering here for free. And by doing so, transform themselves. But when I began researching what this would take, and what advice was out there, I began coming across problems. So I began to look for evidence of what actually makes people creative.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 30, 2023

We can optimize operations, streamline our organizations and motivate our people, but eventually our square-peg business will meet its round-hole world and we will need to adapt, build new skills and shift our strategies. Unfortunately, the overwhelming evidence suggests that we will fail. You Need To Learn It.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In October, for example, I wrote, “ Why do we need to change our thinking about innovation “ I continue here with some more arguments of “why” we need to move towards an innovation ecosystem in design and thinking. We need to be radical in design and thinking.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

Employers are at a critical reflection point where we can look back at the last two years and evaluate what has worked and what hasn’t. Where do we go from here to recover from these losses? According to the Pew Research Center, 45% of people surveyed say they left their job because of a lack of flexibility.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

All too often, education research falls short of giving educators on-the-ground actionable advice. However, a recent controversy around Carol Dweck’s well-known growth mindset gives me hope that we can move forward with research that can better inform and support practitioners and students. Click To Tweet So how do we do that?

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Idea to Value

JULY 15, 2021

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with a cornerstone of the creativity research field, Prof Dean Keith Simonton. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Dean’s history in creativity research and how it brought him to studying Geniuses. 00:22:30 – What is a Genius?

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 10, 2022

This has been backed up by research that shows that indeed, curiosity levels appear to decrease as we age , especially for new experiences which stimulate us. So the question then becomes, if curiosity decreases as we get older, is there anything we can do in order to improve it again? Can curiosity be enhanced?

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Digital Tonto

OCTOBER 2, 2022

We like to think we can shape the ideas of others. How can we conjure up the right combination of value proposition, analysis, emotive argument and social proof, to persuade our target? Decades of scientific research suggests that it’s not so easy. We need to be far more humble about our persuasive powers.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 20, 2022

And one of the best ways to explain what it takes to show perseverance is through a mindset known as Grit. Grit is a mindset with a focus on perseverance and passion for long-term goals, and was popularised through the research of Angela Duckworth and her bestselling book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

According to research by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the number is actually likely closer to about 150 individuals. Dunbar’s number was first predicted by Dunbar based on research he did on brain sizes of primates, based on how large the social groups of those primates were. 15 good friends. 150 relationships.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2022

Why do creative people often behave so differently than other people? For decades, researchers have been trying to find out what makes up the personality profile of creative, innovative people. Extraversion: to what degree external stimulation gives you positive energy. Agreeableness : how you feel and act in a group.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2022

That someone thinks that they are not creative because they see other people who have more talent or skill than they do, and by comparing themselves to these “geniuses” , they believe they do not have the ability to do great creative things. Do we inherit creativity from our parents? Twin studies.

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Idea to Value

JULY 14, 2023

According to researchers, this is one of the most pervasive and widely-proven biases in the world. For example, we underrate our chances of getting divorced, being in a car accident, or suffering from cancer. Research has shown that people are optimistic about their chances for both positive and negative outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 28, 2021

One of the most important catalysts for changing the energy system into a sustainable green one is by taking our thinking beyond the known into the possibilities we need for a sustaining future, of energy based on the ability for renewables to generate all our electrification needs.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2024

Often, when trying to make progress towards an innovative challenge there are thousands of things you could be doing. Your team is not sure of the most effective work it could do on a daily basis. There is an endless amount of work you could be doing.

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Idea to Value

JULY 14, 2021

What do you need to do to make someone like your idea? One of the most powerful unconscious biases which we all suffer from is called the Mere Exposure Effect. It essentially says that the more often we see something, the more we will associate it with being positive and like it.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

We need to move away from hype and focus on impact. We need to shift our focus from disrupting industries to tackling grand challenges. We need to shift our focus from disrupting industries to tackling grand challenges. What we need today is to build collaborative networks to solve grand challenges.

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Idea to Value

MAY 17, 2022

We know that a lot of people have a bias towards to keeping the status quo. Or if they do see a new innovation which is fundamentally different that what they know, they might see how other people react to using it first before they feel comfortable using it themselves. Often this manifested itself in fear.

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Idea to Value

MAY 10, 2022

Yet in reality this is not what happens. Even if you do something embarrassing, like falling over, forgetting a word while speaking, spilling coffee on your shirt or snorting while you laugh, and you feel like everyone in the world noticed, in reality that is just you suffering from the spotlight effect. They aren’t.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 30, 2023

There is so much hype around Artificial Intelligence tools and what they are able to create in the fields of creativity. But I just came across a new research study just published at the end of Jan 2023 which may have a bigger impact than any on the future of the planet. of their sequence resembled any known natural protein.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 14, 2021

At least, this is what an interesting new piece of research by Adams et al suggests, just published in the journal Nature. To probe this question further, the researchers did the same experiment but gave the participants additional tasks to distract them. So how can we overcome this bias?

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Idea to Value

JULY 24, 2023

The expectations we put on people can have a direct impact on their performance. The Pygmalion effect was discovered by researcher Robert Rosenthal in his 1965 research on teachers and students. Other research has shown that the Pygmalion effect may help explain the link between teacher expectations and college completion rates.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What can we do to build our innovation capabilities for the future? • You can argue they might be at different points in time perhaps, but as most of these were mature, large global companies, I would have expected a greater commonality of what, why and where they were focusing, working on.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Combining Ecosystems, technology and GenAI to unlock innovation The concepts of ecosystem innovation and generative AI has arrived at the point where we need to question workflows have the real poential openness has become central to our process of thinking and development building. Innovation does need reinventing as a discovery process.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Amidst The Great Resignation, what benefits and other rewards should employers offer to help increase retention and prevent burnout? In the day to day and what I see so often is just a real disconnect between the benefits of the programs that are offered and the way of life outside of the programs. I don’t have to do that.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In innovation projects, we often hear about companies resisting a change to the status quo. Research participants choosing theoretical investment choices much more frequently if they were told that option is the default of what they already have. In this case, the status quo being how things are currently done.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with). However, we have also seen that children appear to be more creative than adults , and that divergent thinking creativity rates fall as we age.

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