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. Do yourself a favour and put the phone in another room if you want to get creative work done. Keep working at it even if you feel like you are reaching a creative cliff.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

We are told that we should plan our lives, make to-do lists, work diligently, organize our schedules and arrange things in sound and sensible ways. experiencing it impromptu) makes it feel less free-flowing and more work-like. experiencing it impromptu) makes it feel less free-flowing and more work-like. Boost mixing.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He was telling us how he works hard for 8 months a year, but from November through February, the entire island shuts to tourists and he goes to his land in the village to harvest his olives, grapes and tend to his livestock. He told us he had four plots of land on the island. Let me tell you a story.

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Idea to Value

JULY 14, 2023

One of the most cited-assessments of the bias from 2011 gives the following examples: When it comes to predicting what will happen to us tomorrow, next week, or fifty years from now, we overestimate the likelihood of positive events, and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. I personally use the L.I.V.E.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 14, 2020

Often you are left wondering where the insights or collective thinking was trying to offset the events that were unprecedented and scary but have now put us into such a massive economic downturn. We all are coming to grips with what this means in our working lives. We all are coming to grips with what this means in our working lives.

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Idea to Value

MAY 19, 2021

This practice aims to help artists who feel “stuck” and not able to produce their best work, by kickstarting their creativity every morning and overcoming judgement. I prefer to talk about what the research tells us. But there are other, more scientific reasons why they probably work.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Our identity and sense of self drives a lot of what we see and do, yet we rarely examine these things because we spend most of our time with people who are a lot like us, who live in similar places and experience similar things. What we hear isn’t always what others say and what we say isn't what others always hear. This is no easy task.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

With today’s always-on workforce, we get tasks thrown at us constantly. And now that people can access work emails and instant messages on their Smartphones, lines can get blurred as to when these tasks are expected to be received, and completed. So how do we assess which tasks should be worked on? Let me know.

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TechEmpower Innovation

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? A technical review can help you decide what team will work best both with you and for you. How it Works – The Review that’s Right For You We know what a review can do for you. Are you ready?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

These are the ones that change how we work, undertake business, or combine what was previously separated into a new business model to undertake a different way of working or thinking. Transformation is scary, but it lies within us all. This gives us ingenuity, that fertile land where innovation grows.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 21, 2020

To shift its position to actively contribute in new ways, to adapt and adjust to the ‘new normal’ we all must seriously recognize is coming towards us. VUCA is short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, Something we are all undergoing and experiencing is needing us all to re-evaluate.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 19, 2021

A lot of people joke about how having a smartphone is making us all less intelligent. In a recent study of over 520 students, an experiment by Ward et al was conducted to see what impact having our smartphones near us would have on our ability to complete complex tasks. And new research provides evidence that this is true.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2024

This has been shown to make us grow more generous and less prejudiced toward them, but it’s a flawed way to understand others, because it treats empathy as a solo sport, encouraging listeners simply to try to understand what someone else is going through.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Let us try and prove this with an example. When we are learning a topic or a set of skills in order to be creative, usually we begin by copying what others have done before us. And finally, let us not forget that great artists do liberally copy from what others have created. But good artists steal from all over the place.

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Idea to Value

JULY 17, 2023

Do you ever get to the end of a working day only to become frustrated that you were unable to complete any of your work? Unfortunately, research is showing us that each time we are distracted, it might take around 23 minutes to regain focus on what we were previously working on.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2023

We only see a part of it wherever we stand; we appreciate that part and value what we see and work within. It unexpectedly challenges what we know and leaves us vulnerable and uncertain. It also prompts us to be curious. Maybe it is the explorer within us all. Are you ever curious about what lies behind what we can see?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What externalities could impact us? I was working as the global VP of Marketing for a software startup doing data mining on large data sets. The unexpected and uncontrollable event doomed us. Controlling the controllable After working in innovation and strategy for over 20 years, a few things are clear.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Precious little of it has stuck, except for the headcount brought to work on these projects. They have projects which should have been killed, but are sucking up resources, especially people, which could instead be working on newer, different projects. If this is something you are interested, send me a message and let us discuss.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Given that more than half of Americans either own or work for a small business , their fate is tied to the broader society. Throughout the pandemic, many people have reimagined how, where, and for how much they want to work. To this end, small business must be committed to putting diversity to work. Power of diversity.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2021

We tend to congregate with friends who are like us in background, interests, education, attitudes and opinions. They often made suggestions for new works of art or helped to create them. Some creative geniuses work alone but many work in tandem. When you are working on some creative project openly ask for their input.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This can cause us to make judgments that are not rational or accurate. For example, take a sales negotiation for a used car. One strategy is to be aware of the bias and consciously try to adjust our estimates or judgment, and especially where information is coming from which is being used to make a decision.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Since 2005, I have been working with companies around the world to transform their businesses. The fundamental reason is simple: It all comes down to clarity on which different capabilities are required by the different teams working on different aspects of innovation. And I want you to succeed. That is where I can help.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 17, 2022

We do need to find a new way of working. What an utterly strange year, 2022 has been. we have been confronted, reflective and seemingly having to “kick start” our lives again after the challenges of living through the impacts of a global pandemic. We go into 2023 far more in personal and business conflict.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

While it is not all bad news for innovation teams, there are major challenges ahead, not only for the innovation teams themselves but also for the way they work with the rest of their organisations. So let us go into some of the most important data points highlighted by the report: 1. Data for 2023 shows that trend is reversing.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 2, 2023

Thanks to evolution, we have numerous biases and heuristics programmed into our brains to try and keep us safe. Do not become aggressive or confrontational towards them, or they may become even more afraid of change and work even harder to prevent innovation however they can

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 23, 2024

What they fail to recognise is that these “best in the world” people have often been working on their skills, craft and experience for decades to get to where they are now. Being the best in the world relies on other excellent people being worse than us, which we cannot control. Other business books which outsold his.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. IS: Why did you name your company Ibbaka? Ib = Heart.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2022

In this episode, we speak about the foundation of the research, what the results show us, and what other creativity research Dr Webb is working on. 00:10:30 – The DAT works by analysing how closely certain sets of words co-occur across the internet, and why listing unrelated words is so incredibly hard for the human brain.

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HYPE Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Some of us were able to find silver-linings throughout the last nine months as our commutes vanished, and we all got a lot more use of our homes. Or maybe you spent time working on new ways to connect with your team (as well as loved ones) virtually. We've experienced some highs and some profound lows.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of us never consider how culture shapes our expectations and assumptions about relationship building. But research shows that our cultural upbringing influences how we form and maintain connections with others — often quite significantly. They may even discover they have more in common with their colleagues than they thought.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 24, 2022

And yet, most of us don’t FEEL like we are creative anymore. I would not be surprised if you had times at work in the past few years (or maybe even the past few days), when you felt: Uninspired. What changes in us from our childhood as we grow up which makes us less creative? You are creative. A lack of passion.

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Idea to Value

MAY 2, 2022

For most of us, that should be easy enough as we have a few pairs to choose from, already paired together in the drawer. They always prefer to use the least amount of energy possible , and this including using memories instead of processing new information. Not much effort involved since they are relatively organised.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 17, 2022

Today, even with offshoring, about 10% of Americans work in factories. In their work guiding technology strategy for many of the world’s top corporations, they have found that, in many cases, the robots need us more than we need them. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Automation is no panacea.

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