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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Companies such as AT&T’s Bell Labs (leading to the transistor and the laser), 3M allowing people to have 15% of their time to work on projects of personal interest (leading to Post-It notes ) and Google. And the results were clear: time pressure results in people being less creatively productive.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Learn how to start small: the art of minimum viable products. In our own innovation consultancy projects, we regularly look at how other companies approached this problem. Sector: Machinery Company: Caterpillar Learn more: Source Pay-per-lux leasing program sold to eg. Form a great team: the hipster, the hacker, the hustler.

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How to Optimize Email Marketing for the New Normal of COVID-19

Brunner

Instead of the usual COVID-19 statement, let’s take a look at what we’ve learned and where we are now. Many people are continuing to work from home, learn from home, and interacting with each other through these digital channels more often. Since there are already more than 3.9

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. This is the job of specific innovation project teams and business units. Instead, internal networks create the knowledge foundation and environment within which project teams and business units operate. Norton & Company; May 2002. Buchanen, M.

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Hidden tools at my fingertips

100%Open

There are numerous ways to sharpen your skills these days, in any type of industry; whether you choose to read a book, watch “how-to” videos on YouTube, or learn from colleagues and clients. There’s always an opportunity to learn more. Growing to be a fast designer means learning how to guard your time. Always learning.

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

In the early 90’s at AT&T, I was on a ‘special project’ with some friends to design the next generation core domestic network. 2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B It embodied Einstein’s definition of insanity, spending over $200B for a train wreck… and they’re doing it again. It wasn’t pretty.

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The Power of Collaboration

Boxes and Arrows

Eber Hampton (2002) The Circle Unfolds, p. Creating a Learning Resource with Aboriginal Students. My graduate school thesis project was to create a learning resource for an Aboriginal literature course for Aboriginal students at the University of Alberta. There were no specific learning outcomes created for the resource.