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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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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.

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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.