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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 2 of 5)

Idea to Value

You see, back in 2005 I started work with one of the largest management consulting firms in the world. Projects that would fundamentally change the company, and take them into the future. In reality, many of these projects were nothing more than incremental improvements. Or so everyone thought. Or what makes them fail.

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

Idea to Value

But did you know that it is one of the best examples of a project going over time and budget? Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned. Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned.

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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.

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The most important words Bill Gates wrote in the Goalkeepers report?

Christensen Institute

Gates notes that, as millions of people in low-income countries go hungry, the cumulative spend on food aid from 2005 to 2020 was $57 billion while just $9 billion was spent on agriculture research in the same time period. In my view, those words in the most recent Goalkeepers report, are the most important Gates wrote in the annual update.

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Barron Fujimoto Adds an Artist’s Touch to Planview’s Brand

Planview

After scoping out the project, I either take it on or send it to one of our contract designers. and kept teaching before joining Planview in 2005. That’s when we meet about the creative direction. To prepare for those meetings, I make sure people have templates of previous examples so they can come prepared with ideas.

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#2,078 – China’s Weather Modification System

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Although China ratified the treaty in 2005, its interest in controlling the weather and the environment didn’t wane. In recent decades, as the country has grown wealthier, Earth-altering projects such as the Three Gorges Dam have become a favored solution. Weather modification, by comparison, is relatively inexpensive.

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How Facebook Made Innovation a Daily Habit

Planview

Since its founding in 2005, Facebook has become one of the most innovative companies in the world. When it comes to Facebook’s hackathons, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives take employee input into account and then give the final go or no-go on projects. Executives need to be involved.