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#1,530 – The Sketchbook Project

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

According to Atlas Obscura : “The Brooklyn Art Library houses the Sketchbook Project: a collaborative library of artists’ sketchbooks that’s grown every year since 2006. And the project is not only open for people to contribute to, but also for people to browse. A definitive guide to artistry since 2006.

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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. However, above moderate levels of stress, creativity quickly falls.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle. Category creation can be a long, winding, and rewarding road. At the time, I was a Ph.D. Fast forward to 2016.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). It works because the concept relies on collaboration and mutually beneficial partnerships. Why does open innovation work?

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Theaster Gates: “It’s about our ability to shape things.”

Tim Kastelle

Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change. Gates describes this project as “real-estate art”… Wait! million project which opened last year.

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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe who defined it as taking a task traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, sometimes large group of people. This means that more and more people are aware of the words, but the distinct meanings can sometimes be a bit confusing.

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4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture

IdeaSpies

Create Safe Spaces In 2012, Google embarked on an enormous research project. Code-named “Project Aristotle,” the aim was to see what made successful teams tick. That company, Pixar , was sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 Eventually, the operation was spun out and bought by Steve Jobs. Xerox PARC is now a shadow of its former self.