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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

In this very special guest post by Professor KH Kim, we find out the updated facts of what is happening to people’s creativity levels over the past decades, now with updated statistics for 2017. This is a follow-up to what I consider to be one of the most important pieces of creativity research from the past decade.

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CPG Industry Innovation

eZassi

Certainly, your company is filled with great ideas and talented employees, but external innovation working with rising entrepreneurs, patent-filing scientists, and the creative consumer captures the power of a worldwide collaboration for designing the best new products. Is innovation about creativity, or is innovation about process?

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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The 10,000 hour rule is wrong, according to its original authors

Idea to Value

That paper would go on to become a major part of the scientific literature on expert performers, but it was not until 2008, with the publication of “Outliers,” that the paper’s results attracted much attention from outside the scientific community. There are also little things you can do to “practice” your creativity.

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Life Lessons from the Game of Golf

Tullio Siragusa

In the game of golf, the only competition you face is yourself.”. The economic crash we had in 2008 was a testament of what happens when we consume more than we produce, when we take more than we give. The only way for it to never happen again, is to become beings of creative and giving forces, vs. beings that need stuff to be happy.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Design Competitions. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2008 more…. Process of Creativity (Gill). Creative Problem Solving (Isaksen). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more…. Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more….

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., When to be creative, when to be managerial. Lans et al. Especially the latter follows the direction of this paper.