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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

Idea to Value

As described by Anthony McCaffrey in 2012 , the GPT asks a series of two questions to participants when they are being challenges with describing an object: “Can this be decomposed further?”. There are other variants of fixedness which also limit innovation thinking, such as structural or relational fixedness.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, 2012. In less than a month our world has changed dramatically. Normally, Inovo’s subscribers turn to us to understand strategic innovation – how to create growth and manage uncertainty. Such a change of this magnitude couldn’t have been predicted.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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What is Creativity? The Definition, history and science of creativity

Idea to Value

So in 2012, the Creativity Research Journal led by Dr Mark Runco set out the parameters for a standard definition of creativity. This all began to change during the Italian Renaissance period, starting around the 15th century. How long ago did creativity evolve in humans? Originality without value is not creative.

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How Can We Sustain this Innovation Pace AFTER the Pandemic?

BrainZooming

As they’ve seen their organizations focus on survival, develop systems to enable new work processes, and figure out how to function, they’ve experienced remarkably rapid, innovative ideas and implementation. If you have, you’re probably wondering, as are these executives, about how to sustain this innovation pace going forward.

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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

We have already talked about how the world has quickly changed within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation. How to become scalable. We already know how the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world economy and turned our consumption habits (locally and globally) upside down. RPA to automate your processes.