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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

After all, we have previously seen that most corporate creativity training is not actually designed to deliver results. Research into the effectiveness of creativity training There have now been hundreds of peer-reviewed studies into creativity training. See his TEDx talk on the subject below: Can creativity training improve your creativity?

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Innovation in Practice

Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why. As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. Randy Salzman is a journalist and former communications professor.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular. Whatsapp is no different to the original instant messenger designed by ICQ in 1996, or to any of its other competitors such as AIM, MSN, BBM, or KIK.

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The Remarkable Benefits of Digital Brainstorming

Qmarkets

Here are a couple of proven shortcomings of group brainstorming: First of all, studies show that when it comes to ideation, it is very difficult for people to remove their fear of judgement (also referred to as evaluation apprehension ). eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013. INTERACT 2013. Perteneder F., Hahnwald S.,

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The new version of the BMI Pattern Cards is available now

The BMI Lab Blog

These business patterns can be used as templates for innovation, and for that purpose BMI published a set of convenient cards, to be used during ideation sessions within an innovation process. Finally, we have updated the illustrations for all the cards, creating a new design with a better feeling for the whole package.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

I recently attended UXPA 2013 in D.C. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book.

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Customer Experience Strategy – Brand Expectations and Experience

BrainZooming

Shifting the focus to ongoing customer engagement, however, necessitated a different look than the one we’ve used for years in designing events. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.