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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. A 2014 review, 2014 book and 2016 book indicate that higher levels of imaginative pretend play in childhood helps enhance creativity in adulthood. The answer is a little complicated.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

This book is a worthwhile, albeit high-level, treatment of the topic with a rich set of descriptions and examples. The key functions of the system the author describes and gives examples of are: Search – uncovering novel and valuable problems and solutions, Synthesis – integrating diverse streams of ideas into coherent business concept, and.

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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Beyond just building a great software solution, I learned that to build a technology business, it’s critical to figure out how to navigate explosive growth and the need to scale.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

May 2013: In an attempt to kick start the toolkit again, I shot two dozen test videos. June 2013: I started conversations with a client who expressed interest in co-building the toolkit. January 2019: I hired a developmental editor who reviewed what I had written. Each video described a lens from the spreadsheet.

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The characteristics of data-driven business model development and how to succeed

The BMI Lab Blog

Facebook , the social network platform, offers a wide variety of user data anonymously to third-party providers and software development companies. Google Maps is an example of an IaaS solution, since it offers a combination of real-time data and existing data, and charges customers per call or per order received via Google Maps.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

For example, IBM spends more than $6 billion a year on R&D, and has an in-house staff of more than 370 patent lawyers. If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him.

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Case Study: How to Build a Digital User Experience Monitoring System

Boxes and Arrows

Most software user experience and product management teams have similar questions: How do users feel about our products? First, here’s some context on our company: Qualtrics is the leader in experience management software and offers the Qualtrics Experience Management Platform. How is our product experience changing over time?