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How travel can improve your creativity

Idea to Value

Travel has always been a passion of mine, driving me to see landmarks at the edges of the world, meet new people and explore new cultures. Several research studies from 1989 and 2014 have found that traveling away from your home can result in an improvement in measures of creativity.

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Webinar | How One Community Hospital is Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Kainexus

He is a Lean Six Sigma black belt and is a 2014 graduate of The Ohio State University with a Master’s Degree in Business Operational Excellence. Their conversation centered on how Marietta Memorial Hospital System uses training and five specific roles to build and spread a culture of continuous improvement.

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Innovation and Organizational Culture

Innovation Excellence

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “Most Innovative Companies 2014” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

In 2014 the Lego Movie was awarded 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Galvanize the culture. Knudstorp revolutionized the corporate culture. He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. Lego invested heavily in high quality movies. When Lego lost its Head – Mail Online.

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Interview with Dr Simone Ritter: how variety sparks new ideas

Idea to Value

Dr Ritter is an Assistant Professor at Department of Social and Cultural Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen in Holland, and is leading a team looking into how people generate and select ideas. In the video interview above, I find out some “surprising” insights from her recent 2014 research. Highlights. Müller, B.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation April 2018

Imaginatik

To physically see the power of brain matter and how it responds when cultured is another phenomenon altogether. Assuming that to be so, fully grasping the workings of the brain would take the scientific community many lifetimes. We are currently only scratching the surface with BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces).

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. BCG rightly is pointing out from their research that digital innovation is just taking over everywhere. The road you take will decide where innovation is heading for you.