Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JULY 4, 2020

As the official Longitude Prize website explains: “In 1714, the British Government offered, by Act of Parliament, £20,000 for a solution which could find longitude to within half a degree (equivalent to 2 minutes of time), and a group later known as the Board of Longitude was set up to assess submissions and offer rewards.

Competition 32

Competition Design Creative Process Survey 32

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Not only financial companies, but also government and defense, where security is arguably even more crucial.

Disruption 73

Disruption Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management 73

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Not only financial companies, but also government and defense, where security is arguably even more crucial.

Disruption 45

Disruption Marketing Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 45

Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2020

Though we understand the purpose of homework and the origins of its existence, homework -- like governments, corporations, tax forms, elevator music, shopping malls, algebra, political conventions, and most commercially available ketchup -- has become a mere shadow of what it was intended to be back in the day. We don't like that word.

Learning 47

Learning Brainstorming Meeting Creativity 47

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Not only financial companies, but also government and defense, where security is arguably even more crucial.

Disruption 40

Disruption Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management 40

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2016

During the past 25 years I have facilitated more than 1,000 brainstorming sessions for a wide variety of heavy hitting organizations -- everyone from MTV to GE to government think thanks. At that time, I simply followed my hunch that the porcelain dog, was, somehow, part of the creative process.

Brainstorming 20

Brainstorming Creativity Training Creative Process 20

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Some progressive government organizations aren’t far behind the tech industry. The Australian government created the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit that includes a comprehensive suite of methodologies for reinventing public sector processes, customer experiences, and government services.

Tools 124

Tools Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 124

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

Some progressive government organizations aren’t far behind the tech industry. The Australian government created the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit that includes a comprehensive suite of methodologies for reinventing public sector processes, customer experiences, and government services.

Tools 100

Tools Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 100

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

By contributing alongside us, clients can see firsthand what goes into the creative process and how the research inputs lead to the output. In this case, the goal of the project was to craft a content strategy and governance model for a client’s technology help platform. Not so—constraints are fuel for creativity.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Design Project Creative Process 78

CorporateIntel

JUNE 2, 2018

I wanted to explore the necessity of constantly starting over in life as a creative process. Can we courageously take on the sins of self-propelling governance, the greed and avarice of short-term thinking, the material byproducts of genuine innovation that create conflict where instead there should be celebration?

Roadmap 62

Roadmap Creativity Creative Process Project 62

CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There is a lot of substance in Roosevelt’s reflection, but the essence for me comes back to the notion of the creative process, whether in business or government or science or art, what it means to put oneself in the public light with new ideas. He had no appetite for the voice of the cynic.

Creativity 40

Creativity Creative Process Culture Innovation 40