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Where can you get Fresh Ideas?

Destination Innovation

Here are some places and methods to help you find them: Read Widely : Books, magazines, and online articles are great sources of inspiration. Reflecting on your experiences can help you identify patterns and potential innovations. Nature and Outdoor Activities : Spending time in nature can stimulate creativity.

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3 innovation types: evolution, preventative and creative

Jeffrey Phillips

I was thinking over the weekend that for years we've positioned innovation incorrectly. Too often we position innovation as creating a new and valuable offering or solution, ready when customers are ready to demand new products and services. Another approach is to use innovation to ferret out efficiency gaps.

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Use this White Space Innovation Tool to Supercharge Your Innovation Efforts

Leapfrogging

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Curiosity: The Key to Creativity and Innovation

Idea to Value

Innovators’ curious attitude is characterized by thinking in childlike terms while insatiably seeking out information. But world’s greatest innovators are passionately curious and even nosy or annoying. Even as adults, innovators are still in close communication with their inner child. Different times (e.g.,

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Push Thinking & Get Innovation Using this Little-Known Children’s Game

Leapfrogging

Fifty years ago, a little-known children’s book introduced the “SCAMPER” model as way to help teachers foster creativity in their classrooms. It’s an amazingly simple tool, and unbelievably powerful for pushing thinking beyond “business as usual” to help teams innovate. It’s flexible.

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The Mega-Simple Way to Generate Tons of Innovative Ideas

BrainZooming

Looking for a quick way to generate tons of innovative ideas? If you need a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry, here’s a mega-simple way of generating them : Select the objective, opportunity, or challenge you are trying to address. Get a magazine with lots of big headlines, great photos, and cool ads. Sticky notes +.