IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Organizations have learned what can work remotely and what can’t and are applying those lessons to post-pandemic work design over the last year. However, innovation strategists and departments will likely be called in to help determine the most effective schedules and policies as we learn every workplace and culture truly is different.

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Michael Roberto

JUNE 11, 2019

Watching people stroll by on the cobblestone streets and sidewalks reminds me of the of power of travel as a stimulant for our creativity. IDEO's David and Tom Kelley once wrote about the ways in which observations while we travel can stir the brain. Travel disrupts our normal routines, and novelty stimulates the brain.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2017

His belief was that within 5 years algorithms and machine learning would mean that he would not need many, if any, humans to review patents. Wall Street is under attack as well from automation and machine learning. This is because machines aren't artistic or creative - yet. What does that leave for humans? What needs to change?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But as we travel these technological leaps forward, there’s still a fundamental, longstanding capability every organization will need to realize AI’s true potential: judgment. Alessandro believed in putting humans at the center and considered technology to be a way to help people augment their creativity, autonomy, and critical thinking.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Innovation is about creativity, but it only works when that creativity is focused. As you learn more and incorporate new information, it’ll change where you want to go, even if only slightly. Remember, innovation roadmaps are no replacement for drive, creativity, and ambition. Why A Roadmap?

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Idea to Value

JULY 23, 2021

Or, you could try something new this season to spark your creativity. Science has shown that trying new things makes you more creative. So, what can you do outdoors this summer to spark that creativity and find inspiration? Be humble enough to learn from others but confident enough to know you can grow. Staying Curious.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

Even if this is one month, two months, or longer, we need to become creative and innovative. There are plenty of techniques to help in this, but I have taken innovation as the focal point as we all will need to become creative, adaptive, fluid, and flexible to changed situations. What does that mean?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Every now and then, we’ll run a post that recaps Facebook and Twitter updates, blog post scraps, and other random creative thinking, all smushed together, Larry King-style. Traveling Deep in the Heart of Texas. Having someone channeling an early Sandra Bernhardt attitude in a creative session is not advantageous. “Danger.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 30, 2024

As you may know, a sabbatical is an extended period away from work for study, travel, or personal growth. It allowed people to emerge, diverge, and converge their positive and creative change choices to transform their worlds. It invites and fosters retreat, reflection, replenishment, and a vital space for renewal.

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BrainZooming

JULY 21, 2016

Summer travel is a fascinating study in how little people think about the ways their bodies AND their clothes will be stretched beyond normal limits. Contact us to learn all about how Mike Brown’s Brainzooming workshops on social media and content marketing can boost your success! Kinda wanted to go kick the tires.

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 4, 2017

IDEO's Tom and Dave Kelley wrote a wonderful book together a few years ago titled, "Creative Confidence." In the book, they offer tons of ideas on how to spark creativity in your organization, based mostly on their work developing design thinking as a process and set of tools for creating breakthrough innovations.

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Idea to Value

MAY 6, 2016

But it teaches an important lesson about staying creative. This is vital for enabling your brain to form new associations between disparate ideas (one of the true roots of creativity). Two weeks ago, I attended a conference in San Diego, California which was a weekend to learn new sales techniques for entrepreneurs like myself.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 11, 2021

If you are a reader of this blog, you most definitely are committed to becoming more innovative and creative. And so I created The Year of Living Creatively -- a two-month online course -- a kind of greenhouse for grand possibilities. a GPS for the creative process. a chiropractic adjustment for creative mojo.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 18, 2022

We’re going to take a little trip to the world’s tallest building and see what we can learn about creativity from it. . I recently had the opportunity to travel to Dubai and visit the world’s tallest building. That caused me to reflect on all skyscrapers have to teach us regarding creativity and creative patterns.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

"Mitch Ditkoff, the Founder of The Year of Living Creatively , has the ability to awaken the creative spark in others -- an ability he has honed and refined to a fine elixir over decades of teaching and writing. Mitch is part creativity shaman, Muse whisperer, writing coach, and mad poet.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2020

Suddenly we are stopped from traveling; we are advised to work from home to keep us safe from this coronavirus and catching it. We need to cut out the time-consuming parts as they make us look inefficient, but do we learn? To learn a language, we have to keep practicing. We sit back and interpret the results.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. To get there is often traveling over some rough, tough terrain and the more you are exposed, the more you learn.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Just stop and think about how we undertake transactions around our homes, cars, jobs, travel, deliveries, and how we can all become freelancers. I concluded ” There is a lot to learn and understand in exploring the approaches that the Chinese are taking in their thinking about what makes their Ecosystems and Platforms work.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2020

How can you keep the engagement, how can you find an environment that is creative, stimulating and allows for innovation? Who is encouraging your pause button to go on as we lose more of those relaxing moments to top up our stimulations, by increasingly our lack of socializing, travelling, being in each others company?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 9, 2020

Travel might become off-limits for many. If we need to learn anything, it is simply that the world is going to be VERY DIFFERENT, so we need to start re-engaging differently. How can we all be more productive now in what we do, learn, and get ready? We need to find creative ways to stand out. We need a new plan.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

Why Command-and-Control Culture Fails Stifles Creativity and Innovation A command-and-control culture tends to stifle creativity and innovation, as it leaves no room for employees to contribute their ideas or think outside the box. Employees become mere executors of orders, leading to a lack of engagement and motivation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There’s no need to travel or schedule virtual meetings in different time zones. It leads to employee empowerment, which makes for a happier, more productive, more creative, and more useful staff. Learn from some of the industry’s best and brightest by signing up for IdeaScape’s webinar with NASA team members at 11 a.m.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While many leaders invest in innovation when times are good, it’s valuable to learn lessons from the lean times and leverage them to help us move forward, regardless of the economic environment. Companies like these keep their cost-conscious creative market juices flowing regardless of the economic climate.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In last month’s blog , we shared how consciousness , imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. Curiosity and creativity spur innovation Curiosity is derived from the Latin “cura” which means to care.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2021

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control." -- Julia Cameron. The creative process -- the experience a human being enters into in service to their impulse to manifest something from nothing -- is a most mysterious one, even though it has been studied for decades by psychologists, neuroscientists, and researchers.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

It lays out a clear improvement path for innovation to travel. He constantly sought out more radical creativity in design and end product results. That ability to motivate staff for product battles and promotion of ‘launch and learn’ approach, leading to adapting quickly to improvements, re-launch cycles, and even recalls.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 2, 2019

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery If you want to encourage creativity, exploration, and learning on your team, you should think carefully about how to introduce and provide novel experiences. Scientists Nico Bunzeck and Emrah Düzel have shown that the brain responds to novel stimuli in a manner that increases exploration and learning.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 3, 2017

The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager by Mukesh Gupta. We will then try to learn what did the product managers (in some cases, entrepreneurs themselves) do so that their products became successful. As a frequent traveler, I always wonder why it took so long to put rollers on that sack to create wheeled luggage. “It

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

A sense of discovery - this goes back to the question of being a "know it all" culture or a "learn it all" culture. You've got to find people who are willing to learn new stuff, discover and explore. You cannot innovation in the next and the new by bringing all of your past experience to bear.

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Planview

MAY 31, 2023

I started in Customer Care and learned the products from the ground up. Each role provided me new challenges and opportunities to learn. I’ve always had a desire to learn new things. I have to learn something different. In my current role, I’ve had to learn skills I didn’t need before. I’m also creative.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 29, 2017

Your people are creative and have potential. Millennials are not getting the level of autonomy, creativity, and meaning they desire. Many companies are taking advantage of e-learning to bring visibility and impact to their innovation efforts at a significantly lower cost than in-person training. Possibly great potential.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 8, 2024

And the 12th president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim who tried to reform the bank got “strong resistance from a rank and file protective of its parking subsidies, business-class travel, and generous meal allowances,” according to this Bloomberg article. What can Ajay Banga learn from past reform efforts that have proved challenging?

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Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Source: Flickr MIT Professor Jackson Lu and his co-authors have published an interesting new study regarding the impact that intercultural relationships can have on creativity. Past studies have shown similar impacts from travel experiences. They conducted a series of studies to explore this relationship. What did they find?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Encouraging Innovation : They can encourage teams to innovate by collaborating on creative solutions to complex challenges. Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. Engaging Presentation Style Keeps the audience invested and facilitates learning.

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Yet2

JUNE 15, 2023

Now that pandemic related travel restrictions have eased, yet2 has seen an increase in the demand for Pitch Days with companies eager to see innovations and learn about new technologies in person. com to learn more. A simple matter of scheduling conflicts can derail a deal and result in lost partnership opportunities.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Just stop and think about how we undertake transactions around our homes, cars, jobs, travel, deliveries, and how we can all become freelancers. I concluded ” There is a lot to learn and understand in exploring the approaches that the Chinese are taking in their thinking about what makes their Ecosystems and Platforms work.

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