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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

What the authors have defined is a useful framework for digging into opportunities and needs and creating new ideas. Why I struggle to review this book While this book presents a useful framework for idea generation and innovation, it's not clear "who" this book is for, or if the insights are really all that new.

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Authoring ideas

Jeffrey Phillips

As a sometimes writer of blogs, white papers and even a few books, I understand the challenge of facing a blank page, trying to form the words into meaningful and insightful sentences. They don't hone their innovation skills and are surprised when innovation is difficult or requires learning, discovery and iteration.

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Announcing Momentum Creative Problem Solving (MCPS)

Gregg Fraley

Register now for the training , and stay tuned for the white paper and book about this new approach. Suffice to say here, if you want to be a better creative problem solver, facilitator, or corporate innovator, you’d be well advised to learn this new approach.

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SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE CREATIVITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Michael Michalko

Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Provide pieces of white paper on which people can write their ideas to post on the board. At the end of the month, collect all the notebooks and categorize the ideas for further discussion.

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SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE CREATIVITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Michael Michalko

Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Provide pieces of white paper on which people can write their ideas to post on the board. At the end of the month, collect all the notebooks and categorize the ideas for further discussion.

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How You Ask for Innovation Matters

Gregg Fraley

You can download the entire white paper at Great Places website. The Wall Street Journal published an article this week, Why Innovation is a Team Sport. . It reveals a broad based study on innovation done by the research firm Great Place to Work. Nicely done survey GP2W!

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Michael Michalko

BRAINSTORMING BOARD Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Provide pieces of white paper on which people can write their ideas to post on the board. At the end of the month, collect all the notebooks and categorize the ideas for further discussion.