Category: Creativity
Think different. That’s the essence of creative processes in coming up with ideas for innovative products, services or business models. An awful lot brainstorms or ideation workshops take place to generate fresh new ideas. At the end of idea generation you end up with a wall of ideas. Which is great! I like to quote the American chemist and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling who said “the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas”. Continue reading
In a world of celebrity driven Twitter, “reality” shows and always on news, Andy Warhol was only partially right. We’ll all be famous for 15 minutes. Unfortunately some people seem to get their 15 minutes over and over again for all the wrong reasons. Luckily for us, however, most innovators toil away from the spotlight. In fact many people who are innovators don’t realize who and what they are. Continue reading
We all love Carrie Bradshaw. And why not? She’s beautiful, charming, witty and intelligent. She lives glamorously, goes to cool parties, meets fascinating people and provides insightful social commentary. Yet her story is not just about sex. Continue reading
“This insanity has to stop. Our bosses are deleting resources from the human capital pool without replenishing them.” Sara Robinson, Salon Continue reading
Open thinking between the worlds of science and business has created the first car that folds in the middle to minimize the amount of space it takes up. The Hiriko (which means “city car” in Basque) was developed at MIT’s Media Lab as part of the Smart Cities Project and the two-seater car is finally a reality after four years of development. It is ready for a pilot launch in Balboa, Spain this year. Continue reading
Whether it’s a top-down initiative or a bottom-up revolution, your choice will make or break it. When you have the inspiration for a bottom-up revolution, you must be brave enough to engage your curiosity without self-dismissing. You’ll feel the automatic urge to self-reject – that will never work, too crazy, too silly, too loony – but you must resist. Continue reading
