Today, creativity is a very hot topic. Creativity, which can be defined as the ability to come up with novel and useful ideas, is acknowledged to be a major source of innovation. But what do people across the globe think about creativity today? Do people consider themselves creative, or is creativity a skill for the happy few? Without knowing of each other’s initiatives, Adobe and eYeka have recently conducted almost identical surveys about creativity across the globe. Taken together, the results of both surveys tell a complementary story about the state of creativity.
Many companies are very proud of their achievements, and usually with good reason. There are very few enterprises that have reached a strong market position with a profitable business through luck alone. Everybody likes to be associated with success, part ...
Are you smart? Really? How smart? Socrates famously said that “the only true knowledge lies in knowing that you know nothing.”
More recently, G. H. Hardy wrote that “For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.” Einstein himse ...
OK, it may not really be an innovation, but I appreciated the following operational efficiency anyway:
Going to check out of the Hilton New York City, there was a queue in spite of the several available kiosks and multiple employees staffing the counter t ...
It always amazes me how so many organizations lack a clear innovation vision and an explicit set of statements from the Chief Executive or their designated C-Level Officer on innovation. How can anyone in the organization wanting to work on innovations tha ...
In ProVoke, we talk about disruption as the necessary element in order to innovate. I think we all agree that major innovation has happened because we have not accepted status quo, but have punctured it, taken risk and created what was deemed to be impossibl ...