Seeking Initiative and Innovation? Reward Failure!

Based on Proprietary Research"If you want to increase initiative and innovation, you have to encourage and embrace failure. A culture that punishes less-than-ideal risk-related outcomes will stifle both initiative and innovation".Prevailing in the face of intense competition requires companies to be nimble and innovative.An innovative and high-initiative culture helps an... Read More

Business Innovation ? Eliciting Talent

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of... Read More

Business Innovation ? the Value of Being Obvious

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of... Read More

Why It?s Important to Make Your Idea Real

Say you have an idea for something new and exciting in your life.This may be something as simple as a new arrangement for the garden or as far-reaching as a career change.You get the idea and decide you will do it.Take a moment to use the power of your imagination... Read More

Innovation Problems and The flow of Thought

The most progressive Think Tanks, Brain Trusts, research facilities in companies and government, etc. do their best work by allowing free thought to flow. If the United States is to lead the world in innovation and know how, technology and invention, then we will need to repel the barriers of... Read More

Facing a Resource Crunch? Read On!

Recently I read an excerpt from a new business innovation book wherein the author went to great lengths to instill the need to provide sufficient resources for every innovation effort, without which the effort would be almost certain to fail. The cited leadership's frequent failure to ensure adequate resources as... Read More

Three Step Problem Solving

How do you like to solve your problems? Do you prefer to use the more creative problem solving techniques, or the systematic ones? You'll get the best of both with the add-subtract-change method.Add, Subtract, ChangeI am sitting here looking at my bicycle as I write this. To come up with... Read More

Innovation Management ? Capturing Ideas

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of... Read More

Discover the Secret to Success in Your Own Back Yard

Yesterday, I went above and beyond the call of duty for community service.Thanks to me, not one black fly within a five-mile radius of my home went to bed hungry last night, and because of my loyal patronage and recurring need for calamine lotion, my pharmacist can now put his... Read More

Why Do We Suppress Higher Thought?

Throughout History we have imprisoned our brightest stars and thinkers. In modern periods we force them into works of fiction and disallow those Thoughts, which make us question our perceived or created realities by those who rule over us. We attack the innovators, entrepreneurs, personalities and thinkers in our civilizations... Read More

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Creativity and Innovation Management - Good Ideas Part 1

The constant search for Good Ideas has resulted in many... Read More

Imagination

Imagination is the unreal, real state of mind, where all... Read More

Peace Alliance vs. Fighting a Battle

We read in the press about the "War on Drugs"... Read More

Business Ideas ? Need a New Idea? Try Changing Your Perspective

One definition of creativity states that creative people look at... Read More

Make Ideas Your (& Their) Own: Persuade Yourself and Others

Have you ever watched a TV program where the supporting... Read More

Creativity and Innovation Management - Teach, Coach, Learn

Coaching, training or learning about creativity and innovation involves mastery... Read More

How An Idea Can Lift You

What determines your destiny? What predisposes your choices?It is your... Read More

Choosing a Winning Business Idea

You've probably heard it a hundred times by now -... Read More

Business Innovation ? the Value of Frameworks

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Creativity Management ? When To Add Talent

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Innovation

Innovation, in a business context, is generally thought of as... Read More

Intuition: Your Best Career Coach

Since I derive most of my life lessons from reading... Read More

Innovation Management ? moving past the wall

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Opportunity: Could You Be Colour-blind?

Do you consider your vision perfect? You may never have... Read More

All Fortunes Begin With an Idea!

A new idea is merely the combination of two or... Read More

Three Step Problem Solving

How do you like to solve your problems? Do you... Read More

The 99 Percent Rule

It's Friday night, you're sitting at a restaurant, and as... Read More

Become an Idea Collector

Have you ever gotten a really great idea ? one... Read More

Let the Seeds Grow

The thought that every great thing that has ever happened,... Read More

Life ? The Teacher

You've probably heard the phrase "repetition is the mother of... Read More

Humankinds Greatest Inventions

There are a number of amazing inventions that have been... Read More

Business Innovation ? the Value of Being Obvious

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Discover the Secret to Success in Your Own Back Yard

Yesterday, I went above and beyond the call of duty... Read More

Process Innovation

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Thousands of Failures, but Thousands of Patents

Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he revolutionized the... Read More

Creativity Management ? Theres Nothing New Under the Sun

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

I Just Want to be Free - I Just Want to be Me!

It was a sunny Saturday in April 2003 in Myrtle... Read More

Innovation Management: Trying Out New Ideas

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Innovation and Competitive Advantage

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Penny For Your Thoughts?

Every artifact, every tool, everything ever designed or created by... Read More

Business Innovation ? Confidence in People

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

Innovation Management ? Testing Ideas

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More

A New Pair of Shoes

Do the NewAn old pair of shoesDo you have a... Read More