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Trends in business problem solving: Please share your opinion
Creative problem solving skills are fast becoming a critical executive skill today. But what I'm having trouble understanding is the underlying needs that are driving this trend. Please share your opinions on the fundamental nature of business problems - is it changing?
The death of the chief innovation officer role
Is the role of the Chief Innovation Officer a thing of the past? According to Boris Pluskowski, writing in his new Complete Innovator Blog, it's a role whose time has passed. Surprisingly, this isn't because CIOs are ineffective. Rather, innovation has grown to be so strategically important to most firms that the lead role on innovation has been taken over by the CEO.
Strategies for innovating in an economic downturn
A few weeks ago, I asked you to share with me your strategies for maintaining or expanding their innovation initiatives in the current global economic downturn. Here's what you had to say.
Take off your blinders and realize your creative potential
Why aren't you realizing your potential as a creative human being? Perhaps it's because you're wearing blinders.
Google's Chrome web browser: A classic disruption play?
Google's recently announced Chrome web browser has all of the signs of a classic market disruption.
Gerald Haman's new blog
Check out this new blog from an old friend of mine, Gerald Haman, who is one of the most brilliant people I know.
Roger C. Parker to interview me on technology for productivity and creativity
Join marketing guru Roger C. Parker on September 5, 2008 as he interviews me on tools and technologies that can be used to enhance your productivity and creativity.
VizThink Europe conference offers exciting learning opportunities for visual thinkers
If you want to take your visual thinking and problem solving skills to the next level, then check out the upcoming VizThink Europe conference.
25 tools for capturing ideas anywhere
The popular LifeDev blog recently posted a fascinating list of 25 tools for capturing ideas, any time, anywhere. Here are several of my favorites, which I'm now using.
New innovation trends database planned
Langdon Morris recently announced in his Permanent Innovation blog that he plans to create a database of innovation trends. He is now soliciting ideas and input.
14 ways to get breakthrough ideas
Mitch Ditkoff from the Heart of Innovation Blog has published a new manifesto on ChangeThis.com called 14 Ways to Get Breakthrough Ideas. His goal in writing this report is to highlight where "ideas with enough mojo to rally sustained support" come from, so individuals can help to drive innovation in today's organizations.
'Grace' is needed to cultivate innovation
In the latest Innovation Panel Interview, the topic of how to handle failures gets some special attention. In the course of the conversation, the innovation panelists bring up a topic I didn't expect to see there: grace.
Cool SCAMPER tool is great creative problem solving resource
Check out this excellent SCAMPER creative problem solving resource page, and the Random Question Tool that blogger Luciano Passuelo has created.
'Swipe' this strategy for collecting ideas
Here's an interesting blog post that explains how to use a "swipe file" to capture ideas. A swipe file is a strategy that comes to us from the advertising industry, and it involves keeping a file of cool ideas that you want to refer to in the future.
Coming soon: The BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit
Each year, the non-profit Business Innovation Factory (BIF) hosts an annual Collaborative Innovation Summit in Providence, Rhode Island where they bring together innovators from all walks of life to share their personal stories about how they turned their ideas into innovations. During the last four years, the reputation of this summit has steadily grown as a quality event that's worthy of your attention.
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