THIS JUST IN! The Year of Living Creatively Manifesto The Heart of Innovation / — Creativity is our birthright — Everyone has a calling — We are never more than a breath away from a breakthrough — This is the perfect moment to begin — Self-expression begins with the self. Know thyself. — We are all infinitely more creative than we think we are — We have a gift. It’s time to open it. — Celebrate what makes you unique — Ideas may be a dime a dozen, but the process of…
Fascinating idea: Would we buy carbon-neutral products if they were 2% more expensive? Idea to Value / I just came across this fascinating TED video by Jens Burchardt , BCG’s global expert on climate impact and low-emissions technologies. In it, he shows how much more expensive it is to produce carbon-neutral commodities, like steel. However, he also shows how small changes in our spending habits could have a huge impact on the advancement of low-carbon technologies. He illustrates this beautifull
VAL VADEBONCOEUR: Your Free the Genie Facilitator The Heart of Innovation / Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions’ Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius . Since 1987, Val has been helping organizations in just about every industry on planet Earth get out of the box and generate bold new ideas to grow their business. Additionally, he’s helped a wide range…
Podcast S5E112: Simon Hill – What’s new at Wazoku Idea to Value / In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak once again with Simon Hill. The last time we spoke with Simon , he was the CEO of Wazoku. Since then, he has also taken over the Open Innovation platform Innocentive. We speak about synergies in the Open Innovation world, and what is coming in the future. Topics covered in this episode: 00:03:00 – Why Wazoku acquired Innocentive, and the…
How big is your reject pile? Idea to Value / People are so obsessed with getting the “right” ideas. Instead, it is often much more effective to just have LOTS of ideas. This makes the likelihood that at least some of those ideas will be of high quality significantly more likely. A great example of this is professional artist Drew Dernavich, known for his numerous New Yorker cartoons, who shared a picture on instagram of his “Reject Pile”:…
Entering the Movie Theater of Your Own, Unique Creative Process The Heart of Innovation / The creative process is a most mysterious one — the inner journey a person takes to transform an impulse, idea, or inspiration into a manifested form that other people can enjoy. For most of us, the creative process begins with the undeniable recognition that we are being called to express something — to give shape to the invisible. Usually, the beginning of this process is quite intoxicating.
How this 1976 French wine tasting disrupted an entire industry Idea to Value / How sure are you that your products are better than the competition? How confident are you that your company will not be disrupted by a smaller competitor? This story shows how an entire industry was so convinced of their superiority that they weren’t even aware that they were being overtaken. It is about the French wine industry, and then the global wine industry. It all happened in Paris on 24…
Streamlining Your Company’s Strategy HBR.org / A conversation with HBS professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee on selecting fewer initiatives to have greater impact.
What Are The Six Traits of Highly Innovative Organizations?InnovationManagement / I love meeting innovators. You meet all types: some of them are blue sky thinkers, some of them are feasibility buffs, some of them are incredible networkers and presenters, and some of them are shy and fascinatingly deep thinkers. The post appeared first on InnovationManagement .
Futuros MIT Innolandia / Cruzando el abismo, esta vez entre presente y futuro. Hace un tiempo, me apunté a un webinar del MIT de Otto Scharmer sobre futuros emergentes y aún siguen resonando en mi cabeza ciertos conceptos. Hoy en día, en este entorno cambiante, la capacidad de poder intuir y percibir oportunidades es una capacidad imprescindible para el día el día y sobretodo de liderazgo. Otto introduce el concepto de…
Why did Taylor Swift just re-record her chart-topping album? Idea to Value / Taylor Swift is one of the world’s biggest music stars, having sold over 200 million records and receiving 11 Grammy awards. She is also respected for being a highly creative songwriter and performer. So why did she just do potentially the most un-creative thing a musician can do: Re-record one of her previous albums, ‘Fearless’ from 2008? It all comes down to owning your own platform as an…
Leadership Matters In More Ways Than One InnovationManagement / No one is disputing the fact that leadership matters. In fact, there has never been a more critical time where leadership matters more than it does today. The post appeared first on InnovationManagement .
Reimagining Fundraising with innovation Board of Innovation / How 14 leading NGOs teamed up to re-shape fundraising with innovation The year 2020 shook things up in ways no one would ever have thought possible. Countless NGOs who rely heavily on fundraising operations were facing…