Category: creativity
Top 10 places for Creative Spark
There are places where creative spark strike more often than on normal (standard) workplace. It is quite useful to know where you can trigger yourself to get more ideas. The best advice could be write down everything and if you can – travel.
5 Top Creative Resources for Every Day – Web Sites
Everyday, I check for new content on some web-sites which are full of advices, new ideas, trends or just good vibrations. Here, I would give just the 5 best everyday inspirational web-sites:
First, I must mention Innovation Excellence which bring everyday 5-6 new post from the field of Creativity and innovation Management.
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Book review: REWORK
After few business books that was terrible with same old stories and nothing interesting for me, I just finished interesting and inspiring book about the everyday work in a company, based on the real-life example of the writers. The book is called “REWORK, Change the way you work forever”.
The Zero Phase of the Innovation Process
The “zero phase” of the innovation process is to convince the very first person to get behind your idea.
Idea can be shortly explained to a colleague at work or to a friend at the coffee shop, where first comments should encourage to further thinking and reshaping of idea.
Gently Turning Down Ideas
Ideas are going through the innovation funnel and only few percent will reach the end. What’s happening with the army of ideas lost inside it? How will their creators find out what happened?
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex (TED video)
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Creativity – a Birthright
Everyone is born creative, kids are so creative, and human beings made the civilization and modern technology with this gift. But, when people hear what I’m doing, they always start to ask similar questions like:
How can one become creative?
Which ideas have the best chance?
How can I know what already exists?
But, I don’t have a chance from here?
Barriers to Innovative Culture
Have you heard a friend, relative or coworker make fun of their bosses or management because “they are doing something stupid.”? And when you ask ”why won’t you propose a solution?“, the answer is a familiar response: “They wouldn’t listen to me” or “they don’t care what I think” or “let them do whatever they want!”
Free version of “Unleash Your Creativity” App available now!
I’ve decided to make a FREE version of my iPhone/iPad App “Unleash Your Creativity” and it is now available on AppStore.
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Presentation of Unleash Your Creativity App
Unleash Your Creativity featured on TrendHunter & InnovationTools
First & positive reviews of “Unleash Your Creativity” App which are coming from famous websites like TrendHunter & Innovation Tools: TrendHunter: Refining Imagination Apps ‘Unleash Your Creativity’ Application Helps Revitalize the Art in You Innovation Tools: 2 new iPhone apps help users generate creative ideas Continue reading Unleash Your Creativity featured on TrendHunter & InnovationTools
What’s similar with innovations and soccer?
Where are similarities between innovations and youth academies at soccer clubs?
Think about a soccer team that have around 500 kids in youth categories. All kids are in training process for years and after some period selection is done. Then, only the best will play in the first XI in their category.
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How to be more creative?
Here is the small insight from my iPhone/iPad App “Unleash Your Creativity“:
15 tips to help you make more creative:
1. talk with creative people that you know
Unleash Your Creativity App is published now!
My iPhone/iPad Application Unleash Your Creativity is now published on AppStore. After trying to find a way to publish book, I decided that it’s more “innovative” and easier way to create an App. I hope that this could be good … Continue reading Unleash Your Creativity App is published now!
mobile app “Unleash Creativity” soon available
I’ve been trying to find the way to publish short book. First, I try in my country, but I couldnt do it without sponsors. The market is simply too small for this topic. Next was to try to do it on english. Well, that’s not so easy, there are too many books about innovation that comes to stores eery year. Many of these book are too scientific, others covers similar stories which are repeated over-and-over again. So, how to make something innovative? Maybe it’s the smartphone application! There are not so many apps about creativity, so I figure out that … Continue reading mobile app “Unleash Creativity” soon available
GRASP The Solution: book review
GRASP The Solution: How to find the best answers to everyday challenges When I started to read this book, I couldn’t stop… Book is explaining useful methodology how to come up to new ideas and what to do next. GSP … Continue reading GRASP The Solution: book review
Creative workshops with students
I have the opportunity to run brainstorming events for students and the biggest impression is that it’s not the same thing as doing workshop in some company. First, they never have enough time to finish their idea, if you give them a full day, they’ll spend it brainstorming. They are often stucked at one idea and try to go to technical details spending too much time on one idea, even if they have brainstorming rules on the desk. But, they are used to have authority, so they listen to all advices – that’s why here the role of facilitator is … Continue reading Creative workshops with students
The power of innovation campaigns
It’s easy to start innovation campaign, but to do it in a right way you need to be stick to some principles. So, to get really good, focused ideas much work has to be done before the start. If it’s possible it is best to have fixed topic, maybe also the customer behind it! Then your participants will have the biggest chance for innovation. It’s not important to buy newest piece of software to support the campaign, it can be done in a simplest way, which is in most cases – the best way. Sharepoint or even the Excel sheets … Continue reading The power of innovation campaigns
The biggest risk is not to innovate!
The biggest risk associated with innovation is not to innovate. If the company does not have innovations, it allows competition to shape the future. New ideas will shape the market that will no longer be interested in old products. Because of this, we can say that sometimes the challenges of innovation are big, but the risk of non-innovating is much higher. In other words: Standing on the same place is like going backwards! So, companies should look to the future – to new trends and new opportunities. How to scan that? Just catch-up with latest news on your domain … Continue reading The biggest risk is not to innovate!
there is no space for ideas in hostile environment
Few weeks ago, I got one insight from a friend who works in factory. He had an idea how to improve the production process. He spoken with his supervisor and they made this improvement which produces less waste and production is faster. I must say that, I spoke with him few months ago and encouraged him to make this, as it will be done in my company with no problem, but we have innovation culture… What happened is that another supervisor wasn’t been happy with that, and idea was rejected, idea-creator (my friend) got also some bad words like “Don’t … Continue reading there is no space for ideas in hostile environment
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