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innovation culture in factories

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Today I got one insight from person who works in factory. He had an idea how to improve the production process. He spokes with his supervisor and they made this improvement which produces less waste and production is faster. (I spoke with him and encouraged him to make this, as it will be done in my company) But, another supervisor wasn’t been happy with that, and idea was rejected, idea-creator got also some bad words… “Don’t change the status quo”, “Why to make changes?”… not an innovative firm, as you can see. One more thing: they tried to start some … Continue reading innovation culture in factories

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ireland announce winners in their open innovation contest

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Open Innovation Contest in Ireland (your country your call) is over. They selected two winners: Neil Leyden with  “Irish Content Industry Association” (attract global content industries and make Ireland a global center for digital content) Cianán Clancy and Colm MacFhlannachadha with ‘The Data Island Strategy,’ (global digital services). Info about other finalists on Brightidea blog. Continue reading ireland announce winners in their open innovation contest

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first workshop abroad

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I have done my “Innovations & Creativity Workshop” first time outside Croatia. The pleasure was to be in Budapest for 2 days in front of creative people who was interested to listen to my stories. The reaction is almost the same as in Croatia, inventor stories about silly innovations, accidental inventions and success stories was best accepted. Open innovation chapter was also very interesting and I’m now sure that everyone could be convinced that open innovations are future in many companies. Next thing that is always interesting wherever I am, are inspirational internet sites mentioned in last post (creativity avalanche). … Continue reading first workshop abroad

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creativity avalanche

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If you want to awake a creative person in yourself, here are the links that could help 😉 Learn Something Everyday: http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk One Word: oneword.com Idea a day: http://www.idea-a-day.com Inspire me, now!: szymon.tumblr.com Springwise: http://www.springwise.com PSFK: http://www.psfk.com Trendhunter: http://www.trendhunter.com Coolhunter: http://www.thecoolhunter.net Trendwatching: http://www.trendwatching.com Innovation Avalanche: http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/innovationavalanche.htm Ideas…: http://www.creativitypool.com Sell patents or ideas: http://www.newideatrade.com Top 20 trends for 2010: http://www.trendhunter.com/tv/trends-in-2010-forecast Ted – Ideas worth preading (Inspiracijske prezentacije) http://www.ted.com Continue reading creativity avalanche

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course on creativity and innovation

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I’m just back from first course on Innovations and Creativity. It was a day and half long course on creative thinking and innovation. I got great feedback from participants and I’m sure that in future I will go on with this course. As I expected attendees are the most interested in the creativity examples such as some thinking techniques and pointing out the examples, like coincidental inventions. But, also the chapter “Open Innovations” was very interesting for them as they didn’t know nothing about it. Open Innovation Web-Sites like Innocentive was the complete novelty. New website created (Croatian) which supports … Continue reading course on creativity and innovation

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innovation culture barriers

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Have you heard your friend, father or uncle how he make fun of his boses or to management in his factory because they are doing something „stupid“, and when you ask him „why won’t you propose a solution?“, the answer is: „they wouldn’t listen to me, they dont care for my thoughts“ or „let them do whatever they want!“. This barrier between employee and the firm, or call it ‘learned helplessness’ is the spirit when the employee don’t need to think and it’s the example which kind of culture should be completely changed. This kind of examples can be heard … Continue reading innovation culture barriers

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book reviews

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exploiting chaos by jeremy gutsche Interesting and easy-to-read book which gives you examples of innovation success stories and the guideline for creativity. Useful for everyone not just for the persons involved in work with ideas. Culture of revolution ad trend hunting is the topics that you won’t see in other books 😉 It looks trendy & “sexy” and it’s the book that everyone that have it on the bookshelf, will go back over and over. idea book by fredrik hären Book about creativity with blank pages for reader’s notes and ideas. It’s a sort of creativity handbook for anyone interested … Continue reading book reviews

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innovation providers

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Here is the list of firms that are providing help in innovation or creativity. They have innovation management trainings or they offer tools for running innovation process. Pumacy (Germany) – http://www.pumacy.de/en.html – knowledge mngmt, proces mngmt & innovation mngmt. Brigthidea (USA) – http://www.brightidea.com/ – innovation & idea mngmt + webstorm tool OVO innovation (USA) – http://www.ovoinnovation.com/ – innovation & idea mngmt CREAX (Belgium) – http://www.creax.com/ – creativity&innovation + great inspiration site: http://www.moreinspiration.com IdeaManagement (Germany) – http://www.ideamanagement.com/ – creativity Fleishman-Hilard Innovation (USA) – http://innovation.fleishmanhillard.com/ – innovation & creativity I-Nova (France) – http://www.i-novasoftware.com/ – idea management Nosco (Denmark) – http://www.nosco.dk/index.html – idea … Continue reading innovation providers