It’s always a challenge to bring the innovative culture of any organization to higher level. After promotion of innovation program and removing the barriers, one of tasks connected with that challenge is to be successful in Idea Generation. The focus can be on the quantity of ideas, but it is also always expected, that this ideas have a certain quality to be able to get realized at the end. Continue reading “Idea Generation Methods”
My paper “Establishing Innovation Culture”, about installing Innovative Climate in big organization is available via this link on issuu. I presented it on the Conference for Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Maribor, 2 years ago, and got a great feedback. Hope that you’ll like it! Please comment! Continue reading Establishing Innovation Culture
Using smartphones and tablets is a big help for every creative person and here is the collection of apps that can help in unleashing that creative spark everyone has inside.
How can any software developer become an Innovator? Is it possible that innovations exist in any software company?
Software development in small and middle size companies can be encouraged in the same manner as in big companies. The effort and the time spent surely must be scaled, but the general principle which should bring the innovation culture into the teams can be copied.
Continue reading “Start of Innovation in Software Development Companies”
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.
Continue reading “5 Top Creative Resources for Every Day – Web Sites”
Here is the TrendHunter’s look at top 20 trends for next year: Continue reading Top Trends for 2013
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.
Great review of Unleash Your Creativity App is coming from United Kingdom, tnx:
A neat and practical app for creative stimulation ★★★★★
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?
Great TED presentation: Continue reading Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex (TED video)
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?
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!”
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
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.
Continue reading “What’s similar with innovations and soccer?”
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
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!
Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? First, the way how NOT to do it: This will not come from people who can’t get their head off everyday work. Also, not from someone who is learned that innovation ideas comes only from R&D teams or Innovation Departments, or similar… Innovation Culture must exist and Innovation should have the positive surrounding in the organization. Find T-shaped people and use them! Try to find people that has knowledge in their every-day-work domain, but also in other topics. It can be sport, gardening, Take some creative workshops Do brainstorming – engage into … Continue reading How to create disruptive ideas?
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
With the growth in last year, Croatia find the plave among the Moderate Innovators, together with neighbouring Serbia. Hungray & Italy. Other country in Cental-Eastern Europe Are among Modest Innovators, like Bulgaria, Macedonia & Romaina, Moderate Innovators like Poland, Slovakia & Chech Republic. The best is Slovenia which almost got EU average and finds the place among Innovation Followers. The Innovation Leaders in Europe are again Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Denmark & Finland), together with Switzerlan & Germany. Now, let’s take a look at Croatia scores: the worst results comes from Patent Applications, which says a lot about the state of … Continue reading New Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011
Check this video from TechCrunch about Farm management startup Farmeron that helps farmers track their livestock and livelihood, charging by the animal. Video This is what they said about their product: Farmeron brings all your scattered farming production records together and helps you meet ag production plans with advanced statistics and reports. Continue reading Wow, that’s an innovation – Farmeron!
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
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