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How to Make Use of Oddballs
Many organisations have an oddball character who sits in the corner of the office and does things in their own unique way. These people may very well be the cleverest and most valuable people in the company. You of course would dispute that wouldn’t you?Read more…Who Do You THINK Tou Are
Who do you THINK you are? In all the wealth creation, self help, motivational writings etc, we all tend to forget the person who has actually obtained wealth. Because most people equate money and luxurious surroundings with happiness, they assume, that anyone with money, should be happy, and if they are not, hard luck, they just do not seem to care.Read more…Creating Opportunities in the 21st Century - Part 5
(This is part five of a five-part series focusing on finding opportunities and creating ideas in this hectic, high tech modern age. The first four parts of this series focus on spotting opportunities and the last concentrates on effective ways to come up with solid ideas.)Introduction to IdeasWe've now come to the last and most important part of the process in creating opportunities in the 21st century - the act of creating powerful ideas.Read more…Creating Opportunities in the 21st Century - Part 4
(This is part four of a five-part series focusing on finding opportunities and creating ideas in this hectic, high tech modern age. The first four parts of this series focus on spotting opportunities and the last concentrates on effective ways to come up with solid ideas.)The Fourth Concept for Finding OpportunitiesWe have reached the final principle needed to spot opportunities in a high technology world that is constantly changing day after day.Read more…Innovative Leadership Needs Innovation Strategy Models
Innovative leadership needs, seeks and desires a way to envision or describe the organization's innovation strategy. In more ways than this one specific instance, today's leaders resemble their traditional counterparts.If they can model or otherwise map their innovation strategy, they can better experiment with it, put it to the test, stretch its limits and communicate it to others.Read more…New Inventions I Would Like To See
Do you want to create money-making new inventions? Not me. I just like to dream them up.Read more…7 Keys to Cultivating Magic and Innovation
Last weekend I had the joy of attending a member retreat at my favorite spiritual playground Columcille. This place of monoliths, myth, mystery, and general spiritual journeying has been a most special place to me for almost 10 years now. In fact, my partner and I had our commitment ceremony there and have since considered the people we know there an extended family and the land itself home .Read more…Who is Having All of the Ideas?
This is a summary of the statistics produced as a result of a survey conducted by Vodafone UK.Did you know that:70% of workers believe their company does not reward new ideas, and over half (54%) say they are not formally encouraged to come up with new ideas.79% of the workforce is not offered any financial incentive to innovate.Read more…Innovative Leaders Need To Be Sharp Innovators
Innovative leaders who wish to detect larger fields of opportunities should pursue the innovation strategy used by Edison.Edison kept investigating and studied why things worked the way they did just to explore new ideas, reveals Dr. Paul Israel of Rutgers' University, in New Jersey.Read more…Innovation — The Secret Of Giant Success
Surf the Web for more than about five minutes and you’ll start to recognize a pattern: there are a small number of great sites that do fantastic things... and a very large number of me-too sites that try to make money by doing the exact same thing.Now I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with those me-too sites.Read more…Innovation = Success!
Many people often fear innovation. They fail to recognize the key to success is not doing the same old thing over again, but it's trying something new. When you are trying something for the first time, it will seem foreign.Read more…Innovation Is A State Of Mind
You probably know the myth of innovation as a sudden flash of insight that comes from nowhere. We read about that "aha" moment, or that light bulb turning on in the mind of some inventor or innovator, and this is true to an extent. Einstein really did get flashes of insight while shaving in the morning.Read more…A Wasteful Socialization
“This article was initiated while sitting in the library.”As a LLB student, translator, media liaison officer, freelance columnist for Search Newspaper (Cambodia) and expert author, librarying [the term I just coined, meaning doing research, thoroughly reading in the library] is my must and daily routine. From this librarying, time-wasting and unbeneficial-fatigued socialization committed by the university students have urged me to write this article: A Wasteful Socialization.Read more…Master Your Future - Become An Idea Creator
“A man with a supply of idea fears nothing for he has become the master of his own fate.” – Robert P. CrawfordHow do you use your mind to create ideas that open the floodgates to other opportunities?Read more…Innovation Goals and Original Ideas
Most people think that innovation is always free flowing and if you force the process you destroy creativity. In other words if you stress out over performance and deadlines you cannot remain creative. I completely disagree in that they also say that necessity is the Mother of Invention.Read more…How to Innovate Faster than Anyone Else
Do you know how to innovate? Well it is not a secret really it merely takes a little out of the box thinking and therefore let me discuss a little theory and philosophy behind it. You see in most industries everyone is doing everything basically the same way.Read more…Every Person is an Innovator
Humans are all somewhat capable of becoming great innovators. That is to say figuring out a way to do something once they intend to do it. Every person is born with this innovative spirit, sure some more than others, I am certain I got some innovator genes along the way.Read more…Innovation Management: Cognitive versus Motor Activity
Innovation ManagementEstablishing terminology and frames of reference helps set the context and build a solid foundation from which we can have an intelligent conversation about this topic.Creativity and Innovation are very often confused. For example, one popular author recently defined innovation as "...Read more…Inspiring Innovation and Creativity through Business Systems
Ok, I admit: "I am a big fan of systems, It's all about Systems." It could just be the Mechanical Engineer and Business Analyst coming out in me, but it goes much deeper than that. It is definitely grounded in my recent experiences with systems.Read more…Innovation Management: Predicting the Future
Innovation ManagementEstablishing terminology and frames of reference helps set the context and build a solid foundation from which we can have an intelligent conversation about this topic.Creativity and Innovation are very often confused. For example, one popular author recently defined innovation as "...Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Innovation category
- Reality Is Relative and Kabbalah Uses This Fact - By: Bnei Baruch
Modern science and Kabbalah both agree that the picture of reality depends on the observer’s qualities. However, Kabbalah also works to develop the observer’s qualities in order to reveal a broader picture of reality. - I Dream To Become A Great Man - By: Moises Reconalla
I was born as a poor boy and grew up in the street Without the care, guidance and supervision of my beloved parent. I have been experienced an empty stomach, Almost naked, without permanent shelter and without proper education. As a young man with a deprived and sad experiences of life I started to think of innovation and dream for my future. I dream to become a famous, I dream to become a great man! - Unique Approach to Voting During The Upcoming Election - By: Lynn Wertheimer
Decisions, decisions! Here comes another election. You know it’s getting close when you get the sample ballot in the mail. - How To Solve Problems - By: Steven Gillman
Wouldn't it be great if you could solve problems more easily? You can. Problems you have at home, or problems from science, work, or business - you can use special techniques to help you find solutions to all of them. - Is TRIZ the Magic Bullet Entrepreneurs Have Been Seeking? - By: Geoff Ficke
Can a Structured System Be Taught That Results in Innovative Success?Recently I participated in a meeting to review a new product offering. The presenters were inventors and they had enjoyed a great deal of success as corporate employees working inside a highly structured environment. - Innovation Strategy Models Need Innovative Leadership Guides - By: Bill Thomas
Innovation strategy models usually follow this uninspired recipe - let's encourage employee ideas, throw together a business case,justify the costs and operating budget, dish-up a marketing strategy and production project plan, hope for the best.There are other organizations who believe in innovation strategies which heavily depend on setting up and managing arrangements, special relationships or partnerships with their supplier community. I am not trying to find fault with those methods, however, my argument is with those who are supposed to act as the agents of innovative leadership. - The Introduction of Critical Thinking - By: Ross Lincoln
Critical thinking is a process which takes place in the mind of an individual. It analyzes or evaluates information, which can either be in the form of propositions or statements provided to you as true. But you never easily believe it is true, thus you reflect on it, thoroughly examine the reasons and evidences before you formulate your own judgment about the information. - Key Points in Expanding Your Awareness - By: Charlsie Winston
Your initial awareness comes from the five senses. . . - Using Invention Submission Services - By: Steven Gillman
You see the ads for those invention submission services on television and in magazines. Getting the help you need to market your invention from a company that knows all the ins and outs - it's a great idea, isn't it? Of course, you may have also heard the stories of people who have spent $15,000 and more for these services, and gotten nothing but general advice and form letters sent out to potential buyers. - Occam’s Razor Offers a 700 Year Old Rule of Great Import to Modern Inventors - By: Geoff Ficke
Most of us are familiar with the colloquial term “keep it simple stupid” or KISS. The phrase, often used derisively to pan a complex over-analysis of a problem, is part of the current idiom. The assumption that simplicity is the preferred route to successfully discovering the answer to a particularly complex problem is actually grounded on a 700-year old philosophical theorem: Occam’s Razor.