“You’re much more imaginative than you think, but your workplace — which needs your very best ideas — may be driving the creativity right out of you.” Professor Jeanne Liedtka, University of Virginia. Why not use World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 to enhance creativity in your workplace? WCIW April 15-21 occurs each year …
The Global Innovation Index 2014 – a composite indicator that ranks countries/economies in terms of their environment to innovation and their innovation outputs. View the 2014 7th edition. Source: www.globalinnovationindex.org Worth taking a look for new ideas, to see what’s possible… See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights
Hundreds of different professionals from a variety of industries attended the Pingtan County Innovation Forum to inspire more creativity across the board. Short video here: http://www.bon.tv/news/2015-1-17/1421417013673.shtml Pingtan County is a county comprising 126 islands in the Taiwan Strait, under the administration of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, People’s Republic of China.
Forget Facebook manipulating our timelines as a mass social experiment, or Google mining our personal emails for advertising keywords. When it comes to algorithms, nothing gets the blood boiling more than the subject of creativity…. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com And soon, it may be reduced to a simple algorithm. Are we ready for this? See on Scoop.it …
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A favourite technique for idea generating is to make connections and gather insights through reviewing word lists. I call it a Word Dance. You can use this technique to generate ideas for your April 15 – 21 WCIW 2015 celebration. Years ago, I did a Word Dance on create, creator, creativity, creative, problem, solving and …
Freedom is an important kind of joy. What if you used freedom, or one of its synonyms – emancipation, liberation, independence, spaciousness, carte blanche, self-determination – as your theme for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21? In what ways might you feel the joy of delightful surprise in new ideas, new decisions and/or …
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Looking for some new thinking to use during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 this year? Here are 9 resources to play with to spark your creative thinking engines. Remember the criteria for creativity: novel, useful, surprising ideas, decisions and/or actions. Have others to recommend? Please list them in the comments section. …
Attention Bakers: Here’s a photo to stir your heart and mind for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21. It fulfills the criteria for creative Novel Useful Surprising When you are open to New ideas New decisions New actions it is easier to create novelty that is useful and surprising in any domain …
[brightcove vid=3373616535001&exp3=2072970314001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=2071817190001&pk=AQ~~,AAAB4mHtenE~,_rixfzbq5sX3kYRD-76PJa-Z8t5PlMpq&w=480&h=270] Here’s a different technique to use in place of brainstorming during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21, you know, for the people who say they are already creative…. Brainswarming was developed by Tony McCaffrey (tony@innovationaccelerator.com) who researches and develops innovation tools at Innovation Accelerator, Inc. Brainswarming is the latest tool to …
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As well as a music and film festival, SXSW is also an Interactive Festival focused on emerging technology. The interactive focus has earned SXSW a reputation as a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. Below is a roundup of top 10 themes from the 21st annual festival , based on on-the-ground reporting, comments …
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