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the Perfect Brainstorm?

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Some interesting insights into the rising demand for innovation practitioners from the New York Times article

Jump, Ideo and Kotter International, are companies with offices and payrolls. But many are solo practitioners, brains for hire who lecture at corporations or consult with them regularly. Each has a catechism and a theory about why good ideas can be so hard to come by and what can be done to remedy the situation.

I particularly like this model by Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and co-author of “The Other Side of Innovation:

In Box 1, he puts everything a company now does to manage and improve performance.

Box 2 is labeled “selectively forgetting the past,” his way of urging clients to avoid fighting competitors and following trends that are no longer relevant.

Box 3 is strategic thinking about the future.

“Companies spend all of their time in Box 1, and think they are doing strategy,” he says. “But strategy is really about Box 2 and 3 — the challenge to create the future that will exist in 2020″.

via In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm – NYTimes.com.

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I don’t know what to make of this

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This photograph is taken from a Vanity Fair article titled An American in Tehran by Carrie Carlisle dated 25 June 2009. The picture shows:us-chicks-in-iranian-market

Chicks for sale at a bird market in Esfahan. The brightly colored ones are from the United States; the undyed ones are Persian.

I’ve spend half an hour looking at this image and drafted several sentences in an attempt to capture my thoughts. Quite frankly – I don’t know what to say!!

There are times when we look at objects either natural or man-made and marvel at the beauty and intelligence of the form and function. This is when creativity and innovation are in sync and we are rightfully in awe.

This image disrupts all these sensibilities for me. I’m troubled that I’m offended by such simple “change”. What about you?

My thanks to Adam Smith’s Inquiring Mind for bringing this article to my attention. It’s well worth the read.

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Creativity and the community

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Here is a really great story of a low tech creative event open to and well supported by the public. Have a look at the video below to get an idea of the age of the people involved and a what a marvelous way for everyone to get a little creative. A new spin on crowd-sourcing?

What I particularly like about this is that its teaching children (and by default the adults too?) that everyone has a creative capacity. It’s also teaching that every idea has a place amongst everyone else’s. So simple.

Now tell me – wouldn’t you like to see Chrysler or GM’s executives out in the carpark their chalk working on their recovery plan. I would!!

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Dozens of boxes of thick, pastel sidewalk chalk sticks were being cracked open, the contents, purchased with private donor funds, distributed free to all who came. By day’s end much of the stock of 30,000 sticks had been worn down to tiny chips and nubs.

by Chris Knape | The Grand Rapids Press



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