innovation + creativity

Quantifying Creativity

BY Heath RowThu Sep 4, 2003 at 1:32 PM

Researchers at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY-Buffalo have developed a nine-point program for analyzing the climate for innovation within an organization. Scott Isaksen and his colleagues identified the ...READ»

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At Work He's a Tourist

BY Heath RowTue Sep 2, 2003 at 3:58 PM

Not too many weeks ago, I learned that the Fast Company refrigerator came complete with an ice maker. I've worked here since 1997, and I had no idea. Now I can drink water so cold my teeth hurt. I feel a little silly that I was so ...READ»

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Budget Busting

Tue Sep 2, 2003 at 12:43 PM

Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge presents an innovative and slightly scary idea: Throw out the budget. According to HBS, a "billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the ...READ»

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Brilliant but Cancelled

Tue Sep 2, 2003 at 12:14 PM

The Trio channel has an interesting lineup this week, featuring pilots for television shows that were brilliant ideas, but for one reason or another, were passed on or cancelled by the major networks. The network also presents a ...READ»

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Components of Creativity

BY Heath RowFri Aug 29, 2003 at 1:21 PM

Creativity & Innovation CoF member Renee Hopkins recommends an online creativity self-assessment tool offered by the Belgian innovation consultancy Creax. The evaluation tool creates a radar plot of where you stand in various ...READ»

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Idea Generation Nation II

BY Heath RowWed Aug 27, 2003 at 10:56 AM

FC Now reader Robert Moss comments: James Webb Young wrote a great little book for his students in 1939 called A Technique for Producing Ideas. It was first distributed in 1965. While the dates are old, the ideas are not. The gist ...READ»

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Satellite Weight II

BY Heath RowTue Aug 26, 2003 at 2:02 PM

FC Now reader Martin Sweeney comments: Ultrasound signals? In Space? Bzzzttt wrong. Now, I'm no scientist, but the Globe piece does mention ultrasonic signals, and Space.com has reported on ultrasonic drills used in outer ...READ»

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Want to Innovate? Dump Your Friends II

BY Heath RowTue Aug 26, 2003 at 1:07 PM

Today's edition of the newsletter 48 Days, which usually runs more cold than hot, includes an item that resonates strongly with John's recent entry. The average person has 50,000 thoughts a day. Unfortunately, the average person has ...READ»

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Satellite Weight

BY Heath RowTue Aug 26, 2003 at 10:44 AM

The Boston Globe today features a Massachusetts-based company that's changing the way satellites are designed and deployed. Payload Systems Inc. is building a system of small satellites that can be programmed to cluster, separate, ...READ»

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Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends

Mon Aug 25, 2003 at 8:09 PM

Don't blame me for this unusual advice. It comes from Martin Ruef, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Ruef surveyed Stanford alumni who started new businesses to find out ...READ»

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Googlettes From Boeing?

Thu Aug 21, 2003 at 12:26 PM

Apparently Google doesn't corner the market on internal start-ups. Boeing, better known for its aerospace ventures, is pursuing an even loftier goal: defeating spam. The company has spawned a new "Baby Boeing," dubbed MessageGate, ...READ»

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Speaking of Tupperware

Mon Aug 18, 2003 at 3:16 PM

Following the TiVo Tupperware idea below, I went to Tupperware.com to see what they're up to these days. That led me to TupperwareParty.com, which allows Tuperware evangelists to hold a 14-day themed online Tupperware party by giving ...READ»

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Innovation Station

BY Heath RowMon Aug 18, 2003 at 1:23 PM

Innovate or Die is an extremely useful roundup of innovation news and resources addressing culture, marketing, product development, technology, and retail. Drawing on the expertise of more than 10 contributors, many of them members ...READ»

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Idea Generation Nation

BY Heath RowFri Aug 15, 2003 at 2:28 PM

Earlier this week, Chuck Frey, coordinator of the Creativity & Innovation Company of Friends group emailed members the following question: "When and where do you get your best creative ideas?" Here are some of the responses: "I ...READ»

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Clothing the Sale

BY Heath RowFri Aug 15, 2003 at 2:07 PM

When designers at Brooks Brothers started to plan the company's fall line of clothing, they looked to some interesting sources for ideas. These sources weren't outside of their industry. They weren't overly technological in nature. ...READ»

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Thinking Out Loud III

Fri Aug 15, 2003 at 1:48 PM

Apparently there is an industry in this mind mapping software. Two reader suggestions for software that propels these processes are Mindjet and Communication Guru. Both look intriguing. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with ...READ»

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Thinking Out Loud II

Fri Aug 15, 2003 at 12:13 PM

Commenting on my post yesterday regarding the process of getting an idea from thought to fully realized plan, FC Now reader NeoTheologue points to a process called Mindmapping. A really interesting concept. Does anyone else have ...READ»

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Ear and Now

BY Heath RowThu Aug 14, 2003 at 2:54 PM

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati recently released a study of what consumer psychologist James Kellaris terms "earworms." What are earworms? Those songs that get stuck in your head. Kellaris has also researched what genre ...READ»

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Thinking Out Loud

Thu Aug 14, 2003 at 12:51 PM

Blogger Liam Page brings up an interesting point on his weblog, Little Think Tank. Explaining his rationale for creating his blog, Page says: "Sometimes, thinking needs to be externalised, ideas need to be said out loud to see how ...READ»

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The Serial Entrepreneur

Tue Aug 12, 2003 at 3:23 PM

Michael Robertson, the serial entrepreneur behind both mp3.com and the linux-based LindowsOS has a new venture, the SIPphone. The upside is that the $65 phone allows free worldwide calling via the Internet using SIP (Session ...READ»

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Idea Practitioners

Mon Aug 11, 2003 at 12:14 PM

Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge is featuring a very interesting excerpt regarding the concept of "Idea Practitioners," people who know how to get new ideas across and implemented. It includes a number of helpful tips ...READ»

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