Creativity

9 Essential Characteristics of an Innovation Candidate

As the idea of innovation grows within corporate culture, both as a true practice and just as often as a term to be sprinkled about like so much PowerPoint seasoning, many companies are getting seriou...

Who’s Your Crowd? The Use of Virtual Private Expert Networks

This week I’m attending the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation. ...

Make more makers

I come from a maker family. I learned to sew and draw at the same time, and I was given a hammer, nails and scrap wood to play with at a very young age. This environment made me confident that I could...

How Will You Create a Social Innovation Culture?

Like any new business initiative, incorporating social product innovation strategy and technology into existing innovation and product development processes is likely to encounter resistance and lack ...

Creative Problem Solving Lessons from "Old School"

Flipping through the channels over the weekend, I came across one of my favorite movies of all time: Old School. ...
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Weekend Reading: Neuroscience, Time, and Innovation

In The Possibilian, a riveting New Yorker profile of the neuroscientist and Reanaissance man Dr. David Eagleman, Burkhard Bilger explores our understanding of time. ...
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Tags: Innovation, Neursocience

Social Media and Product Development – What’s Stopping Us?

Many of us have seen those “Did You Know?” videos on YouTube. With millions of views, these compelling videos give facts and stats on globalization in the information age, demonstrating the pervas...

Play the (April) Fool for Innovation!

Here's a quote we would like to share with you on this one day of the year when we are all allowed to have some fun and be a little "foolish:" "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing i...
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IBM's Watson: the Ultimate Brainstorming Resource?

Last night on Jeopardy, a machine beat two humans in a game that requires the kind of contextual understanding once thought impossible for computers.  IBM's supercomputer Watson beat two of Jeo...

Staging an Innovation Party

The following post is from PDMA partner, Braden Kelley's "Blogging Innovation." Make sure to visit Blogging Innovation, a great site for the Innovation community. ...
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