Creativity

9 Essential Characteristics of an Innovation Candidate

Submitted by Michael Koppelmann on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 2:09pm
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...
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Categories: Creativity, Global Product Development, Inventors / Invention, Open Innovation, Product Design

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

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 10:31am
This week I’m attending the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation. ...
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Categories: Creativity, Global Product Development, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Process Innovation, Product Design, Social Media, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: co-creation, Crowdsourcing, social product development, Social Product Innovation

Make more makers

Submitted by Nina Miller on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 11:41pm
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...
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Categories: Creativity, People, Teams and Culture, Sustainable Innovation
 Tags: Innovation education, CoCreatePDMA

How Will You Create a Social Innovation Culture?

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 10:18am
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 ...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Consumer Products, Creativity, Global Product Development, NPD - General, Open Innovation, People, Teams and Culture, Process Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Sustainable Innovation, Technology
Tags: New Product Development, Social Media, co-creation, social product development

Creative Problem Solving Lessons from "Old School"

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:47am
Flipping through the channels over the weekend, I came across one of my favorite movies of all time: Old School. ...
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Categories: Creativity

Weekend Reading: Neuroscience, Time, and Innovation

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:47am
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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Categories: Creativity
 Tags: Innovation, Neursocience

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

Submitted by Amy Kenly on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 12:34pm
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...
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Categories: Co-Development & Alliances, Creativity, NPD - General, Open Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Technology
Tags: Conference, Innovation, Social Media, co-creation, social product development, CoCreatePDMA, Social Product Innovation, kalypso

Play the (April) Fool for Innovation!

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 9:24am
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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Categories: Creativity

IBM's Watson: the Ultimate Brainstorming Resource?

Submitted by Chris Dolan on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 10:23am
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...
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Categories: Creativity
 Tags: Technology, Brainstorming, Creativity

Staging an Innovation Party

Submitted by lionzshare on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 1:02pm
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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Categories: Creativity, NPD - General, Open Innovation
 Tags: Innovation, Innovation Party, Braden Kelley
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