Category: Creativity

2023

Creativity in therapy

1 Jun 2023

2022

How to inspire creativity/innovation in your team

17 Feb 2022

Myst: thoughts on a revolution

27 Jan 2022

2021

Design Thinking over 15 years

21 May 2021

2019

Linear vs bubble working styles

12 Sep 2019

2018

Enduring works

20 Dec 2018

Doing diversity is hard!

19 Jul 2018

Three ways to do innovation

5 Jul 2018

Sacred Riana's greater whole

19 Apr 2018

From data to insights and strategy

29 Mar 2018

Over-reliance on data impedes innovation

22 Mar 2018

Hospitals to start drug company

8 Feb 2018

Flowing from ideas to up-and-running

1 Feb 2018

2017

Sketch-draw digital art process

19 Dec 2017

Can your business bank help (with innovation)?

25 Jul 2017

2016

Three dimensions for understanding a problem

4 Oct 2016

Anxiety blocks creativity

26 Jul 2016

Recruitment approach limits fresh thinking?

28 Jun 2016

On-trend is myopic

16 Feb 2016

How to become more innovative

2 Feb 2016

2015

Grounded vision

20 Nov 2015

What drives a closed mind?

20 Oct 2015

Use the whole wall

8 Oct 2015

Selling game alphas is the ultimate lean

19 Aug 2015

Diamond cutting: concentrate distil curate

18 Aug 2015

Visualising De Waag

3 Aug 2015

Tools and operating frameworks

27 Jul 2015

Cross-ed FTW

24 Jul 2015

Beliefs, assumption and acceptance

23 Jul 2015

Let me tell you how it should be

20 Jul 2015

Combining design thinking and applied psychology

29 Jun 2015

Driving over vs walking around potholes

23 Jun 2015

Design + applied psychology: A hybrid problem solving process

11 Jun 2015

From big external to small internal

5 May 2015

Global awareness, personal power

30 Apr 2015

Reframing for new perspectives

12 Feb 2015

Answers from unexpected places

10 Feb 2015

Start an ideas diary

5 Feb 2015

Build your creative confidence

6 Jan 2015

2014

Escaping the status quo

29 Oct 2014

Safety and positive affect in problem solving

28 Jul 2014

Australia's start-up brain drain?

11 Jun 2014

Happy medium age!

19 May 2014

Industry habits and expectations

12 May 2014

Solving the wrong problem

30 Apr 2014

Driving innovation vs driving chaos

14 Apr 2014

Vaclav Smil nuggets

13 Feb 2014

Resource: What is Strategic Design

12 Feb 2014

Maybe you need a project designer?

5 Feb 2014

What's your problem?

5 Jan 2014

2013

Whole-self, not wholesale

24 Nov 2013

Going to the extreme

17 Nov 2013

Inspiration fatigue

30 Oct 2013

Past vs future focused

29 Oct 2013

Innovation is...

27 Oct 2013

Blind beliefs

15 Oct 2013

Work is serial monogamy

13 Oct 2013

Coping with disruptions

15 Sep 2013

Be curious, be happy!

4 Sep 2013

Co-design vs design by committee

2 Jun 2013

What is vs what if

28 May 2013

Killing inspiration

26 May 2013

John Cleese on being creative

19 May 2013

Cultural tolerance and creativity

16 Apr 2013

Hofstede’s Uncertainty Avoidance Index

14 Apr 2013

Video: Workplace Bullying

31 Mar 2013

Consumption and creation

17 Mar 2013

The people component in complex problems

10 Feb 2013

New resource: A problem solving checklist

5 Feb 2013

Snow White and The Dark Knight

22 Jan 2013

A matter of will

15 Jan 2013

2012

Design thinking without design

10 Dec 2012

A limited definition limits the leverage

9 Dec 2012

Doing the opposite

7 Nov 2012

Dehydrating complex situations

30 Oct 2012

Copyright and innovation

21 Oct 2012

Two Diamonds: Look deeper for better fit

9 Oct 2012

Integrate play-time into your everyday

2 Oct 2012

Social drives evolution from within

18 Sep 2012

Innovate “within” and “across”

23 Aug 2012

On the continuum of Do and Think

7 Aug 2012

Businesses don’t care. Individuals do.

8 Jul 2012

Radical adjacent transformations

1 Jul 2012

Rebooting Finland’s education system

24 Jun 2012

Strategy formulation framework

11 Jun 2012

Strategy vs Plan vs Process

11 Jun 2012

What is Strategic Design?

11 Jun 2012

True rebels

3 Jun 2012

Male mental illness costs business $237m a year

30 May 2012

Workplace abuse

29 May 2012

Fake smiles at work

30 Apr 2012

Leveraging the introverted in brainstorming

29 Apr 2012

Don’t forget convenience

8 Apr 2012

Has "innovation" lost all meaning?

14 Mar 2012

Texting makes you stupid

12 Mar 2012

Too busy "productivising" to be inspired

26 Feb 2012

Trading crutches for scaffolding

20 Feb 2012

“Of the time…”

14 Feb 2012

On self esteem and being open-minded

5 Feb 2012

2011

Steve Jobs reality distortion

18 Dec 2011

Downsizing trends and opportunities

27 Nov 2011

Dieter Rams 10 Commandments of Good Design

23 Oct 2011

Have we lost the ability to wonder?

27 Sep 2011

Seeing patterns

25 Sep 2011

Growth

20 Sep 2011

The practice of zooming in and out

30 Aug 2011

Learn to see the world differently

7 Aug 2011

T-shaped people and Building Information Modelling

31 Jul 2011

Same old

19 Jul 2011

Making that extra leap

13 Jul 2011

Another InnoFuture event tomorrow

10 Jul 2011

Innovation is social

29 Jun 2011

Resolving exceptions and social media

28 Jun 2011

Hire designers to design or think?

27 Jun 2011

Basic people skills still apply

23 Jun 2011

Leveraging I and T shaped characteristics through the innovation process

20 Jun 2011

Effective brainstorming [e-learning]

11 Jun 2011

Disruption

7 Jun 2011

Should we expect more from entrepreneurship?

11 May 2011

Liberal vs conservative brains

4 May 2011

Don't forget the quiet opportunities

3 May 2011

From QMS to CES

19 Apr 2011

More on moving from things to thinking

13 Apr 2011

Superstition kills curiosity

12 Apr 2011

Six Steps To Getting Results With Innovation

7 Apr 2011

The impetus to change in times of comfort

29 Mar 2011

From things to thinking

28 Mar 2011

The Dark Matter that is consumer-led innovation

22 Mar 2011

Innovation is not a business model

6 Mar 2011

Low standards of experience

21 Feb 2011

Experts, generalists and deep generalists

13 Feb 2011

Innovation and operations model

7 Feb 2011

Easy access to diversity

30 Jan 2011

Selling innovation when businesses can’t and don’t want to be innovative

26 Jan 2011

Most businesses can’t and don’t want to be more innovative

25 Jan 2011

Resistance to knowledge, thinking and change

24 Jan 2011

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

12 Jan 2011

Not not knowing and the next opportunities in the innovation space

2 Jan 2011

2010

Probono work as innovation test-beds

21 Dec 2010

Reflections on travelling: acknowledging differences while seeking similarities

28 Nov 2010

The age of crises

28 Oct 2010

Profits lie in the in-between

4 Oct 2010

Interface-building as a source of new business ideas

27 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 12: The opportunities

21 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 11: Cultural change

20 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 10: Collaboration and authority

19 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 9: Cost-cutting focus

16 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 8: Analysis paralysis

15 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 7: Long-term thinking and imagination

14 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 6: Creativity as a new way of seeing

13 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 5: Time pressures

12 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 4: Ambiguity

9 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 3: Mistakes

8 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 2: Fear

7 Sep 2010

Rethinking innovation – Part 1: Reality check

6 Sep 2010

Clueless and care-less – why corporations fail at humanity, and thus will never be innovative

1 Sep 2010

Commission-based remuneration kills creativity

19 Aug 2010

China the Ikea of businesses

16 Aug 2010

China the Ikea of businesses - service differentiation

16 Aug 2010

Intelligence in the new interconnected, intrumented world

12 Aug 2010

Empowering creativity

14 Jun 2010

The barriers to an innovative life

13 Jun 2010

Design Thinking

11 Jun 2010

I & T-shaped people in innovation

11 Jun 2010

Learning to play again

11 Jun 2010

Obstacles to generating ideas

11 Jun 2010

A Problem-solving checklist

11 Jun 2010

Clarity in Design Thinking and Agile

11 Jun 2010

Good taste and insecurity

7 Jun 2010

Inducing society-wide changes in thinking and attitude

18 May 2010

Rules

17 May 2010

Ikea food

6 May 2010

If it ain’t broke don’t break it (just make it better)

4 May 2010

Knowing enough to break the rules

14 Apr 2010

Is Hello Kitty the nemesis of creativity?

29 Mar 2010

Just because we can, sometimes means we should!

28 Mar 2010

Innovation is…

22 Mar 2010

Environmental impact on how we think about the world

16 Mar 2010

Being all things to all people

7 Mar 2010

Why Group Norms Kill Creativity

3 Mar 2010

Ideas: to share or not to share?

1 Mar 2010

Design is innately innovative

3 Feb 2010

Cycles

21 Jan 2010

Two ways to ask why

3 Jan 2010

2009

Infinite hybridisation

29 Dec 2009

Double-edged sword

1 Dec 2009

Language mastery and innovation

26 Nov 2009

How to do a million good deeds

25 Nov 2009

Folding plug

17 Nov 2009

Excellence sweet spot

27 Oct 2009

Reframing

13 Oct 2009

Good and different

5 Oct 2009

Transforming pain and suffering

9 Sep 2009

Wealth is a barrier to innovation

7 Sep 2009

Iceland – the land of generalists, real competition and admirable failures

24 Aug 2009

The value of inappropriate ideas

10 Aug 2009

Playfulness

5 Aug 2009

Integrative thinking

30 Jul 2009

Think wrong and start innovating

28 Jul 2009

Play with a projector

23 Jul 2009

Design thinking

22 Jul 2009

Reactive vs proactive thinking

21 Jul 2009

The new experts

21 Jun 2009

Trickle-up innovation

17 Jun 2009

Why we don’t subscribe to Rupert Murdoch

14 Jun 2009

The ideas that hold us back

10 Jun 2009

Innovation dearth in the financial sector?

1 Jun 2009

Netbooks – more from less

31 May 2009

The folly of the advertising account pitch process

18 May 2009

Twittering and short-term thinking

12 May 2009

Are you a Thought Processor or an Idea Generator?

11 May 2009

Heineken’s innovation – no change!

30 Apr 2009

Is Asian culture curbing creativity?

25 Apr 2009

Silence is golden is innovation

22 Apr 2009

Prinnovation

14 Apr 2009

The folly of the tendering process

13 Apr 2009

Perspective, perspective, perspective

2 Apr 2009

The challenge of selling brainspace

1 Apr 2009

Self-censorship and the fear of creativity

18 Mar 2009

Cultivating innovation Alessi style

24 Feb 2009

Jackie Chan’s restaurant

23 Feb 2009

Fighting innovation inertia

10 Feb 2009

Problem creation and solving

9 Feb 2009

Imagine a world

1 Feb 2009

The opportunities in being counter-intuitive

21 Jan 2009

Interesting tools and tips from the Ten Faces of Innovation

19 Jan 2009

Another type of giving

12 Jan 2009

Re-imagine

8 Jan 2009

Is your business a fundi or freethinker?

7 Jan 2009

Cultural barriers to innovation

4 Jan 2009

Blue on white is unlucky?

1 Jan 2009

2008

Taking time out to see the big picture

14 Dec 2008

Love keeps businesses excelling

11 Dec 2008

Circular spectrums

2 Dec 2008

The Innovation Interrupt

30 Nov 2008

Valuing ideas vs “real work”

25 Nov 2008

Tumble Weed Houses

24 Nov 2008

Thinking sideways

2 Nov 2008

Greater economy of scale = less innovation

1 Oct 2008

Monoculture risk

30 Sep 2008

Bigger hammer

16 Sep 2008

In Odd We Trust

15 Sep 2008

Curiosity

10 Sep 2008

Simplicity is...

4 Sep 2008

Silly post leads to potential idea

2 Sep 2008

From knowledge worker to conceptual worker

29 Aug 2008

Unexpected application

24 Aug 2008

Fear dampens creativity and excellence

14 Aug 2008

TV shows and emerging musicians

10 Aug 2008

Extending an existing service

3 Aug 2008

Ikea hacks

24 Jul 2008

Singapore: The Missing T in Creativity

21 Jul 2008

Language and innovation

16 Jul 2008

Artists in residence; in corporations

11 Jul 2008

A twittering experiment

30 May 2008

Paul Bennett: Design is in the details

25 May 2008

On sidewalks and thinking

23 May 2008

Wonder, not decide

18 May 2008

Singapore Airlines - differentiation through service

14 Apr 2008

Tim Berners-Lees – making a difference

24 Mar 2008

Most businesses are not ready for innovation

19 Mar 2008

Innovation training and recruitment

1 Mar 2008

Solutions are all around us

21 Feb 2008

Ode to imagination

14 Feb 2008

Play

7 Feb 2008

Fostering innovation Google’s way

15 Jan 2008

2007

A crate is not a crate

21 Dec 2007

Reconnecting with creativity

1 Dec 2007

The in-between

26 Nov 2007

On the side of the majority

21 Nov 2007

The security of being in a box

8 Nov 2007

Baby or career? Talk to Karen Miles

25 Sep 2007

Egg poacher - simple and useful

11 Sep 2007

Design thinking

31 Aug 2007

Permission to be passionate

29 Aug 2007

Colour matching coffee cup

26 Aug 2007

Lost in the rush

2 Aug 2007

Dog food, exploding laptops and chlorine dioxide

16 Jul 2007

Words of wisdom … from a commercial

8 Jul 2007

Knowledge workers in the factories

27 Jun 2007

Making magic - The Invention of Hugo Cabret

3 Jun 2007

Education, creativity, talent, and the future

26 Apr 2007

Practical vs innovative; doing vs thinking

18 Apr 2007

How to be creative

10 Apr 2007

Build your own remote surveillance drone

8 Apr 2007

The Cluetrain Manifesto

5 Apr 2007

Identifying vs solving problems

29 Mar 2007

Can you really buy innovation?

27 Mar 2007

Ideas come from…

25 Mar 2007

When everyone else is looking the same way…

14 Mar 2007

Don’t wait. Get small. Think big.

13 Mar 2007

Doctor Who on middle management

21 Feb 2007

Do you fear the cutting edge?

11 Feb 2007

Multiple intelligences

6 Feb 2007

What price happiness?

4 Feb 2007

How to learn anything

30 Jan 2007

Sometimes, the answer lies in turning it sideways

29 Jan 2007

Showing visitors around your city

15 Jan 2007

Are you engaging with your creative self?

9 Jan 2007

Running effective ideas-generation sessions

8 Jan 2007

The temptation of immediate decisions and being told what to do

7 Jan 2007

2006

Self-directed education, slums, and simple enablers

20 Dec 2006

There is always another niche

19 Dec 2006

The computer as an idea generation tool

10 Dec 2006

A Technique for Producing Ideas

6 Dec 2006

On Thinkpads and bento boxes

5 Dec 2006

Puss puss puss

22 Nov 2006

Designing work to enable flow

20 Nov 2006

Really really really good thought-provoking stuff

14 Nov 2006

Flow

12 Nov 2006

Eating to feed hunger

8 Nov 2006

One-idea-itis and belief in a idea

7 Nov 2006

Sharing is good

1 Nov 2006

Good Business

25 Oct 2006

The Peter Principle

23 Oct 2006

What Is Your Life’s Work?

16 Oct 2006

Innovation is not…

8 Oct 2006

Cubicle Commando

25 Sep 2006

Steward OR strategist

25 Sep 2006

Contemplating an egg

5 Sep 2006

Charities – the ultimate innovators’ training ground

28 Aug 2006

Foaming toothpaste

27 Aug 2006

There is nothing new

17 Aug 2006

Exercise your creativity at the supermarket

29 Jul 2006

Out of the ordinary - right now

27 Jul 2006

Corner computer shops ripe for reboot

26 Jul 2006

The Big Moo

20 Jul 2006

Innovation is...

11 Jun 2006

Invention vs Innovation vs Improvement

11 Jun 2006

Reimagining car rental companies

15 Feb 2006

Another take on photography

20 Jan 2006

Act first, seek forgiveness later

14 Jan 2006

Play is…

4 Jan 2006

2005

Deviants in the boardroom

14 Aug 2005

Train of thoughts (attention CityRail)

21 Jul 2005

No ads ‘cos we care!

20 Jun 2005

Common innovation myths

11 Jun 2005

Learn respect or DIE!

31 May 2005

Pull your head out

30 May 2005

Changing rooms

4 May 2005

Innovation is subversive

8 Apr 2005

Insights from Year 11s

20 Mar 2005

Think big

20 Mar 2005

Fostering creativity

27 Jan 2005

And the answer is: creativity!

19 Jan 2005

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