Tag: creativity
A sharing economy business idea for you
Too many ideas, not enough time! A sentence many of us know, many of us feel, and many of us are sometimes frustrated about. One of those fine ideas I had when going through a Gamification track was related to what is known as collaborative consumption or a sharing economy. At the time I explored the idea, I was very charmed by the thoughts behind...
Welcome to the Social Innogram: The Future of Education
Guestblog by Mark Willems, kbs-frb.be/ Expose - Ask - Shoot - Expose We all went to school. We all rely on education for our own kids and our future social capital. In that way we are all education experts. The social innogram is a playful way of 'imagineering' future education through the eyes & perceptions of many others. Education seems hard to innovate. In the last 150 years, the world...
Effective Brainstorming with GPS
Guestblog by Peter Bertels, FlandersDC.be In his 1942 book How to Think Up, Alex Osborn presents the technique of ‘Brainstorming’ used at BBDO, one of the most successful advertising agencies at the time. He described brainstorming as a group activity “using the brain to storm a creative problem”. Although Osborn believed that brainstorming was central to BBDO’s success, academic research has proven that people brainstorming...
The chicken and the egg innovation problem solved with FORTH
Guestblog by Sara Pieters, Redzezel.com Starting to structurally embed innovation in your company is like the chicken and the egg: do you have to focus on a good innovation culture first? Or do you have to focus on realizing a successful innovative product or services introduction? If I look at the innovation inhibitors my clients often mention (we don't have enough good ideas, we always come up...
Intera(ttra)ctive Presentations
Guestblog by Jasper Sonnevelt, VX Company If keeping someone’s attention in a lecture was business, it would have an 80% failure rate.” – dr. John Medina Whether you’re a seasoned presenter/trainer or just every now and than presenting something to your colleagues, you will know that one of the hardest things about giving a presentation is keeping your audience’s attention. Although serving them a lot...
The Key Difference of Innovation vs Business As Usual
In times of economic crisis it is important for organizations to optimize their effectiveness in order to survive. In many cases, people jump to cost optimization, only looking at their bottom line. And there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't forget the role of the customers and end-users. In many cases we see a natural reaction of organizations to generalize their...