6 Years Ago… When I started covering the software solution providing side of the Innovation Management coin 6 years ago – it was a lonely world as an Innovation Analyst and Consultant. The software tools were so new, and with so little competition, that there was essentially no market there. And with no market = […]
Harvard Business Review recently posted another fascinating note on The Daily Stat, which pointed to an Encyclopedia Brittanica (They’re not dead… yet!) article entitled “The Decline of Creativity in the United States: 5 Questions for Educational Psychologist Kyung Hee Kim.” The focus of the article is on childhood creativity, and measures such as the Torrance […]
Yesterday I was preparing for an Innovation Management training session I will be doing later this week. The sponsor, after reviewing my credentials asked “How you make the leap from information and knowledge management to coaching/developing innovation skills? … Your background seems to be IT.” I provided what I hope was not too lengthy a […]
Several weeks ago, I spent 5 days in Portland, OR, most of that time spent working and learning along side a scrappy group of people from a ~150 person manufacturing company. The topics we were wrestling with? Innovation and creative problem solving. Now, these days, particularly in the United States, two dirty words/phrases are manufacturing […]
Have you heard of CPSI? (typically pronounced sip-see) CPSI stands for The Creative Problem Solving Institute, the annual conference on Creative Problem Solving, created by the Creative Education Foundation which was founded in 1954 by Alex Osborn (the inventor of brainstorming and writer of the oft referenced, but hardly read [and hard to find] book […]