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 response. In [...]
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 (due to [...]
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 Applied [...]
