52 Ways to Spark Your Creativity
A friend of mine recently asked me for advice on creativity. And as I’ve mentioned in an earlier post - we all have the ability to be creative! But one way or the other, we believe we don’t have the ability – or we’re not confident enough to feel we can produce something creative. Here’s Read more…
What’s Stopping You From Being a Creative Genius?
Everyone can be creative! Even though you don’t believe it yourself, you still have that ability to create something unique. Remember playing around with Lego? I certainly do! You probably spent hours on end trying to come up with different things to build with the pieces you had available. But what has happened since then? Read more…
How to hold the perfect brainstorming session?
Imagine the kind of ideas you’d come up with if you knew how to brainstorm the right way. Instead of holding, what turns out to be another fruitless meeting. We all brainstorm at some point in our lives. But it doesn’t always produce the ideas that make us go “wow!” In my previous post Why Read more…
How to get your innovation adopted by customers?
A high number of innovations fail to the reach the hopes and dreams of their inventors! Being the new kid on the block doesn’t guarantee you will be a success in the market place. Your product may be unheard of or the latest in cutting edge technology. But that alone, won’t have customers flocking to Read more…
8 reasons why your ideas are rejected
Everybody is talking about innovation and coming up with brilliant new ideas, yet they’ll reject a marvelous proposal when it’s staring them straight in the face. Recently I’ve been reading Scott Berkun’s “The Myths of Innovation” and would like to share with you why brilliant ideas won’t see the light of day, along with my Read more…
How to innovate? 5 Step Guide to Innovation
Innovation drives growth for both national economies and companies. Yet few of us truly know or understand what innovation is about. Remember that a product or service can only be called an innovation until it has successfully been brought to market. Here are 5 principles to set you on your path to innovating: 1. Look Read more…
How to get creative? 8 steps you can take right now!
Having trouble coming up with new ideas for product designs, marketing ideas or writing copy? As I mentioned in an earlier post, being creative is about thinking in a different way that you are used to. Here are eight steps you can take right now to get inspiration for your next masterpiece. 8 steps to Read more…
Why “Idea Generating” Meetings Don’t Work?
We’ve all been there. Your organization is looking for new ideas on a specific topic. Be it a new product, service or approach. So the usual practice is to call a meeting, get together and be creative in an “idea generating” session. Also known as brainstorming, but when it’s over and you walk out – Read more…
