Archive for 'Creativity & Innovation' Category
Design Thinking
Posted by Sharon 19 March 2010Courtesy of AFR BOSS and UTS, I enjoyed hearing Roger Martin - Dean of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management - talk about design thinking yesterday. I especially liked hearing his experiences as a consultant with business managers and their reliability focus. It seems that the killer question that is asked of any new innovative recommendation […]
Bill Gates starts the ‘Innovate to Zero’ party
Posted by Sharon 19 February 2010Thanks to Remo Guiffre from my favourite online shop REMO, for conneting me to Bill Gates’ latest TED Talk.
Bill believes that climate is even important than “vaccines and seeds” and is challenging us to “innovate to Zero” emissions. I love that he is using a positive word like innovate - rather than a call to […]
Google’s Success formula - Lovable Stars vs Jerks?
Posted by Sharon 10 February 2010Thanks to Ralph Kerle for the interesting comparison of creativity at Google and Microsoft. It makes me wonder if there’s something Google isn’t telling us about its hiring policy. One of my favourite articles for discussions with technical and professional staff is the Harvard Business Review piece on Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools and Social networks. […]
TEDxSydney - the place to be May 22, 2010
Posted by Sharon 31 December 2009Not one but two conferences to look forward to in 2010.
TED is coming to my home town of Sydney and I’m looking forward to getting involved before and during the event. If you know about TED, click here to find out about TEDxSydney.
If you don’t yet, know about TED, do yourself a favour and check […]
Idea Paint - for the ultimate home/office whiteboard
Posted by Sharon 20 October 2009I’ve never been able to find a whiteboard big enough … and now I don’t have to. As soon as I find out how to order a tin or three of Idea Paint, watch out, no office surface will be safe.
According to the website blurb:
“IdeaPaint can turn virtually anything you can paint into a high-performance […]
Learning Decision Making from Alessi
Posted by Sharon 23 September 2009Explaining the decision making skills of a professional or experienced manager to newcomers to the role, is one of the most difficult challenges I face as a learning designing, and the most satisfying when it is done well. Long ago, I learned that people are frustrated when they hear “it depends” but that’s usually what […]
How / can we learn from our creative mistakes?
Posted by Sharon 23 September 2009We all know the supposed benefits of learning from our mistakes. However, movie producer Nora Ephron - producer of chick flicks such as Sleapless in Seattle and When Harry met Sally - questions whether we can learn any lessons from the duds. In an article by Gerald Wright in the SMH, Ephron’s argument is: if, […]
Learning ahas
Posted by Sharon 3 November 2008Today’s session with Dr Bruce Copley and his “heartner” Barbara, was a great reminder that it only takes a little bit more effort to create a learning experience rather than be lazy and fall back on telling. As Bruce stated, the first principle of learning is: “involve people and they will learn”.
Two […]
Design = Meaning
Posted by Sharon 30 September 2008A fascinating little snippet from a Fast Company article Masters of Design by Bill Breen (June 2004):
Behind every design there is a thought process… every design process confronts a time, a material and a function problem… (Chris Bangle, BMW)… and every design has implications for your brand and your reputation.
Whilst Bangle is talking ostensibly about […]
Entrepreneurial Decision Making
Posted by Sharon 2 July 2008Last night’s MGSM research seminar by Peter Bryant PhD, provided an interesting insight into the minds of entrepreneurs.
Bryant’s research shows that when a great opportunity comes along, entrepreneurs use four heuristics (decision making short cuts) when deciding whether to take it up or pass. Effectively, they scan for information to confirm the following unconscious […]