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KILN Offers Innovation for Introverts
My partner Indy Neogy at KILN is one of the most brilliant people I know. An MIT trained engineer who is also an MBA from Leeds, he’s both entrepreneurial and a masterful cultural scanner. He’s going...
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Half-Year Innovation Check Point
Oh my, it’s summer. Officially. Two seasons of 2012 are now history. This is the perfect time to take a half-year checkpoint on your innovation efforts. On July 1, you’ll have six months left to get...
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Innovate On COQ
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Four Innovate on COQ Doing “COQ ” (rhymes with Poke) will get you somewhere. If you want to be an innovator you have to create something new — and how do you do that? COQ....
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Training Is Innovation Accelerant
Viola Spolin had some interesting thoughts on the value of creativity training… for actors, and everyone else I’ve neglected to write about a critically important aspect of creativity and innovation —...
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When Culture Matters…for Innovation
Back in those glory days at the University of Cincinnati, I was assigned a lovely little textbook to read for Freshman English class called “The Elements of Style” (by E.B. White and William Strunk)....
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Top 40 Innovation Blogger? (Top 10!)
Precious readers, greetings from the dark night, where I write, jet-lagged, arthritis-nagged, caffiene-jagged — but writing for you, once again, trying to provide insight, information, and ultimately...
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Destructive Intelligence Limits Innovation
My illustrious partner at KILN, the subtly dynamic Mr. Indy Neogy, MBA, has penned a very insightful piece on how research and analytical intelligence actually hoses innovation. Hoses, a term I’ve...
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Spontaneous Thinking and the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Jonathan Winters
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it.” Jonathan Winters Jonathan Winters Last week, a personal hero of mine, Jonathan Winters, passed away. He had a long, full, complicated, crazy, and...
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KILN Continues to Innovate Innovation Services
A peek at the contents of an IdeaKeg Single. I’m off to the FEI show (Front End of Innovation) in Boston this week. In my view it’s the most serious innovation conference in the world, and the USA...
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KILN at CPSI 2013
Min Basadur presenting at a recent CPSI Conference I’m leading a Springboard session at the 2013 edition of the CPSI Conference — June 20th through the 23rd. CPSI is the annual Creative Problem Solving...
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Reflections on CPSI 2013
Beg forgiveness for writing again about CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) but feel compelled to share my experience at the conference. I’ve just returned and am still digesting a very rich...
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Luke Williams at World Innovation Forum (a review)
Luke Williams, Author of Disrupt The following is a review of Luke Williams talk at the recent World Innovation Forum. Roving reporter and colleague Dr. Orin Davis gives Luke high marks as both a...
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Yes, I Tweet a Bit (Innovators Use Twitter)
I was just named as one of the Top 50 Innovation tweeters by Innovation Excellence. A tweeter is one who uses Twitter. It’s a fairly informal sort of top 50 list — I don’t think there is a great deal...
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Indigan Storytellers Debut
I had the pleasure of participating in the debut performance evening of the Indigan Storytellers group last Friday night. As Rocky Balboa once said “you shoulda been there.” It was an intimate evening...
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Training is an Innovation Accelerant
Creativity and innovation training is a highly effective accelerant for business results. When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I nearly always find...
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The Year is Half Over, Where is Your Innovation?
The Year is Half Over, Where is Your Innovation? Underway? Running like a Swiss Watch? Missing in Action? Innovation Peeps: The year is nearly half over. Okay, in a month it will be officially half...
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Big Imagination is Blind Spot Remover
Coming back from a trip to Toronto (visiting with the amazing Min Basadur) I spotted an interesting billboard at O’Hare airport. IBM suggests they can help “Remove the Blind Spots from Your Business” —...
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Changing Innovation Culture by Doing — Three Reasons It Doesn’t Happen
Innovation culture doesn’t change with assessment or analysis. You can learn a great deal about who you are and what your culture is like with the various assessment tools, but knowing isn’t changing....
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Innovation Facilitation — Death is Easy, Magic Takes Training
Three Essentials for Magical Innovation Facilitation An essential ingredient to successful innovation projects is good facilitation. Who could argue with that? Innovation combines individual and group...
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Quick & Dirty Innovation
Many companies started 2014 with the good intention of “getting after innovation” this year. Was that your organization? How’s that going? Are you jumping for joy or singing the blues? Some companies...
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