by Dr Ken Hudson | Jul 16, 2015 | Creative Thinking Techniques, Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Workshop Facilitator
Ideathon – an idea whose time has come Many business leaders in the IT and software industry run quarterly Hackathons. These are typically 24 hour sessions where software developer try and create say a new product, feature or app. I think this is a great idea...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Jun 29, 2015 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking
Speed Thinking is based on an insight I noticed that when I was working with managers and leaders and they had say an hour to solve a problem or generate an idea not much happened for the first 50 minutes or so. In fact, not much happened until I poked my head into a...
by Dr Ken Hudson | May 12, 2015 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity, How to improve your Sales & Marketing, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking
Innovation We all know what it means. Or at least that is what leaders say. But dig a bit deeper and you find a wide discrepancy between them. For some it is new products or large technological breakthroughs or something like continuous improvement. The reason it...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 8, 2014 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking
We have just launched a new beta site on small wins innovation. The new site is filled with examples of small wins innovation, the 5 step process and principles. The 5 steps are – create, test, measure, learn and share. Ideas Blitz is wonderful tool to create...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Oct 23, 2014 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to become a creative leader, How to improve your Sales & Marketing, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking
I have presented and been on the receiving end of countless presentations of new ideas. Here are my 6 tips on how to help you sell your ideas with more success. 1. Present a usual idea, a different and a radical option. Using this framework gives the receiver or...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Oct 21, 2014 | Creative Thinking Techniques, Employee Experience, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking, Workshop Facilitator
The 3 key roles in any innovative team In my experience working with creative or innovative groups or teams there are 3 key roles. Each is important. The 3 roles are — a creator, enhancer and judger. One without the other will mean smaller ideas or plenty of...