by Dr Ken Hudson | Jul 19, 2018 | Creative Problem Solving, Creative Thinking Techniques, Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity
Who do you bounce ideas off and How do you ask people for help? These are great questions particularly when most work today is done in groups and teams. To answer these questions remember the word ‘DATE’. D – Diversity Ask people who have a different...
by Dr Ken Hudson | May 9, 2018 | Creative Problem Solving, Creative Thinking Examples, Creative Thinking Techniques, Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader
How to develop an everyday creative thinking habit Let’s agree that creative thinking is an ability we all possess. Remember when you were a kid and you could wrestle with dragons or imagine yourself playing soccer for example in front of thousands of people?...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Apr 30, 2018 | Creative Problem Solving, Creative Thinking Techniques, How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to reinvent your product, brand, business or career, Workshop Facilitator
Switch to another pattern Want to switch on your creative thinking? Here’s how. We tend to think, feel and act in patterns. These patterns self-organise as a result of our past behaviours, experiences, beliefs and expectations. This is efficient but not very...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Apr 18, 2018 | Creative Problem Solving, Creative Thinking Examples, Creative Thinking Techniques, Workshop Facilitator
Want to generate amazing new ideas? Want to develop your creative thinking skills? You can wait for inspiration to strike you or you can go and search for new ideas. Hint. Choose the latter. It’s an exercise I always give my graduate students and workshops with...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Apr 9, 2018 | Creative Thinking Examples, Creative Thinking Techniques
Ever been bombarded with choice? Of course you have. I walk into a bottle shop and have no clue as to what to buy much less even where to start. I walk into a clothes shop and have a similar experience. I need help. This is why a sign like the one above is so...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Apr 3, 2018 | Conference Speaker, Creative Problem Solving, Creative Thinking Techniques, Disruptive Innovation, Exponential Thinking, How to become a creative leader, Workshop Facilitator
Can a medium to large organisations or businesses have wicked problems? In a thought-provoking article in 1973, HWJ Rittel and MM Webber coined the phrase ‘wicked problems’ to describe a particular type of social, government or policy planning challenge....