by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 3, 2012 | How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, Workshop Facilitator
Recently I helped organise and facilitate a series of Innovation Days for a major Health Care Business as part of an innovation capability building process. It was considered by all participants as a major success. Here are the reasons why I thought The Innovation Day...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 2, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session
In a fast-moving, time-poor world we need big, new ideas right now. We often cannot wait for the right time or people or when a meeting room is available. I have outlined in this post a number of idea generation techniques that you can use. 1. Create some ideas by...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 2, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to accelerate idea generation, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
Employees suggestion programs are a good idea — in theory. What self-respecting leader would be against the idea of providing a platform for all employees to suggest new ideas or solutions or ways to improve efficiency? But in practice these never seem to work in the...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, 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
Groups and teams have two key tools to solve problems, generate ideas and making decisions. These are meetings and brainstorming. Yet both of these tools have pluses and minuses. But imagine if you could take the best bits of Brainstorming and mix it with the positive...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 29, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
In my doctoral research on What makes a Creative Organisations I asked both profit and non-profit leaders what does an ideal creative environment look like? They answered with the following 6 insights: 1. It is open and receptive to ideas. It is not enough to produce...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 29, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
The most important action in Speed Thinking and it’s tool, Ideas Blitz is to start. in this new, accelerated way of thinking for individuals and groups we start with the individual and work up to a partner then a group. We also start by having each individual...