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 | 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...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Oct 17, 2014 | Employee Experience, Workshop Facilitator
Some key learnings as a workshop facilitator Over the past 10 years I have designed and facilitated numerous ideation, brainstorming, strategy and planning sessions. In all but one occasion* I added significant value. But someone asked me the other day why and when...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Sep 17, 2014 | Creative Thinking Techniques, 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, Workshop Facilitator
Now there is an alternative to the stage-gate innovation process For too long anyone in an organisation that wanted to innovate had to use the stage-gate process. Whilst this process has many advantages for large innovation projects e.g. structured, formal and...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Jun 2, 2014 | Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, Workshop Facilitator
About 8 years ago I started learning Shaolin Kung Fu. I was amazed at what my Shifu Brett Russell could do — knuckle drops on the floor, amazing powerful kicks and having his chest smashed by a bamboo pole without seemingly any effects. As a middle-age man I was...
by Dr Ken Hudson | May 24, 2014 | How to become a creative leader, How to improve your Sales & Marketing, How to reinvent your product, brand, business or career, Workshop Facilitator
I was a former marketing director at American Express and every year every product or brand manager completed their marketing plans with a section titled Competitive Analysis. In my years as a facilitator i have seen this process repeated again and again. This is a...
