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...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 29, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
The essence of innovation is this — Experimentation. I was fortunate in my working life to spend 10 years at Citibank and American Express (as marketing director). Both of these companies used direct marketing extensively. This was a discipline that placed a...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 25, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, Workshop Facilitator
As a strategic planning and workshop facilitator one of my engaging and powerful creativity tools is to get workshop participants to draw the solution. It is a fun, insightful way to break-free of the usual solutions. For example: When I was facilitating a group of...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 24, 2012 | How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
I often get asked how to bring about an innovation revolution. There is no right or wrong way to go about this but I have seen a number of innovation initiatives that absolutely don’t work. Here’s what not to do. 1. Ask managers to take on an innovation project...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 24, 2012 | How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
I was recently asked by a CEO of an international service brand to help the company’s leadership group with its innovation efforts. My starting point with these types of assignments is always the question: What have you done recently that is innovative? The management...
