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Where to start, huh? No matter what system you use to plan your activities - paper or digital - sometimes it can be difficult to determine what to do first. Especially since *all* of it is important, right? I've tried lots [...]
We blame our meetings for lack of innovation and progress in our companies. It has been declared "brainstorming doesn't work!" We spend our days sitting, wasting time, energy, and money in boring... tan... artifically-lit conference rooms. Accomplishing? Nothing. But, here's the [...]
What other industry has already solved your problem? When faced with a challenge, instead of trying to solve the problem from scratch - find an analog. That is, a comparison model you can copy. Ask yourself who (or what) may have [...]
At first I thought Asset-Based Thinking had something to do with finance and inventory... but the title, "Change The Way You See Everything: Through Asset-Based Thinking" piqued my interest. This business/self-help book by Kathryn Cramer and Hank Wasiak offers a transformational [...]
The book What A Great Idea! 2.0 by Chic Thompson is chock full o' bits of wisdom that help with creativity and creating new ideas. One bit Chic writes about, is how new ideas are often struck down with "killer phrases." [...]
Whenever we have a challenge - a client problem, trying to generate a new idea, developing strategy - we rely on the key steps below to solve our problem, creatively. We use this creative problem-solving process to create ideas that we [...]
The following article is so good... I had to copy/paste it to share with you. In fact, it was shared with us by John Moore from Brand Autopsy. It is by Derrick Day and co-authored by The Blake Project’s Mark Di [...]
This cartoon by amazing marketing cartoonist Tom Fishburne and my headline - a quote from Jason Fox @LeeClowsBeard sums up why many companies are failing at innovation. It is amazing to see the solutions teams think-up in brainstorming/strategy sessions. The team [...]
In March 2005, Idea Sandbox launched as a company. Originally, the site and blog were geared toward building awareness and support for a brainstorming space I was looking to build in Seattle. The ideas for that space have transformed and matured [...]
When operating a company, to stay innovative requires constant observation of your industry, competition, and your own company. When you're a fighter pilot, to stay alive requires constant observation of what is happening around you as well as with your own [...]