Google has just published "Think Quarterly" and the Q3'11 is their Innovation Issue. As the cover welcome note states... ...We've curated big ideas from heads of industry, leading experts and our homegrown visionaries -- all to help guide your own thinking. [...]
Innovative ideas - the kind that can transform your company - are inadvertently being demolished. When first presented, many ideas meet wrecking-ball comments such as... "How's that going to work?" "Good luck getting that done!" "We don't have time for something [...]
The "Palace of Light" is the original Shredded Wheat factory and the boss, Frank Druffel, is keeping the 'no' in Innovation. Post Cereals has a created a series of videos celebrating the fact they haven't messed with their product since 1892... [...]
It's always an honor when someone cares to hear your advice. It is my pleasure to share with you a BlogRadio interview I was part of on Saturday evening that featured... well... me and Idea Sandbox! Jenny Ward, the Chief Play [...]
It is always gratifying when - in your lifetime - someone solves one of the world's problems. We're still figuring out global warming, but someone has solved our soggy breakfast cereal problem. The Eat Me Crunchy Bowl For sale on the [...]
Every company I have worked with has had a staffing/human resources department. Finding, screening and hiring the right employee to do a great job in a role are very important. In fact, here some of the people and tools involved: human [...]
This post is no longer up-to-date as the Think Smart site no longer exists. But the questions are still relevant You're thinking Intelligence Quotient... I'm talkin' Innovation Quotient. Joyce Wycoff at Innovation Network has had a simple on-line guide, which allows [...]
Take a look at this quote from the book "Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service" by the Disney Institute. Think for a moment about a magic show. To the audience, the show elicits feelings of wonder and surprise. [...]
My original plans for an Idea Sandbox location included a place in Seattle for people to come to brainstorm... A Disneyland for creative thinking... a three-roomed brainstorming theme park. You could book themed rooms... a mad inventor's lab (complete with bubbling [...]
