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Babies and Creativity

March 13, 2010

I’m reading a book that I am enjoying enormously, and although I haven’t finished it yet, I found a passage that I appreciated so much that I wanted to post it here because it says so much about innovation. “An animal that depends on the accumulated knowledge of past generations has to have some time [...]

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Predicting the Future: Trend Spotting Resources

March 8, 2010

Product Trends and Inspiration Most people who have been engaged in creativity and innovation, at some point, come to realize that cross pollination and lateral thinking are important sources for creating insights and generating breakthrough solutions to complex problems. I imagine most people have come to rely on particular resources for their inspiration and for [...]

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The Unknown, the Future, and the Impossible

January 11, 2010

“We sell our souls at the altar of the incremental.” Well, we do if we embrace the view that that change is slow and steady, and comes out of what came before. But what if it doesn’t?  What if change is radical, disruptive, breakthrough? Innovation is always a matter of the dialog between these two [...]

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Creative Tension: Blessing, Curse, and Essential

December 16, 2009

A landmark event occurred yesterday.  Well, a minor landmark in any case.  I was on a long flight, and the airline was playing a movie that I actually wanted to see.  (As you can tell, my definition of a landmark has become rather modest these days…) It was a movie about creativity and innovation, a [...]

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Creativity by Addition and Integration

February 27, 2006

A previous post introduced the subject of creativity and briefly described a technique for finding ideas by subtraction. This post continues the theme of creativity but takes up the technique of addition. We usually call it creative combination, and it has two levels: simple addition of two concepts, and the more complex integration of two [...]

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Creativity By Subtraction

February 25, 2006

Creativity is a part of the innovation process. Often the two are confused as synonyms but innovation includes creativity as a tool or skill (depending on how you believe it happens), not the other way around. Finding a way to generate new ideas involves creativity. Robert Fritz makes some nice distinctions between creating and creativity [...]

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