Archive for category Creativity & Innovation
Get Inspired To Innovate: Ignore What You Know
In a fairly well-known library journal I came across a column advising librarians on keeping up. There I found suggestions for how to stay on top of what’s happening in the library profession. At least that was the author’s intent. What left me disappointed was the narrowness of the scope of the suggested resources. It [...]
Posted: 3 January, 2012 in Creativity & Innovation.
Tags: commerce_bank, innovation
Comments: 2
Customers And The Future Of Innovation
We all want our organizations and work force to be more innovative. If we want to achieve progress, develop new services and create more value for our community members – and especially with constrained resources that prevent us throwing money at possible solutions to our problems – we’ve got to get innovative. Innovation can generally [...]
Posted: 20 September, 2011 in Creativity & Innovation.
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The Faintest Ink Is Better Than The Best Memory
You can have the greatest idea ever, but if you fail to capture it then there is no chance it could ever come to fruition. So one of the most important steps in moving from idea to implementation is to have a good system for capturing ideas. This topic has come up before at DBL. [...]
Posted: 24 January, 2011 in Creativity & Innovation.
Tags: capture_ideas, good_ideas, ideas
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You Know How To Capture Your Good Ideas But How Do You Get Others To Support Them
Seems like there’s a lot being written about good ideas these days. If you follow what’s been written here in the past about design thinking, creativity, innovation – and capturing your good ideas when they come – chances are you are already improving at coming up with good ideas and capturing them as well. But [...]
Posted: 2 November, 2010 in Books, Creativity & Innovation.
Tags: good_ideas, kotter
Comments: 2
More On Meaning And Creative Showering
No, this isn’t a post about how you get meaning from your creative showering. I want to just follow up on two different posts with some new thoughts and links for you. My most recent post shared some insights from the retreat I attended along with my colleagues in our public services units. In that [...]
Posted: 12 August, 2010 in Creativity & Innovation, User Experiences.
Tags: creativity, happiness, meaning, showering
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