Creativity

Business, Creativity and Life Lessons from the Music Industry

Chaos Precedes Creativity

Tom Chambers

Which type of brainstorming is more effective; fair idea exchange in a structured environment or a random, unplanned debate?

How to Evaluate Ideas

Far too often I’ve sat in brainstorming sessions where ideas died a slow death afterwards. Ideas alone are not innovation; without a process of evaluation, selection and execution, they remain mere ideas.

10 Startups in Southeast Asia You Should Know About

The startup activity in Southeast Asia is currently booming with deals on track to hit record numbers in 2017. Over 500 deals are expected by the end of this year, following an impressive 2016 that resulted in 347 deals.

How Design Thinking Works

Design Thinking is a buzz phrase that has been thrown around companies for many years now. But how is Design Thinking any different from the way companies have always approached problem solving?

How to Sell your Idea to Management

Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.

3 Techniques to Help you Really Understand your Customers

The highest quality solutions come from valuable insights into human behaviour. However, learning to recognise those insights is harder than you think. Here are three techniques, that when applied correctly, can uncover customer insights that you would never have thought existed.

How to Set Up a Brain Trust

The sign of a healthy innovation culture is one in which its people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, opinions and criticisms, without fear of retribution.

10 Innovation Labs to visit in Singapore

Here are ten of the top corporate innovation labs in Singapore.

Design Thinking Process Made Easy

Check out this infographic that provides an overview of this popular approach to problem solving.

5 Overnight Success Stories

Overnight successes are usually anything but. In most cases, what appears to be a sudden rise to prominence is often the the manifestation of years of frustration, trial and error and time spent honing one’s craft.

The Top 10 Company Pivots of All-Time

While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product market fit.

3 Personal Growth Hacks that you can Action Today

Over the last six months I have identified three personal growth hacks that everyone should be aware of. The great thing is you can action these straight away!

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.

27 Tools to Accelerate Your Company's Speed of Innovation

There are countless tools we use with clients to build fast, learn fast and measure fast in order to determine what will ‘wow’ customers enough to extend or generate new lines of revenue and remain a competitive force well into the future.

Design Thinking Is Overrated

Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.

Creativity isn't a Skill, it is a State of Mind.

Flow Research Collective's Jamie Wheal discusses why creativity is more than a skill.

Corporate Ideation: Why Ideas Die and How to Revive Them

Why your ideation tools aren’t working and how to bring ideas back to life. In this article, we cover the definition of the ideation process steps, followed by recommended approach, examples and techniques. This is essential for the execution of design thinking.

Why You Should Disrupt Yourself - and How I Did

I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.

Rick Rubin on Creativity and Innovation Blockers

So many things get in the way of the artistic process, whether writing music, painting or creating new products and business models.

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Innovation Series: Adam Long, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at UNICO

Shay Namdarian (DT)

Adam Long is UNICO’s Chief Information Officer. He has over 27 years’ experience envisioning and delivering software projects and products.

42 Lessons from Alan B Krueger’s Rockonomics

Business, Creativity and Life Lessons from the Music Industry

Chaos Precedes Creativity

Tom Chambers

Which type of brainstorming is more effective; fair idea exchange in a structured environment or a random, unplanned debate?

Design Thinking is a buzz phrase that has been thrown around companies for many years now. But how is Design Thinking any different from the way companies have always approached problem solving?

How to Sell your Idea to Management

Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.

3 Techniques to Help you Really Understand your Customers

How to Set Up a Brain Trust

The sign of a healthy innovation culture is one in which its people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, opinions and criticisms, without fear of retribution.

10 Innovation Labs to visit in Singapore

Here are ten of the top corporate innovation labs in Singapore.

Design Thinking Process Made Easy

Check out this infographic that provides an overview of this popular approach to problem solving.

5 Overnight Success Stories

The Top 10 Company Pivots of All-Time

3 Personal Growth Hacks that you can Action Today

Over the last six months I have identified three personal growth hacks that everyone should be aware of. The great thing is you can action these straight away!

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.

27 Tools to Accelerate Your Company's Speed of Innovation

Design Thinking Is Overrated

Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.

Creativity isn't a Skill, it is a State of Mind.

Flow Research Collective's Jamie Wheal discusses why creativity is more than a skill.

Corporate Ideation: Why Ideas Die and How to Revive Them

Why You Should Disrupt Yourself - and How I Did

Rick Rubin on Creativity and Innovation Blockers