How to Boost Profits with Creative Thinking Techniques One of the best ways to boost your profits is with innovation, but you can’t begin without appropriate creative thinking techniques. Creative thinking techniques fuel innovation, encourage new insights and solutions and give your businessan edge over your competition. However, innovative thinking methods aren’t always easy to […]
Functional Fixedness and Negative Judgements Destroy Creativity Functional fixedness and negative judgements are major impediments to creativity and innovation. In today’s business environment, the accelerating pace of change means you need to establish and maintain the cognitive flexibility capable of boosting creativity. You must reliably accelerate the process of generating the original and useful ideas […]
The Science of Creativity It’s only recently that the science of creativity has made any real inroads into developing our understanding of creativity. For centuries, creativity has been considered taboo and it has been actively avoided as a field of study. Surprisingly, advances in the understanding of creativity have only been made in the last […]
How to Boost Creative Thinking Creativity is the fuel that powers innovation, therefore, it’s critical to boost creative thinking if you are to maximise the outcomes of your innovation efforts. Due to events such as COVID-19 and more generally, an increasing pace of innovation and competitive rivalry, success in today’s business environment depends on the […]
Why Empathy Matters to Innovation At our core, we are emotional beings and fulfilling our needs through innovation often requires a large dose of empathy!While innovations focussed on knowledge development are a valuable source of innovation, taking a human-centred approach to innovation is often more useful for business owners. If you are impacted by COVID-19 […]
An Innovation Framework for a New Future Given the level of disruption caused by COVID-19, many businesses are going to need a robust innovation framework in order to support effective innovation and adapt to the new normal. Innovation is a competitive imperative for all businesses, not just start-ups and large corporates. This means that owner-operated […]
Problem Solving in the New Normal Business success requires sound problem solving skills to effectively overcome challenges and capture opportunities. In today’s business environment, we are faced with a lot more chaos, interconnectedness and complexity than what existed a few decades ago. Many of the problems faced by businesses: Are complex and not easily understood […]
Post COVID Innovation Strategy With the enormity of disruption caused by COVID and the tough times that will continue to emerge, an effective innovation strategy is more important than ever. When you are you are in the thick of major change and uncertainty, it’s hard to focus on anything but ‘today’s’ problems. However, you must. […]
What is Innovation Strategy? What is innovation strategy, is a common question that business owners have. Given that innovation is critical to creating and sustaining a successful business, it’s vital to have a sound innovation strategy. Those that approach innovation on impulse typically perform poorly! It’s critical that the investment in innovation aligns with your […]
The Key Elements of Innovation Being able to manage the key elements of innovation so it becomes a focused, well-developed and repeatable activity, is a key characteristic that separates the most successful businesses from the rest. Effective ongoing innovation requires a focus on the three key elements of innovation. These are having: A well developed […]
What is Innovation? – Moving Beyond the Hype and Myths The question ‘What is innovation?’, is often surrounded by a lot of hype and mystique. Because of this, innovation is often misunderstood. This can be tremendously detrimental to those wanting to get started on their innovation journey and should be avoided at all costs. Instead, […]
Why Businesses Struggle to Innovate! Typically, businesses struggle to innovate because of disproportionate optimism. Logically, innovation makes a lot of sense and most business owners understand that it’s a key driver of their long-term success. Nevertheless, they often struggle to innovate and fail to engage in the ongoing innovation activities needed to sustain long-term success! […]
