Jeffrey Philipps posted: Why do we think people can immediately and effectively “think outside the box” when for their entire lives we’ve reinforced “coloring inside the lines”? credit: More4kids To my mind that’s really one of the crucial points! Most people that I would call “creative” are also not what one would call “conformed”. So [...]
Harvard Business School professor Niall Ferguson includes the following key concept (among others) in his historian’s view on globalization and the current financial crisis: Optimized global networks may be vulnerable to crises. credit: wikimedia commons This reminded me of a general optimization problem: we always try to find a special state (optimum) for a special [...]
This illustration of a “Corporate Innovation Machine” presented by jpb.com credit: jpb.com reminds me of (and goes largely along with) the New Concept Development Modell (NCD) published by Koen et al. in 2001: credit: IRI | Research Technology Management
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Like the step from information to knowledge relys on associativity the source of innovation is also often an association. Just take the following story as an example (found at innovation playground): credit: Oboerista Viennese composer Frank Schubert often found musical inspiration in his coffee grinder. The chaotic pitches and rhythms it made often suggested themes [...]
