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ProtoStorming to Fail as Fast as Possible!

Any organization or company that is dependent on product development for survival, needs to embrace ProtoStorming to fail as fast as possible. This proposed immediate failure is actually the key to a long term positive in product development. Rich Gildersleeve, Chief Technology Officer at DJO Global, coined the term ProtoStorming in the early 2000’s, and […]

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Innovation Process

Without an Innovation Process you are Searching for Gold without a Map or Compass! Every opportunity I have, I ask business leaders if they have an official and documented process for innovation. The typical response I get leads me to a clear understanding that most people don’t! What’s even more troublesome is that over half

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“Structured Brainstorming” through the use of Idea Provocations

Realize it or not, Brilliant Ideas require a Provocation to start the idea generation process. Everyone has their own opinion about brainstorming. Some think it’s a powerful creativity tool. Others think it’s simply our brains playing around. It’s based on the concept that “two heads are better than one” to come up with new ideas

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Leading New Thinking for Entrepreneurship

  The current and next generation of engineers that are being educated in colleges and universities are exploring new thinking methods that can allow them to become better entrepreneurs. Traditional thinking methods are being enhanced and micro-cultures of creativity are created by introduction of “Parallel and Lateral Thinking” methods. At the request of a professor

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How Leadership Values can Create Synergy or Discord

For Leaders & Teams, the development of Synergy and prevention or resolution of Discord (chaos) are two of the biggest challenges faced every day. How your Personal and Organizational Values effect the ability to pursue these is directly linked but many times ignored or viewed as insignificant. Your Values include your biases, mental models, paradigms

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“Challenging” the start of Creativity for Transformational Innovation

  The process of Transformational Innovation requires the use of creativity tools that provide concise and focused steps to understand the starting direction. Establishing this starting point is essential for the efficiency of any idea constructing toolset.  For Innovation and Creativity to be successful, the path we start down needs to be clear, concise and

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Is your IQ holding you back…or are you holding your IQ back?

Recent British and American psychologists have found that being broke impedes brainpower as much as staying awake all night or losing 8 to13 IQ points. This research, published in the journal Science, suggests poverty feeds on itself by consuming “mental bandwidth”. Typically an average Intelligence Quotient  (IQ) test results in a range of 90-110 points

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