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Boredom: A Route To Creativity

Strategy Driven

Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It’s not necessarily fun: sometimes I’m jumping out of my skin and must force myself to not call a friend. But if I can wait it out, I’m on my way to something unimaginable. How I Create Boredom and Listen to Myself. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

To source ideas, it often runs two-day hack-a-thons on specific health care challenges. For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus.

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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business Review

Unlike traditional suggestion systems, the Elop system is a holistic process for managing the full life cycle of creativity, designed to ensure that ideas don’t get lost and that employee motivation to offer ideas is encouraged, not dampened. It begins with idea generation but doesn’t stop there.