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How Creative Are We When Working Virtually?

The Horizons Tracker

This was then replicated in a group of engineers at a multinational company, and again, the teams working face-to-face generated not only more ideas but higher quality ideas in terms of their originality. For creative idea generation, narrowed focus is a problem.”.

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How Does Social Media Affect Our Creativity?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers quizzed a team of engineers from a multinational IT company, all of whom used a combination of internal social networks, such as Yammer, and external ones, such as LinkedIn and Twitter. Their creativity was also measured using an 11-item scale assessing things such as problem identification and idea generation.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

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Why Your Innovation Contest Won’t Work

Harvard Business Review

That was the question posed to me recently by Warwick, the head of innovation for the Australia and New Zealand region of a multinational engineering firm. It’s an idea contest – submit your ideas, and the person that submits the best one wins $1000. Idea generation is the best place to invest money to improve innovation.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian’s network at Google went well beyond the engineering unit he was a part of. Today, many companies are focusing on idea generating activities like innovation challenges.

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Crowdsourced Products Sell Better When They’re Marketed That Way

Harvard Business Review

Our past research highlights the promise of this trend: In the case of a major baby products firm, for example, the best user-generated ideas identified were even more innovative and provided better benefits to the consumer than the best ideas generated by the firm’s designers.

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10 Online Resources To Help You Write Like A Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Google Trends is an innovative search engine that enables you to explore hot topics in different categories. When you enter a keyword in the search engine, you will find online publications that have the most shares on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. Portent’s Content Idea Generator. Research Trends.

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