The science of curiosity
Taking an interest can lead to a longer, better life.
6 ways team leaders inspire creativity and innovation
Continuous change is the norm in most organisations today. Companies are constantly innovating and working to stay ahead of their competition and, in some cases, just to sustain in a changing marketplace. So how to you inspire creativity and innovation?
Creating an innovation culture
With industry disruption and tech changes accelerating, Corning’s Silicon Valley Technology Chief shares how to stay creative over the long haul.
Why digital transformation is now on the CEO’s shoulders
Big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence hold such disruptive power that they have inverted the dynamics of technology leadership.
The adaptable mind
The Adaptable Mind asks the question: what are the skills we need to flourish in the 21st Century? Los Angeles-based professor and artist, Mary Beth Heffernan, was listening to coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and how isolating and traumatic it must be for patients to interact only with hazmat suits for weeks on end.
She thought, “what if they put pictures of their faces on the front of the suits?” Thousands of hurdles later, Mary Beth’s story reveals that, while there is a lot of fear that technology is displacing our jobs, the skills we need most in the 21st Century — curiosity, creativity, taking initiative, multi-disciplinary thinking, and empathy — happen to be skills that machines don’t have; only humans have.
The 8 essentials of innovation
Strategic and organisational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. What are our innovation leaders doing right?
Using Lego serious play as design thinking
Lego bricks have been part of the childhood of many people and many adults still enjoy playing with it, which promotes it to become one of the thinking tools.