Empathy is one of the year’s words. How is it linked to innovation?
Every term in this chart is connected to both of the starting words “empathy” and “innovation”. You find an English and a French version in the slide show.
We call that kind of chart: Water-Ring-Semantics. The connotations are more floating and flowing [...]
Only impossible ideas help us push the limits of possible innovations. What is your impossible idea?
L’Oréal and Dyson organize idea contests and waste the ideas. Both could do much more if they decided to adopt a contemporary view of the resource “people”.
A surplus of ideas is as dangerous as a drought. The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Do you agree with A or B? (2)
Don’t Listen to the Expert. The stupidity of crowds. Do you agree with A or B? (1)
The word innovation stands for activity and achieving your dreams. “Innovation” evokes dynamism, courage and strength. When we hear and say this word, it’s like getting a kick. The more innovative, the more alive we feel, don’t we? But innovators don’t often talk about how much time it takes to innovate and how patient you [...]
Collect your ideas. Don’t stock them. Do something with your ideas now. Starting from a Copyblogger article of Jon Morrow, that tells all the “idea pack rats” to spread their ideas, idea detective proposes a supplementary action: idea sourcing.
My first post: one reason to have a blog is to prepare the handbook of an idea detective.