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Category Archives: Creativity
Innovate or “Play it Safe” to Avoid Risk
The Xooglers blog has some really interesting posts. In one, “But, but, that’s just crazy talk!” [the broken link was removed], Doug Edwards discusses a great example of what true leadership is about. In my defense, my background conspired against … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Google, Innovation, Management, quote
Tagged decision making, Innovation, leadership, management, risk
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Gary Hamel’s Idea Hatchery
Gary Hamel’s Idea Hatchery [the broken link was removed] by Whitney Sparks: Q: So how do you hope to change the standard approach to management? A: Sometimes innovation is about creating a whole new class structure. Hierarchies are not very … Continue reading
Google: Experiment Quickly and Often
Google Thinks Small by Quentin Hardy, Forbes: Brin and Page have created a corporate organism that tackles most big projects in small, tightly focused teams, setting them up in an instant and breaking them down weeks later without remorse. “Their … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Google, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Software Development
Tagged experiments, Google, iteration
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Innovation in Organizations
Assessing Your Organization’s Innovation Capabilities [the broken link was removed] by Clayton M. Christensen: Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values. When asking what sorts of innovations their … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creativity, Deming, Innovation, Management, quote
Tagged Creativity, disruptive innovation, Innovation, Management
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Innovation and Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a license that lets the creators of intellectual property clearly define how that property may be used by others. Partially this license is a reaction to the poor way copyright law is being viewed today (see links … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Economics, Innovation
Tagged copyright, deadly diseases, Economics, Innovation
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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
Topic: Management Improvement How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers, Sarah Jane Johnston interview of Steven Spear. It is our conclusion that Toyota has developed a set of principles, Rules-in-Use we’ve called them, that allow organizations to engage in this … Continue reading
Car Navigation Systems
Topic: Management Improvement Thinking About in-car Navigation Systems by Robert Scoble: What’s frustrating is there’s no way to report a mistake. So, everyone who has Toyota’s system is doomed to repeat the same errors. While Toyota is doing great things … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, IT, Management
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Transforming Aggression into Creative Problem Solving
Transforming Aggression into Creative Problem Solving [the broken link has been removed] by Margaret J. Wheatley and Geoff Crinean With their intelligence awakened, people want to contribute, want to change things, want to make things happen. They will work with … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management
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Traffic Congestion and a Non-Solution
Topic: Management Improvement, Problem Solving I read, Study: Nation’s Traffic Jams Worsening [the broken link was removed], today on CNN.com. That same headline could have appeared in newspapers every day for the last few years. For decades traffic congestion has … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, cars, Creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, Systems thinking
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