Monthly Archives: November 2011

Use Journaling to Organize Your Ideas

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Journal You’ve probably heard that the human mind can only hold 3-7 ideas at a time. When you get an idea, it is competing for one of those valuable slots with everything else going on (lunch plan, budget, customer presentation, … Continue reading →

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Idea Mining Leads to More Effective Brainstorming

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Idea Mining I am a miner. When I talk to groups about brainstorming, I focus on creating good problem statements. When we think about problem spaces, we generate so many problem statements, that I think of each problem statement as … Continue reading →

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How to be an Idea Gardener

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

When it comes to nurturing ideas, I am a Gardener. When we don’t really understand the problem we want to solve, we can’t mine for ideas because we won’t know a good one when we see it. Idea gardening might … Continue reading →

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Prepare Your Brain for More Productive Brainstorming

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

Brainstorming Warm-up Exercises An overlooked step in the ideation process is warm-up for your brain. Though it is not a muscle, it still should be stretched and fed to run optimally and give you the ideas and results you are … Continue reading →

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To Save Innovation, We Must Define Innovation

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

We’ve all heard the word “innovation.”  Most of us have used the word “innovation.”  But do we really know what it means?  And are all of us using the word “innovation” in the same way.  Here’s how I define the … Continue reading →

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Innovation is in Danger!

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

An excerpt from “Saving Innovation:” Daily advancements in technology, our ever-lengthening life expectancy, instantaneous global communication and a galaxy of consumer choices few ever imagined support a belief that innovation will continue to reliably answer our toughest questions. That may … Continue reading →

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Read the First Page from “Saving Innnovation”

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

I never expected a 30-second conversation in Fort Collins, Colorado to change my life, but that’s exactly what happened.  I’m also hoping it revitalizes one of the most important business concepts of our era.             I’d been in the corporate … Continue reading →

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