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The Great Innovation Lie by Jeffrey Baumgartner. A lot of expensive consultants are these days touting highly complicated innovation structures to firms like yours. However, highly structured innovation systems inevitably fail because they do not provide freedom to be creative. In fact, innovation is simple. It just requires determination, budget and a few key ingredients.
Review of the Main Principles of the Creative Process (PDF document: 202kb)by Dr. Stephen Sweid. This article highlights the fundamental processes involved in creative thinking, including analysis, analogy, synthesis, and transition to initial causes or objectives, using clear illustrations and examples to help grasp the mechanism involved, and explain the creative function of such processes.
The care and framing of strategic innovation challenges (PDF document: 537kb) by Arthur Van Gundy. Before you begin to brainstorm or launch an ideas campaign, be sure you frame your challenge in the right way. Learn how to frame challenges that bring in the best ideas.
Organisational creativity - the top ten enablers (PDF document: 212kb) by Wayne Morris. As part of a masters degree research project Wayne Morris surveyed a range of New Zealand organisations with the intention of identifying the factors that enable organisational creativity. These are his top ten.
Don't multitask - multithink instead: Multitasking is a highly inefficient way to get things done. Indeed, it often results in delayed completion of several projects. So, instead of multitasking, try multithinking!
Calculating the costs and returns on idea management: Find out how to calculate the costs of implementing idea management and what kind of return on investment you can expect.
Step by step report: how to manage effective brainstorming sessions: a 19 page detailed report on managing traditional brainstorming sessions and getting effective results from them. (This is not a free article)
Evaluating ideas: find out how you can quickly determine whether an idea is likely to work
Destroy your assumptions: learn why you may be making dangerous assumptions that limit your ability to innovate
Idea flow: Learn about the different kinds of idea flow in organisations and why four dimensional idea flow is best.
Four kinds of corporate innovation: learn about the four kinds of corporate innovation and how to promote each within your firm.
Big and little innovation: why small scale innovation is just as important as massive innovation
The risk of an idea: why innovative people in your firm may not be sharing their best ideas
Communication and Innovation: the importance of complete communication to innovation
People are multidimensional: the chances are you do not know who your most innovative thinkers are.
Introduction to Idea Management (PDF file, 951KB) - an eight page, heavily illustrated booklet that explains in simple language the basic principles about idea management and idea flow in enterprises.