Innovation is Simple, but Not Easy! This is a lesson many people are now learning. Having studied continuous improvement, creative thinking and innovation since the early 1980s, having read dozens of books and hundreds of articles and papers on these
Travelling back from Melbourne to the Gold Coast after the Easter break through NSW, and noticed a lot of promotion of the North Coast Innovation Festival (NCIF) in the newspaper at Coffs Harbour. It's great to see that the Australian Innovation Festival, now
Creativity & Innovation – Synergistic Collaborative Structures for Innovation Formal measurements for public service innovation are still underdeveloped, but the evidence from private industry is very compelling with respect to its benefits. At least 65 per cent of Australian economic
An introductory paper on the state of play of innovation in the Queensland and Australian Public Service. White_Paper_Public Service_Innovation
Over the coming week I will be building a series of blogs on Innovation in the Australian Public Service, based on a White Paper Mindwerx has done as part of the development of a new program we are offering on
Title: THE WEIRD RULES OF CREATIVITY. Authors: Sutton, Robert I. Source: Harvard Business Review; Sep2001, Vol. 79 Issue 8, p94, 10p Document Type: Article (The above image is a Wordle cloud of the full article) Subject Terms: *CREATIVE ability in
Title : How’s Your Climate for Innovation? Author: Charles W. Prather, Ph.D. Bio: Dr. Prather was a research management chemist at DuPont before managing DuPont’s Center for Creativity and Innovation. Through CW Prather Associates, in Annapolis, Maryland, he now consults on
(For Online Academy Students) The attached article by Dr Rowan Gilmore, CEO of the Australian Institute for Commercialisation raises some interesting points about the focus on innovation in Australia. Taking the lead from the Business Council of Australia's report on innovation
Are you like us - you love the Harvard Business Review but find it a bit expensive to keep up the subscription? One of our USA university students (we do a fully online undergraduate course in Creativity and Innovation) alerted me
Just saw a job advertisement for an Innovation Manager at Shell - it got me thinking about what are the core skills to manage innovation in a large team. This is an edited version of what they propose - would be interested
