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Managing Networks of Creativity (Hardback) - Taylor & Francis. SparkBugg - A blog about sharing bright ideas. Officine Italiane Innovazione - Desiderio d'impresa. Stake Your Claim. Genius Crowds - Ideas Wanted. Club italiano dei creativi > Home. WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson. Category:Creativity Techniques. This A to Z of Creativity and Innovation Techniques, provides an introduction to a range of tools and techniques for both idea generation (Creativity) and converting those ideas into reality (Innovation).

Category:Creativity Techniques

Like most tools these techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity and innovation techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity / Innovation technique) for each job. This site will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it's best used for cutting paper or putting in nails. For the future, the aim is to also have sub-categories which will identify Techniques for; Problem Definition - including problem analysis, redifinition, and all aspects associated with defining the problem clearly.

Subcategories. StyleMyLife. Idea Crowdsourcing Platform. Challenges. IdeaConnection: Solve your open innovation challenges. Brainrack - Out of the box innovation. Www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/details.html. Welcome - The Creative Leadership Forum - Collaborate - Create - Commercialise & Transformational Change.

Story and Emergent Design. Idea Management - Innovation Management - Crowdsourcing - Suggestion Box - Customer Feedback Software. Www11.in.tum.de/userfiles/File/ideastream/ideastream.pdf. Abstract. Tools&Methods « Visualizing the Invisible. Using Large Screens for Brainstoming Posted by Michael Koch in Academic, Tools&Methods on September 21, 2010 Lets start with an interesting project in the ModLab at University Bochum.

Tools&Methods « Visualizing the Invisible

As stated in the earlier post, the researchers in Bochum are working on using large interactive screens in modeling workshops. At CRIWG 2010 (see paper in Springer Link: they presented a brainstorming tool to help in brainstorming phases during modeling. The interesting aspects of the tool: integrated in modeling tool (SeeMe) – so you can continue to work with the ideas generated during the brainstorming session in the (process) model workshop participants can use different devices to enter data – whatever they have at hand: laptops (via WiFi), smart phones, iphones … The presentation of this tool made me look for other brainstorming solutions for large (interactive) screens and mobile devices (for data entry).

Brainstomring, modlab, seeme, tools No Comments No Comments. Brainstorming. The Brainstorming (brainstorm) method is a semi-structured creative group activity, used most often in ad-hoc business meetings to come up with new ideas for innovation or improvement.

Brainstorming

Members of the group are encouraged to put forward ideas about a problem and how it may be solved, in order to generate as many ideas as possible, even if they are not always usable alternatives. The idea behind brainstorming is, that a group of people can achieve a higher (synergy) level of creativity than the sum of the participants separately. Brainstorming Rules Three major rules for a successful brainstorm session are: Participants should be encouraged to come up with as much ideas as possible, however strange they are (there are no bad ideas).

Brainstorming hints Some hints for a successful brainstorm session are: Use an experienced facilitator. The effectiveness of brainstorming. Open Innovation and Creativity Support. Project: Open Innovation and Creativity Support Viele der hier gezeigten Ideen werden im EXIST-geförderten StartUp IdeaClouds fortgeführt.

Open Innovation and Creativity Support

Hier klicken für weitere Informationen Unter "Open Innovation" werden meist Prozesse verstanden, bei denen kooperativ, durch Offenlegung von eigenem Wissen, Technologien (manchmal aber auch von Inhalten), Innovationen geschaffen werden. A Computer-Model for the Creative Process Beyond Simple Brainstorming « Visualizing the Invisible. To build computer systems which particularly support creativity, an abstract process model is necessary.

A Computer-Model for the Creative Process Beyond Simple Brainstorming « Visualizing the Invisible

Most creativity support systems used in practice, so far only address a simple gathering of ideas in the style of a less-strict version of the Brainstorming-technique. Our main goal was, to find a more generic model which allows for the instantiation of more complex creativity techniques. This model will be explained within this article. Best of Breed Idea Management Software has 10 Key Elements: A Check List For Your Demonstrations. Thinking about getting an idea management system?

Best of Breed Idea Management Software has 10 Key Elements: A Check List For Your Demonstrations.

Here’s your feature/function check list. Of course you should still poll your user community and get their feedback to see what they need. But after you’re done, I bet you a nickel you’ll end up with a list like this one. Print it out and check off the items during your demonstrations. The Key Elements of Ideation: Living in the Ideagora… Supporting Innovation in SME.