Posts tagged ideas
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Make This Awesome ‘33 Ways to Stay Creative’ List a Part of Your Life
- Liz Dwyer posted in Education, Creativity and ListsThis list pops up on the web every few months—the Steampunk group on Facebook is the latest to share. What would happen if most people followed its recommendations instead of just clicking “like”? How would our society change if schools posted these and then operated accordingly? (Caveat for the kids: We’d have to nix “drink coffee”!) Of course the best thing about lists is crossing things off of them, so c’mon, let’s commit to putting some of these suggestions into practice.
1. Layout the problem you want to solve.
2. Identify the objectives of a possible solution.
3. Try to generate solutions individually.
4. Once you have gotten clear on your problems, your objectives and your personal solutions to the problems, work as a group.
The 10 Things Innovative Companies Do To Stay On Top
1. Everybody is an innovator
2. Measure their idea-generation success
3. Change the idea a lot before it becomes a product
4. Test their ideas with customers
5. Have an internal “idea czar”
6. Talk to customers and other partners
7. Find ideas everywhere
8. Spend R&D money thoughtfully, not profligately
9. Generate ideas in three basic ways
10. Systematically create new ideas
(via How Innovative Companies Stay On Top - Business Insider)
10 Genius Ideas That Changed Marketing Forever
Did you know that nearly 40% of U.S. companies use blogs for marketing purposes?
1) Agile
2) Blogging
3) Citizen Journalism
4) Copyright
5) Gamification
6) Inbound Marketing
7) Social Networks
8) Social Proof
9) Virality
10) Web 2.0
Don’t spend all your time refining, get your ideas out there and see if people like them.
Build things. Ideas are wonderful, but being able to prototype something and see it in front of you is better. Use whatever tools you have. You need to make it real before you can discover what it is supposed to be.
Entrepreneurial advice from Evan Doll of Flipboard.
Creativity and innovation come not from the ideas of our mind alone, but also from some conviction in our heart… an orientation of spirit.
Feigning perfection cuts you off from the most valuable resource you have: the ideas and experiences of others. Over the years, I’ve learned that my network is my biggest asset and my secret weapon—my peers and colleagues are what make my business go from good to great.
