Entrepreneurs Need Creative Thinking After the Idea - Forbes

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. There is a tough balance here to achieve, since a large portion of starting and running a business requires analytical, logical thinking. In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. Maybe that’s why “thinking outside the box” is so rare. While looking for guidance on how to be more creative

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What is The Role of the Chief Innovation Officer - Mark W.Johnson, Innosight - BusinessWeek

Innovation isn't new, but appointing a C-suite member to oversee it is. Mark Johnson looks at how the CIO's role should be executed Ten years ago, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a chief innovation officer on any company's leadership team. Today such leading companies as AMD (AMD), Citigroup (C), Coca Cola (KO), DuPont (DD), Humana (HUM), and Owens Corning (OC) each have one. Many others, including Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), have senior leaders who are tasked with heading innovation in effect, if not in name. Not that innovation is new: Organizations have been innovating as long as companies have existed. Why the new role now? There are many reasons. Three stand out.

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Creativity, business, organisations and games - a great case study in how organisational creativity can work

The twisted creativity (and potty mouth) of game designer David Jaffe offers an excellent case study in organisational creativity and shows how if organisations learn how to woprk with creative people what a productive relationship it can be. David Jaffe is one of the stars of the video game industry. Since the 1990s, he has shown his creativity over and over with games such as Twisted Metal, God of War, and the most recent title, Calling All Cars. and VentureBeat caught up with him recently for this interview. Jaffe worked designing games at Sony for 13 years, but he left Sony in 2007 to cofound the game studio Eat Sleep Play. During his career, Jaffe has been loud, vociferous, and potty-mouthed

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A Cultural Fix for Risk Management Failure

by Peter T. Golder and Thorsten Liebert 4/09/09 How to create a culture that combines healthy risk taking with effective risk management.

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ABC - Gallipoli 3D immersive presentation

The online innovation sector of the Australian Broadcasting commission have developed a 3D immersive map where you can explore what happened on the first day of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and follow individual soldiers through the day.

There is a lot of information to look through - very interesting.

Link to it here