Eyes on the Prize – In a CoIN a flexible approach to changing conditions...
In his fascinating research on collaborative innovation Peter Gloor, a Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School for Management Center for Collective Intelligence, identified a model he termed CoIN for,...
View ArticleStupid Wins In The Game Of Innovation – Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney’s latest blog post nails the way in which we are primed to think that creativity and innovation are domains reserved for the “gifted and talented”. So many times our ideas are beaten down...
View ArticleInnovation Is Not Clockwork – The Challenges of Innovation Systems
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. - W. Edward Deming...
View ArticleInnovation Psychology – Innovation is a hostage to what we think and feel
In order to create a wider understanding of the psychology underpinning innovation in the next few weeks and months regular posts will focus on those aspects of psychology that hold sway in the...
View ArticleInnovation Anchors – How unwitting fixation blocks delivering new ideas to...
Often during decision making, people anchor, overly relying on a particular piece of information or a specific value. This anchor then influences the way they account for other variables in the...
View ArticleInnovation Framing – the challenge of blinkered thinking
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. - Jean de la Bruyere The life of the mind has such a significant bearing on the ability to innovate. We know that a fruitful...
View ArticleInnovation & Correspondence Bias – Misunderstanding motivation misreads meaning
We cannot create observers by saying “observe,” but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. - Maria Montessori The more...
View ArticleGreat post on the power of Priming at FastCompany
Here at Primed Associates we are always looking for others’ takes on the concept of priming. This week we share a great post from the FastCompany site by Martin Lindstrom, who has a new book out,...
View ArticleProblem-finding is more powerful than solution-creating—#BIF9
One of the skills that rose to the fore over the course of BIF-9 was the concept of problem-finding. In an age of relentless performance improvement and waster mitigation, solution creation has been...
View ArticleRisk is critical for change but the spectrum of acceptable risk is...
The range of risk explored, for the sake of self-discovery and innovation was quite extraordinary at BIF-9. It was humbling to see the extent to which people placed themselves, and their sense of self,...
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