Archive for December, 2007

Hacking with light by Johnny Lee

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Mike and I have been discussing how strange it is that we don’t value the contribution of imagination as the pilot of new knowledge creation in an organisation.
UPDATE: I see that the Ted conference held in Feb 2008 thought Johnny Lee is pretty cool.
What if we dared to imagine - what if it was expected [...]

rekindle the flame of innate creativity

Monday, December 17th, 2007

When Andy and I were bouncing ideas for this blog around, there was a strong sense of wanting to kindle flames of creativity. The backdrop to our thinking is discussed in THIS earlier post - against a tone of dissatisfaction against the industrialisation of everything.
While digging around our ‘draft posts’ folder I ran across [...]

Rigour and mortis

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

We were reflecting about one of our earlier innovation projects with a client, from some years ago. At that time we were working to establish an innovation incubator and we found a conflict of positions with the client - we were clearly coming from different ends of the spectrum and our ideas collided.
We’d hear comments [...]

Emergent versus detergent structures

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

A few more thoughts following on from Clips on Slime which was well received.
When Mike and I are asking questions about a firm, we try to establish what kind of organism they are looking to build. Many firms are pulled in two directions: on the one hand, there is recognition that new ideas are the [...]

Process of Innovation