5 Questions Innovators Should Ask
This article is written by invited guest author Jolie Huang. Over the course of 2016, I interviewed several innovation pioneers to find out the most important questions that every innovator should ask in 2017. Since “innovation” has become an overused buzzword, organizations are putting more attention into forward-thinking strategic planning. Yet, as the pace of…
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Don’t forget to sweat the SMALL stuff.
This article is written by invited guest author Mike McDowell. When it comes to innovation, the biggest is not necessarily the best, especially when it comes to ideas. Over the course of my professional life, I’ve spent large chunks of time invested in pursuing both large scale, disruptive innovations along with extremely small scale, sustaining…
Utilizing Performance Improvement (LEAN/SixSigma) and Human Centered Design to Improve the Healthcare System from the Patient Perspective
The healthcare ecosphere is rapidly evolving with hospitals and health systems trying to keep up. Reimbursements are dropping, value based care is becoming a reality, and consumer (i.e. patient) expectations of services have risen and evolved over the last several years. Given these and other challenges, it is no wonder healthcare leaders are turning to…
Healthcare Innovation Resources
We want to help you innovate to help patients, our healthcare systems, and medical products with our healthcare innovation training resources. View my favorite healthcare innovation slideshares to help you learn quickly and visually through clicking through well designed presentations. Identify trends for transformation in healthcare, and see new technologies you may be able to apply…
What a cat can teach us about learning to innovate again
I was thinking about people who work in very traditional or bureaucratic organizations. I was thinking about how they can develop the skill to be more innovative and entrepreneurial. It is a different world to be given the “right way” to do something, and to do it again and again like a modern factory worker…
5 Elements from Startup Entrepreneurship Programs for Fostering Effective Learning Environments
Have you ever learned about a successful product, only to complain that you had that idea several years earlier? Have you ever looked back after several months only to wonder where the time has gone and why you didn’t make progress on some idea or goal? There are many reasons this happens to us, but…
Innovation Skills for the Future: Insights from Research Reports
There are four prominent research studies whose findings highlight the most important 21st century job skills needed for the future (and the future is now) of work and organizations. In sum, employees at all levels need to develop their innovation skills. These include competencies like creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving to find and…
The Instructional Power of Creativity, Design and Empathy in High School Curriculum
Written by Charles James It is time to connect our classrooms and students with the world. Food for the Soul When you walk into the large basement of the church and look at the faces and ages of the group, you are looking at the reality of homelessness in Washington, D.C. Each person’s story and…
Five Challenges to Awaken your Creativity Infographic
This infographic features five interesting things you can do to keep exercising your creative muscle. Mindmapping has long been a favorite of mine and many of my workshops include that activity. I thought the age 5 to age 44 comparison was interesting…especially the aspect of it that shared quantitative data for how many times creative…
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