Posts by Mark E Miller
How to Find your Unique Innovation Mindset
What makes certain people and certain companies truly innovative? Is it a process? Is it natural ability? Learned behavior and practice, practice, practice? It’s most likely all of the above.
Read MoreThe Brain and Why Innovation Gets Rejected
Bringing creative ideas and innovation to fruition goes against our natural human tendencies to protect the status quo. Focus less on the idea and more on yourself and your audience to get past the creativity bias.
Read MoreWhy Game Changing Innovation Doesn't Happen with First Instinct
There’s good innovation and then there’s great innovation. We want to get to the latter…which means innovative pushback on typical ways of achieving innovation.
Read MoreThe Brain and Why Innovation Happens Differently for Everyone
We’ve all had that moment of insight and clarity…the idea just hits you. A-ha! Without knowing why or how, you’ve tapped into something primal, visceral and perfectly suited to the problem you’re trying to solve. The idea is there!
Read MoreTo Innovate, Think Differently
By looking at innovation in a collaborative sense, we can harness a new way to stoke ideas, creativity and innovation. A greater percentage of our capacity for innovation comes from the environment and people around us. By bringing in people who think differently than we do, we’re instantly creating a greater ability to think differently.
Read MoreInnovation Strategy and the Collaborative Brain
We know there are differences in the ways that individuals solve problems, communicate, and ideate. We also know that neural pathways are being created and stimulated while we’re doing these things. Now, from the journal Scientific American, we understand that greater collaboration is more than just smart business – it’s built into our genetic makeup.…
Read MoreThe Power of Cognitive Diversity on Innovation
As an often indefinable output, innovation can be difficult to accurately measure and even more difficult to reliably produce. What constitutes innovation at one organization may simply be called production at another. Where, in one sense, innovation is new ideas and development, in another innovation may be research or process setup. What is clear though…
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