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How new experiences make you more creative

Idea to Value

One of the most effective ways to improve your creativity short-term is to have an unexpected experience. Research by Prof Simone Ritter has shown that variety and new experiences can improve an individuals’ performance on divergent thinking tasks, a test of creativity. I recommend on a weekly basis.

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Exago named one of the 10 Most Creative Gamification Solution Providers of 2018

Exago

Exago is proud to be distinguished as one of “The 10 Most Creative Gamification Solution Providers 2018” by Insights Success. The magazine highlights how the Exago gamified innovation platform solves business challenges by creating a collaborative and innovative culture, while rewarding and recognising participants.

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Where can you get Fresh Ideas?

Destination Innovation

Here are some places and methods to help you find them: Read Widely : Books, magazines, and online articles are great sources of inspiration. Nature and Outdoor Activities : Spending time in nature can stimulate creativity. Do you need some novel ideas for the problems and challenges you face?

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Curiosity: The Key to Creativity and Innovation

Idea to Value

Read deeply, ditch distractions, and increase your concentration and mental health, instead of perusing magazines, blogs, or tweets. Find more research findings about how to innovate in The Creativity Challenge: How We Can Recapture American Innovation (Kim, 2016), and follow Dr. Kim @ Kreativity_Kim. Different times (e.g.,

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3 innovation types: evolution, preventative and creative

Jeffrey Phillips

This kind of innovation ends up on the magazine covers and is what every CEO wants but can't quite understand how to deliver given the demands for quarterly results. Once we win the language battle and demonstrate we can deliver on evolution and preventative efforts, we can get the funds and resources to do truly creative innovation.

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Ten Ways to Develop Logical Thinking, Ten Ways to Develop Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

Read a random book or magazine. Ask more questions, more childlike questions, more provocative questions. E.g. ask ‘what if……?’ ’ Incorporate the random. Take a random route to work. Speak to random people. Read poetry and fiction. Visit art galleries. Take a different point of view.

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How Open-Minded Are You? Quick Quiz.

Destination Innovation

Do you typically read the same newspapers or magazines? (If Can you take on board criticism and change (yes) or do you push back? Have you watched any foreigh language films in the last year? Have you made any new good friends in the last 12 months? If you do not read newspapers that counts as a yes.).

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