The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
If you watch the world around you with fresh eyes, you will find innovation opportunities.
Once you start asking the right Vuja De questions, you will find that the answers can lead to opportunities for your business.
“Visual thinking is the future of business problem solving. Using our innate ability to see—both with our eyes and our mind’s eye—gives us entirely new ways to discover hidden ideas, develop those ideas intuitively, and then share those ideas with other people in a way they are simply going to ‘get.’” Dan Roam
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MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.
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This is the fifth rule of Jim Jarmusch, an independent film director, his golden rules:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
"Open-source software", "Software Libre", "Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS)", and "Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)" are the most common alternative terms.
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Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
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"Creativity is often associated solely with artists and fine arts, whereas innovation is often thought to be about technological progress in manufacturing only. The European Year of Creativity and Innovation allows us to look at these concepts from different angles," reflected European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, responsible for Enterprise and Industry policy.
"The challenges that Europe and other parts of the world are facing today are tremendous - climate change, poverty, globalisation and the current economic slowdown, just to mention a few. Tackling these complex challenges will require new knowledge as well as new approaches to combining existing knowledge and finding holistic solutions," he added.
"The European Year of Creativity and Innovation will influence the policy debate and encourage co-operation between policy-makers and enterprises on how to harness the creative potential of humans for economic and societal purposes,"
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