Brainstorming on a White Board: Prompts and Techniques
Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about [...]
Can Creativity Be Learned? 5 Best Practices to Fuel Innovation
Creativity can be learned through different practices. Do you possess a creative and innovative mindset? Some people think these traits are innate while others are convinced they can be learned. [...]
How to Incite Creativity Amidst Your Team?
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” -Albert Einstein Creativity is the true driver of innovation. In order to develop your business and always stay on top of the game with [...]
How to Build a Better Creative Team
When you build a creative team, you hope that the team as a whole will be more creative and productive than the sum of its parts. It all starts with [...]
How to Keep Your Creative Team Fresh & Inspired
Creativity is about more than just art. Creativity is how we get great innovation, but encouraging creativity in a structured environment, like work, can be a bit tricky. Fortunately, with [...]
What IdeaScale is Grateful For
Well, here in California it’s a predictably lovely fall day (brisk, but not cold with skittering leaves chasing each other down the sidewalk). It’s Thanksgiving in America and we think [...]
Lessons About Culture and Creativity
One of our customers recently had the good fortune to hear Adam Grant speak at an event. Adam Grant "has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is a leading expert on [...]
Music for Innovation
There is a growing body of research that is dedicated to analyzing what kind of music makes an employee work more efficiently, joyfully, or precisely. Here are a few interesting [...]
Mindfulness and Innovation
The start of a new year is so motivating. A fresh start, a new leaf - we usually enter a year with a lot of good intentions and plans to [...]
Courage to Fail
Our attitude towards failure is an evolving concept and it also varies a lot depending on the country, the culture, and the individual. It can be very frightening. In fact, [...]