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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 1: Idea Collection

Jessica Day | December 14, 2017

You’ll collect a lot of ideas. How do you find the best? Before you find gold, you find ore. Seemingly dull rocks are pulled from the ground and carefully refined until the gold inside them is brought out. And so it is with ideas, as well. In this series, we’ll explore how raw ideas are … Continued

Is Your First Best Idea Really the Best Idea?

Jessica Day | October 26, 2017

Like chess, for innovation having an idea is just the first step. Is your first idea really your best? It’s often held as an adage, but the history of ideas tends to prove the opposite. Thomas Edison is the classic example: You’ve likely heard he took 10,000 prototypes to invent the light bulb, but the … Continued