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Creativity and Innovation Management - Good Ideas Part 1

The constant search for Good Ideas has resulted in many techniques for generating them. Part 1 of Good Ideas will briefly discuss Franklin's (2003) research into the types of ideas that are most likely to succeed.

Creativity and Innovation Management Joy and Sustainability

Joy is obviously a major characteristic of motivation. Joy is linked to:

Do You Need A Business Plan If Your Idea Is New, Untested, or Unproven?

Business plans can be very useful instruments for raising capital from prospective investors and also for managing daily operations of the business post-take off. However, preparation of business plans is normally based on review/analysis of historical data from similar businesses operating in the market place. The situation however becomes different, when someone comes up with an idea for a product or service that is totally new i.e. unheard of, untried or unproven in the market place. There would be no reliable pre-existing data with which to do say a SWOT analysis. Any attempts would for the most part be based on weak assumptions and mostly conjecture. This article offers any start-up nursing such unproven business idea(s) a proven path to follow based on the real-life experiences of others who were faced with a similar dilemma at some time in their entrepreneurial careers.

Enhancing Vulnerability To Master Perfectionism

One of the ways a person must advance past perfectionism is to deal with and gradually become more and more vulnerable. Every good perfectionist knows that this is VERY scary. Vulnerability inv...

How To Benefit from The Power of New Innovations in the Year 2005

How many times have you heard the phrase "knowledge is power"? Probably enough for you to really wonder if you're actually doing something useful with your life, isn't that correct?

So you want to possess "power" and be "number one" isn't that right? Mainly to have financial security, be more healthier, be more happier, have a sense of accomplishment ...

Improve Your Business Dealings with Improvisation

"Nothing is accidental ... use everything." -- Keith Johnstone Even the best-laid plans, the proverb goes, go oft astray. And by learning how to improvise like actors or jazz musicians, corporate ty...

Innovation Management The Harsh Facts Of Life For All Innovators

Your opinion doesn't matter. The end user's does.

Process Innovation

Innovation can be sub categorised into types. Each can be as important as the other and sub categorising helps focus efforts in multiple directions. For example, process innovation can be just as important as new product innovation:

Techno Witch II - Magick With Your PC

You've heard of applied science, well how about applied Magick. The personal computer is just a tool after all, so in theory you should be able to apply the ancient traditions to the modern ways. Here are a few ways that I think you can use your PC to practice metaphysics.

Thousands of Failures, but Thousands of Patents

Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he revolutionized the world by inventing and patenting the incandescent light bulb. Because of his desire to create the incandescent light, he was one of the most persistent people in history. The invention in which Edison had the most failures, the incandescent light, was one of his most famous inventions. His persistence also led to many other great inventions. He had patents on items such as electricity, batteries, cement, motion pictures, phonographs, mining, telegraphs and telephones.