Tag: creative thinking

A UK insurer will provide policyholders with a device to generate video footage of a crash using Google’s virtual mapping service.

The device will communicate to the car insurer how the customer was driving, including the speed, location and direction of impact, acceleration and braking immediately before and during the accident, according to an article in the Financial Times. Continue reading “New idea helps car insurance “spy” on your driving to reduce claims”

If you say outrageous things maybe you will get people to listen to you.

A fading, socially guilt-ridden poet wants us all to become like finely chopped up fried eggs.

Yet when the world she lives in is really like one broken ostrich egg with the pieces of shells impossible to put back, you realise she’s an idealistic dreamer, that’s all. Continue reading “Whose advice do you listen to in this attention-screaming information tsunami?”

I visited a solar farm and found out that one of the maintenance issues was the grass growing below the solar panel banks. In the winter the grass was low but when the summer rains come the grass grows quickly and has to be maintained. Various options or alternatives have been looked at but no new ideas have yet been implemented.

This is the thing: when you come up against a problem, you need to do some fact-finding beforehand to fully understand the nature of the problem. In this case what the owners could do is to do some fact-finding by bringing in a soil expert or a horticulturist. Either would give an accurate assessment of what can and can’t be done. The initial solutions about using grass poisons or even bringing in sheep to “mow” the lawn could have implications that are costly. Continue reading “Do your fact-finding before you start to generate new ideas”

If you want to increase your creativity, then it’s actually a good thing to learn speed thinking. The more ideas that you come up with, the more your creative mechanism begins to work. It’s similar to the muscles in your body: those that you build up and develop give you strength; those that you neglect or don’t use lie dormant.

In my book “Breakthrough Ideas, I give you tools and techniques that you can use to speed up your personal idea generation process. One of these tools is a simple list but with a twist (after you have completed this exercise you will come up with ideas and instantly recognise how powerful your creative mind is). One of the main things that this technique teaches is that by accelerating your thinking and generating more ideas, you simply have more options at your disposal. Continue reading “Instant creativity – good for getting you going but here’s what you really need”

Have you looked around your local community lately? Businesses are closing left and right. What may have been a cellular phone shop is now a plastics shop. And, in a few months could be a pool store or security shop.

Business sales are stagnant, margins are under pressure and employees are hanging onto their jobs almost as if they were about to fall from high atop a mountain ledge. Continue reading “If you make these mistakes in idea generation, your small business could suffer the same fate”