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I often use improv theatre techniques in my workshops on creativity and innovation. They are little plays in which people have to spontaneously handle unexpected situations in front of an audience. Usually delegates approach these challenges with some caution but after a little training and practice they find them entertaining and liberating. The methods [...]  Try this management exercise. Take your group and divide them into teams of four to six people. The brief is simple. Imagine that an immensely wealthy corporation has decided to enter your business market and plans to create a powerful competitor that will use innovative approaches to seize your customers and wipe you out. It [...] There are three upcoming innovation events that you can take advantage of. 1. Gaining Competitive Advantage through Innovation Workshop. To be held in London on Thursday Sept 16th. This is a one day workshop in which you practise and learn creativity and innovation methods. It will help you to develop new products and services. 2. [...] The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on the morning of Tuesday 5th October in central London. It will focus on Open Innovation and it will be interative and instructive. It will be led by David Simoes-Brown of 100% Open, a consultancy that focuses on Open Innovation. Topics include Open Innovation [...] Innovators are rule breakers. We often see how new entrants to a market break the rules to which that the existing players conform. The low cost airlines did this when they challenged the ways in which the major airlines did business. The new players used electronic tickets, bypassed travel agents, did away with allocated seating, [...] I am running three one-day workshops for BQF entitled Gaining Competitive Advantage through Innovation. These workshops will cover advanced idea generation techniques that really work for new products and services. Delegates will practise and learn practical methods that they can take back and use in their organisations to help improve innovation. There are details here. [...] I am running a one day Master Class on Innovation for Competitive Advantage for the BQF on Sept 15th in central London. It is guaranteed to give you great techniques for generating innovative ideas. More details here: Paul Sloane One of the methods I teach on my Ideas Workshops is SCAMPER. It is a productive and versatile technique for examining a product or service from differing angles and for generating plenty of strongly innovative ideas. SCAMPER is an acronym and you ask the following types of question when you use this tool: SUBSTITUTE – [...] |
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