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Categories of Creativity
I called this post categories of creativity, because it’s not categories of innovation, which don’t really exist. Assessing a creative idea, an idea that is intentionally novel, as innovative is a subjective judgement, usually over a long period of time, about the value of that idea.(1) Innovation is not something to spend much time on, Read more
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Doing great work is not enough unless you connect it with your stakeholders
Good article and simple model on managing the power structure around your project. https://hbr.org/2025/02/how-to-build-a-power-map-for-your-project Read more
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Strategic Subtraction
I’ve followed and written about Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) so my eyes always perk up when I hear mention of one of the 5 core techniques of SIT. The entire method applies one or more of the 5 in sequence or in parallel, even recursively, but in all cases there is an analysis of the Read more
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A Letter from Bangladesh
Prepared by Sajjad Zohir, Executive Director of the Economic Research Group in Bangladesh. Read more
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Leveraging Baldrige for Industry 4.0
I want to compliment both MEP and Baldrige for their collaboration to use “the Baldrige framework as the foundation to help U.S. manufacturers integrate the concepts of Industry 4.0—that is, the integration of new technologies (including the Internet of Things, cloud computing and analytics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning) into manufacturing production facilities and Read more
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The Dangers of Systems Illiteracy
This recent article makes a good point that we need to be reminded that our global activity and the related science and technology is all connected. In the early days of deep thinking, most thinkers were simply called “philosophers” or some variation of the term. Today, complex thought has been broken upon into countless disciplines Read more
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