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Assumptions Kill Creativity

3 September, 2014 by James Lawther 8 Comments

Innovation in reading

The population of India is well over 1.2 billion people. Second only to China in size. Roughly a quarter of that population can’t read or write. Or, depending on who, how and when you count, there are something like 300 million illiterate people in India. This is a problem that is worth fixing. But how? Teaching 300 million […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: assumptions, innovation, literacy, problem solving

Is Your Platform Really Burning?

28 June, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Burning Platform

You know this already… We respond to change differently.  There are lots of different categorisations, but we are usually described in groups a bit like this… Dangerous to know — The gung-ho mob, they will try anything.  A bit like my idiot brother. Have a go — Once they see that the coast is clear, they are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: human nature, innovation, reinforcing behaviour, what don't you see

Innovation and Old Fools

18 June, 2014 by James Lawther 6 Comments

GE Board

Story 1. My eldest daughter (11) has just joined Instagram.  She spends her evenings with her nose firmly pressed against the screen of an iPad flicking from one picture to the next. I decided to find out what Instagram is (after all, she is my eldest daughter, a little parental care would be a good thing). […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: conformity, diversity, innovation, learning

How to be More Innovative

22 May, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

3 creative people… Charles Dickens Charles Darwin David Hockney What have they got in common?  What was the source of their creativity?  What sparked their innovative streak? 1. Charles Darwin Before he wrote the origin of species and created his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin travelled widely and looked at the world.  Most notably he visited […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: back to the floor, innovation, management by wandering around, video

5 TED Talks

18 April, 2014 by James Lawther 7 Comments

TED Talks

You can find just about anything on the internet The web is full of ideas, answers and solution.  Some of it is good, some of it is bad, and some of it — for some reason that is beyond me — is about laughing cats. If you must waste your life surfing the net (and I […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web, Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: Dan Ariely, Daniel Pink, happiness, innovation, motivation, problem solving, purpose, Shawn Achor, Steven Johnson, TED talks, test and learn, Tim Harford, video

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