I’m not talking about the ABC show, I’m talking about the celebrating medical textbook…one of the most famous medical books of all time. Henry Gray’s name is on the cover. But the reason the book was so influential was because it was the result of a powerful collaboration: between Henry Gray, and a second surgeon,… Read More Gray’s Anatomy
I’ve recently been in touch with an Italian architecture firm called “Architects of Group Genius”…I was intrigued by their name, because my book’s title is Group Genius. If you visit their web site, you’ll see that they design spaces to foster maximum collaboration and innovation. As they say, “Innovation, Change, Learning and Collaboration, and the… Read More Architects of Group Genius
A fascinating study in Nature magazine* shows that sleep can increase the chance you’ll have a creative insight. Many of us have had the experience of waking up with a great idea, or having an insight while in the shower right after waking up. And many famous creators have said that they got their ideas… Read More Sleep On It
Innovation is often cited as a primary reason for organizations to get involved with knowledge management (KM)–a term used to refer to any systematic efforts to capture and disseminate all of the knowledge that people and groups possess in an organization. After more than a decade of knowledge management (KM) research, we are still not… Read More Managing Knowledge for Innovation
The intellectual property issues just keep coming up! (See my previous posts on IP issues.) Maybe I should go back to law school… This morning, I was interviewed by a team of researchers at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden; they are studying collaborative innovation networks and how they can contribute to transformational change towards… Read More Idea Sharing in Nonprofits
The Creativity Guru 