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More Of The Top Articles From OSI
My Top 25 Posts article worked very well, so here’s the next group. We’ll see how much traffic this on diverts. In the meantime, I’m going to be creating new permalinks for the Top 2… more →
Open Source Innovation
A View of Design Synthesis
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Plish wrote 2 weeks ago: Ever since I attended the Design Research Conference in Chicago, I’ve been inspired by Jon Kol … more →
Inventables - Great Idea Resource for Innovative Product Solutions
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Plish wrote 1 month ago: Inevitably when trying to come up with innovative ways of solving sticky problems we have those time … more →
Walking Backwards to a Solution
Plish wrote 3 months ago: Dutch researchers found walking backwards may help with problem solving. … more →
Mapping with The Brain
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Plish wrote 3 months ago: Every once in a while something comes along and makes you say, “Cooool…” Personal … more →
Using Distance to Increase Creativity
Plish wrote 3 months ago: A company was manufacturing pens and a key automated assembly machine was causing problems, slowing … more →
First Ideas are Dangerous; Successive Generations Are the Stuff of Innovation
Plish wrote 5 months ago: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one you have” -Emile Chartie … more →
What does your 'Creativity Alphabet' Look Like?
Plish wrote 6 months ago: Came across the above video “F is for Fail- An Alphabetical Odyssey Through the Creative Proce … more →
Concentration Key to Creative Problem Solving
Plish wrote 6 months ago: Your Brain has Limited Bandwidth (michael plishka 2009) “Concentrate all your thoughts upon … more →
The Princess and the Pea, User-Centered Design, and asking "Why?"
Plish wrote 6 months ago: Sometimes 'Smaller' Doesn't Help... I was talking to a nurse about a particular medical … more →
Imagination: The Foundation of Creativity and Innovation
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Plish wrote 6 months ago: (michael plishka, 2009) Everything you can imagine is real – Pablo Picasso You can’t dep … more →
Thou Shalt Have No Innovation Idols!
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Plish wrote 7 months ago: There Should Be No 'Sacred Cows' When it Comes to Innovation You would think that in the rea … more →
LG Design the Future Competition - The Future is Only a Phone Away
Plish wrote 7 months ago: Did you ever look at your cellphone and wonder, “Why can’t it find my keys, it does ever … more →
The Old Switcheroo! - Changing Routines to Help Creativity
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Plish wrote 7 months ago: The garbage man and the recycling guys came and went but this time they switched positions of the bi … more →
Five Steps to Do-It-Yourself Innovation
Plish wrote 7 months ago: We’ve all done it before. We’re confronted with a problem so we work with what we have … more →
What Does Innovation Sound Like To You?
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Plish wrote 7 months ago: Jane Mackays “Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto” While reading, feel free to listen to a song I j … more →
Mindmapping as a Creativity Tool
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Plish wrote 8 months ago: Click to See High Resolution Version Mindmaps are cool. I’ve used them for this blog, for pres … more →
Using Stories to Help Your Creativity, Generate Ideas and Solve Problems!
Plish wrote 8 months ago: “Individual creativity is very intimate and personal. So, it’s important to learn how to … more →
New Solutions Require New Viewpoints
Plish wrote 8 months ago: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them … more →
Finding The Solution That's Right Under Your Feet
Plish wrote 8 months ago: Great blog entry here that tells the tale of rollerblades- those rollerskates that look like hockey … more →
