Shake up your Thinking with Dr Ken Hudson

When faced with any sort of challenge (i.e. a problem, issue or opportunity) I have found that you have two key creative strategies.
1. Try and redefine the challenge and/or
2. Look at the challenge in a new way.
Otherwise you are doomed to repeat a cycle which can only deliver you incremental ideas. For example, let’s imagine that you […]

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This is a story of how breakthrough new products can emerge from the most unlikely of places.
‘After September 11th, one of our researchers, Krishna Bharat would go to 10-15 news sites everyday looking for information about the case. And he thought, why don’t I write a program to do this? So Krishna, who’s an expert in […]

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On my business card I have called myself The Idea Space: Chief Breakthrough Thinker. This begs the question what is a breakthrough thinker and why is it important?
I will deal with the second question first. To be a breakthrough thinker is the most important qualification you can have on your resume. In an information rich world, the […]

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Just attended another innovation conference. It was a mixed bag but as always there was one special nugget that eclipsed all the other presentations. It came from Brett Jackson, Director of Product Management and Design, from Atlassian Software Systems. This company formed five years ago is one of the world’s fasting growing companies.
For me it […]

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I just came back from the annual American Creativity Conference held for the first time in Singapore where I was one of the speakers. Over 200 people attended from all corners of the globe, the only thing we had in common was an interest in creativity either in business, education or government.
I have listed below my […]

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