Shake up your Thinking with Dr Ken Hudson

Enter The Speed Thinking Zone
I have discovered something that I believe can have a profound impact on most people’s loves. It is called Speed Thinking and I believe it is the perfect adaptation for anyone who is caught up in a time-poor existence.
I am so confident of Speed Thinking that I have bet the house on […]

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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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Well almost!
I am amazed sometimes when I work in large companies how seriously management teams take their idea generation efforts. They earnestly discuss, argue, analyse and present piles and piles of information. It seems as though they are conducting a debate which might be more at home in Ancient Greek times but not in the 21st […]

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Just read about James Dyson who invented the revolutionary (and expensive) dyson vacuum cleaner. He is very proud of the fact that it took him over 5000 prototypes to get it right! Imagine the vision and dedication of the man.
There is a lesson in this for all would be inventors and innovators. You have to […]

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Other than sex what do you think about most of the day (apparently men spend quite a lot of time thinking about sex but that is another blog).   If you want to improve your creative thinking you need to do two things. Firstly practice it. There is nothing like having a work out every […]

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In my doctoral research one of my findings was that many people have different spaces for different types of thinking.     In their office or workstation managers tended to do the process type thinking eg emails, filing, etc. But for the more generative type thinking they often moved to a more comfortable place. It […]

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The next time you are faced with a problem try thinking faster. In my workshops i ask people to create at least nine different responses in two minutes. By doing so people do not filter their ideas nor do they care what others think of their ideas.
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Just finished reading Dr. Kawashima’s book on Train your Brain. He is a brain reseacher that postulates that as we mature our brain function starts to deteriorate. But there is good news! We can all improve by daily stimulation of our brain. In particular the prefrontal cortex which is the area for learning and thinking. […]

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