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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The business world moves in cycles and I am wondering if we are entering a new era. With the US perhaps in a recession in seems to me that business leaders have pulled their horns in and are cutting back. Here we go again. Short term it makes the numbers look good. But where are […]

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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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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 met with a senior manager of a very innovative regional bank last week and he was outlined the many exciting projects that he was working on. My experience with many banks is that it can be difficult to get projects approved so i was curious to find out how he obtained the necessary ‘buy in’ […]

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It is interesting that  recent three major consulting companies report on innovation in such a unified way. But they remain spectators seemingly watching a game they don’t seem to understand nor which to play. Innovation at its heart is about creating and testing ideas in any activity. It is not something isolated  from the business–it […]

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I met with a leader recently who had been given the newly created position of innovation and sustainability manager.   What a wonderful combination. I believe that this could be a trend that is followed by other organisations. What better area to apply new ideas and concepts than in the sustainability space.   What’s more […]

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I came across thsi formula when i was reading Gary Hamels new book called The Future of Management (2007). In it he suggests that leaders should adopt a 70/20/10 view of innovation. By this he means that 70% of the resources should be allocated to projects that can make a difference today, 20% on projects […]

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Has anyone used some creative thinking software?
Have you been satisfied with it? My impression is that most of these packages rather than helping generate new ideas are more like organising mindmapping type packages.  
If you have a different experience I would love to hear from you.  We are now developing a new type of software so watch […]

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