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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In Australia, the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has just held a two day summit to create a number of big ideas for the year 2020. He invited 1000 of the nations so-called best and brightest to discuss ten predetermined themes.
If nothing else it turned out to be a political masterpiece. There was widespread (largely) […]

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Dear Prime Minister & Professor Glyn Davis.
 
Good luck with the Australia 20:20 summit. It is a great idea and I hope it is a wonderful success. But as someone who helps create breakthrough ideas for a living, I cannot help but feel that you have made some fundamental mistakes. I list these only in the […]

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 We have a natural tendency when solving a problem to start from what exists at the moment and add incremental improvements. For the most part, this approach works. Occasionally however when you need a breakthrough new product or solution you need a different approach. For example, if you were trying to design a new kid’s computer […]

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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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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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