Creativity & Innovation Archives
Welcome to one of the web's longest running resources on creativity and innovation! Browse articles, papers and more on -- dating from 1996 until this week! Click on any subject below to get started. Or scroll down to see the most recent articles.
Creativity
Learn more about creativity and how you can improve your creative thinking skills.
Anticonventional Thinking
Anticonventional thinking is a new, science-based approach to collaborating to develop creative visioins.
Personal Innovation
The ultimate self-help guide! Learn how to improve yourself through creativity.
Business Innovation
Read about the latest findings in business innovation, learn tricks and techniques you can apply at your business and more.
Understanding People
How and why humans behave as they do and how you can use that information in all kinds of fun and devious ways.
Business Silliness
A look at absurd practices and other strange goings-on in business
Incredible parenting
How to be an incredible parent by using your creativity and encouraging your children to be creative
Video
Short videos on all aspects of creativity and innovation
Communication
All about creative business communications
Differentiation
Everything you have ever wanted to know about differentiation
Recent Articles
Leading Diverse Teams
Filed under: Business Innovation
Diverse teams are more innovative and smarter than homogeneous ones. But, they are also harder to manager. Here are some tips. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Questions you should ask when an innovative project fails
Filed under: Business Innovation
You can learn a lot from the failure of an innovative project, but you need to ask the right questions. Here are those questions. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Unmarketing the Competition
Filed under: Business Innovation
A look at creative, but unethical dirty trick marketing campaigns designed to damage the competition By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Imaginativefulness and the Fisherman
Filed under: Creativity
What does a fisherman wearing a cycling helmet have to do with imaginativefulness? Quite a lot, it seems. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Actually, Criticising Ideas Is Good for Creativity
Filed under: Creativity
People have long assumed criticising ideas in a brainstorm inhibits creativity. Research and experience shows that is wrong By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Imaginativefulness
Filed under: Creativity
Imaginativefulness is a state of heightened imagination in which your mind allows thoughts, memories and ideas to play with each other freely. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Why and How to Exploit Alternative Uses for Your Products
Filed under: Business Innovation
Discovering new ways customers use, misuse and could use your products can inspire innovation. Jeffrey Baumgartner explains. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
The Cost of Not Innovating
Filed under: Business Innovation
If your company fails to innovate, you pay a steep price in terms of loss of leadershop, tight margins, missed opportunities and more. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Don't Trust the Status Quo
Filed under: Creativity
Jeffrey Baumgartner has never trusted the status quo. He explains why this is so and why you should also not trust the status quo By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
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