You can boost your organization’s innovation capacity by turning problems into contests, and inviting outsiders to pitch their solutions. “Solve our problem”, the concept goes, “and we’ll give you a ton of cash!” That’s crowdsourcing, or collaborative innovation. The practice…
If you are in a managerial position, you should be concerned about how to get the best people to your team and how to help them do their job optimally. A recent publication from the National Research Council looked at how…
Jonah Lehrer writes a thought-provoking piece in this week’s New Yorker, where he argues that brainstorming is limited. Here are my take-aways from it. Don’t work by yourself: enlist others Lehrer’s conclusion is similar to ours: you’ll be more creative if you enlist…