Latest Creativity And Innovation Blog Posts

This page contains the latest Creativity and Innovation related blog articles written by me, Derek Cheshire. To view the archive page where you can find all of my posts indexed by date, please visit this page.

making chai, jugaad and innovation

Soup, Jugaad and Chai

This topic was inspired by a recent keynote that I gave at a virtual conference in Chennai on the topic ...
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/ / Blog, chai, innovation, jugaad, sustainability
cost of innovation

What Is The Cost Of Innovation?

There is no manual that says exactly how to estimate innovation costs but here is a common sense approach that ...
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/ / Blog, cost of innnovation, idea generation, ideas, innovation
How curious are you?

Are You Curious?

In his book The Human Edge, Greg Orme gives a simple but extremely powerful example of curiosity. We are related ...
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/ / Blog, creativity, curiosity, curious

Make Sure Your Different Is Different

March was BC (before coronavirus) and we are now in the era AD (after disease). The virus is not totally ...
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/ / Blog, boundaries, creativity, different

Organic Innovation, The Best Way Forward

Organic Innovation is NOT about innovation within agricultural industries although they are not excluded. I am suggesting that Organic Innovation ...
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/ / Blog, co-creation, diversity, ecology, innovation, organic

Thought Leadership – A Way Forward?

The fast pace in the current digital age means that businesses and business models are changing more rapidly than ever ...
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/ / Blog, ceo, innovation, thought leadership
Boosting your creativity

Boosting Your Creativity

There are loads of different ways you can consider boosting your creativity – from small changes you can implement in ...
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/ / Blog, creativity, ideas, inspiration, office, workspace

What Comes Next?

We are currently in the throes of what can only be described as a catastrophe, both on a human level ...
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/ / Blog, change, decision making, new normal, plans

How Will Coronavirus Change The World?

The events which are unfolding across the world mean that post coronavirus, the world will never be the same again ...
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/ / Blog, coronavirus, flexibility, survival, world

Soft Infrastructure Post Coronavirus

What is soft infrastructure? We all understand the term ‘infrastructure’. It is a collective term for roads, railways, airports, ports, ...
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/ / Blog, boundaries, connected, organisation, soft infrastructure

When The Threat Is Here, It Is Too Late To Change!

Here I shall use the spreading of deadly bacteria as a metaphor for change. Consider a body of water that ...
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/ / action, Blog, change, competitors

Innovation + Reinvention = ReThinking

Let’s face it, the biggest problem that we have in the exciting world of creativeinnovationreinventiveness is the English language. Yes, ...
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/ / Blog, innovation, reinvention, rethinking