A recent survey of 1,000 Americans was conducted by Wakefield Research for Citrix. The results suggest that Americans like to think they’re on top of the latest innovations in cloud computing, but in reality know little about it. Unfortunately, even more people think that the cloud is tied to the weather in some way.
Read some of the [highly embarrassing] statistics here.
Are you creative? Try this simple test…
The well-known known illusion above can be seen in two ways: as both a duck and a rabbit. Which do you see first? And if you see one, can you also see the other?
Most people see the duck first and can flip between the two representations, but the question is: how easy is it for you to flip between them? Does it require real mental strain, or can you do it at will?
Wiseman et al. (2011) had a hunch that the ability to flip between representations is related to creativity.
If you find it difficult to remember what you’ve read, try giving the memory time to consolidate.
I have a great memory for books I’ve read on trains.
I always thought this had something to do with the nature of train travel: the rocking of the carriage, the rhythm of the stops, the continually changing picture window. Perhaps the combination of all these helps induce a focus which is harder to achieve in familiar circumstances.
Or perhaps the answer is simpler.
There is a condition known as pareidolia, the human tendency to read significance into random or vague stimuli (both visual and auditory).
Interestingly, data professionals usually think that computers processing data won’t make these same mistakes. Is this true?
There is a mysterious connection between the need for structure and creativity. Rituals are comforting, but how do you develop innovation and creativity in more risk adverse team members?
Want your organisation to perform poorly? Here are six ways to kill creativity in business, or anywhere.
Many organisations claim they want to foster creativity—and so they should—but unintentionally, through their working practices, creativity is killed stone dead.
That’s what Teresa Amabile, now Director of the Harvard Business School, found when looking back over decades of her research in organisations (Amabile, 1998). As part of one research program she examined seven companies in three different industries, having team members report back daily on their work.
After two years she found marked differences in how organisations dealt with creativity.
There are several bloggers like me who write about the topics of analytics and enterprise risk and performance management (ERM / EPM). What are our writing styles?
Some do a deep dive into the details of equations and algorithms of analytics or of the various methodologies like strategic balanced scorecards and customer profitability analysis. Some write about current news such as happenings with Facebook, Apple, or other companies. Some write help advice articles with tips on how to be more effective and successful applying these techniques.
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.” ~George Lois
Continuing our series on How to Be More Creative, here are another 7 techniques for breaking through a creative block in order to create innovative solutions to your organization’s challenges.
Households headed by older adults have made dramatic gains relative to those headed by younger adults in their economic well-being over the past quarter of a century, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of a wide array of government data.
Just don’t call them old.
We’ve all heard the old adage “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
Many of us put things off indefinitely, especially the most onerous tasks. But often we find that if we just start the task it gets easier to continue and, once we continue, we can finish.
I thought this was just being lazy. But, my 16 year old daughter told me, “No, it’s the Zeigarnik Effect.”