Category: Creativity

Over the past months, I have worked with a team of collaborators to update the strategic core of Thinkergy to better align this to the fundamental changes of the business environment following the ongoing global pandemic and the advent of…

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Turn your challenge on its head to create fresh ideas

Detlef ReisDecember 16, 2021

“That which opposes produces a benefit,” noted the cryptic Greek philosopher Heraclitus. He’s right. Sometimes, thinking of the opposite of what you want to achieve can be a winning approach to getting fresh ideas. It’s the underlying principle of a…

Business Creativity Innovation

Learn about long waves to better ride the next one (Part 3)

Detlef ReisDecember 2, 2021

In the first two parts of this three-article series, I introduced you to the concept of long waves. Also known as Kontratiev-waves, these are long economic cycles ignited by a series of disruptive innovations based on a few new leading-edge…

Business Creativity Innovation

Learn about long waves to better ride the next one (Part 2)

Detlef ReisNovember 18, 2021

What will be the up-and-coming hot technologies to drive our economies and prosperity in the coming 2-3 decades? In part 1 of this three-article series, I introduced you to long waves, which are long economic cycles ignited by disruptive innovations…

Business Creativity Innovation

Learn about long waves to better ride the next one (Part 1)

Detlef ReisNovember 4, 2021

Currently, most business leaders, policy-makers, and investors focus mainly on how to best deal with the COVID-19 crisis and its economic repercussions. Perhaps these current problems are your main concerns these days, too. Such a narrow focus on short-term crisis…

Creativity Innovation Method X-IDEA

Fill in the boxes to think out of the box

Detlef ReisOctober 14, 2021

“I feel that I have finally found the philosopher’s stone,” the US-based Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky once said. Zwicky created the concept of morphological thinking, which indeed allows us to play with the elements related to an innovation challenge we’re…

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