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As the waves of COVID-19 come and go during the pandemic, we've shifted back and forth between working from home (WFH) and going back to working and doing things in essentially unconstrained ways. Likewise, teachers, professors, and corporate trainers had…

Creativity Innovation Method X-IDEA

How to create whopping ideas quickly with word play

Detlef ReisJuly 1, 2021

“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look for things in different ways,” noted Edward de Bono, one of the pioneers in the creativity domain. One of my favorite ways to break out of expected patterns and…

Innovation Innovation Method X-IDEA

How human capital can empower the innovation economy (Part 2)

Detlef ReisApril 22, 2021

In part 1 of this two-article-episode, I made the point that all meaningful innovations that drive the prosperity of individuals, companies, and economies alike in the innovation economy start with the ideas and the actions of “human assets.” Hence, the…

Innovation Innovation Method X-IDEA

How human capital can empower the innovation economy (Part 1)

Detlef ReisApril 8, 2021

In an earlier article titled How people management evolved over time (published on February 11, 2021), I explored how people management has changed in lockstep with humanity’s economic evolution from a hunter and gatherer society over the agricultural age and…

Innovation Innovation Method X-IDEA

How to successfully run a customer experience design project online

Detlef ReisMarch 25, 2021

Planning, organizing, and running an innovation project is an elaborate affair where many things can go wrong. However, in times of a global pandemic, matters are further complicated because we need to think, act, communicate, and collaborate in new ways.…

Fake news is dangerous and makes you blind for the truth

Business Innovation Method X-IDEA

How to avoid falling for fake news

Detlef ReisMay 21, 2020

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it,” noted the French mathematician, physicist, and inventor Blaise Pascal. We are living in an era of COVID-19 and of…

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