Innovation Upturn

Bill Gates recently said, “We are in an economic downturn but an innovation upturn.” Most people are focusing on the downturn and the dangers it poses rather than on the opportunity for innovation. Most businesses are restructuring, streamlining their operations, reducing headcount, cutting budgets and re-forecasting.

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Tourism ‘Hooks’

Edward de Bono Message

Pisa is known for the ‘leaning tower’. Sam Gimignano is known for its many towers. Luca and Volterra are not known because there is no simple ‘hook’. A ‘hook’ is something that sticks in people’s minds. Read more

Need ideas? Paint a bull…

The EU recently announced an exciting initiative for 2009 – the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. To discuss how this will benefit businesses in the EU, the heads of Dr Edward de Bono’s Distributor network in Europe, and Dr de Bono himself, met in Holland last week.

Using creativity techniques we generated a number of implementable ideas and a series of events featuring Dr de Bono across Europe in 2009 . We are looking forward to announcing these in the coming months. Read more

How to take command of your staff turnover

 

There are two ways to think about the training and development of your staff.

1. If you train them they might leave – worrying
2. If you do not train them they might stay - even more worrying Read more

‘Creative Possibilities’

Edward de Bono’s Message

The UN and individual countries can never talk in terms of ‘creative possibilities’. Every utterance has to be in terms of a ‘decided position’. This is because there is a responsibility to the electorate and also the position is going to be judged as ‘definite’ anyway. Read more

Television

Edward de Bono’s Message

A great deal of television is really ‘radio with pictures’. The visual possibilities of television have not really been explored. Read more

One on One meets one of the world’s greatest creative thinkers

Dr Edward de Bono

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Creating New Ideas at the Creativity Laboratory

Researchers, Directors and Producers from Channel 4 were trained in a number of Dr. Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking Techniques. The sessions could hardly be more relevant to their work. The techniques are now an integral part of the way the researchers approach their work and have already yielded results.

Biggest benefits so far include: Read more