We are back from the very exciting and informative two-day http://www.cocastl.org/subpage.cfm?vSection=cocabiz&vPage=bizcamp hosted by St. Louis’ own COCA (Center of Creative Arts). We learned a lot and will share our insights with you on this blog over the coming weeks, but first I wanted to share the contents of the box that I won from Monday’s [...]
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Follow Us From #COCAbiz
On Monday and Tuesday, I will be live tweeting from COCAbiz’s Business Creativity Conference 2011 “Play @ Work.” COCAbiz is the newly formed business training division of St. Louis’ Center of Creative Arts (COCA). Its mission is “to build a more creative, engaged and effective workforce by delivering innovative classes, workshops and events that pair [...]
Introducing FH InvisionateSM: Engaging with Your Key Stakeholders
Since its inception more than five years ago, FH Innovation has been dedicated to helping our clients deliver the greatest possible value to their stakeholders, always. Today, in honor of World Creativity and Innovation Week, we’re pleased to introduce our latest tool for developing more creative and differentiated thinking: FH InvisionateSM, which helps our clients [...]
The Multidisciplinary Mind
Over the years, countless studies detailing different methods for increasing brain function have been released. Unfortunately, said Sharon Begley in a recent Newsweek article, many of these studies are wrong. “A 2010 evaluation of purported ways to maintain or improve cognitive function, conducted for the National Institutes of Health, shows how many of the claims [...]
An Interview with the Most Creative Person in Canada
Last week we announced that our colleague Steve Coppola at High Road Communications (a Fleishman-Hillard sister agency) in Ottawa had been named the most creative person in Canada by Marketing magazine in its annual Great Canadian Creative Faceoff of 2010. I had the pleasure of talking with Steve this morning about what this honor means [...]
Congrats to Steve Coppola, Marketing’s Most Creative Canadian!
We are pleased to congratulate our Innovation teammate Steve Coppola who won Marketing Magazine’s Great Canadian Creative Faceoff of 2010 in November! According to the call for nominations, the Faceoff is a “search for the cream of Canada’s creative crop, from across all sectors of our industry-agency, marketer, media, PR.” A “creative force to be [...]
Tips and Tools for Creating Innovation
An article in this week’s PR News, called “Ideation Creation: Culture and Clarity Keys to Driving Big Ideas,” describes some major challenges organizations face when trying to innovate. According to the article, “the generation of ideas often suffers from a lack of clarity around the problem definition; a lack of specific customer knowledge; and a [...]
Chance Favors the Connected Mind
In his latest book, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” author Steven Johnson explores not only the “Eureka!” moment in idea generation, but also the path people take to get there. In fact, he says that in all the history of great ideas, very few have come from a singular moment in time. Rather, they develop [...]
Five Years After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is an Entrepreneurial Hub
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Five years later, many residents are still living in trailers, while some, who evacuated, still haven’t returned home. VOANews.com reports that in New Orleans “a total of about 50,00 residential properties are still either uninhabitable or empty lots.” Still, it appears, there’s hope in the [...]
Is America in Decline? Newsweek Says “Don’t Despair.”
Having followed America’s competitiveness for some time now, I was particularly excited to receive last week’s Newsweek featuring its first-ever Best Countries issue. Like other studies before it, the Newsweek study found that the United States is slipping. The United States ranked 11th. But, unlike the other studies, Newsweek found a glimmer of hope for [...]