How Innovation Works

Innovation is the bedrock of our economy, and we need to foster it in businesses and schools. But how does innovation work? And how can we make our businesses, factories and schools more conducive to creating innovative products and services? Min is one of two experts in creative thinking we talked to about the issue.
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Maverick People Are Often Fired

A friend of ours recently sent in a link to an interview with Dr. Geoffrey West he thought we would find interesting. He was right, we did, and now we’re sharing it with you in the hopes that you find it interesting too!  Read More >

How Do You Create a Hot Team?

A "hot team" is much more than a sports team on a winning streak. Teams that are hot produce tangible results time and time again. They exceed expectations. Read more >

Where Are the Generators?

Problem generating does not come easily to many people. People tend to wait for others to find problems for them to solve rather than take the initiative to seek out, or anticipate problems, changes, trends and opportunities for improvement or innovation. Read more >

Challenging Times: What’s Your Best Bet?

By Lorraine Weygman, M. Ed., CHRP


Now that global economies are going through tough times again and may get tougher before the pain stops, fear and its resulting knee-jerk reactions are counterproductive. Read more >

Group Think Is Not What You Think It Is

Interview on Collaborative Innovation with Min Basadur and Sam Malatesta, Founder, Malatesta Capital Corp., moderated by Paul Almas. Read more >

Applying Creativity to Drive Innovation During Recessionary Times

A conversation with Min Basadur delving into these two predominant and seemingly paradoxical ideas. Read more >

The Power of Collaborative Innovation

By Paul Almas, Vice president, Design and Development, Basadur Applied Creativity Inc.
Try to think of another word that is as frequently used in today's media as the word, "Change." Not only is it front and centre on the World Wide Web, our television programs and our newspapers, the Democrats used "change" as the centerpiece of their winning election strategy. Read more >

Perception – the Fuzzy Situation, then the Facts (Accurate Problem Identification)

By Paul Almas, Vice president, Design and Development, Basadur Applied Creativity Inc.
Highlighting the importance that a problem solving process must identify real problems, not perceived ones - that Canada has a innovation shortfall and to embrace this as a fact is the first step towards innovating creative problem solving remedies. Read more >

Hospital Wait Times Reduced With SIMPLEXITY THINKING

Hospital wait times are problem issues and the focus of numerous studies. It has now become a political nightmare with enough visibility to attract renewed provincial and federal funding. This may not be a matter of making further dollar investments in equipment. Increasingly the issue is around the performance of the processes leading up to treatment. Read more >

Research Notes from a World-Class CEO Round-Table on Leadership

The successful leaders of the 21 st century will be those who can lead their organization and teams to make driving valuable change a standard way of life. Read more >

The Key to Innovation is Problem Definition

History’s greatest inventors - from Thomas Edison to Polaroid camera inventor Edwin Land - were brilliant at discovering problems that people didn’t even know they had. Read more >

Comprendre le problème pour imaginer la meilleure solution

Les grands inventeurs se sont révélé être des visionnaires, anticipant des besoins avant même qu’ils ne se fassent sentir. Lire plus >