The Innovation Show

EP 64: Innovation through Thinking Sideways


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What ways could people have escaped from the Titanic? How can we unlock talent in gifted people who are framed as less? We explore how we can be fixed in our mindsets and how there are techniques to unlock their thinking.
We discuss a new kind of school and approach with Eagle Hill School.
We discuss how AI and humanity can co-operate for even better results than working separately.
We talk to "Captain Sideways" a.k.a. Dr. Tony McCaffrey, CTO, Innovation Accelerator, Inc. and Director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Eagle Hill School.
Harvard Business Review magazine article: Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It
https://hbr.org/2015/12/find-innovation-where-you-least-expect-it
Harvard Business Review video on BrainSwarming:
https://hbr.org/video/3373616535001/brainswarming-because-brainstorming-doesnt-work
Harvard Business Review blog: Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us
https://hbr.org/2012/05/overcoming-functional-fixednes
Company: Innovation Accelerator, Inc.
https://www.innovationaccelerator.com/
BrainSwarming Software:
https://brainswarming.io/
Video of a Solution to Reducing Concussions in American Football Players:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ERssjWAI2s
Captain Sideways comic strip.
The Captain teaches youth how to be more innovative by looking at things from unusual perspectives (i.e., sideways).
https://sidewaysdiary.weebly.com/blog/1st-comic-strip
Link to paper mathematically proving that there is a limit to how innovative a computer can be.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0890060416000524
Here is a brief summary of the proof on Axios.com.
https://www.axios.com/theres-a-limit-to-computer-creativity-2427178561.html
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