Idea to Value - Creativity and Innovation with Nick Skillicorn

To read the full article with more detail about each of these five activities, including academic sources and tactics on how you can do them yourself, go to https://www.ideatovalue.com/deepcreativity/ 

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Read the full article at https://www.ideatovalue.com/inno/nickskillicorn/2019/01/why-most-innovation-and-creativity-training-are-not-designed-to-deliver-results/ to understand why most innovation and creativity trainers don't actually care about the results for your business.

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This has been something that has bothered me for all of the years I have been in this industry.

It is the difference between what counts as success for you and your business, and what counts as success for the facilitators which many companies bring in to "Do Innovation" or "Build team creativity" for a day.

Most "innovation" and "creativity" training and workshops (even the most expensive ones) don't actually produce any tangible results!

They usually fall into two types:

• Motivational "teambuilding" sessions, where a speaker will tell you how creative visionaries like Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein overcame obstacles to change the world (without giving you any advice on how you can do this in addition to your day job)
• Brainstorming sessions, where a facilitator will help you fill an entire wall with post it notes of "Great Ideas!" (but then disappear when it comes to trying to execute any of them)

In both cases, the facilitator is being judged only on their time in the room.

What happens after they leave the room, after the session is over, is "none of their business".

In my professional view, this just is not good enough.

Experts should always have the results of their clients at the heart of what they do.

That is how all of my consulting and training is structured: To actually drive change and results.

If you want to see the real issues, including all of the sources as to why this is an issue, I have written about this extensively before.

Click here to find out about why you need to be careful who you select to work with, and how important building these innovation and creativity capabilities is.

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/

* Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 * Subscribe on Stitcher to the Idea to Value Podcast: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=129437&refid=stpr

Read the full article at https://www.ideatovalue.com/inno/nickskillicorn/2019/01/why-most-innovation-and-creativity-training-are-not-designed-to-deliver-results/ to understand why most innovation and creativity trainers don't actually care about the results for your business.

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This has been something that has bothered me for all of the years I have been in this industry.

It is the difference between what counts as success for you and your business, and what counts as success for the facilitators which many companies bring in to "Do Innovation" or "Build team creativity" for a day.

Most “innovation” and “creativity” training and workshops (even the most expensive ones) don’t actually produce any tangible results!

They usually fall into two types:

• Motivational “teambuilding” sessions, where a speaker will tell you how creative visionaries like Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein overcame obstacles to change the world (without giving you any advice on how you can do this in addition to your day job) 
• Brainstorming sessions, where a facilitator will help you fill an entire wall with post it notes of “Great Ideas!” (but then disappear when it comes to trying to execute any of them)

In both cases, the facilitator is being judged only on their time in the room.

What happens after they leave the room, after the session is over, is "none of their business".

In my professional view, this just is not good enough.

Experts should always have the results of their clients at the heart of what they do.

That is how all of my consulting and training is structured: To actually drive change and results.

If you want to see the real issues, including all of the sources as to why this is an issue, I have written about this extensively before.

Click here to find out about why you need to be careful who you select to work with, and how important building these innovation and creativity capabilities is.

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/

* Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 
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Watch the video interview with Paul Jarvis at https://www.ideatovalue.com/crea/nickskillicorn/2018/11/podcast-s2e26-paul-jarvis-why-staying-small-is-the-next-big-thing-in-business/

What does running a successful business mean?

Does it mean growing revenue at 1000% annually, or raising millions of money in Venture Capital? How about having hundreds of employees and clients who are the biggest businesses in the world?

And would you rather have a business which makes you happy, or one which causes you stress?

Paul Jarvis shares his unique views from his upcoming book Company of One on how it is possible to stay small and still be a successful business which is highly profitable and makes you fulfilled.

Topics covered in today's episode:

* [01:15] - Paul's story to building a successful one-person company over the past 20 years. People didn't understand what it meant to "work for yourself"

* [03:30] - How a business can be successful without growing

* [05:00] - A study showed that companies on the INC 5000 list (of fastest growing companies) had 2/3 of them going out of business within 5-8 years, because they grew too fast

* [06:30] - The importance of defining what "enough" means to be successful

* [08:45] - The danger of ego that drives the desire for growth for the sake of looking better

* [11:15] - It is up to each of us to define what success is

* [12:30] - The link between income and happiness, up to a certain point

* [13:00] - Success to him is how he spends his day and feeling fulfilled

* [14:30] - The dangers of listening to a lot of the advice online about building a lifestyle business, working on the beach from your laptop

* [19:00] - What helps people achieve their best creative output, and preventing creative burnout

Links mentioned in the episode:

* Paul's website: https://pjrvs.com/

* His upcoming book - Company of one: https://ofone.co/

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/

* Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 * Subscribe on Stitcher to the Idea to Value Podcast: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=129437&refid=stpr

Watch the video interview with Paul Jarvis at https://www.ideatovalue.com/crea/nickskillicorn/2018/11/podcast-s2e26-paul-jarvis-why-staying-small-is-the-next-big-thing-in-business/ 

What does running a successful business mean?

Does it mean growing revenue at 1000% annually, or raising millions of money in Venture Capital? How about having hundreds of employees and clients who are the biggest businesses in the world?

And would you rather have a business which makes you happy, or one which causes you stress?

Paul Jarvis shares his unique views from his upcoming book Company of One on how it is possible to stay small and still be a successful business which is highly profitable and makes you fulfilled.

Topics covered in today's episode:

* [01:15] - Paul's story to building a successful one-person company over the past 20 years. People didn't understand what it meant to "work for yourself"

* [03:30] - How a business can be successful without growing

* [05:00] - A study showed that companies on the INC 5000 list (of fastest growing companies) had 2/3 of them going out of business within 5-8 years, because they grew too fast

* [06:30] - The importance of defining what "enough" means to be successful

* [08:45] - The danger of ego that drives the desire for growth for the sake of looking better

* [11:15] - It is up to each of us to define what success is

* [12:30] - The link between income and happiness, up to a certain point

* [13:00] - Success to him is how he spends his day and feeling fulfilled

* [14:30] - The dangers of listening to a lot of the advice online about building a lifestyle business, working on the beach from your laptop

* [19:00] - What helps people achieve their best creative output, and preventing creative burnout

Links mentioned in the episode:

* Paul's website: https://pjrvs.com/

* His upcoming book - Company of one: https://ofone.co/ 

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/ 

* Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 
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In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Nick White from Deloitte Sydney about a new innovation which has been receiving a lot of attention, called "Deloitte Assist".

Deloitte Assist is a way for patients in a hospital to ask for help using their voice, so that nurses and doctors know exactly what the patient needs before arriving at their bedside.

Historically, and still the case in most hospitals, the only way that a patient has to ask for help or attention is a button to press next to their bed.

This could be help for anything from being in pain, to having fallen and being seriously injured, to wanting something to drink or asking for the TV channel to be changed. Not all requests are as urgent as others.

Deloitte Assist was conceived after a Deloitte partner saw how his father suffered while he was in a critical condition in hospital, and asked himself if there was a better way to help both the patients and those attending to them.

The solution uses Amazon's voice recognition features built into Alexa and its Echo devices, to allow the patients to speak with the system, letting it know what they need, and alerting the relevant nurses allowing them to prioritise their work much more effectively.

The solution has already won several innovation awards, like the AMY Grand Prix (https://www.dtcollective.org.au/awards/amy-award-winners) and helping Deloitte be listed as one of Australia's most Innovative companies in 2018 (https://mostinnovative.com.au/).

Listen to the interview above to find out more about how the system was imagined, designed and implemented.

It is an excellent example of how even the largest companies can still innovate.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Deloitte Assist: https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/public-sector/solutions/dassist.html

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/

* Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 * Subscribe on Stitcher to the Idea to Value Podcast: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=129437&refid=stpr

In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Nick White from Deloitte Sydney about a new innovation which has been receiving a lot of attention, called "Deloitte Assist".

Deloitte Assist is a way for patients in a hospital to ask for help using their voice, so that nurses and doctors know exactly what the patient needs before arriving at their bedside.

Historically, and still the case in most hospitals, the only way that a patient has to ask for help or attention is a button to press next to their bed.

This could be help for anything from being in pain, to having fallen and being seriously injured, to wanting something to drink or asking for the TV channel to be changed. Not all requests are as urgent as others.

Deloitte Assist was conceived after a Deloitte partner saw how his father suffered while he was in a critical condition in hospital, and asked himself if there was a better way to help both the patients and those attending to them.

The solution uses Amazon's voice recognition features built into Alexa and its Echo devices, to allow the patients to speak with the system, letting it know what they need, and alerting the relevant nurses allowing them to prioritise their work much more effectively.

The solution has already won several innovation awards, like the AMY Grand Prix (https://www.dtcollective.org.au/awards/amy-award-winners) and helping Deloitte be listed as one of Australia's most Innovative companies in 2018 (https://mostinnovative.com.au/).

Listen to the interview above to find out more about how the system was imagined, designed and implemented.

It is an excellent example of how even the largest companies can still innovate.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Deloitte Assist: https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/public-sector/solutions/dassist.html

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/

* Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2
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In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Professor Lav Varshney from the University of Illinois about progress in the computational field of Artificial Creativity, whether there is a mathematical limit to creativity and whether a computer will ever write a symphony.

https://www.ideatovalue.com/podc/nickskillicorn/2017/10/podcast-024-prof-lav-varshney-computers-becoming-creative/

It's a fascinating episode for anyone who wants to know what separates humans from machines, as creativity can no longer be thought of as an exclusively human trait.

Topics discussed in this episode:

* How IBM's Watson team wanted to find the next artificial intelligence challenge after their win on Jeopardy, and settled on creativity (01:30)

* How they used this technology for creativity in cuisine with Chef Watson (03:30)

* How can a computer possibly be creative? Isn't that a human trait? (05:30)

* How computers are able to assess and select their own creative output (07:30)

* Is there a mathematical limit to creativity, for a combination of quality and novelty? (10:30)

* Examples of current artificial creativity: Music Generation (15:30)

* Examples of current artificial creativity: Visual Arts, engineering and physical sciences (17:30)

* What aspects of creativity do computers struggle with? (19:30)

* "The most interesting things come about when you combine human creativity with machine creativity" (21:00)

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Prof Varshney's Research Group: http://varshney.csl.illinois.edu/

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium members and the Deep Creativity training system. Sign up now to get exclusive creativity exercises every single day and take your ability to generate ideas to the next level. Use coupon code PODCAST for 25% off your first month. Find out more at https://www.ideatovalue.com/deepcreativity/

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In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Professor Lav Varshney from the University of Illinois about progress in the computational field of Artificial Creativity, whether there is a mathematical limit to creativity and whether a computer will ever write a symphony.

https://www.ideatovalue.com/podc/nickskillicorn/2017/10/podcast-024-prof-lav-varshney-computers-becoming-creative/ 

It's a fascinating episode for anyone who wants to know what separates humans from machines, as creativity can no longer be thought of as an exclusively human trait.

Topics discussed in this episode:

* How IBM's Watson team wanted to find the next artificial intelligence challenge after their win on Jeopardy, and settled on creativity (01:30)

* How they used this technology for creativity in cuisine with Chef Watson (03:30)

* How can a computer possibly be creative? Isn't that a human trait? (05:30)

* How computers are able to assess and select their own creative output (07:30)

* Is there a mathematical limit to creativity, for a combination of quality and novelty? (10:30)

* Examples of current artificial creativity: Music Generation (15:30)

* Examples of current artificial creativity: Visual Arts, engineering and physical sciences (17:30)

* What aspects of creativity do computers struggle with? (19:30)

* "The most interesting things come about when you combine human creativity with machine creativity" (21:00)

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Prof Varshney's Research Group: http://varshney.csl.illinois.edu/ 

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium members and the Deep Creativity training system. Sign up now to get exclusive creativity exercises every single day and take your ability to generate ideas to the next level. Use coupon code PODCAST for 25% off your first month. Find out more at https://www.ideatovalue.com/deepcreativity/ 

https://www.ideatovalue.com/ 

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In today's episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we talk about the Impostor Syndrome with one of the world's leading experts, Dr Valerie Young.

https://www.ideatovalue.com/podc/nickskillicorn/2017/10/podcast-023-dr-valerie-young-5-ways-people-experience-impostor-syndrome/

This is something which millions of people from all occupations suffer from but may not understand the reasons for. Here, we discuss its causes, effects, and how you can deal with it.

Topics covered in this episode:

* What the Impostor Syndrome is (03:00)

* Who it affects (04:30)

* How entrepreneurs can get over the procrastination that comes with launching a new product (06:30)

* The five different ways that people experience the Impostor Syndrome (09:00):

- The Perfectionist

- The Expert

- The Natural Genius

- The Soloist / Rugged Individualist

- Superman / Superwoman

* How each person with any of the characteristics can overcome their unique challenges (13:00)

* If you want to stop feeling like an Impostor, you need to stop thinking like an Impostor (18:00)

* Feelings are the last things to change (19:30)

* Everyone needs to continue trying to improve themselves and learn new things throughout your life and career (21:00)

Links mentioned in this episode:

* The Impostor Syndrome Website: http://impostorsyndrome.com

* Book: The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It http://amzn.to/2yAKi3W

Bonus:

This episode was made possible by our premium members and the Deep Creativity training system. Sign up now to get exclusive creativity exercises every single day and take your ability to generate ideas to the next level. Use coupon code PODCAST for 25% off your first month. Find out more at https://www.ideatovalue.com/deepcreativity/

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