Everyone can be a change maker

I posted on the 5th May about the collaboration of Guinness with Social Entrepreneurs Ireland .www.socialentrepreneurs.ie You may also have seen recent billboards around Dublin declaring that Everyone can be a change maker.
This is the tagline of Ashoka www.ashoka.org a global non-profit organization of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs focused on implementing solutions to the [...]

Creative Geniuses?

A landmark survey indicated that young children are amazingly creative; by the time they are adults this natural innate creativity is almost gone. How can we take some of that innate creativity and playfulness of the child’s world back to the adult world to elegantly uncover innovative solutions to challenges?

OBJECTIFIED: A documentary by Gary Hustwit

Last minute tickets meant we got to see the Irish screening of Gary Hustwit’s Objectified documentary film in the IFI, Dublin on the 2nd June. Screened as part of the IFI’s Stranger than Fiction festival James Kelly, artistic director of the festival introduced the film and director, Gary Hustwit, spoke briefly about his reasons for [...]

Creative Brainstorming

Photo of Brainstorming at IDEO (www.ideo.com)
Innovation in products, services and business models is cited as the only way out of the recession. Within organisations, innovating how we come up with new ideas to existing problems (or opportunities and challenges) can produce great results and ultimately create competitive advantage.
Applying the elements of creative brainstorming set out [...]