Vern Burkhardt - Articles

Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking

An Interview with Tim Hurson, author of Think Better Read

By: Vern Burkhardt | 21/03/2009 | Business

The Art Of Creative Thinking: How To Be Innovative And Develop Great Ideas

An Interview with Dr. John Adair, author of The Art of Creative Thinking Read

By: Vern Burkhardt | 02/03/2009 | Business

Group Genius: Everyone Can be More Creative - But not Alone

In his book Group Genius, Dr. Keith Sawyer asserts that creativity is always collaborative. The lone genius of inventions is a myth, and he backs up this point with examples such as television, email, game of Monopoly, mountain bike, ATM, the airplane, quantum physics and psychoanalysis. It is group genius that generates breakthrough innovation. Read

By: Vern Burkhardt | 09/01/2009 | Business

The Most Productive Engines of Creativity

Peter A. Gloor has coined the term COIN, which is an abbreviation for Collaborative Innovation Networks. A COIN, according to Dr. Gloor, is "a cyberteam of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by the Web to collaborate in achieving a common goal by sharing ideas, information and work". The Internet permits these participants to develop and disseminate creative ideas to anybody across the globe almost instantaneously, and at minimal cost per transaction. This is the underpin Read

By: Vern Burkhardt | 07/01/2009 | Corporate