Snappy Summaries
Summaries can take a variety of forms; trailers, news headlines, executive summaries, tweets, and advertising slogans. In this article, we look at a few simple structures for articulating your ideas. …
Course: Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise
Introducing the worst inventor in history
This week you have been working hard to identify, structure and categorise problems. In the previous activities you started to explore what can happen when you add solutions to complex …
Criteria Setting
When evaluating ideas, one potential methodology is to identify a number of criteria to select against. By assessing idea performance against the desired criteria, you can make a selection based …
Forms of innovation
We’ve been thinking about luck quite broadly this week, but let’s turn that back to thinking about creating lucky innovations. Before we think about how do that that practically, it’s …
Anticipating the possibilities for the future
Many of the most innovative breakthroughs in history did not appear to be breakthroughs at the time. Many appeared frivolous and silly, many were of little impact until circumstances changed …
Innovation and Enterprise: How to Address Complex Problems
The problems we face, individually or collectively, can be so complex that knowing how to even start to address them can be challenging. In many cases there is no single …
Serendipitous Innovation
Some innovation is absolutely the outcome of dedicated and determined work to find answers to a problem, but some innovation is just as clearly ‘a bit lucky’. This category includes …
An introduction to creative habits
What do people do to unleash their creativity? If some people seem more able to tap into their creative thoughts than others, how are they doing so? There is a …
Describing your problem formally
In some situations, often after first exploring a problem with an informal technique, it might be necessary to implement a more formal one. These are formal in the sense that …
Further learning
We hope you are enjoying the course and have started thinking about what your skills and passions are, and how you can use those to drive you and your ideas …
Further learning
Well done on reaching the end of the course! Are you feeling inspired to continue being innovative and enterprising, to learn more about the practice of Innovation, and to work …
A few words on ‘failure’
Throughout this course you may have spotted a recurring feature – the central role of accidents, mistakes, and failure. Right back in Week 1, amongst our review of historic innovators …
Our case studies on their own ‘failures’
As we just heard, failure is often a useful part of the innovative process: even a strategy you can use to your advantage! Throughout this course, we’ve heard from our …
Influencing people
Being influential can be difficult, especially if you aren’t used to being persuasive. In this video, Dave and Hélène explore the idea of being persuasive and influential. After watching, consider …
How did our case studies use the lean startup method?
In this video, we hear from different people in different job roles talking about how they tested their ideas. While you’re watching, listen out for the answers to the questions …
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Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise
Everything you need to know about blended learning
We take a closer look at blended learning, exploring what it is, the different models, …
What is imposter syndrome, and how can you deal with it?
Most people have experienced feeling like an imposter at some point in their lives, so …
Gratitude and happiness: the importance of being grateful
Discover how the simple practise of gratitude can bring a host of different benefits to …
What does sustainability mean?
Sustainability is a hot topic right now. But what does it really mean, and which …
