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Find the Duct Tape and Keep the Wine Glasses
Boxes, boxes and more boxes! After my recent move, I just might be an expert at parsing, purging and packing. Other than a ridiculous number of wine glasses (I could throw a SERIOUS party!), my new home has a lot less clutter. Since moving is on my mind, I decided to...
Do you need to be face-to-face to collaborate?
Meaningful Collaboration => Creativity and Innovation In the recent quest to maximize collaboration, many large companies eliminated telecommuting and trashed flex schedules. These policy shifts may provide small creativity boosts, but large companies still have...
Boring Meetings?
Are your project meetings boring and ineffective? What do you see in your meeting room: heads resting on hands or arms, eyes on phones or laptops, people coming in late or leaving early, blank stares when you ask questions, hands paging forward through documents? What...
Multitasking kills creativity and collaboration
How many tasks can you handle at one time, successfully? The truth, based on research, ONE. Yep, that's it. Our brains are not meant to do more than one mental task at a time. But wait, I can participate in a conference call while checking e-mails, updating project...
Think Like a Globetrotter
Take a look at the picture. If I told you to shoot a basket or block a shot, would this be your perspective? Probably not. Creativity is the key to innovation. How do we flip, twist, rotate, deconstruct, reconstruct, integrate to improve our products and processes?...
Boost your brainstorming skills, inspire creativity!
Brainstorming is the key to creativity, but why do some people dread brainstorming sessions? Every few months I come across an article that claims brainstorming is a pointless, waste of time. But if you read the articles, they are really saying that brainstorming done...
Stakeholders: 5 Ways to Get Their Attention
Imagine a typical project meeting in your organization. Does everyone arrive/login on time? Does everyone stay for the entire meeting? Does everyone ignore incoming calls and e-mails? Does everyone participate, interact, and share ideas? Does everyone stay awake? If...
Create a culture of innovation
"Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - Jimmy Carter At BA-Squared, we think stakeholder engagement is the key to creativity, collaboration and innovation. If your stakeholders are too busy, distracted, apathetic or bored, then status quo will rule your...
2013 Innovation Trends
In December, we get bombarded by year-end lists--the best albums, movies, books, TV shows of 2013. We love trends. We want to know what's popular. We want to evaluate the lists...agree or disagree with the rankings. So, I am jumping on the "year-end list" bandwagon!...
Is rework the key to innovation?
Success and failure: are they really two separate paths? Most of us have heard the rumor that failure is being redefined. Failure might not be bad. It's even possible, maybe probable, that failure might teach us valuable lessons. If we learn those lessons quickly,...