When I was a teaching assistant for my advisor (Dr. Thomas B. Ward), I had the pleasure of experiencing his Cognitive Psychology class lectures. One of my favorite lectures (not surprisingly) was his lecture on Creativity. In this lecture, he discussed three different approaches to the study of creativity: The “Classical” view, the “Romantic” [...]
This is an interesting post on using an analogy to obtain business insight:
http://swni.typepad.com/dispatches/2007/09/a-high-rate-of-.html
Without doubt, in the annals of human history, the invention of a new system of writing is definitively an example of radical innovation. There is an interesting story of how the Chinese writing system, consisting of square pictograms, were invented more than four thousand years ago. It was arguably the first historically-recorded example of bio-mimicry that resulted in [...]
In PC Magazine (Vol 26, No.16) I came across an interesting analogy between the computer industry and the automobile industry.
Written by John Dvorak, he had the following to say:
“The computer industry is often compared with the automobile industry, but it has missed the entire “concept car” idea. Every so often one company or another will [...]