Category: Innovation

Two weeks ago, while teaching my course in Business Innovation, one of my graduate students at Bangkok University’s Master in Business Innovation (MBI) program asked me an interesting question: “What if an innovative technology has the potential also to cause harm…

Business Creativity Innovation

Why creativity matters for 21st-century business success

Detlef ReisApril 7, 2022

In 2010, IBM’s Global CEO study surprisingly revealed that 60% of the surveyed global CEOs considered creativity the most critical leadership trait to succeed in the early 21st century. Interestingly, numerous comparatively recent studies echo this view with regards to…

Business Innovation X-IDEA

How to best work your way into a new topic (Part 2)

Detlef ReisMarch 10, 2022

“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists,” noted the American moral and social philosopher. Eric Hoffer. As myriad new technologies and concepts make…

Business Innovation X-IDEA

How to best work your way into a new topic (Part 1)

Detlef ReisFebruary 24, 2022

As we enter the Sixth Wave of disruptive technological innovation, we will all come sooner or later into contact with confusing new topic fields often summed up by a hot buzzword or abbreviation. In recent weeks, I started several projects…

Business Creativity Innovation

Values: This is how we do it

Detlef ReisJanuary 13, 2022

Over the past months, I have worked with a team of collaborators to update the strategic core of Thinkergy to better align this to the fundamental changes of the business environment following the ongoing global pandemic and the advent of…

Creativity Innovation Innovation Method

Turn your challenge on its head to create fresh ideas

Detlef ReisDecember 16, 2021

“That which opposes produces a benefit,” noted the cryptic Greek philosopher Heraclitus. He’s right. Sometimes, thinking of the opposite of what you want to achieve can be a winning approach to getting fresh ideas. It’s the underlying principle of a…

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