1000Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Innovation

Rocking Your Next Brainstorming Session!

I am sure that at some point in your career, you have been either invited to or hosted a brainstorming session to come up ideas. Ideas to either solve a specific problem or to create a new product or service or for something else altogether.  Most brainstorming sessions don’t work. They either don’t get the creative ideas that you expect to come up with or nothing happens after the brainstorming, which leads to a feeling of fun but wasted time. But it need not be like that. I’ve hosted more than 200 brainstorming sessions and what I have learnt is that these […]

Personal Growth

Imagination – Our Greatest Strength and our Greatest Weakness

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Ideas

Coming to a Concert Hall Near You, The next music superstar – AIVA, Artificial Intelligence

I watched this TED video where Pierre Barreau presents music that was created by an artificial intelligence called AIVA and was blown away. He and his team were able to feed into an algorithm a whole array of music which then was analysed by a neural network and the application is now able to compose original music based on input criteria. It decides what note should come after a specific note when we are looking for a certain kind of effect the music should create in a listener.  Watch his TED Talk here. After watching his TED talk, I went ahead […]

Innovation

4 Pathways to Innovation

I was facilitating a group of senior leaders who were tasked with leading the innovation effort in their respective organization and started the facilitation with the simple yet profound question – “How do you define innovation?”. The best answer I’ve so far received to this question is the following: “Innovation is applied problem solving leading to generation of value.” The next question to ask then is the following: “Which problems are worth solving and where do we find them?” This is the first step in the innovation process. If we don’t pick the right problems, no matter how interesting our […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Strategy

Personal Data Replaces Cash at this Cafe

Shiru café looks like any other coffee shop. But the similarities end there. If you were to go to the café for some hard earned caffeine, the chances are that you will be refused your caffeine unless you are either a student or a teaching staff at a university. Simply put, no college ID >> No coffee. What’s more, if you are a part of the teaching staff, you can pay for your coffee with cash. However, if you are a student then to get your cup of coffee (or tea), the currency that you need to pay with is […]