Knowledge involves the transformation of information into capabilities for effective action. This can only be done through human understanding. The human mind can create unique connections between seemingly unrelated information to come up with breakthrough ideas, but to do this, the mind must be trained to see beyond the obvious.
Training in Creativity, thinking & learning for business & the public sector. In-house and open courses in Creative Thinking, Innovation, Mind Mapping, Speed Reading, Accelerated Learning, Study Skills & Stress Management. Certified by De Bono & Buzan www.illumine.co.uk
Roger von Oech thinks this site is one of the most comprehensive web-sites around on the subject of creativity. It is a little whacky but full of good stuff that does make you think including the creative timeline of the world. www.gocreate.com
Brainstorming, creative thinking and problem solving for business including free resources and access to Innovation Toolbox. www.infinn.com/innovationhouse.html
Michael O. Luke. The influence of increasing the amount of information, increasing the effectiveness of information mining tools and ways of organizing information to aid the cognitive process are briefly discussed. www.asis.org/midyear-96/luke1.html
A guide to creative thinking for serious people, and the eight basic heuristics of directed creativity. This is the web site for Paul Plsek & Associates in Roswell, Georgia, USA. Heuristics are a key to good higher-order thinking and knowledge creation. S www.directedcreativity.com
A resource for training and development in creativity and innovation in organizations. Has a newsletter, and some articles and essays by 'Corporate Alchemist' Linda Naiman. www.creativityatwork.com
Stimulate personal or group creativity and innovation through seminars, workshops, and creative thinking books that Roger von Oech has written. This is his company web site. www.creativethink.com
An open source project developing an integrated repository for storing arbitrary knowledge as an object model. Features a mailing list, participation, and general information on the project. www.onemodel.org
The Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge web site has long been recognized as a good resource for more practical business fare than usually found in the Harvard Business Review, which makes this section on Innovation and Change articles of particul hbswk.hbs.edu/topic.jhtml?t=innovation
What's the conversation about inside your company? Creativity and speed -- or cost cutting and risk avoidance? New ideas and new opportunities -- or the stock market and layoffs? www.fastcompany.com/ftalk/sanfran/index.html
An article by Hidetoshi Shibata in 1998 that describes creating leadership and organizational knowledge. Provides some information on how knowledge creation is key to successful management. The article is mainly about implementing good business thinking. www.mediafrontier.com/Article/implementation/implementation.htm
Our mission is to help growing businesses use creativity and technology to chart a course for the future using innovative strategies. We serve a diverse roster of clients through consulting, training, seminars and keynote speeches. www.create-it.com
A training and development company providing workshops and software around decision making, problem solving, team skills, creativity, and meeting management. www.focustools.com
Offers knowledge creation services help to accelerate corporate business development. Offers a description of services, and contact information. www.level2lab.co.uk
Discusses thinking skills, innovation, and organizational improvement. Reports current events involving thinking skills and training services. www.newiq.com
The site for any and all Cognetics or Cognetics related activities in Ohio. This site was designed to answer any questions you may have about the program. www.ohiocognetics.com
Develops world-class performers-- people who create desired results with minimal resources and who empower others with their knowledge, skills, and character to do the same. www.vitalentusa.com
Thinkshop is an innovation consulting company with Seattle and New York offices. ThinkShop consults clients on creativity, innovation, naming, strategy and training projects. www.thinkshop.com/pages/services_teambldg.html
Attempts to measure how much information is produced in the world each year by looking at media and other variables. Produced by the School of Information Management Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Charts and graphs that show comparisio www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info
A collection of personal thoughts about learning, community and social affordances for knowledge creation, by Denham Gray. Features archives. denham.typepad.com/km
The Thinking Business is an international brain training company specialising in thinking skills including creative thinking, strategic thinking, mind mapping and thinking styles profiling www.thethinkingbusiness.co.uk
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