What if your most creative people got together for three days to design solutions to your biggest challenges?

Sometimes ideas strike when you least expect them. Sometimes you seek them out in solitary contemplation. Sometimes you organize a team hunt.

Sometimes you go for a super event like a Corporate Innovation Camp.

Together with Paul Sloane of Destination-Innovation we have experience in designing and facilitating Corporate Innovation Camps.

For more information contact me by email at dimis@performa.net

What drives innovation in organizations? Many things, including Energy and Method.
Energy is the personal resources we devote to our issue. Energy is a function of determination – the will to search for creative solutions – and time. Energy is highly personal. It depends upon individuals’ priorities in work and in life and varies greatly from person [...]

Trouble with Brainstorming
This is the third in a series of four blog posts in which we discuss how to generate breakthrough ideas in an organized context.
Remember that brainstorming is a team technique for idea generation. In the previous articles we went back to the original principles of brainstorming and considered how the norms of divergent [...]

I participated with a keynote and a workshop in this wonderful conference in the Netherlands March 1-3, 2011.
Organized by the School of the Future of King William I College and the  European Foundation for Online and Digital Learning at the School’s premises in Hertogenbosch, this conference featured a number of speakers on learning in the [...]

The Beauty of Brainstorming
In this series of blog posts we discuss how to generate breakthrough ideas in an organized context.
In the previous blog post we went back to the original principles of brainstorming and argued that brainstorming should be practiced within the context of the stages of creative problem solving – ie preceded by challenge [...]

We have all brainstormed and this has been a successful or frustrating experience. This blog post takes us back to the original principles of brainstorming and how to do it “right”

How might we make workshops most effective? Many factors are at play here. I believe that the impact of a workshop is well expressed by the equation below:
OL = f { P, M, O, C, S, F, A }
In other words Organizational Learning (OL) is a function of the Participants (P), the Management (M), the [...]

“It was a great training course…..all about dealing with change. But I’m afraid that when we get back to the office nothing will really change.”
Sounds familiar?
“My manager doesn’t believe in training.”
Also familiar?
“We want to improve their presentation skills, their salesmanship, their inter-personal communication competencies and communication in general in the department and we also want [...]

A tribal gathering, a ceremony, a ritual, a human sacrifice,
a happening, a mobile sculpture, an interactive installation,
a show, a performance, a comedy, a tragedy,
a stage for subversion, provocation, simulation, transformation,
a commune, a collective, a kibbutz, a souk, a bazaar,
a knowledge production line, a competency distribution center, a key skills sales counter.
A privileged time and space for [...]