April 2, 2009 at 9:14 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Since the apartheid-wall between Israel and Palestina is soo conflicting with our ThinkTankThursday approach, we have made a statement.
Grafity on apartheids-wall
At www.sendamessage.nl we donated €30 to a charity foundation to fund small social, cultural and educational projects in Ramallah. For this donation Palestinians have written our statement on the apartheids-wall.
Without any further political aspirations or choosing any of both sides, we made the statement to put the heads together by the gravity-written text “How to solve this? Put the heads together @ ThinkTankThursday! www.ideavents.com”.
The result: our statement
We just want both parties to put their heads together and challenge themselves to find solutions, because we know there will be…
And please don’t stand aside. Share your opinion, share your thoughts and propose your possible solutions! Share it in your comments below or make your own statement on the wall: www.sendamessage.nl.
April 9, 2009 at 6:35 am · Filed under Uncategorized
ThinkTankThursday demonstrates time after time that innovation is about experience and accessibility!
Once you’ve joined a ThinkTankThursday –which makes it extremely easy to inspire each other– you’re convinced about the added value of participating in our ThinkTankThursday initiative!
Our approach? Just go sit together, involve outsiders and discuss your challenges together! Offline, online, or both!
ThinkTankThursdays always result in a mix of (apparently) obvious ideas and complex, specialized solutions. Diverse and always interesting to experience other (unexpected) points of view from ‘outsiders’!
You should try it yourself! Just organize one in your own area (or participate as outsider).
It’s not difficult: just put the heads together (including some outsiders) and start sharing your challenges. It’s easy and extremely cheap (free) to organize (or participate in) an inspiring ThinkTankThursday. It will fit in a one hour meeting and at www.thinktankthursday.com you will find the materials you need (for free!).
Remember: there’s always a need for knowledge & creativity sharing!
Our ThinkTankThursday LinkedIn Group is growing fast! 100 members in only two weeks shows there’s a need to simplify innovation. Thanks to the great initiatives of our members (like below) we will fill that gap!
Take for example Roger Richardson who challenges you to come up with your problems. He will generate innovative ideas (with an ease, like it’s water out of a tap!)
What problem did you observe today?
Observation is the key. While doing todays activity identify some thing that took to long to accomplish. Watch all around. Many times we ignore problems since we know a way to work around them. Those problems are waiting for a solution. What did you see?
(Roger Richardson)
Today, besides some serious brainstorming, an interesting discussion elaborated on how to prevent your teabag paper to drop into the hot water. Very important discussion…
Erik Vos started this brainstorm by sharing his ‘frustration’:
Hey Roger, I totally support your apprach. Identifying a problem is the start of a solution. I love problems and see them as challenges. Its intersting too think about innovations and to helping people with their problems and support processes. I have a tiny little problem every day. The teabagpart which has to hang out of the teacup is dropping into my teacup. Paper in hot water. It doenst belong there. Why havent they thought about a small vertical open space where you can put the thread of the teabag?
A whole discussion existed, thanks to input from Roger Richardson, Joris Scheepers, Rui Costa, and others.
The (final) result?
Roger and Others! My proposed solution for the teacup problem: Could the solution be on an “external element” that is not part of the initial equation? please check my proposed solution at this my clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qN1OQ8l6zQ - we should see something were others see nothing -
p.s. I’m sure that the big hands of Erik can even handle this approach…
Rui Costa even uploaded his solution to Youtube (+special thanks to all of us!):
We believe the fun factor is also important during innovation. It challenges you to think outside your frame of reference!
