Well I landed from New York this morning, and after a shower was picked up to speak on creativity at Greenwich University. I took the angle that creativity is a symptom of innovation not a cause, and that focusing on creativty programmes was a waste of time (so it was controversial). I was then returned to Heathrow airport and thence to Bilbao in the Basque Country (they have the same relationship with Spain that the Welsh have with the English so I feel at home) to speak on complexity in heath care tomorrow.
After that it's back home for a night and half a day then out to Monterey for the NDM conference to keynote and present a paper with Gary Klein and friends from Singapore. The return to the UK two days later (to run a conflict resolution workshop for two oil companies) will represent my sixth crossing of the Atlantic in three weeks. Crazy really (especially as I then head out for Singapore and Australia), but there are compensations. You meet interesting people and have great conversatins and you also discover interesting hotels. I am staying in the Gran Hotel Domine with a room that overlooks the Guggenheim museum. The whole hotel is designed by Mariscal (please look at the web site its brilliant) and Salas and every corner and reception area contains design, art and excitement.
More on health care and creativity next week, along with reflections on Route 1, the Pacific highway - I am going to drive from Los Angeles to Monterrey over a long day this Sunday, with camera and ipod. It's a trip I have never made so any tips would be appreciated
Comments (3)
The moment I read the post above "creativity is a symptom of innovation not a cause", I received an email from Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy editors, with a very interesting article on the open source model seen in Linux.
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews053107
Posted by icanpress | June 1, 2007 6:45 AM
Posted on June 1, 2007 06:45
Nick Carr is always good reading - prepared to speak the unspeakable
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June 1, 2007 6:51 AM
Posted on June 1, 2007 06:51
Dave, I'd really have liked to sit behind you during the presentation and I'd have liked to look at the audience when you presented that interesting twist - reversing entrained cause and effect assumtions. Even if I believe it's more likely either co-evolution (historic engine by re-entry) and/or a semantic problem (what do we mean when we use the words "innovation" and/or (sic! - the AND/OR/XOR issue again) "creativity").
But more personally: I believe that I have to experience something in order to really understand it. So I picked (feels like it picked me, though) an early open-source project, and I contributed whatever I am good at: some coding, and design ideas. I choose http://www.tiddlywiki.com because I was fascinated by it: it's elegant, beautiful, consistent, self-referential, simple enough, and extreme open source: one single text file in javascript : as soon as you look at http://www.tiddlywiki.com in the browser you have the full code (browser menu: view source). And it's useful: a small standalone wiki. I learned a lot during that time, both about code, and more about how it really feels when you are part of such a network/community (sic!), and about innovation and creativity.
And the good news, why this is relevant now: The originator/inventor/mastermind of TiddlyWiki (JeremyRuston) now works for BT as head of open source innovation. http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/1e9a2b703fad7eda/a2d35d35bc26f6ae?#a2d35d35bc26f6ae
So: there is some hope for BT. I hope that Jeremy will not meet Dogbert@BT too soon.
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June 1, 2007 9:17 AM
Posted on June 1, 2007 09:17