Energisers to spice up team meetings, brainstorm sessions and workshops |
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Textbook explaining the basics of human centred design. Not specific to food innovation, but covers the principles that apply to any product development and innovation |
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A collection of TED talks on creativity |
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IFST Webinar: Unlocking your Inner Superhero, Tools and Techniques for Creativity |
IFST Food Innovation Special Interest Group (SIG) webinar: ‘Unlocking Your Inner Superhero: Tools and Techniques for Creativity‘ |
Thinkertoys A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques, by Michael Michalko, 2006 |
Compendium of creative technique for those that like to have an easy to reference guide |
A book and website (with a lot of free resources) with games that can be used to brainstorm ideas |
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Coursera Course: Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success |
A free online course, that one can take at their own pace. It will equip you with a toolbox, introducing you to a selection of behaviours and techniques that will augment your innate creativity. You can pick and choose which tools or techniques suit your needs and interests, focusing on some or all of the selected approaches, and in the order that fits best. Some tools are suitable to use on your own and others work well for a group; enabling you to leverage the power of several minds |
Nesta: Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow, A Modest Defence of Futurology |
An introduction to futurology booklet |
SessionLab: 37 Brainstorming Techniques to Unlock Team Creativity |
Finding new and innovative ideas is a vital part of the growth and success of any team or organisation, but what brainstorming technique might you use to help make true innovation a reality? Find out in this collection of 37 effective brainstorming techniques to unlock team creativity |
How to use the SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adjust, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate and Reverse) creativity technique to devise new and different ideas and thinking, based on the work of Osborn and Eberle |
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In this short, entertaining talk, writer and researcher St. John makes the case that great ideas can come from surprisingly humble beginnings. His whistlestop tour of ways to think about ideas includes insights from the likes of Virgin entrepreneur Branson, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Feynman and singer Sam Smith |
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From an educational institution specialising in digital and leadership courses who have created a free online toolkit with a lot of energisers and brainstorming techniques and activities |
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An introduction to Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), a problem solving and idea generation tool, often used by engineers |
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A practical ‘how-to’ guide illustrating the process of developing a new food product from ideation and formulation to processing and commercialization. This eBook highlights the overall process and gives instructions for each step along the way |