Beyond Creativity

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun - Improving your creativity

How to change your life? How to improve your creativity?

I have been counselling young adults who have had some obstacles in their life and in their creativity.  Occasionally, I have wished that I could show them something inspiring that makes them think about their lives from different perspective.

In that sense, I really like the video "The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun".

This video-animation looks psychedelic and simple, but it is based on results of creativity research!
If you want to know more about the personality of creative people: check my booklist below: books by Alane Starko and Mihaly Csikszenmihalyi. Additionally, look at the research done by Donald MacKinnon in the 60's and 70's.

Note: The Flash-movie starts immediately when you click the link.

(Acknowledgements: Thanks to Joyce Wycoff and her wonderful blog for great insights :-)

EURAM Paris + Service Innovation Berkeley - Conference papers

Following joint-venture papers got accepted:

Ahonen, M., Antikainen, M., & Mäkipää, M. (Forthcoming). Supporting Collective Creativity within Open Innovation. European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference. Open Innovation Track. Paris

Ahonen, M. & Lietsala, K. (Forthcoming). Managing Service Ideas and Suggestions – Information Systems in Innovation Brokering. Tekes- Haas Conference on Service Innovation. Berkeley, CA.

I am so glad :-)

So, I will be visiting Berkeley/CA, Davis/CA and Murray,KY in April and Paris in May.

If these papers interest you, please, let me know and I can send you a draft.