The Cool Curve at London Social Media Cafe

The Cool Curve @ London SMC

The problem "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill "A problem cannot be solved by the same thinking that created it." - Albert Einstein

Shift Happens!

Karl Fisch, Arapahoe High School, Littleton, Colorado

In the next 8 seconds 34 babies will be born

5 in India, 4 in China, 1 in US, not even 1 here

College graduates in 2006 - 3.1m in India, 3.3m in China, 1.3m in US, less here

Which country is richest, largest military, centre of world business, strongest education system, best standard of living

The Perfect Storm

The World is flat

Information Age part 1 - The Internet

Information Age part 2 – Web 2.0, user generated content, group forming networks

Climate Change

Education is all wrong, the system is broken

About creativity "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso Van Gogh vs Picasso

The Cool Curve

So What Works?

Size

Flex

Agility

Movement

SleepyDog Thinking Tools

SleepyDog Tools

Size

Flex

Agility

Movement

Provocation Techniques

Personae or Cast of Characters

Prospecting Model

Thinking Styles

Practice Makes Permanent Proper Practice Makes Perfect

Prospecting

Ideas 2.0

Designed for hackability

Small ideas, loosely joined

Innovation in Assembly

Creativity as a Service (CraaS)

Footprints in the Snow

The Cool Curve at London Social Media Cafe

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