The document provides tips and techniques for staying innovative and future-proofing oneself, including trend watching, reading science fiction, consulting trend gurus, and leveraging exponential technologies. It recommends techniques like brainstorming, mind mapping, and meditation for generating ideas. Sources of information on trends and innovations include TED talks, MIT, and strategy publications. The overall message is the importance of constantly generating new ideas, having passion and purpose, and using technology for entrepreneurship and creative work.

1. Finding ways to be innovative and
creative
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2. Rubbish in, rubbish out
 Trend watching
 Books
 Exponential
 Guru’s
 Trends
 Techniques
 Sources
 Strategy
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3. TRENDWATCHING
 Look for changes in food, new products, trendy restaurants
 Look at the introduction of new products (failures and successes)
 Moore’s law
 VUCA
 Changes in wording
 Read science fiction
 Books
 Think changes through into their extremes!!!!

4. VUCA

5. Exponential change

6. VUCA GURUS
 Our gurus
 Richard Watson
 Ray Kurzweil
 Jason Silva
 Faith Popcorn
 Chris Anderson
 Jack Black
 Naseem Taleb
 Brian Solis
 Ken Robinson
 Seth Godin

7.  Moore’s Law
▪ ICT
▪ Social media
▪ Data
▪ Internet of things
▪ Sensors
▪ Virtual reality
▪ 3D-4D printing
▪ Nano
▪ Genetics
▪ Biology
▪ Physics
▪ Material science
▪ AI
▪ Combination of all of the above!!!

8. Techniques
 Brainstorming
 Attribute listing
 Who, what, where, when, why, how
 Mind mapping
 Random words
 Discontinuity/serendipity
 Doodle
 Dream
 Meditate
 Entrepreneurship
 XBOX

9. Keeping up
 TED
 Springwise
 Tech crunch
 Stanford
 MIT
 Singularity University
 LinkedIn
 McKinsey
 Strategy+Business
 Smartbrief
 Books 

10. STRATEGIC BOX
 Values
 Passion
 Vision
 Mission
 Positioning
 Resourcing

11. TIPS
 Bandwidth
 Constant idea generation
 Passion and purpose
 Technology as an enabler
 Story telling
 Entrepreneurship
 Create mental serendipity