Amantha Imber
Thanks for your email: Why you need to shake-up your out-of-office message immediately
Most ‘out-of-office’ auto-responders are a good remedy for insomnia. They read something along the lines of:
‘I am travelling for work un…
Conventional wisdom is killing your team’s creativity — but it doesn’t have to
Are you working in a hyper-connected team that is constantly pinging each other on Slack or Google chat?
When you get together for a ‘…
Three innovation hacks from leading Australian companies
While no one really questions whether innovation is a critical ingredient for success, the question of “how to innovate” tends to be a c…
Adapt or die: The business case for innovation
A few months ago, a senior HR person called up Inventium’s office asking to find out more about how we could help his organisation, a hous…
Is your messy desk making you more innovative?
During almost every Innovation Lab training session that we run, when we come to the topic of how our physical environment impacts innovatio…
Have you got a crush on your idea?
So much focus in any innovation process gets placed on the idea, and a really common problem we find is that organisations fall in love with…
Why 20% me-time failed for Google and what you can learn from it
You might have heard in the past week about Google’s 20% time actually being more like 120% time – meaning the very well-publicised Goog…
The brain region that makes ideas go viral
Ever wondered what makes some ideas spread, and others fall flat? Some researchers at UCLA recently made a big breakthrough in understanding…
Got a tricky problem to solve? Head to a coffee shop
The next time you have a challenging problem to solve, fight the impulse to either stay seated at your desk, or to book a dull, grey-walled …
The importance of ‘mental contrasting’ on innovation
There has been so much written about the power of positive thinking in the last few years, with motivation gurus telling us to visualise or …
