Ludwick Marishane's innovation demonstrates that ideas thrive when there is access to technology and a community that supports them. Learn more about his global breaththrough here.

We're constantly told that everybody has the ability to be creative. When looking for innovative approaches to business problem solving approaches tend to have two distinct halves: Stimulating creativity and Addressing the issue. The creativity stimulated in part one does not alway get carried into part two. So, what can we do to assure that there's no creativity chasm between the two elements?

There’s a lot of negativity around us. But it’s not upfront, unadulterated negativity; it’s behind-the-scenes, hunkering, almost translucent negativity. And it’s divisive.

What is a creative idea? A mystical gift from your God? The discovery of something new? A profound insight of almost spiritual proportions? An irritant to rational thinking? A creative idea can be any of these things.

I have the privilege of visiting many countries in my work and this has given me some insights into how countries deal differently with innovation and entrepreneurship. It also makes me wonder what really drives prosperity and the role innovation has on this.

It’s very hard to win – in football and in business. Here are three reasons why.

My article expands on Boyd’s concept of creativity driven by rejection and adds three new approaches to innovation that could be enhanced through negative thinking. The combination of these negative elements can provide the innovation practitioner with enhanced approaches to driving new thinking in an innovation effort.

Brainstorming is great fun, good for team building and a self-esteem builder. However, it does fail in one rather important way..

The Subtraction Technique is amazing because of its simplicity and power. It is one of five techniques that form the core of Systematic Inventive Thinking, a method of innovating new products and services. Here is a classic example..

My work has caused me to focus on, research and define the links between Entrepreneurship, the Lean Start-Up and how Israeli Start-Ups successfully integrate these concepts, principles and techniques to create game changing high tech companies, such as Waze, that recently sold to Google for a reported $1 billion dollars.