http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com Learn all about Speed Thinking , Think Quicker ,Fast Thinking ,Speed to Market ,Problem Solving ,Decision Making ,Team Building , Brainstorming Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:19:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently conducted a number of Speed Thinking workshops with a major, international Public Relations firm. As a demonstration of the power of Speed Thinking we selected the task of writing a press release for their clients. This activity would normally take this group of managers 2-3 hours but i suggested we could do ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/group-productivity/a-press-release-in-10-minutes-not-2-3-hours/ Having researched and worked in the new ideas and innovation space for the past ten years I have listed below my nine favourite innovation sayings:   - Innovation is one of our top 3 priorities - It is incredibly important to our success - It is one of our 5 core values - It is one ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/breakthrough-innovation/my-nine-favourite-innovation-sayings-actions/ Well-known customer loyalty authority Fred Reichheld, in his recent book The Ultimate Question (Harvard Business School, 2006) has suggested that there is one single question which has the strongest statistical correlation with repeat purchases and referrals (and ultimately profitable growth).   The question is this: How likely is it that you would recommend ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/proven-results/what-is-your-net-promoters-score/ I recently conducted a speed thinking session with a large organisation and was explaining the difference between the traditional brainstorming method and a speed thinking version. As with all new concepts it is often easier for people to feel the difference rather than talk about it. I asked them for a problem that ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/idea-generation/brainstorming-speed/ I have just been helping my nine year old daughter with her math’s homework and i am constantly amazed at what she is learning. Gone are the days that every addition or multiplication is worked out in long hand in a detailed, step by step process. The new way seems to be that if ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/brain-fitness/are-our-kids-learning-to-think-quicker/ Have you ever been in a situation where you have reached the crossroads and simply run out of ideas? When I have done so I have often just got up and started moving. There was no purpose to it other than to move my body and to clear my head. Yet often ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/brain-fitness/feel-stuck-start-moving/ Welcome to the world of business today. Everyday people are expected to achieve higher results with less time, people and resources. At the same time as there is more competition, changes in technology and even more demanding consumers, partners and shareholders. It is enough to make you tired just thinking about ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/time-management/how-do-you-achieve-more-with-less/ In a time-poor world we need to invent new ways of thinking and behaving. Ones which can help you prioritize, make you more productive and create graeter value, quicker. So, I think we need to create a new measure which i have called your personal ROTI or what is your return on ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/time-management/what-is-your-return-on-time-invested-roti/ It is a paradox but if you want the group to be more productive then you should start with the individual. In all my work with teams i start with the individual then a smaller group then up to the larger group. Using the Speed Thinking Process this is how i ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/group-productivity/how-to-enhance-group-problem-solving/ According to a recent study conducted by The University of Missouri there is a way to make your meetings shorter without impacting on the quality of the decisions. The answer? Take the chairs away. The researchers compared the results from 111 meetings around a specific problem and found that the seated ... http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/faster-meetings/how-to-reduce-your-meeting-time-by-one-third/