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Technical Creativity and Idea Generation
How do we foster an innovative culture to capture ideas and then rene, evaluate,
retain, and implement them effectively? How should we reward people for their
contributions?
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them.
Albert Einstein
In 1878, a young Thomas Edison was experimenting with a system to
receive, record, and replay telegraph messages at high speed. This work had
applications for the Western Union Company, which paid Edison to pursue
incremental improvements.
While working around the equipment, Edison noticed that the compressed
strings of dots and ...