At Your Creative People, we enjoy brainstorming and dreaming up ways to innovate and improve our CMS product, Backstage. As one of our clients, did you know you can be a part of that creative process as well? In a large way, our client's help to build Backstage by highlighting the needs of their industries or businesses and pointing out ways to make our Backstage CMS even simpler for you to use! Have you seen the "Submit an Idea" feature in Backstage? When you discover a need for a new feature, or even just a neat idea that you think could streamline your process of updating your website, mobile site, or app, click the button and share it with us! We take and review every idea individually. Any idea that can benefit all Backstage users is added to our development list for inclusion in a future upgrade. We're not promising your idea will go into effect immediately, but...
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Steven Johnson is the author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. In his book, Steven directs the reader to look beyond the mere search for a spark of brilliance and to ask himself: what kind of environment nurtures the development of good ideas? In this 4 minute video, the main ideas and questions from Steven's book are summarized and presented with a simple narrative and an engaging use of illustration. These main ideas include: Where do "good ideas" come from? The "Slow Hunch" - most great ideas take a long time to evolve. Good ideas come from collisions of smaller ideas - your "hunch" connecting with someone else's "hunch." The primary engine of creativity and innovation throughout recent history has been connectivity. We have so many new ways to connect now. Even though we're distracted and multi-tasking, we have much more opportunity...
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