Idélaboratoriet – Innovation and Idea Management Consulting Services

The Value We Bring

Idélaboratoriet specializes in Innovation Culture and Idea Management. This intriguing field takes many forms: Innovation strategy planning, Idea management facilitation, training programs in professional idea creation and digital idea management solutions are all good examples of how we create value for our clients.

What’s The Color of Money?

Color Me Creative

The next time you feel your creative juices flowing… Just freeze in the moment. Take a reflection time-out. And consider what colors that is around you in the room, on the walls, on your desktop. The codes of creative environments are constantly being examined and the latest research considering what colors that makes us tick, have recently been published in the prestigious magazine Science.

Training programs
A substantial toolkit and hands-on practice in professional idea work. GO

The Idea Agent
Anyone who has any kind of development need in their day-to-day work and takes creative processes seriously will benefit from this book." GO

The Innovation Scorecard
Try out our online innovation assessment tool. GO

Creative Space Design
The physical environment affects our brain much more than we think. GO

MindManager
Build your mind maps with the leading
mind mapping application.
Download the demo. GO

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

European Year of Creativity and Innovation

In case you did not know - EU celebrates 2009 as the year of creativity and innovation with lots of different activities happening during the year. Hopefully that will spread some light of hope in an gloomy looking economy. Among the ambassadors are cool names like designer Philippe Starck, mr creative class: Richard Florida and the Spanish chef Ferran Adrià Acosta. Look at the calender to stay updated!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Creativity for FREE?

The Wired-editor and writer of The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, just made an appearance in Malmoe, Sweden for the event Media Evolution and talked about his new book FREE. Before the event an interesting blog race started with insights about the business world of free in general and about creativity specificially. Will creativity be for free? Eirik Solheim, NRKBeta made this interesting comment on his blog: "And the cost of creativity? Maybe you would say that the cost of creativity is constant. It is still difficult to make truly original, high quality, provoking, emotional and popular content. Still, I would argue that even the cost of creativity is going down. By sharing ideas, learning from others, communicating and cooperating we have better possibilities than ever." Read more at...