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Diverse Teams Can Bring Balance to Your Natural Assumptions
Bill Nottingham | Smart Business Cleveland Humans are prone to cognitive biases. As our brains evolved, nature prized speed o...
Subtractive Thinking
Sometimes the best way forward is a step back… Bill Nottingham | Smart Business Cleveland The expression, “A camel is a hor...
Listen, Work, Repeat
Long-term planning has never felt more like guesswork… Bill Nottingham | Smart Business Cleveland I’ve had more conversations...
6 Habits of the Most Innovative People
The reality is, most people struggle to be innovative more than once, but these practices lead to sustained inspiration. Wins...
Our New Reality is Augmented
Emerging technologies are creating portals for moving between the Physical and the Digital. Bill Nottingham Managing Partner ...
The Special ‘Ops’ Approach: Tips for Creating Multidisciplinary Teams
Relationships, trust, and common purpose are the fundamental elements of business innovation. Bill Nottingham | Innovation ...
Navigating Turbulence
Keeping innovation alive with your ‘growth mindset’ Bill Nottingham | Smart Business Cleveland We typically work with compani...
XR Could Be the Future of Socially Distanced Collaboration
Bill Nottingham Managing Partner & VP, Growth Before the coronavirus pandemic, most of us probably didn’t spend much time...
The Disruptive Power of Collaboration
Bill Nottingham | Candy & Snack Today In the mid-1950s, Japanese restaurateur and inventor Yoshiaki Shiraishi toured a br...
Keeping Innovation Alive: Webinar Recap
Nottingham Spirk It’s difficult in the best of circumstances to maintain momentum on innovation projects. Nottingham Spirk is...