The Spark
News, insights and commentary from NS
Does Brainstorming Work? Only As Part of a Larger Strategy.
Nottingham Spirk “Brainstorming” is one of the most misunderstood and misapplied concepts in business. The term remains in hi...
Give It to Me Straight: Five Words That Are Overused in the Office
Hayden Grover Marketing & Sales Operations The workplace can be a buzzing hub of “I hate Monday” jokes, gallons of coffee...
3 Tips for Perpetual Disruption and Increasing Innovation Success
Bill Nottingham | Smart Business Cleveland Richard Fiorelli, one of my design professors at the Cleveland Institute of Art, t...
Creative Collisions: The Spark of Inspiration for Vertical Innovation®
Nottingham Spirk Hackathons are popular, but are they useful? In an essay titled, “Why Hackathons are Bad for Innovation,” a ...
Innovation is Not a Thing We Do on Thursday
Nottingham Spirk co-founder John Nottingham and Vice President Bill Nottingham spoke about innovation recently at Cleveland’s...
Millennials Are Changing Corporate Structure — for the Better
Millennials are prompting more companies to reconsider the traditional corporate hierarchy, according to Entrepreneur.com: “W...
Maintaining The Culture of Creativity
“Organizational Charts” by Manu Cornet Cartoonist Manu Cornet created a series of “organizational charts” for some of the big...