The Spark
News, insights and commentary from NS
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...
What innovators and musicians have in common
Bill Nottingham | Smart Business Cleveland The first time they jammed together, in 1980, the members of R.E.M. wrote six song...
Lessons from Google’s “Moonshot Factory”
Nottingham Spirk We highly recommend the recent Atlantic article “Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity,” which prov...
The “Open Office” Trend is Not a One-Size-Fits-All Solution for Innovation
Reorganizing your office into one massive conference room could do more harm than good. In the 1990s, “cubicles” became symbo...
Maintaining The Culture of Creativity
“Organizational Charts” by Manu Cornet Cartoonist Manu Cornet created a series of “organizational charts” for some of the big...
Hiring for Creativity
MIT recently published a previously unknown essay on creativity written by Isaac Asimov in 1959. The Science Fiction icon had...
Nottingham Spirk: The Church of the Game Changer
Although Nottingham Spirk is not your typical office space, the atmosphere drives inspiration, creativity, and game changing ...