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How can music be creative if it follows a pattern?
If you take a moment to think about the creation of a song, you’d probably notice that they follow the same template, or pattern. The...

Meira Spivak
Mar 5, 20212 min read
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What's behind a costume?
For those who have been reading weekly, you’ve probably noticed that I post my blog weekly on Thursday evenings (p.s.t.). That is, until...

Meira Spivak
Feb 28, 20212 min read
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Still feeling stuck?
Somehow, no matter what the topic, whenever there are 2 people having a heated conversation, inevitably one of them is stuck (or has a...

Meira Spivak
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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Food for Thought
Let’s finish implementing the S.I.T. method of Attribute Dependency (AD). As you may recall, we began using attributes, or descriptions...

Meira Spivak
Feb 11, 20212 min read
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Creative ways to charge for my products
As you may remember, the 5th template of the S.I.T. method of creativity is Attribute Dependency, the template that is perhaps the...

Meira Spivak
Feb 4, 20212 min read
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Can your food do your marketing?
Let’s finish up using the Task Unification template. If you remember, we were discussing how some of the existing components of your...

Meira Spivak
Jan 28, 20212 min read
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Can you waiters do your marketing? Let's kill two birds with one stone!
The 4th S.I.T. Template, Task Unification, is used when you assign an additional task to a component (person, item, product) who/that...

Meira Spivak
Jan 21, 20213 min read
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Would you serve hot ice cream over cold cake?
Let’s continue with the Multiplication method and think of some more options for your restaurant. We’ve already discussed offering a...

Meira Spivak
Jan 14, 20212 min read
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Crustless Pizza - The Multiplication Template Applied
Three times a charm and it’s time for us to put into practice a third template of the S.I.T. system of creativity – Multiplication....

Meira Spivak
Jan 7, 20213 min read
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Great Customer Service!
Let’s continue with Functional Division and get back to your new restaurant. As you probably recall from last week, Functional Division...

Meira Spivak
Dec 31, 20203 min read
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How was the timeshare created?
Now that I’ve given you a taste of what it means to implement the Subtraction method of S.I.T., we will begin to work with the Division...

Meira Spivak
Dec 24, 20202 min read
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How to innovate on demand?...Continued.
Last week, we began to implement S.I.T. with the subtraction method via an example of trying to open a restaurant. In order to innovate...

Meira Spivak
Dec 17, 20202 min read
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How can I solve my problem quickly?
These next few blogs are going to be focused on how to practically innovate on demand. We have previously outlined the 5 S.I.T. Templates...

Meira Spivak
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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Help! I live with so many closed minded people.
Do you know any closed minded people? Perhaps you live with them? Perhaps you are one of them? According to the Merriam Webster...

Meira Spivak
Dec 4, 20203 min read
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The benefits of positive psychology on innovation
Facing challenges can be extremely frustrating. You might need to cancel important meetings, spend money that you don’t have and face...

Meira Spivak
Nov 19, 20202 min read
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5 Tips for Effective Brainstorming
We’ve already mentioned many of the problems with the classical brainstorming method – it wastes time, generates few good ideas, inhibits...

Meira Spivak
Nov 12, 20203 min read
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Why can't I brainstorm?
In 1953, advertising executive Alex Osborn was frustrated and felt that the people around him weren’t generating enough creative ideas....

Meira Spivak
Nov 6, 20202 min read
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Get the right employees into training meetings
I have been training employees to use the SIT method of innovation for quite some time and have been met with a lot of success. I love...

Meira Spivak
Oct 29, 20202 min read
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When will my next big idea come?
It’s the middle of the night and you’ve awaken in a cold sweat. You jump out of bed, pinching yourself to make sure that you are not...

Meira Spivak
Oct 22, 20202 min read
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Why do people hate my ideas?
We all know people who are stubborn. Perhaps it’s a parent or relative who walk around saying – ‘it’s my way or the highway.’ Or maybe...

Meira Spivak
Oct 15, 20202 min read
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