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Welcome to Get Fresh Minds!

If this is your first time visiting GetFreshMinds.com, welcome! 

GetFreshMinds.com's goal is to highlight cool ideas and the thought process behind them, as well as to share techniques to enhance creativity.

This blog is written by Katie Konrath, an Innovation Process Specialist at the innovation company Ideas To Go. Along with her awesome co-workers, she helps Fortune 500 companies come up with fresh new products and services, and new ways of talking about those products/services.

Some of GetFreshMinds.com's greatest hits:

  • What to do when your well runs dry.
  • Just Like Teaching Someone To Fish.
  • Being too busy to think is actually an excuse.
  • Squeeze Out More Ideas.
  • Thinking backwards can actually be quite brilliant.
  • The easiest way to become a creative thinker.
  • How to take an idea to the next level.
  • Why saying no destroys creativity.
  • Can a new idea be too far ahead of its time?
  • Does thinking of customer service as a negative blind companies to new opportunities? (Part 1) (Part 2)

 

 

Learn More about Katie here.

Learn more about Ideas To Go here.

 

 

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Recent Posts

  • Lateral Thinking leads to Underwater Hockey
  • Using Improv to Innovate (Review of a PDMA Event)
  • Win: The Innovator's DNA
  • Solving Problems the Soviet Way
  • Never Stop Learning
  • Where Innovation Is Not Welcome
  • Education 2.0
  • Solutions, Solutions for one and all!
  • Like a fish in the water.
  • A novel way to keep Alzheimers patients from leaving... by making them feel they can.

Still Fresh!

  • Do you doubt that anything is possible?
  • Be first, or be forgotten.
  • What To Do When Your Well Runs Dry
  • Squeeze out more ideas
  • Just like teaching someone to fish.
  • Being too busy to think is actually an excuse.
  • Do you seize opportunities like Sam does?
  • The easiest way to become a creative thinker
  • Is conventional business wisdom the way to succeed in today's economy?
  • Does thinking of customer service as a negative blind companies to new opportunities? (Part 1)

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  • Katie Konrath loves innovation and fresh ideas.

    She's worked with creativity guru Edward de Bono, studied at the TRIZ Institute in St Petersburg and earned a Masters degree in innovation from the Institute of Thinking in Malta.

    Today, Katie helps companies come up with ideas fast at Ideas To Go.

    If you're looking for your own fresh ideas, she'd love to hear from you.

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