NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Jul 22, 2013) - The traditional approach to brainstorming demands that people "be creative" on the spot. They are expected to sit down together and come up with bold new ...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Aug 6, 2013) - Over nearly a half-century, the phrase "thinking outside the box" has become synonymous with business creativity. But the concept is too limited to drive ...

Iny says India must not allow uncompetitive businesses to flourish through subsidies. Photo: S. Kumar/Mint Alan Iny, senior specialist for creativity and scenario planning at the Boston Consulting ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The search for the "next big thing" often brings calls to think outside the box, but that may be the wrong way to look at it. "The box" is kind of mental shorthand, which Alan Iny ...

Between content, emerging trends and technologies, big data, analytics, and ever evolving strategies, there are a lot of things pulling businesses in different directions, making it challenging times ...

According to a recent Daily Chart blog in the Economist, mental illness inflicts a heavy toll, especially on the young and is the biggest driver of disability. The study upon which the chart is based ...

“Thinking in New Boxes: The New Paradigm for Business Creativity” by Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny (Random House, $28). Who hasn’t heard of Nintendo? Did you know that from 1889 to the early 1960s, ...

Alan Iny has spent his entire working life on creativity in the business world. As the global lead for creativity and scenarios at Boston Consulting Group, he regularly runs a wide range of trainings ...

Categorizing information is part of human nature, but in today’s rapidly evolving business climate, “pre-wired ways of thinking” can threaten an enterprise’s very survival. Boston Consulting Group ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. While creativity is a critical force in any company’s vision ...

Alan Iny is senior global specialist in business creativity at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and co-author, with BCG senior adviser Luc de Brabandere, of the newly published Thinking in New Boxes: ...