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17.08.2010
Parlez-vous créatif?
How to manage creatives? Robert Gerlach will give a keynote at the Trendforum 2010 in Munich in November.
03.07.2010
Summer break for Evolution
We are taking one month off to refresh and to evolve.
28.06.2010
trendgipfel 2010, Frankfurt
Keynote about innovation culture. Key findings: CEOs tend to have more ideas at the working place than employees. (10.9%/6.4%).
19.06.2010
Filinics. How managers can learn from children.
IQudo is offering a one-day-seminar at the Creativity-School-Center BIP in Leipzig on September, 29th, 2010.
19.05.2010
Creative Skills.
Keynote at the Trevios Idea management convention, June, 17th 2010. Neu-Ulm, Germany.
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18.05.2010
Why ideas do not pop up while being at work?
Upcoming keynote about the perfect surrounding for ideas to arise at the IHK Koblenz in Germany on the 1st of June.
30.04.2010
Idea Generation Survey: final results
Where do ideas arise and why not while being at work?
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29.03.2010
Survey: idea development 2.0
Where do ideas arise? And why not at work?
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08.03.2010
Survey: idea generation 2.0
IQudo initiates the 2nd survey about ideas and how they arise.
24.02.2010
trendgipfel 2010
Robert Gerlach is giving a keynote about "Creative Skills" on the 24th of June in Frankfurt, Germany.
01.02.2010
Test-drive the new IQudo!
New website is on. New: The Creative Culture Program
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15.12.2009
Winter Camp
IQudo takes off to reflect and refresh for 2010.
04.12.2009
Here today, gone tomorrow!
How to choose the right projects in turbulent times? Robert Gerlach will give insights about project management from a creative point of view. Date: Multi-Projectmanagement 2010, 26th-27th of April, Munich
16.11.2009
Play! - don't work
Lean Product Development: How to creative more ideas with less work? Robert Gerlach will give a lecture about playfulness. Date: Summit Product Development. 9th-10th of March, Zurich
02.11.2009
How to build up a creative culture?
Robert Gerlach holds lectures on corporate creativity at the Grande École de Communication et Marketing, Sup the Pub, Paris.
20.10.2009
How will shopping be like in 2020?
Together with 36 students of interior architecture we were in search of futuristic shop concepts. Client: Lidl.
19.10.2009
Where do ideas arise?
Why do ideas always pop up while having a shower. Robert Gerlach gives an interview on Radio Arabella, Munich.
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play! - don't work

The upcoming generation "facebook" is spending hours in front of the computer, watching videos at youtube, playing or chatting with friends. They interpret the world through screen-shaped eyes. For the games-driven generation pleasure is becoming the ultimate goal. This new generation is longing for a new work culture. A culture that is based on enjoyment, a culture that fosters initiative and ingenuity. It is no coincidence that the most innovative companies like Google or 3M, allow their employees to spend 15 to 20% of their working time in following own projects. Looking at the headquarters of Google or some american or european agencies we rather think of a playground than of a business environment. Those companies have understood one simple thing: enjoyment is king.

As easy and promising that may sound, as revolutionary it is. The new working culture is breaking up with general rules of the old working world as we know it. Since childhood we have been taught to sit still, listen and obey, not to fool around and freely unfold ourselves. Our educational system focuses rather on rational than on creative-chaotic thinking. The challenges for the new decade is to combine both ways of thinking - rational and creative, to combine a serious profit driven company with a playful and open-minded atmosphere.

This keynote illustrates:

  • why great ideas mostly do not arise in a classical working environment.
  • what kind of working culture we well need to be successful and attract auspicious talents.
  • how important a playful and fun approach towards idea generation has become.
  • how to foster intrinsic motivation, initiative and ingenuity.
  • how to combine a profit driven company with an open-minded, inspiring atmosphere.

Target groups:

  • Supervisors, who like to better understand the motives of creatives.
  • CEOs and project managers who are interested in an efficient and playful working culture.
  • HR developers who would like to know more about the mindset of a games-driven generation.

Further keynotes:

8 principles of a creative culture. How to set up an inspiring working atmosphere.
Have a break - have an idea! Why the best ideas pop-up while having a shower.

Please contact us for more information.