{"id":606,"date":"2012-01-17T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=606"},"modified":"2012-01-17T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:30:18","slug":"innovation-in-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Innovation in Unexpected Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.saymedia.com\/2012\/01\/ideas-and-innovation-in-unexpected-places.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/saymedia.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0134874add3b970c0168e56d3c55970c-800wi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heston Blumenthal apparently presented recently at the Marketing Society&#8217;s 2011 Global Leadership Conference in London with a presentation about pure creativity.\u00a0 In case you&#8217;re wondering who he is, Blumenthal is one of the world&#8217;s top chefs.\u00a0 Coverage of his presentation at the conference mentioned his insights about serendipity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Blumenthal believes innovation more often than not comes from the places you least expect. &#8220;You need to be aware that innovation can happen on any level and ideas can come from anywhere; from seeing a leaf fall from a tree to the most cutting-edge design,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I am personally at my most creative when interacting with creative people from completely different disciplines to my own, whether that be a perfumier, a scriptwriter, a magician or an experimental psychologist.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.saymedia.com\/2012\/01\/ideas-and-innovation-in-unexpected-places.html\">SAY Media \/ Blog \/ Heston Blumenthal: Innovation in Unexpected Places<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heston Blumenthal apparently presented recently at the Marketing Society&#8217;s 2011 Global Leadership Conference in London with a presentation about pure creativity.\u00a0 In case you&#8217;re wondering who he is, Blumenthal is one of the world&#8217;s top chefs.\u00a0 Coverage of his presentation at the conference mentioned his insights about serendipity: Blumenthal believes innovation more often than not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}