How to Get to Great Ideas

The highly practical lessons in HOW TO HAVE GOOD IDEAS are based on neuroscience, psychology and behavioural economics. Written by the former Creative Director of OgilvyOne, Dave Birss (http://davebirss.com), this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame the problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the idea and build support for it and how to inspire others to have great ideas. It proves that any organisation – and any department within an organisation – can become a fertile environment for ideas.

Combining a practical research-based system with fascinating insights and inspiring and humorous writing, the book is also accompanied by the problem solving system RIGHT THINKING. This is a tool which shows organisations a more effective way to generate more effective ideas and is based on the thinking in the book. This is available online and in person from the author.

Author Biography

Dave Birss spent 20 years as an advertising creative, coming up with ideas for many of the world’s biggest brands. Along the way, he helped to lead the creative departments of a number of the UK’s top agencies, including Poke, OgilvyOne and McCann Worldgroup, winning many awards along the way.

This experience led to him becoming the Editor at Large for The Drum Magazine. Since then he’s taught at universities and organisations all over the world. He’s the author of A User Guide to the Creative Mind, a handbook for creative thinking that’s recommended reading on many of the world’s top advertising courses. And he’s the co-author of Iconic Advantage, which proposes an approach to innovation that builds brands and generates profit.

He’s also the brains behind RIGHT Thinking, a system for generating effective ideas. He’s currently working with companies around the world to help them use the system to improve their thinking.