About
Me
Jeffrey Paul Baumgartner
These days I am an author, keynote speaker and workshop facilitator specialising in creativity and innovation. I've spoken and led workshops for businesses, governments and non-profit organisations in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East for organisations as diverse as a leading multinational biotech company to the Prime Minister's office in Dubai.
My background is eclectic and multinational, which has given me a unique perspective on life, business and culture. This has fuelled my own creative mind and enables me to share those perspectives with readers and my audience.
In no particular order, I...
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Have a degree, in fine arts specialising in sculpture, from Richmond University in London
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Have been certified to teach English as a foreign language, which I proceeded to do in Portugal, Germany, USA and Thailand.
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Wrote three popular magazine columns in the 1990s for Nation Junior and Business Review, popular magazines in Southeast Asia. Well, I guess Business Review was not popular enough. It went under a few years ago.
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Set up JPB Creative in Bangkok in the early 1990s; it was one of Thailand's first web and multimedia development companies. In 1997, we launched the country's first original, Thai language infotainment CD-ROMs.
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Advised the European Commission on promoting E-Commerce to small and medium sized enterprises in the EU.
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Launched Dr. Ecommerce, a web based information resource for companies doing on-line business across multiple EU countries.
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Designed, developed and marketed Jenni, an early innovation process management software used by companies in Australia, Europe, the USA and Africa to capture, evaluate and implement ideas.
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Have written three books: The Way of the Innovation Master (business innovation), The Insane Journey (science fiction-humour) and Anticonventional Thinking (creative thinking).
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Have developed -- and continue to develop -- anticonventional thinking (ACT) and have taught it to businesses, government bodies and non-profits globally. ACT is an alternative to brainstorming that addresses the latter's weaknesses and, as a result, is far more effective that the latter. This action has also made me a lot of enemies among brainstorming facilitators!
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Have written Report 103 since 2004, making it the longest running newsletter/blog on business innovation.
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Have done lots of other things while living in the USA, the UK, Portugal, Germany, Thailand and Belgium.
Unlike many other creativity consultants, I have not got an MBA, have never been employed by a Fortune 500 company (though have had a number of them as clients) and do not get regular haircuts.
My Publications
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Anticonventional Thinking - The Creative Alternative to Brainstorming (Book), January 2015
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The Insane Journey (Novel) July 2013
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The Way of the Innovation Master (Book) December 2010
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"Open Innovation for Small Companies", article in Management Today magazine, July 2011 (Link to on-line version here)
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"Use Both Sides of Your Brain", article in Innov8t Magazine, May 2011 (Link to on-line version here)
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Report 103, web based journal on business creativity and innovation, 2004-present.
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“Idea Management”, Chapter in Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, edited by by N. Jagdish Sheth and Naresh K. Malhotra, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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“The Corporate Innovation Machine”, Chapter in Ideas, Creativity and Innovation, Edited by P.S. Gopalakrishnan, ICFAI Press, 2008
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“Innovation in the Service Industries”, Chapter in Innovation in the Services Sector, Book edited by Simantee Sen, ICFAI Press, 2008
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“Innovation in the Service Industries” Article in Effective Executive magazine, November 2006
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Don't Panic Do E-commerce – a Beginner's Guide to European Law Affecting E-commerce, (Book) (co-author), European Commission Press, 2001
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Ask Dr. Ecommerce -- an e-commerce advice web resource, 1999-2001 (see archived version here)
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Monthly business advice column in Business Review magazine, 1992-1996
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Monthly business astrology column in Business Review magazine, 1994-1996
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Fortnightly personality quiz column in Nation Junior magazine, 1992-1996
