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Lateral Thinking
Using Applications in New Ways
Lateral thinking describes how the process of innovation and invention happens. It is a combination of serendipity (chance), synchronicity (things happening at the same time) and having a broad knowledge of many different fields. Lateral thinkers will take a solution from an existing context and apply it in a completely original way in a new context.
Buy or Build?
When selecting tools and components to build your workflow, you can choose to buy cheap or expensive products. If products aren’t available that meet your requirements, you’ll have to build. That can get expensive if you try to solve too many problems at once and build a system that is too large and complex. Sometimes you can save yourself ...
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