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CST3-Innovation
Innovation and Creativity
Question | Answer |
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Creativity | Developing and expressing ideas that could be useful - Not so much a talent as a goal-oriented process, involves convergent and divergent thinking |
Innovation | Embodiment, combination and or synthesis of knowledge in original, relavent, valued new products or services; is a result of the creative process |
Managing creativity and innovation | must manage divergent and convergent thinking, combine ideas to create novel proposals (divergent), assessing feasability (convergent) |
Different thinking styles (Myers Briggs) | Extroverted v Introverted Sensing v Intuitive Thinking v Feeling Judging v Perceiving |
Fostering Creative Abrasion | Conflict sharpens ideas and increases energy Establish Norms - support calculated risk taking, establish procedures for failure, foster individual expression, encourage a playful attitude Learn from failure |
Enhance the Psychological environment | Promote group norms Establish reward systems (recognition, control, celebration, rejuvination) |
Enriching the Physical Environment | Promote play, encourage reflection (provide quiet areas), improve the environment (casual conversation, better communication) |
Divergent thinking techniques | seeing connections among facts others have missed, asking questions that have not been asked, asking questions from different perspectives |
Brainstorming (Divergent technique) | visioning, exploring, modifying, experimenting |
Enhancing Organizational Creativity | Promote creation and introduction of variations (employ diverse personel, invest in cutting-edge research), have selection criteria that link novelty to value (build risk taking, informal structure) improve access to retained ideas |