20 Qualities that Describe Innovators
Challenges status quo: Dissatisfied with current reality, questions authority and routine and confronts assumptions. Curious: Actively explores the environment, investigates new possibilities, and honours the…
Challenges status quo: Dissatisfied with current reality, questions authority and routine and confronts assumptions. Curious: Actively explores the environment, investigates new possibilities, and honours the…
Good problem solving occurs when managers have many viable, creative alternatives to consider. To inspire employees to approach problems creatively and to nurture a creative…
William J.J.Gordon worked with creative-thinking groups and had a creative variety of other pursuits. He was concerned that people, when asked to come up with…
Several idea checklists have been developed to enhance creativity. These involve asking a series of questions about how we might use something that we already…
According to the developer of attribute listing, Robert Crawford, “Each time we take a step we do it by changing an attribute or a quality…
The checkerboard method, also called morphological analysis, is an extension of attribute modifying. Specific ideas for one attribute or problem dimension are listed along one…
We are the slaves of our assumptions; they dictate the way we behave. Retroduction involves changing an assumption. This may serve two purposes. First, our…
A venture team is a temporary grouping of organization members for generating new ideas. So that creative thinking is not stifled, team members are freed…
An idea champion is a member of the organization who is assigned responsibility for the successful implementation of a change. The idea champion may be…
Many people have praised the flexibility creativity risk taking, and energy that are often associated with small firms and intrapreneurship and have asked how these…