The Art Of Innovation, by Dimis Michaelides

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http://www.dimis.org/Business consultant, creativity leader, inspirational speaker, author, magician and musician, Dimis advises organizations in the areas of creative leadership and innovation, strategy and marketing, change and transformation.Dimis combines his unique experience as a business executive and creativity expert with his talents as a speaker and magician to inspire people in organizations. In a very real and entertaining way, Dimis demonstrates to audiences around the world how uncreative entities can become creative, how creative entities can become more so, and how innovation improves both business performance and happiness at work.Dimis loves performing magic, singing and playing the guitar, his wife and son, his mother and brother, Penn and Teller, art, history, cinema, theater, travel, reading, swimming, good food, the circus and street performers.

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The Art of InnovationIntegrating Creativity in Organizations

Dimis Michaelidesi7 Innovation Summit, Chantilly Fall 2010

Innovation happens when

in an organized STRUCTURE

& within an appropriate CULTURE

the SOURCES of creativity are mobilized

Talent

The SOURCES of Creativity are the elements required for any purposeful creative act

EnergyMethod

ENRICH YOUR SOURCES OF CREATIVITYHelp people enhance their creative skills, mobilize

their creative drive, train and practice creative methodology

System

Target Team

Individual

The STRUCTURE of Innovation is the organized context in which innovation

happens

DESIGN A STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT INNOVATIONMatch jobs to individual preferences, train people

in innovative teamwork, define innovation strategy and goals, set up good systems to

manage new ideas

Risk

Ideas

Humor Engagement

Freedom

The CULTURE of innovation is the set of values, behaviors and norms that promote innovation

SHAPE A CULTURE TO PROMOTE INNOVATIONSupport new ideas, open debate and minimal

regulations, ensure strong organization-people commitment, encourage laughter, play and

reasonable risks

Energy

Talent

Method

SOURCES

System

Target Team

Individual

STRUCTURE

Risk Ideas

Humor Engagement

Freedom

CULTURE

The Art of Innovation

Twelve innovation drivers organized in three

categories

Unlike models real life organizations are not so tidy!

It is the skillful synthesis of these 12 elements that makes an organization innovative

The Art of Innovation Workshop

A comprehensive approach that takes into account the many dimensions and drivers of innovation

A unique opportunity for people to explore innovation issues in breadth and depth

www.theartofinnovation.net

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