Creative Thinking: Your Edge

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Does your business have the bits in place

to thrive in 21C?

AGSM's The Leader magazine: 'Innovation - in 2009it's not just a word to be bandied about. The economy is forcing us to get creative. Innovation could be just what we need and it could be very good for business.'

Recent Harvard Business blog: 'It's the single biggest error firms make in times of crisis: repeating the past. When the world around you is undergoing discontinuous change, repeating yesterday's mistakes is the quickest path to decay and dissolution.'

'Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.' Ed McCabe

Produce practical + original ideas Turn potential → performance

Differentiate your business Seize opportunities

Encourage innovationSolve problems

Plan betterIncrease productivityFocus on the essentials

 

Left brain, logical, linear thinking is essential in business. (It's 'in the box' thinking...)

The left brain is about:wordsnumberslogical thinkingsequencesrational thinkinganalysingbeing objectivelooking at parts

But for 21st century success you also need right brain, creative, big

picture thinking. (That's the 'out

of the box' bit...)

The right brain is about:

rhythm colourimagination daydreamingspatial thinking intuition holistic thinkingsynthesising being subjective looking at the whole

It’s about using your

whole brain, not just one

side or the other...

Most of us aren't trained to think

creatively in schools or workplaces.

Creative thinking is natural + quite easy to tap into... with a few tips + tricks.

makeConnections

Challenge yourself Cultivate ideas

Cultivate ideas

be Curious

Four Cornerstones

Be Curious

Whatis

that?

Make Connections

Try Something (Anything) New

make connections:

MIND MAPPING

©Tony Buzan

Challenge Yourself

challenge yourself:

Take Risks

Assumptions

challenge yourself:

Question

Scamper

©Bob Eberle, cited by Mind Tools Limited

Substitute: components, materials, people

Combine: other products, services, functions

Adapt: alter, change function, use part of another product or service

Modify: increase or reduce scale, change shape, materials etc

Put: (to another use)

Eliminate: remove elements, simplify

Reverse: turn inside out or upside down

Cultivate

Your Ideas

Give Ideas Time to Grow

cultivate:

DreamerRealist

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