CREATING CONTEXT

BRAINSTORMING, IMPROVISATION & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Matt Moorehttp://engineerswithoutfears.blogspot.com

TO BEGIN…

Topics

•How can I publicise my KM project?

•How can this event be improved?

•How do I engage with stakeholders for my KM project?

•How can we get people to collaborate more?

•How can I get KM incorporated into the business planning processes of my

organisation?

•How can we ensure that people update their intranet profiles?

•How can we make Australia great(er)?

•How can we make people more productive?

•How can we make soccer more popular here?

How can we retire rich next week?

BRAINSTORMING

Guidelines• No criticism• Wilder the better• Quantity• Combination & Improvement

Also• Facilitation• Good questions• Scribe• Preparation beforehand

http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques

IMPROV

CREATIVITY INNOVATION

Four Reasons Why KM Should Care About Creativity & Innovation

THE CONTEXT OF CREATIVITY

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QUESTIONS

•When have you been especially creative?

•What were the circumstances? (the type of activity you were doing,

your own behaviour, how others acted)

QUESTIONS

•When have you been especially creative?

•What were the circumstances? (the type of activity you were doing,

your own behaviour, how others acted)

•When have you felt your creativity has been stifled?

•What were the circumstances? (the type of activity you were doing,

your own behaviour, how others acted)

Six Myths of Creativity

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/creativity.html

Enhancing Creativity

How To Kill Creativity - Harvard Business Review Sept 1998

http://innovationstyles.com

THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATION

http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/TT/rogers.gifhttp://www.borealisgroup.com/public/images/randd/ip.gifhttp://dorai.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/innovationprocesssoftware.gif

http://www.cognitive-edge.com

http://www.cognitive-edge.com

• Anthropologist• Experimenter• Cross-Pollinator• Hurdler• Collaborator• Director• Experience Architect• Set Designer• Storyteller• Caregiver

http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTEXT

WHERE ARE WE IN THE PICTURE?

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