Synthesis :

Creativity

Creativity is an emergingnon-negotiable for success

Agriculture

IndustrialisationIndustrialisation

Knowledge IntensificationKnowledge Intensification

CreationCreation IntensificationIntensification

Why is it usually HARD to get new ideas?

LOGIC!

Experience

Where do new ideas normally

come from?

Madness!

Mistakes!

Inspiration

Luck!

There is a better way…

Provocation!

The Octopus & The Wedding

“OCTOPUS”

“8 Tentacles”

• Wedding Gown with 8 Ribbons (of 8 different colors) representing 8 Virtues of the Beloved

• 8 Ribbons to be wrapped around Bride & Groom as the 8 Virtues are read

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE WEDDING GOWNS??

The Tortoise & the Souvenir

“TORTOISE”

“Fortune”

• Small & Shiny Fortune-Telling ‘Sticks’ as Souvenir

• Each Stick = Discount Voucher

• Contributing organizations (e.g. Restaurants) can contribute to each stick

WHAT SOUVENIR CAN HONGKONG GIVE TO 25,000

PARTICIPANTS AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE?

Random Words

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Apply the random word to…

• Improving your department (marketing your product, yourself, etc.)

• Building a relationship

• Fresh learning / studying methods

• Helping the environment

BREAK

“Creativity begins with the generation of alternatives”

Edward de Bono

Jot down ideas when they come

Never stop at one or two ideas!

Invent. Reinvent. Invent. Reinvent. Repeat.Repeat.

Start / Join exciting projects!

Be careful of conclusions!

Don’t throw away ideas you don’t like!

“ The need to be right all the

time is the bigges t bar to new. ideas It is better to have

enough ideas for some of them to be

wrong than to be always right by having no

ideas at all ”

Edward de Bono

Change your surroundings