Creativity & Innovation - Week 1

Creativity + InnovationKevin Popović, B.A., M.S.

© Kevin Popović, SDSU Creativity + Innovation

The Origins of Creativity + InnovationWhere great ideas are born.


Session 1

• Welcome• Course Key• Roll + Admin• Blackboard• Book

© Kevin Popović, SDSU

• Play A Game• SLO’s• Discussion• Assignment

Creativity + Innovation

CourseKey


Creating Engagement in the Classroom

Define “Creativity.”What does creativity mean to you?


CreativityThe ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules,

patterns and relationships.© Kevin Popović, SDSU Creativity + Innovation

Genius, imaginativeness, ingenuity, inspiration, inventiveness, originality, resourcefulness, talent, vision.© Kevin Popović, SDSU Creativity + Innovation

CreativityWhere does it come from?


Are you creative?Class Poll: Answer Yes or No


Define “Innovation.”Poll: What does Innovation mean to you?


InnovationThe act or process of innovating.


Change, alteration, revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis, breakthrough; modernization, novelty, creativity, originality, ingenuity, inspiration, inventiveness.


InnovationWhere ideas come from.


The Impact of Innovation.Poll: What innovation has impacted you most?


Human Machine.Multiple people. One purpose.


Student Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the influence of problem solving techniques, team processes, and environmental conditions on creativity in organizations.



2. Describe the innovation process, including the innovation value chain, the role of champions, and commercializing an innovation.



3. Explain the process involved in managing creativity or innovation effectively and apply this knowledge to your own creative idea or innovation.



4. Analyze organizational practices that facilitate creativity and innovation.



5. Develop case study analysis skills (specifically, identifying critical issues in case studies and applying course material to case studies).


Introduce YourselfWhat’s your name, where are you from, what can you do?


Assignment: Read Chapter 1, 2


Leadership & Management

Creativity & Innovation - Week 1