Innovation at work 55 activities to spark your team's creativity
Overview: More and more organizations are realizing that the only hope for survival in an ultracompetitive landscape is through innovation: developing new and better products and services-and creating efficient processes for delivering them. Designed for managers, team leaders, and trainers looking...
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New York
AMACOM, American Management Association
2013
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- List of worksheets
- Preface
- Introduction: What is innovation?
- Structure of this book
- Workshop activities:
- Part 1: Practice Of Innovation:
- Forget, unlearn, dismantle
- What if?
- Innovative connections
- Levels of innovation
- Alternative uses
- Jobs that need to be done
- New TV program
- Storytelling
- Love of failure
- Visioning
- Green innovation
- Practical individual creative skills
- Part 2: Innovative Personality And Skill Sets:
- Inquisitiveness
- Building networks
- Rebel
- Personality Trait: Next Box #1
- Personality Trait: Next Box #2
- Personality Trait: Next Box #3
- Design an experiment
- Building innovation DNA into your life
- Creative problem solving
- Brainwriting
- Problem-solving games
- Analytical thinking test
- Test of creativity
- Leadership and teambuilding
- Building a winning team
- Teams and traditional work units: some differences
- Part 3: Culture Of Innovation:
- Determine your current culture
- Open source innovation
- Killing the naysayer
- Where do babies (innovative ideas) come from?
- Failure notebook
- Faces of innovation
- Event/pattern/structure
- Trend spotting
- Creative collaboration
- Building an Innovative Culture I
- Building an Innovative Culture II
- Scaffolding: toward a culture of innovation
- Part 4: Innovative Process:
- Open source innovation
- Deep inquiry
- Creative collage making
- Disassembling
- Question circle
- Deep empathy
- Photo wall
- Can you hear me now?
- Redesign rooms
- Two circle critique
- Force field analysis
- Litmus test
- Attribute listing
- Blue ocean technique
- Club med exercise
- Designing an innovation room
- SCAMPER
- Posters and quotes:
- 50 innovation techniques: addendums
- Step #1: Probe the constituency: Questions to consider
- Step #2: Observe the real situation: Questions to consider
- Step #3: Develop new concepts: Questions to consider
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index
- Exercises
- Worksheets
- Preface
- Introduction: what is innovation?
- The structure of this book
- Workshop activities
- The practice of innovation
- The innovative personality and skill sets
- The culture of innovation
- The innovative process
- Posters and quotes
- Innovation cases
- References
- About the author
- Index
- Step #4: Converge and build prototypes: Questions to consider
- Step #5: Implementation process: Questions to consider
- Categories of innovation
- Accident as innovation
- Quotes
- Innovation cases
- References
- Index
- About the author