creativity

Examples of creativity in the following topics:

• Fostering Innovation

  • This is part of the creative brainstorming process, and it should be encouraged.
  • Encouraging creativity helps keep staff happy.
  • In fact, if management effectively fosters a creative and open environment, innovation will happen naturally.
  • One of the most powerful tools for promoting employee creativity and innovation is recognition.
  • Outline how to encourage creativity, participation and innovation through effective management

• Intellectual Skills of Successful Managers

  • Conceptual skills revolve around generating ideas through creative intuitions and a comprehensive understanding of a given context.
  • Conceptual skills primarily revolve around generating ideas, utilizing a combination of creative intuitions and a comprehensive understanding of a given context (i.e., incumbent's industry, organizational mission and objectives, competitive dynamics, etc.).
  • When combined with a variety of information, as well as a degree of creativity, conceptual thinking can result in new ideas, unique strategies, and differentiation.

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship

  • Entrepreneurial activities differ substantially depending on the type of organization and creativity involved.
  • Corporations have become aware of the potential advantages of internal entrepreneurial activity and often have innovation specialists in their organizations to develop creative solutions for complex problems.
  • Entrepreneurship employs what Schumpeter called the gale of creative destruction.

• Functional Structure

  • Smaller companies that require more adaptability and creativity may feel confined by the communicative and creative silos functional structures tend to produce.

• Benefits of Innovation

  • Managers who promote an innovative environment can see value through increased employee motivation, creativity, and autonomy; stronger teams; and strategic recommendations from the bottom up.
  • This requires open-minded and motivational leaders in managerial positions who are capable of steering employee efforts without diminishing employee creativity.

• Sustainability Innovation

  • "Sustainopreneurship" describes using creative business organizing to solve problems related to sustainability to create social and environmental sustainability as a strategic objective and purpose, while at the same time respecting the boundaries set in order to maintain the life support systems of the process.

• Key Behaviors of Transformational Leaders

  • Transformational leaders encourage followers to be innovative and creative.

• Flattening Hierarchies

  • This allows for a great deal of creative discussion and operational diversity and tends to create great variance in new ideas.
  • While the flat structure can foster employee empowerment, involvement, and creativity, it can also create inefficiency in decision-making processes.

• Group Conflict as a Barrier to Decision Making

  • Encouraging constructive disagreements and even conflict can result in more-creative ideas or more solutions that are easier to implement.
  • Loyalty to the group requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, and there is a loss of individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking.

• Differences Between Strategic Planning at Small Versus Large Firms

  • Enabling creativity and innovation is strategically difficult to do as it requires a hands-off approach that empowers autonomy over structure.
  • Innovate ideas are primarily trial and error, and so instilling creativity into a strategic process is also a high-risk approach.