A Key to innovation is the creative process. This overview shows interesting overlaps and disruptive elements of group innovation.
http://www.petertenhoopen.com/rs_creativity.phpHow to create creative organizations
Peter ten Hoopen employs a four step approach:
- Diagnostics – Chart the Organisation’s Creativity
We plot the organisation’s Creativity Index using our Creative Culture Survey (CCS), a fine-grained look at the factors promoting and inhibiting creativity and innovation in the team, department or entire organisation. Low cost, very effective in opening up discussion and forcing reflection.
Either in parallel or separately we use our Innovation Roles Model (IRM), which identifies eight different roles people play in a field outlined by the axes of Creativity and Risk-Readiness. Builds on work by Belbin, Byrd and Lockwood Brown. All our work on innovation is linked to leadership. - Validation – Analyse and Discuss the Outcome
To be accepted, results need to be analysed and validated (and where necessary fine-tuned) in workshops – highly interactive. Is this really who we are? Are we happy with it? If not, how do we change? - Change – Breakthrough Initiatives
Appoint change teams to come up with initiatives that provide real breakthroughs in terms of the organisation’s or the group’s attitude towards creativity. What do we need to do to open up our minds? How do we best apply our energy? And who is ready to take ownership for agreed changes? Who shows real leadership? Uses Innovation Roles Model to create strong teams of people who understand one another’s role, and become mutually supportive. - Root – ‘Keep the Change’
Our idea is to help organisations help themselves. We just provide the framework, the tools, the spark, the facilitation. Once that is done, we get out of your way. The change is yours to keep. And to maintain. Lasting change is achieved through our Values to Performance Program – highly engaging workshops in which participants jointly agree to commit themselves to behaviours that they themselves support. Creates awarenes of creative potential, awareness of one’s own limiting factors and a sense that these can be overcome, particularly by working with others. Also sets out guidelines that prevent backsliding into non-productive, creativity limiting behavior.
A Key! 