All Entries in the "How Creativity Occurs" Category
Workplace Innovation: The Impact of Organizational Environment
Innovative organizations exist when employees have the freedom to be creative and develop new ideas, products, services and ways of doing work. If you’re planning to lead innovation in your workplace, look at the organizational environment. It will either inspire creativity, or inhibit it. Although it will be hard work, as a leader, you have an opportunity to create an innovative environment.
ICE Creativity – What is it?
Creativity skills are essential for business leaders and workers and important if you want to improve your personal quality of life. And the great news is that creativity is achievable! The ICE Creativity model is easy to understand and will allow you to have an edge over your competition.
How Creativity Occurs: Turning it Around
Sometimes the best way to dream up a new idea or create a new solution is to turn the problem upside. Rather than looking at the problem itself, ask yourself what are the underlying causes? Is the problem merely a symptom rather than a real problem itself? What happens if you fix the cause rather than the problem?
How Creativity Occurs: Synthesis
Synthesis is another way that creativity occurs. It’s all about making connections and seeing how different ideas, concepts, objects, subjects and other factors relate. It’s looking at the links and discovering complements as well as duplications.
How Creativity Occurs: Evolution
Evolution is a powerful process that causes creativity. I’m not talking about the history of the earth here. Simply how everyday objects evolve as we get to use them and learn how to improve them. Evolutionary creativity occurs in everything from motor cars to the logos of television stations.
How Creativity Occurs: Re-application
It’s amazing up we get caught up in everyday objects and fail to see they can also help us do other things. The process of re-application can lead to some great new ideas. It involves thinking without a box while being very focused on solving a problem. In this article we think through creativity from a media perspective.
How Creativity Occurs: Physiology
We’ve all heard stories of great writers who penned their novels fueled by bottles of whiskey. And of painters who fired up their creative juices with artificial stimulants. What impact do things like alcohol, drugs, food, fatigue and physiology have on creativity? What can we learn to unleash our own imaginations?
How Creativity Occurs: Revolution
Revolution can be a powerful catalyst for unleashing your imagination. Look at a problem you’re trying solve and turn it upside down.
How Does Creativity Occur?
Some people yearn to be creative. There’s good news. It can be learned. Or rather, un-creativity can be un-learned. In this article we consider how creativity happens at a headline level.