Innovation at work : 55 activities to spark your team's creativity / Richard Brynteson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brynteson, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Technological innovations.

Management.

Creative ability in business.

Teams in the workplace.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New York : American Management Association, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Training for innovation requires innovative training. This book provides readers with powerful, proven exercises for inspiring creativity.

Contents:

Cover; INNOVATION AT WORK; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Worksheets; Preface; Introduction: What Is Innovation?; The Structure of This Book; WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES; PART 1: The Practice of Innovation; Forget, Unlearn, Dismantle; What if ?; Innovative Connections; Levels of Innovation; Alternative Uses; Jobs that Need to be Done; A New TV Program; Storytelling; Love of Failure; Visioning; Green Innovation; Practical Individual Creative Skills; PART 2: The Innovative Personality and Skill Sets; Inquisitiveness; Building Networks; The Rebel; Personality Trait: The Next Box #1

Personality Trait: The Next Box #2Personality Trait: The Next Box #3; Design an Experiment; Building Innovation DNA into Your Life; Creative Problem Solving; Brainwriting; The 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: The 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 CollaborationBuilding an Innovative Culture I; Building an Innovative Culture II; Scaffolding: Toward a Culture of Innovation; PART 4: The 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 ConsiderStep #3: Develop New Concepts: Questions to Consider; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-254) and index.

ISBN:

9786613901330

9781283588881

1283588889

9780814432365

0814432360

OCLC:

829079162