Creative Thinking

Businesses, for-profit and nonprofit, are facing change like never before. Numerous driving forces to this change included a rapidly expanding marketplace (globalization), and increasing competition, diversity among consumers, and availability to new forms of technology. Creativity and innovation are often key to the success of a business, particularly when strategizing during strategic planning, and when designing new products and services. Creative thinking and innovation are particularly useful during Strategic Planning (when strategizing) and in Product and Service Management (when designing new products and services.) (The library includes many areas of information related to creativity.)

Sections of This Topic Include:

Basics of Creativity
Special Topics (brainstorming, De Bono, etc.)
General Resources

Basics of Creativity

Creative Thinking Skills Can Be Learned!
Tunnel Vision Will Get You Nowhere
Optimism and Creativity
Enchanted Mind - Creativity Techniques
The Structure of the Creative Mind
Creative Thinking

Special Topics

Creativity in Adulthood
Leadership: Creativity and Innovation
Creativity and the Learning Process
Creativity for Managers

One Way to Quickly Cultivate Creativity

One of the most powerful ways to cultivate creativity and innovation is to share probing and generative questions about a situation. Here's a low-cost, straightforward process in which numerous, small groups of employees can help each other to come up with many creative ideas to address each member's situation. The process is brought to you by Authenticity Consulting, LLC -- the same organization that brings this Free Management Library to you.
Using Peer Coaching Groups(sm) to Cultivate Creativity and Innovation

General Resources

Creativity Tools
Creative Thinking - Secondary School Educators Net Links
Thinking Page

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