Wednesday, 22 September 2004

Creative Propolution – pushing it forward

Sternberg, Kaufman, Pretz, get it right in their quantative research on Creative Propolution surrounding the 6 forms of creative leadership for innovation launches. Although missing the point of the initial internal senior management capability to stifle innovation due to internal politics, regardless a fulland well organized model is presented. For a framework, it solves the basic architecture surrounding creativity in organizations.  Based on the framework and a little awareness, any product can make it out. Here's how.

Friday, 20 August 2004

Stimulating the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams

How is it then to keep teams talking, and more making sure that they are formally and tactily communicating across sometimes disperse geographic environments? Technology? No. Micromanaging? No. Stimulating the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams  details 44 NPD teams in eleven companies, and particularly surprisingly that interaction frequency and subgroup-formation have negative relationship to team creativity. Why? Smaller is simply better. Here’s how they do it.

Monday, 12 July 2004

Check your creative head: Order and Disorder in Product Innovation Models

How is it that creativity is mitigated in an environment of corporate watchdogs and ROI demands? Via five NPD models presented: the sequential, compression, flexible, integrative and improvisational models a mechanism for product innovation management shows a changing position to less mechanistic, and towards organic models of, in particular, creativity better accepted as Order or maybe “Disorder” in Product Innovation Models
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