Innovtion&creativity

Question 1

What is creativity in business relation?

Answer 1

The idea must be original, appropriate-useful and actionable to improve a product or to open a new way to approachable process

Question 2

What are the three parts of creativity?

Answer 2

Expertise, creative thinking, & motivation

Question 3

Expertise

Answer 3

Everything a person knows and can do in the domain he works in (doesn‘t matter how expertise is acquired)

Question 4

‚Network of possible wanderings‘ (part of expertise)

Answer 4

Intellectual space that is used to explore and solve problems —> the larger the intellectual space the better

Question 5

Creative thinking

Answer 5

How people approach problems and solutions —> capacity to put existing ideas together in new combinations (depends a bit on personality)

Question 6

Extrinsic motivation

Answer 6

Comes from outside a person like reward —> makes people do the job in order to get something desirable or avoid something painful

Question 7

Intrinsic motivation

Answer 7

Passion and interest—> persons internal desire —> engage in work for the challenge and enjoyment of it —> work itself is the motivation

Question 8

Natural resources

Answer 8

Expertise and creative thinking—> motivation will determine what people actually do

Question 9

What managerial practices affect creativity (6 categories)

Answer 9

Challenge, freedom, resources, work-group features, supervisory encouragement, and organizational support

Question 10

Challenge

Answer 10

Stimulate creativity—> matching people with the right assignment (match the assignment that triggers intrinsic motivation)

Question 11

Resources

Answer 11

Main resources that affect creativity are time and money—> can support and kill creativity

Question 12

Work-group features

Answer 12

Build teams that come up with creative ideas by creating mutually supportive groups with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds
Team that comprises of people with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds
Same excitement over goals
Willingness to help
C is killed by homogenous groups
Cross functional groups

Question 13

Supervisory encouragement

Answer 13

Sustain passion, by letting people feel as if their work matters to the organization

Question 14

Organizational support

Answer 14

Encouragement from supervisors fosters creativity, but it is truly enhanced when entire organization supports it

Question 15

Radical innovation

Answer 15

Technical breakthroughs that make existing products outdateted or that create new markets altogether

Question 16

Incremental innovation

Answer 16

Small improvements of already existing products, more certain, almost no risk

Question 17

Creativity

Answer 17

Generation of novel and useful ideas

Question 18

Innovation

Answer 18

Subsequent stage of implementing ideas toward better producers, practices, or products

Question 19

Gate-focused process, linear path

Answer 19

Development, prototyping, testing and commercializing

Question 19

five key domains in which radical innovation can take place

Answer 19

Process:
Manager should leave the project plan open and flexible
Team will pausier multiple solutions
Each phase needs a fresh manager decision
Team follows multiple paths simultaneously, adapting to emerging circumstances that are not predictable

Methods and tools:
Teams need to expand their horizon of the goals
Cross-functional teaming
Creativity tools

KIPs and decision making:
Managers need to look at a wider set of accomplishments
Managers can tolerate a team‘s lack of progress on some dimension

Organization structure:
Goal: organization that is free of conventional management structures
Division incremental and radical projects
Teams need to be open

Termin and collaboration:
Greater learning and flexibility from cross-functional teams

Question 20

Process

Answer 20

Need to be flexible/ nonlinear, need of individual ideas

Question 21

Methods and tool

Answer 21

Expand horizon of goals
Cross-functional teaming
Creativity tools
Evaluate degree of innovation & capability—> commitment of steakhouses

Question 22

KIPs and decision making

Answer 22

Encourage risk taking, enable clear and quick decision making

Question 23

Organizational structure

Answer 23

Innovation= top management priority, open organization structures

Question 24

Treating and collaboration

Answer 24

Promote openness and collaboration with internal and external partners, ensure availability of required resources

Question 25

Difference between creativity and innovation

Answer 25

Creativity is the generation of novel ideas

Innovation is the implementing of ideas toward better producers, practices, or products

Question 26

Directions for future research

Answer 26

1. Integrate the idea generation and idea implementation subfields
2. Need for theory-driven studies
3. Organizations suture and facet-specific climates for creativity and innovation
4. Innovation process research
5. Redress creativity and innovation maximization fallacy
6. senior management team and intervention studies
7. leadership style in the creativity-innovation cycle
8. ‚Dark-side‘ approaches and studies
9. Role of customers in employee creativity and innovation
10. role of the internet and social media in creativity and innovation