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Innovation management allows the organization to respond to external or internal opportunities, and use its creativity to introduce new ideas, processes or products. [2] It is not relegated to R&D; it involves workers or users at every level in contributing creatively to an organization's product or service development and marketing.
Systematic inventive thinking (SIT) is a thinking method developed in Israel in the mid-1990s.Derived from Genrich Altshuller's TRIZ engineering discipline, SIT is a practical approach to creativity, innovation and problem solving, which has become a well known methodology for innovation.
The origins of design thinking lie in the development of psychological studies on creativity in the 1940s and the development of creativity techniques in the 1950s. 1960s The first notable books on methods of creativity are published by William J. J. Gordon (1961) [ 69 ] and Alex Faickney Osborn (1963).
Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using one's imagination. Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g. an idea, scientific theory, literary work, musical composition, or joke), or a physical object (e.g. an invention, dish or meal, piece of jewelry, costume, a painting).
Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences. They focus on a variety of aspects of creativity, including techniques for idea generation and divergent thinking , methods of re-framing problems, changes in the affective environment and so on.
Ideation comprises all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization. [2] Ideation can be conducted by individuals, organizations, or crowds. As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice. [3] [4]
According to Stoll and Temperley (2009, 69–74), creative leaders foster conditions that can help to inspire creativity in others. These conditions include: "stimulating a sense of urgency if necessary, exposing colleagues to new thinking and experiences, providing time and space to facilitate the practicalities; setting high expectations, promoting individual and collaborative creative ...
The creative industries have been seen to become increasingly important to economic well-being, proponents suggesting that "human creativity is the ultimate economic resource", [7] and that "the industries of the twenty-first century will depend increasingly on the generation of knowledge through creativity and innovation". [8]