At Last!! Creativity Takes Priority Over Business Analysis

Finally, creativity gets recognition in business althought the author dresses it up in the guise of "design". This article by Michael H. Hugos principal at the Center for Systems Innovation author of The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line (Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2007) takes an interesting slant on the value of analysis. The author acknowledges the fault of relying on analysis as the only way forward and then takes takes a stab at creativity and what he says is the resulting outcome "synthesis". Whilst I think his case is weak generally, he does make some good points about the importance of the emergence of creative thinking in business.

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Creativity Matters Newsletter April 2008

* 1 News * American University Post Graduate Certification for Creative Leadership Forum Executive Education Programmes * The Creative Leadership Forum CEO appointed as Inaugural Council Member of the Creativity Association of Asia 2. Events * International Thought Leader Forum - Conversations That Create International Master Class - The One Thing You Need To Know 3. The Creative Leadership Forum Executive Programmes Second Series 2008 4. Papers and Books News American University Post Graduate Certification for Creative Leadership Forum Programmes. The Creative Leadership Forum is very pleased to be able to announce that it has secured certification by the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA for its four initial programmes that will be launched in the later half of 2008. Why the University of Southern Maine I hear people ask? For two reasons. Firstly, after 2 1/2 years of research into Australian universities and academic institutions, the Creative Leadership Forum has regrettably come to the conclusion there is no Australian university either offering or capable of assessing, assisting and properly

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Young Managers Already Know Where The Future Business Opportunities Are

The initial series of Creating Your Future in the Digital World programme has revealed how managers understand the important role the new generation of digital technology in the Web 2.0 world will play in the future success of their organisations. There is deep frustration though amongst these employees those senior leaders within organisations are slow to understand the opportunities these new technologies offer. Information technologies are stilled viewed as operational, as a cost to their organisations and new technologies suffer poor word-of-mouth amongst senior leaders because of the many bad experiences organisations have had in implementing new systems in the past. One delegate to one of the sessions, the Chairman and Managing Director of a major Australian financial services operation spoke frankly about

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The Value of A Problem Minded v Solution Minded Organisational Strategy

As the Creative Leadership Forum explores with senior executives the value of creativity within organisations, it becomes clear leaders generally have little or no knowledge around the importance of creativity and innovation strategically. Our research is suggesting that there is a disconnect between the way leaders construct business plans and how they think about creativity and innovation strategically. Leader's training and education around strategy comes from two sources - a traditional business education such as an MBA or an entrepreneurial spirit driven by commercial practice rather than any formal education. The common myth is that ideation or brainstorming sessions will provide the insights to the organisation's planning and strategy needs at least to commence.

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Conversations That Create

The Creative Leadership Forum is partnering with the Banff Centre Leadership Learning Lab, Canada to run an international Thought Leaders Forum Conversations That Create May 7- 9, 2009 at the Centre for Leadership, Chowder Bay, Sydney. The Forum Preamble The hard assets of all organizations tend to constitute the primary value of the organization but they are useless if not for the human asset and specifically the resourcefulness of that human asset to organize and utilize the hard assets. And one of the essential elements of this human resourcefulness is that of imagination and creativity. But these two elements remain dormant without the generative contexts to draw them out and generative contexts are established and maintained only by the right kinds of conversations. If the output of a musician is

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