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Peter Cook

Drawing upon cutting edge research from academia but expressed clearly and concisely for the busy person seeking practical inspiration, Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise will feature numerous case examples from companies such as Virgin, Pfizer, Roche and Fuji Film.The book deals with questions such as:What are the roots of creativity and imagination? · How can we create the physiological and mental states under which creativity happens naturally rather th...

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Gerardus Blokdyk

What supports and inhibits creative thinking, creative action, and innovation in your organization? Where are differences between diverse product development projects and how to handle them? Why has someone else not (or perhaps others have) tackled this problem before you? The larger the project, the larger need for both systematic and creative testing? What creative thinking techniques can you use to generate ideas?Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve...

Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key skills for career and life success in today’s world. This award-winning book brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers to offer insights on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.The new edition features fully updated chapters, including expanded coverage of exciting topics such as group creativity, ethics, development, makerspaces, and lessons from other fields. Educational applications are emp...

Creativity has become a popular buzzword in contemporary cultural policy, yet the term remains poorly understood. In this collection, cultural policy specialists together with experts on psychology, creative enterprise and arts education, consider how ‘creativity’ is defined in a variety of settings, from ‘creative management’ to ‘creative labour’.The starting point of the book is to move beyond the notion that creativity is simply a product of extraordinary individuals and extraor...

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Gerardus Blokdyk

Can a testing team be too diverse? Can Requirements Be Creative? When do others get best ideas? What supports and inhibits creative thinking, creative action, and innovation in your organization? What really matters?Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. ...

The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This volume is at once retrospective and prospective: it revisits old ideas, assesses their ...

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Richard Hall

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Brilliant Business

With budgets being cut and competition fierce, thinking creatively in business has never been so important. Brilliant Business Creativity is an entertaining guide to one of the most important business topics today.A hands-on skills set book, you’ll discover all the techniques you need to be creative. It highlights how creativity is taking shape in the business world and approaches the topic from both a macro and micro level; how you can get your organisation to be more creative, an...

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Community Development Research and Practice Series

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities in a range of countries including the United States, Australia, Portugal, Nepal, the ...

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Peter Campbell

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Social Sciences (R0)

Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards to cultural policy, and examines the methods and evidence deployed to make the case for art, culture and the creative industries. The origins of current practices are considered, as is...

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James C. Kaufman, PhD

"...Full of keen and illuminating insight...Written with creative flair and great elegance."Robert Olen ButlerAuthor, A Good Scent from a Strange MountainWinner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction"...Witty, charming, and informative...Creativity 101 makes a convincing case for the importance of creativity in society, in our schools, and in our daily lives....And no, we aren't related."Scott Barry Kaufman,

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This book is groundbreaking since it unites some of the most pioneering researchers who rebuild the relationship between the world of technology, finance, industry, and sustainability in the world that is being fast redefined by the digital world. It confuses innovation as well as the ethics, theory, and practice and shows how both technologically advanced and social responsibility should be the basis of the future of development. The central topic of the book is the exploration of how the...

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Robert Fisher, Mary Williams

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Unlocking Series

First Published in 2005. Promoting creativity can be a powerful way of engaging children in their learning. Showing how creativity can be developed across the curriculum, this book offers advice on how to: Develop children's capacity for creative thinking and achievement; use creativity to increase levels of motivation and self-esteem; teach the creative skills pupils need for success in learning and life. Combining the latest research with practical ideas and tasks, this multi-dimensional...