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Creativity - The Next Big Thing

Creativity - The Next Big Thing. Creativity - The Next Big Thing. During the last decade more and more emphasis has been placed on creativity, ideas and innovation as the key source of business survival - and success. Why?.

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Creativity - The Next Big Thing

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  1. Creativity - The Next Big Thing

  2. Creativity - The Next Big Thing During the last decade more and more emphasis has been placed on creativity, ideas and innovation as the key source of business survival - and success Why?

  3. “The inescapable conclusion I have reached by studying a large number of companies in many parts of the world is that the truly excellent are those who have consciously learned how to harness creative ideas from within the firm and from the external environment and at the same time managed the firm’s innovation in a systematic way”. Simon Majaro

  4. 3 factors behind this development (1) Hypercompetition “Most companies have now reached the point of diminishing returns in their incremental improvement programmes” Gary Hamel

  5. 3 factors behind this development (i) Hypercompetition “Radical non-linear innovation is the only way to escape the ruthless hypercompetition that has been hammering downmargins in industry after industry” Gary Hamel

  6. 3 factors behind this development (ii) The Age of Aquarius “The gift of insight of making imaginative new connections - once the speciality of the lucky few - is there now for anyone willing to persist, exploit or explore” Marilyn Ferguson

  7. (ii) The Age of Aquarius 3 factors behind this development We now have a better idea of how the brain works:

  8. (iii) Post Modernism 3 factors behind this development “A degree of scepticism with rational planning has now become commonplace.” Flux, Flow, Fragmentation

  9. 3 factors behind this development (iii) Post Modernism “For this very reason, it is not surprising to see leading edge management theorists and practitioners move away from over reliance on insights from natural and social scientism and increasingly seek to recapture insights from literature and the humanities” Dr. Charles Carroll

  10. Summary Hypercompetition We must become more creative The Age of Aquarius We can become more creative We are more creative Post Modernism

  11. Can we become more creative? “We believe creativity is the birthright of all men and women. All of us have wings but some of us don’t know why, we have forgotten how to fly” The Breakthrough Group

  12. (i) Domain Skills How to enhance creativity in a business The myth of the “eureka” factor Creativity does not happen because you decide to take a bath or sit under an apple tree.

  13. (ii) Techniques for improving creativity How to enhance creativity in a business There are useful well documented techniques but - beware of over reliance on brainstorming

  14. The evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups” Business Strategy Review 2000

  15. (iii) Creating and maintaining the environment Open to new ideas - new ways of thinking Allow time for consideration Continuous initiatives How to enhance creativity in a business

  16. The New Emphasis on Creativity An opportunity for Ireland?

  17. The brand image of a country is no different to that of a product or service - but it is much more difficult to manage. Brand images of countries exist, whether we like it or not.

  18. Ireland as an Investment Location

  19. Managed Country Brands

  20. Ireland does appear to ‘punch above it’s weight’ in some areas of the creative arts - music, literature (i) Widespread perception of being good communicators. (ii) Support arguments for ‘Creativity’ Branding

  21. The Irish Mind “From the earliest times, the Irish remained free in significant measure from the linear logic of Greco-Roman culture which dominated most of western Europe” Richard Kearney

  22. The Irish Mind John Scottus Eriugena Edmund Burke Bishop George Berkeley James Joyce

  23. The Irish Mind Edmund Burke “The form of rationalism he most deplored was that scientific logo centrism which sacrificed the rich multiplicity of human existence to the abstract systematisations of cold cut and dried ideology”

  24. The Irish Mind Eriugena Berkeley “It is a curious if much neglected fact that two of Ireland’s most reputed thinkers in the ninth century and in the eighteenth, reacted against the mainstream logo centric philosophies of their time in an effort to espouse heterodox currents of thought.”

  25. The Irish Mind “In contradistinction to the orthodox dualistic logic of either/or the Irish Mind may be seen to favour a more dialectical logic of both/and: an intellectual ability to hold the traditional oppositions of classical reason together in creative confluence”

  26. The Irish The first post moderns

  27. INVEST IN IRELAND TO ENSURE THAT YOUR BUSINESS IS EQUIPPED FOR TODAY’S ONLY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE -CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION.

  28. (i) Formal recognition of the advantages of branding Ireland for ‘creativity’ (ii) Creativity improvement techniques to be included in the school curriculum (iii) All businesses to be encouraged to introduce creativity and innovation initiatives (iv) Renewed support for the Arts Council What needs to be done

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