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Welcome to the. Big City Brainstorm. Julius Weinberg Acting Vice-Chancellor and President, City University London. Prof. Neil Maiden Academic Lead, Centre for Creativity City University London. Creativity and the UK Economy. Cox Review [2005]
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Welcome to the Big City Brainstorm
Julius Weinberg Acting Vice-Chancellor and President, City University London
Prof. Neil Maiden Academic Lead, Centre for Creativity City University London
Creativity and the UK Economy • Cox Review [2005] • Creativity vital to UK’s long-term economic success • UK business not realizing full potential of creativity outside creative industries • DTI highlighted • Competitive tools for firms and formal education • Enhancing supply of … management and business skills • Current economic climate • Smart thinking based on creativity more essential than ever
Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice University-funded interdisciplinary centre • 2 years seed funding, creativity across all professional practices computing social sciences engineering Creativity in Professional Practice business community and health sciences arts law learning development
Creativity skills Enablers Leadership Innovations Four Centre Activities Organizations • Launch new Masters • Innovation, Creativity and Leadership • Launch Oct 2009 for Sep 2010 • Teach creativity to all undergraduates • Cross-school teaching to all 1st years • Core creative problem solving skills • Step increase in creativity research • More interdisciplinary research • Institution-levelresearch bids • Research network • City as hubof creativity activities
Roger Neill Centre Director
Innovation: The Scale of the Problem • 80% consider innovation important • 4% rate their organisation superior at it Synectics survey, USA
Leadership • The skill most lacking (No 1 at 44% overall) • More so in the public service sector (No 1 at 57%) Survey by The Director magazine, Institute of Directors, 2008
Value Absurdity • “If at first, the • idea is not • absurd, • then there is • no hope for it.” • Albert Einstein
Discovery “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes” Marcel Proust
Work in Metaphors “The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by men” Ortega y Gasset
Experimentation “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes” Buckminster Fuller
It's all invented "What is now proved was once only imagin’d." William Blake
Non-sense Creative Process Task Brainstorm Select Problem-solve Sense Action planning
Groundrules for working together • Anything goes • Build, don't judge • Headline first ("How to...", "I wish...") • Share the airtime • Listen in two ways - to others and to yourself
In/Out Listening In Out Speculations Lecture notes Ideas of others My ideas What I’m hearing What I’m thinking
Task Headline How to rebuild the reputation of the UK’s financial services sector and the City of London as the world’s leading financial centre
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