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Verification
Insight
Incubation
Preparation
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Creativity at Millenium Technology
Illich Cheng and his employees
at Millennium Technology Inc.
have the persistent motivation
and insight to design a better
magnetic resonance imaging
system (MRI). Some people are
more creative than others due to
their intelligence, experience,
inventive thinking style, and
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persistence.
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Characteristics of Creative People
• Intellectual abilities
– Synthetic, general, practical
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Creative Work Environment
• Organizational support
– Tolerates mistakes
– Encourages communication
– Offers job security
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Creative Practices
Redefine Associative Cross-
the Problem Play Pollination
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Team Decision Making Constraints
• Time constraints
– Process loss
– Production blocking
• Evaluation apprehension
– Belief that other team
members are silently
evaluating you
• Conformity to peer
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– Suppressing opinions that
oppose team norms
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Team Constraints: Groupthink
• Tendency in highly
cohesive teams to value
consensus at the price of
decision quality
• More common when the
team:
– is highly cohesive
– is isolated from outsiders
– faces external threat
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– has recent failures
– leader tries to influence
decision
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Team Constraints: Group Polarization
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Group Polarization Process
High Risk
Decision Process
Team Decision
Social Support
Individual Persuasion
Opinions
Shifting Responsibility
Team Decision
Low Risk
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Improving Team Decision Making
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Generating Constructive Controversy
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Brainstorming at IDEO
skills.
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Features of Brainstorming
1. No criticism
3. Speak freely
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Evaluating Electronic Brainstorming
Benefits
+ Less production blocking
+ Less evaluation apprehension
+ More creative synergy
+ More decision efficiency
Problems
– Too structured
– May be costly
– Lacks interpersonal dynamics
– Candid feedback is threatening Photo: Courtesy of IBM Canada
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Nominal Group Technique
Possible
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Describe solutions
possible solutions
problem described
solutions presented
to others
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Solutions to Creativity
Brainbusters
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Double Circle Problem
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Nine Dot Problem
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Nine Dot Problem Revisited
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Five Letters Problem
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Burning Rope Problem
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