Leadership creativity modified onakoya.ppt

LEADERSHIP CREATIVITY

Don’t let the future just happen: it is always better for us if we create it.

Current Business Challenges

Every facet of business is changing at an accelerating rate.


Competition is increasing


Business is becoming increasingly global in scope


New technologies are being introduced at a breathtaking rate


The composition of the work force is changing, as are its members’ values and expectations


There are increasing shortages of resources ranging from water to skilled employee.


The World economy is being transformed from an industrial economy to one based on knowledge and information


Market and economic conditions throughout the world are extremely unstable


Constituents, such as shareholders and environmentalists, are making greater demands on the organization.

Current Business Challenges Not only is the

business environment changing rapidly but is becoming much more complex.

Definition

Innovation is how a firm or an individual makes money from creativity.

Origination: Definition

The process of generating something.

origination Organizations, seek to create

original ideas and concepts that will end up as innovations, e.g new or enhanced products services, processes that Increase efficiency, highly competitive marketing

campaigns, or superior management

origination

Original ideas just aren’t enough…

Innovation The process of creating something new that has significant value to an individual, a group , an organization, an industry or a society.

Innovation

An innovation is a creation that has significant value.

Distinction between Innovation & Origination

First, You need to learn how to tell whether the ideas you generate are creative or merely original.


Second, to be innovative you need to go

beyond merely being creative. You need to know whether the

ideas you generate have potential for significant value, that is, the potential to become innovations


Finally, Firms as well as individuals must learn to turn creations into innovations.

Importance of Innovation & Creativity Solving problems and pursuing

opportunities require solutions, many of which may be unique to the specific situation. Therefore, creativity and the resultant innovation are fundamental to the survival and prosperity of the firm

Creativity, the Springboard to Innovation

Before we can have innovation, we must have creativity…


Creativity is thinking forward


Expanding on our earlier definition, creativity, then, is the skill to originate the new and to make the new valuable.


The new key word is skill; creativity is a skill, it is not something mystical, available only to a few.

It can be learned by anyone. Everyone possesses an innate capacity for creativity…


But the development of the capacity into a skill has been thwarted, for the most part by parents and bosses who provide and enforce rules about what is acceptable behavior and because only a few behaviors are allowed, certainly is stifled…


Therefore, you must act to develop this skill, to unleash your untapped potential.


Creativity can be incremental, occurring in a society of small progressive steps, such as the lengthy painstaking research that led to the

development of polio vaccine.


Conversely; Creativity can involve giant leaps

of progress in which many links in the evolutionary chain of concepts are hurdled by a single effort. e.g The main workings of Apple Computer’s Machintosh PC


For an organization, one of the critical steps in achieving innovation is developing the creative problem-solving skills of its human resources-its managers, professionals, and other employees.


The product of the creative effort need not be a tangible physical object. It may be an idea, an association of facts, an insight or a more effective or efficient process, as well as a new product or service.

Each of these, when fully expressed and functioning has value.

Product Innovation

… results in new products or services, or enhancements to old products or services

Process Innovation

… results in improved processes within the organization-for example, in operations, human resources management, or finance.

It focuses on improving effectiveness and efficiency.

Marketing Innovation

innovation is related to the marketing functions of promotion, pricing an distribution, as well as to product functions other than product development ( e.g, packing or advertising).

Management Innovation

Management innovation improves the way the organization is managed.

The Possibilities For innovation to occur, the possibilities

for creativity and innovation must exist. Regardless of your creative talents,

however great your knowledge or skill, you will not be able to create many innovations if you are not functioning in a favorable situation. If the organization’s culture does not support creativity

The Process

Numerous techniques can be used to increase the creativity of problem solving within an organization. Learning these takes time and effort but you can master them. These processes are directed at increasing creativity in all stages of the problem-solving process. E.g Brain Storming

Successful Organization design more new products and

concepts, utilize their resources more

effectively and efficiently, market their product more

creatively, and manage more effectively

successful organization It is creativity in managing all of

the economic functions marketing, operations, finance, human resources, research and development and information management that separate the truly successful companies from the less successful ones

successful organization

If you think the way you’ve always thought, and do what you’ve always done, you’ll get the results you’ve always got.

Attributes of Creativity Curiosity Adventure Innocence Experimentation Difference

Reactive AssociationCrisisDisasterBarrierBottleneckTrouble

Problem

Proactive AssociationChallengeWishOpportunityDesire

Problem

Phases of Economic Advancement

Agricultural - 17th century

Industrial - 17th-19th century

Information - 20th century

? ? ? - 21st century

Phases of Economic Advancement

Creativity - 21st century?

Contemporary Business Games

Restructuring Through:AcquisitionsMergersMBO

Cost Focus improved profitabilitybetter-looking balance sheetlean and mean until all fats are removed leaving just the muscles

outsourcingmonetising benefits


Quality TQM

Customer Servicecustomer satisfaction is outcustomer delight is in


NEW HOPE Creativity

Sourcesday-dreaming - word somereflections on experience long pastmusic - used by someintuition - needed by allwill or compelling vision - needed by allinner strength - to endeavour, to overcome fear of risk

needed by all

You can not become

what you need to be by

remaining what you are.

ALWAYS THINK ANEW

Continual challenging of your

mindsets will make you a more

effective manager.

MINDSET

Taking a different route away from old tested perception to attain a new result = Creativity

Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

Continual challenging of

your mindsets will make

you a more effective

manager.

MINDSET

Purpose concept (what are we trying to do)

Mechanism concept (how does/will it work)

Value concept (why is it useful)

CREATIVE STEPS

Defined Creative Areas

ProblemImprovement tasksProject design or inventionOpportunity

CREATIVE STEPS

•Define the task/focus•Apply systematic creative tools

•Evaluate and implement output

CREATIVE STEPS

The Creative Challenge

Why like this? Why has it to be like this Aren’t there alternatives?

The goal is to debunk a “uniqueness”


Acknowledge the existing Seek possible alternatives Compare existing with alternatives

The current is just one of many possibilities.


Attack:NeglectLock-inComplacencyTime sequence


Why risk giving the ‘wrong’ answer in class when only the ‘correct’ answer is rewarded?


Concept (what’s being done)

Idea (how things can be done)

Shaping factors (assumptions)

Polarization (either/or)

Creativity relates to Creation relates to

Beginning relates to Renewal

Curiosity,adventure experimentation, challenge. New, different, helpful.

Identifying Creativity

Process of seeing the exceptions


Process of producing order out of chaos


Bringing into being something of value that was not there before


Analysis - what is

Design- what could be –

CREATIVITY


Establish a programme of suggestions - to cover both putting wrong things right as well as better ways of achieving what currently looks perfect.

What To Do

Uses of Creativity

Improvement - the biggest potential better way lower cost less time fewer errors less energy less irritation less wastage simpler method

Uses of Creativity

Problem Solving alternative problem definitions overcoming a difficulty (overlap

with “improvement”) task setting (or problem finding) problem avoidance

Uses of Creativity

Value and Opportunity add value reposition (generate options) design opportunities

(entrepreneurial spirit)

Uses of Creativity

Futuristiccontingency design (fall-back position)

Uses of Creativity

Motivationgenerates interest and excitement (best to reward creative efforts not just results)

Like just about everything in business, innovation happens when the people at the top make it a priority and put pressure on people to deliver it.

Just like sales, production or financial goals, businesses that stay ahead always have innovation goals too.

Uses of Creativity.

Creativity is an art. Art is having the vision to see the world differently and the skill to portray that vision.

Having skill without seeing the world differently is the basis of craftman-ship.

Uses of Creativity.

Steps to Regular Creativity

Devote some time to creative thinking

Make creative efforts Stop persistent negativism Look at benefits of new ideas Express intuition and gut feelings

as they occur to you

RUNNING FOR SURVIVAL

Tools for Creativity

faith in own abilityabsence of negativism or negative

judgmentprecise observation - observancepenetrating questioning.

Business Applications

Zenith and cash evacuation

WH.O. Salt-Sugar Solution

Creativity Training

Engages people’s mindsStimulates people’s imaginationOrganizes thinking processesDiscovers and utilize talents

Running for Survival

Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the lion or it will be killed.


Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the antelope or it will starve to death.


It doesn’t matter if you’re a lion or antelope. When the sun comes up you’d better be running.

THANK YOU

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