Organisations are growing in a complex technology- driven environment and chief executives have expressed the need for more creative employees to steer innovation. Be the Innovators provides readers with ideas for benchmarking best practices in innovation, empowering creative excellence, leveraging collective growth and connecting a spectrum of individual and team ideas. Based on the belief that innovations change peoples lives, Peter Ling provides insights into innovative individuals, companies and countries. He illustrates how to empower employees to engage in corporate mission, values and vision.
This is a practical book for private, public and non-profit organisations to develop and refine leadership skills through innovation. It will trigger new creative connections in readers minds to help accelerate innovation through team creativity. It will also accelerate your personal, team and group creativity processes to help your corporation innovate in many ways.
Preface
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1: Introduction: Innovation and Team Creativity Catalysts
PART 2: MASTERY MODELLING
2: Mastery Modelling: Benchmarking Innovation
PART 3: INTENSIVE IMMERSION
3: Intensive Immersion: Empowered Exploration
PART 4: GROUP GERMINATION
4: Group Germination: Collective Growth
PART 5: MIND NETTING
5: Mind Netting: Brainstorming
6: Mind Netting: Creative Problem Solving Process
7: Mind Netting: Synectics Innovative Problem Solving
8: Mind Netting: Lateral and Multidimensional Thinking
9: Mind Netting: TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving
10: Mind Netting: Attribute Listing and Morphological Synthesis
PART 6: CONCLUSION
11: Conclusion: Accelerating Team Creativity and Innovation
Appendix A: Research on Adult Team Creativity
Appendix B: Other Authors Modelling Genius
Appendix C: News Media Modelling Mastery
Appendix D: Modelling Innovative Companies
Appendix E: Modelling Innovative Countries
Appendix F: Synectics-Based DREAM Training
Notes
Index