Go, Pop, and Fizz! Tools for Everyday Creativity & Innovation

7/30/2019 Go, Pop, and Fizz! Tools for Everyday Creativity & Innovation

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Go, Pop, and Fizz!Tools for Everyday Creativityand Innovation

Womens Leadership Institute 2012

Kathryn J. DeissContent StrategistAssociation of College & Research Libraries

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Creative Inventions

Lightning Rounds - 60 seconds

1. Create an invention using your cardand someone elses

2. Write it down on back of card

3. Find another person and repeat

4. Find another person and repeat


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Photo by kelsmith1992

Who is creative?
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Changingperspective jogsthe creative

impulse


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The adjacent possible a concept describing thepower of combinatory

connections/collisions

Coined by scientist Stuart Kaufmann and cited inWhere Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson


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Definitions

Creativity : a process of developingand expressing novel ideas that are likelyto be useful

Innovation : the embodiment,combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued newproducts, processes, or services

Source: Leonard, Dorothy and Walter Swap. When Sparks Fly. (1999)


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Photo by James.Robertson

Innovation Skills
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Innovations are those things thatchange the way we can dowhat we want to do

Innovation is disruptive

Innovation is both revolutionaryand evolutionary

Society decides what isinnovative


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Practices for Innovation

Identifying question/opportunity Voluminous idea generation

Use of creative thinking tools Tolerance for failure and time lags or

jumps Escaping the end of.. syndrome;

embrace the beginning of..

way of thinking


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1. Using Mind Mapping todescribe the problem

2. Excursion Technique

3. Prototyping

Creative Problem Solving


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Test case:How toimprovethe supermarketcart?
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Mind Mapping

Source: Joyce Wycoff


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Excursion Technique


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Applying Insight to the Problem

Put your mind map and yourexcursion together to generate

solutions to the problems youidentified

How can you build a bettershopping cart?


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IDEO on Nightline
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Prototyping

Observation of people & situations

Trials and tests

Three dimensional aspect

Inventive Feedback loops


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Quick prototyping is aboutacting before you have gotthe answers

Good prototypes dont justcommunicate, theypersuade.

Tom Kelley, IDEO


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Hurdles in the Way of Innovation

Photo by Marjorie Baillie
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The desire for perfection

interrupts the flow of innovation

Photo by Leo Reynolds
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Risk Aversion

Photo by anarchosyn
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What are you trying to

accomplish?

What does success look like?

Photo by r000pert
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Political implications

Cornelis Drebbel and 20,000 (1624)

Societal readinessPatterns of behavior

Political climateBuilding the message


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What are the politicalimplications of someinnovations your unit has triedor wishes to try?

Who needs to buy-in?

What timing issues exist?

What is the readiness for the

innovation?


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Convince (person, group, demographic)

That by (thinking, doing, considering)

They will (think, feel, do differently)

Which will (reach for a huge human benefit)

Because (embed your idea in sharedmission/values)

Creating an Action Brief

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The most successful people arethose who are willing to give uptheir most successfulstrategies.

Richard Foster


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