Creativity, Innovation, and Foresight in Action
Creativity, innovation, and foresight are closely connected concepts.
This week's reading from the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity introduced the connections between individual creativity, an organization's capacity for innovation, and the ability to predict coming trends and other important developments successfully.
The systematic approaches to creativity overviewed in this chapter offer a wide variety of means to foster creativity, but the most important knowledge you can gain from this reading is the fact that creativity is not an unexplainable phenomenon or a mysterious process. Rather, creativity can be approached systematically in order to seek out opportunities for innovation, based on foresight.
For this Discussion, you will analyze how foresight, creativity, and innovation are separate, yet interrelated, concepts. To prepare for the Discussion, read "Welcome to a World of Change: Life in the 21st century" (Puccio, et al, 2011) and "Moonshots for Management" (Hamel, 2009).
Also consider the tensions between innovation and creativity addressed in the article "Institutionalizing Ethical Innovation in Organizations: An Integrated Causal Model of Moral Innovation Decision Processes". Use this article as a foundation for evaluating creativity, foresight, and innovation within an ethical model.
selecting an organization -
it could be a company or even a division of a company - and describing a situation that demonstrates this organization's foresight, creativity, and innovation within an ethical model. Consider your own experience as well as observation. Your post should:
Provide an analysis of how the organization demonstrated each of these separate concepts in an interrelated and ethical way. Next, analyze the situation you have presented in light of foresight, creativity, and innovation in one of the following ways:
Analyze how the situation you have presented reflects the workplace trends discussed by Puccio (2011) or,
Analyze how the management strategies discussed by Hamel (2009) inform the situation you presented.
After completing your analysis using one of the approaches above, evaluate whether the trends or strategies fit within an ethical model and provide examples to support your analysis.
General Guidance
Your initial Discussion post will typically be 2-3 paragraphs in length as a general expectation/estimate. Refer to the rubric for Week 1 Discussion located in the Course Information Tab of the Main Menu for grading elements and criteria. Your instructor will use the rubric to assess your work in Week 2.
Read a selection of the posts submitted by your colleagues. You will be required to respond to their posts by Day 7 of Week 1.