Creativity And Innovation In Organizations

Author : Michael D. Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351755544
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Innovation in Organizations written by Michael D. Mumford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors, this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities, personality, and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity, but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently, firm-level influences such as planning, learning, strategy, and professions that influence the success of creative and innovative efforts are examined. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book offers a comprehensive review of creativity and innovation to assist researchers and practitioners in their quests to understand and improve organizational creativity and innovation. This is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, or graduate students interested in creativity, innovation, and organizational behavior.

Author : Leigh L. Thompson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135612382
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams written by Leigh L. Thompson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume from a conference held at Northwestern University concerns the latest research on creativity and innovations in groups. It represents research from three different camps: group, cognitive processes, and organizational behavior.

Author : Len Ferman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516541942
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices written by Len Ferman and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices provides a foundation in the principles of innovation and introduces some cutting-edge concepts. The core of the book demonstrates how to generate, evaluate, and design ideas to solve business problems. Over the course of eight chapters, the anthology delivers insightful articles carefully selected from leading authors such as Clayton Christensen, Robert Cooper, Ram Charan, and Vijay Govindarajan, as well as award-winning case studies on how prominent businesses, including Apple and Google, have leveraged innovation. Readers explore insightful articles about driving business growth through innovation, creating a culture of innovation, identifying customer needs, and using innovation to solve customer problems. Additional readings examine idea evaluation, how to design new products and services to meet customer's needs, and the implementation of innovation processes and practices. Business Creativity and Innovation is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in business innovation, product development, strategic management, business leadership, entrepreneurship, design thinking, marketing strategy, and decision making. The book can also serve as an enlightening manual for businesses and corporations, as it provides a framework for managing the innovation process from which organizations of any size can benefit. A former business innovation executive for Fortune 100 companies like AT&T and Bank of America, Len Ferman earned his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, M.A. in economics from Duke University, and B.S. in economics from Lehigh University. He is an adjunct professor of management at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses he developed on business innovation, and is a faculty member of the American Management Association. He is the founder and managing director of Ferman Innovation and a frequent speaker on business innovation.

Author : Michael D. Mumford
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123747147
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Organizational Creativity written by Michael D. Mumford and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael D. Mumford

Author : Olivier Serrat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981100983X
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Solutions written by Olivier Serrat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license. This book comprehensively covers topics in knowledge management and competence in strategy development, management techniques, collaboration mechanisms, knowledge sharing and learning, as well as knowledge capture and storage. Presented in accessible “chunks,” it includes more than 120 topics that are essential to high-performance organizations. The extensive use of quotes by respected experts juxtaposed with relevant research to counterpoint or lend weight to key concepts; “cheat sheets” that simplify access and reference to individual articles; as well as the grouping of many of these topics under recurrent themes make this book unique. In addition, it provides scalable tried-and-tested tools, method and approaches for improved organizational effectiveness. The research included is particularly useful to knowledge workers engaged in executive leadership; research, analysis and advice; and corporate management and administration. It is a valuable resource for those working in the public, private and third sectors, both in industrialized and developing countries.

Author : José Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351401564
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Innovation in Organizations written by José Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the increasing variety of perspectives in organizational innovation research, paying attention to the antecedents, but also to the outcomes, of innovation. Some chapters analyze the ‘dark side’ of innovation, including the potential negative consequences of innovative behaviors, or of defying the innovation maximization fallacy. Others explicitly consider affective responses after innovation efforts, and assume that positive or negative effects rely on the context in which innovations occur, and on the way in which people manage the process of innovation. Several contributions adopt the dialectic approach by considering the multiple pathways and mechanisms that could lead to innovation at organizations. Most of the chapters include the interaction of actors’ characteristics (from employees or teams) together with situational constraints from the task or the social context, and outline the relevance of processes like team learning; motivation variables like basic need satisfaction; congruence of motives or meaningfulness at work; dynamics of communication networks; and affective variables. This edited collection offers a rich picture of current research and management trends in the field and contributes constructively toward promoting the dialectic perspective on creativity and innovation in the workplace. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Author : Michael D. Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351755552
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Innovation in Organizations written by Michael D. Mumford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors, this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities, personality, and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity, but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently, firm-level influences such as planning, learning, strategy, and professions that influence the success of creative and innovative efforts are examined. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book offers a comprehensive review of creativity and innovation to assist researchers and practitioners in their quests to understand and improve organizational creativity and innovation. This is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, or graduate students interested in creativity, innovation, and organizational behavior.

Author : H. James Harrington
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429756968
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship written by H. James Harrington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas), problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error) and entrepreneurs (people who transform ideas into realities). Put them altogether they spell "innovator." Most innovative books today focus on ways to create new and unique ideas; some of them also address problem-solving, but this is less than 10% of the methodologies that the innovator needs to master. The approaches used in this book transform an idea into reality, or to put it another way, deliver innovative products to make a profit for the organization and instill pride in its employees. This means that every step in the process needs to have innovation applied to it in order to meet the expectations and demands of today's sophisticated customer. This book is designed to help the reader and their organization complete the complex process of bringing a new product to market by presenting what is expected at each step in the cycle and providing step-by-step instructions on what to do at each specific step. In large to mid-sized organizations this book is designed to help each individual understand how they fit into the innovative cycle and explains why they should be more creative related to the work they do and more conscious of the contributions they can make. It emphasizes the importance of every individual contributing to the organization's innovative process. The book is designed to help the organization understand its Innovation Systems Cycle. In the early part of the cycle it focuses on weeding out projects that do not have the potential to produce value-added results to the stakeholders. By using the guidelines outlined in this book, an organization can reduce its new project failure rate by as much as 50% which should result in almost doubling the organization’s new product output thereby increasing profits by as much as 15%.

Author : Leon Mann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136840648
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond written by Leon Mann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates the ways in which creativity spurs innovation – not only in the realms of business and management, where the innovation is regularly acknowledged and discussed, but throughout the social sciences. With contributions from experts in fields as far-flung as policy, history, economics, law, psychology, and education, in addition to business and management, this volume explores the manifold avenues for creativity and innovation within and across a multitude of disciplines.

Author : Madan Birla
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111879477X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unleashing Creativity and Innovation written by Madan Birla and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and innovation are the keys to both organizational growth and successful careers. People understand this, but they do not know how to unleash their natural creative potential. Drawing upon his twenty-two years of first-hand experience helping FedEx grow into a global icon and the last ten years consulting around the world, Madan Birla provides proven and practical answers. Readers will learn How to build a reputation as a creative thinker and become management’s go-to person for innovative business solutions Four steps for unleashing their creative potential and generating creative ideas Four communication skills to gain acceptance of your ideas Two words that guarantee promotions How to minimize internal and external negative influences that obstruct creative energy flow How to stop self-censoring and how to confidently express their ideas How to trust that all the resources for germinating creative ideas are within them