Creative Thinking A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
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Are meetings run using principles which will encourage creative thinking?
Does critical/creative thinking actually work in the operational environment?
Does group participation when using brainstorming facilitate or inhibit creative thinking?
Does the method and its techniques encourage creative thinking about safety and security aspects?
Have you seen to it that people build skills in creative thinking and innovation?
How are innovation and creative thinking cultivated in your organization?
How much time of the design phase is left for creative thinking?
What creative thinking techniques do you use to generate ideas?
Why is creative thinking an important leadership skill?
Why teach critical and creative thinking strategies?
This Creative Thinking Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Creative Thinking challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Creative Thinking investments work better.
This Creative Thinking All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.
INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Creative Thinking Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Creative Thinking maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Creative Thinking improvements can be made.
In using the questions you will be better able to:
Diagnose Creative Thinking projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.
Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.
Integrate recent advances in Creative Thinking and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.
Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Creative Thinking Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Creative Thinking areas need attention.
Your purchase includes access to the Creative Thinking self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Creative Thinking, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Creative Thinking have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Creative Thinking, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Creative Thinking initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on