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Creative and critical thinking in innovation

Norbert Bol

Looking at the feedback received, there were many creative ideas to make further progress towards a circular economy but there was also reasoning about the issues and ideas. In the innovation literature it is a normal phenomenon that both creative thinking and critical thinking are present. Thinking Skills and Creativity.

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Strategic Planning Process – 2 Fun Ways to Frame Important Questions

BrainZooming

Jack and his Extreme Creativity Beans. Suppose you need extreme creative thinking. The kind of extreme creativity that comes from people with their heads in the clouds! Take the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and imagine the magic beans are extreme creativity questions.

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Boosting creativity and innovation

Norbert Bol

Boosting creativity and innovation. When we want to boost creativity and innovation in an organization, there is not only a need for creative people but there is also the need for an organization supporting an innovative culture (see also the blog: Innovation is built on the desire for success ). Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Creative independence to innovate together

Norbert Bol

Innovation leaders should however not focus on finding the answers to innovation challanges or setting the vision, as innovation requires creativity and room for passionate disagreement as well as support. Continuous innovation: unleashing and harnessing the creative energies of a willing and able community. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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The Way to Successfully Share a Strategy

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Borrowed from the idea of a communications brief , a strategy brief will: Prompt greater strategic clarity and expectation setting. Help team members who are working on communicating and implementing the plan to perform effectively and creatively. Guidelines.

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Creative destruction: innovation for sustainability transition

Norbert Bol

This so called policy mix of stimulating the ‘creation’ of the new and for ‘destroying’ of the old, is built on the concept op creative destruction as proposed by Joseph Schumpeter. Kivimaa & Kern (2016) show the results of policy mixes that aim for creative destruction in the UK and Finland. Norbert Bol.

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80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas!

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That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun. 4 Times to Avoid Toys.

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