CREATING CONTEXT

BRAINSTORMING, IMPROVISATION & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Matt Moorehttp://engineerswithoutfears.blogspot.com

TO BEGIN…

Topics

•How can I publicise my KM project?

•How can this event be improved?

•How do I engage with stakeholders for my KM project?

•How can we get people to collaborate more?

•How can I get KM incorporated into the business planning processes of my

organisation?

•How can we ensure that people update their intranet profiles?

•How can we make Australia great(er)?

•How can we make people more productive?

•How can we make soccer more popular here?

How can we retire rich next week?

BRAINSTORMING

Guidelines• No criticism• Wilder the better• Quantity• Combination & Improvement

Also• Facilitation• Good questions• Scribe• Preparation beforehand

http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques

IMPROV

CREATIVITY INNOVATION

Four Reasons Why KM Should Care About Creativity & Innovation

THE CONTEXT OF CREATIVITY

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QUESTIONS

•When have you been especially creative?

•What were the circumstances? (the type of activity you were doing,

your own behaviour, how others acted)

QUESTIONS

•When have you been especially creative?

•What were the circumstances? (the type of activity you were doing,

your own behaviour, how others acted)

•When have you felt your creativity has been stifled?

•What were the circumstances? (the type of activity you were doing,

your own behaviour, how others acted)

Six Myths of Creativity

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/creativity.html

Enhancing Creativity

How To Kill Creativity - Harvard Business Review Sept 1998

http://innovationstyles.com

THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATION

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http://www.cognitive-edge.com

http://www.cognitive-edge.com

• Anthropologist• Experimenter• Cross-Pollinator• Hurdler• Collaborator• Director• Experience Architect• Set Designer• Storyteller• Caregiver

http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/

11.5 Weird Ideas That Work

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/08/twelve_weird_id.html

1. Hire slow learners (of the organizational code).

1 ½. Hire people who make you feel uncomfortable, even those you dislike.

2. Hire people you (probably) don’t need.

3. Use job interviews to get new ideas, not to screen candidates.

4. Encourage people to ignore and defy superiors and peers.

5. Find some happy people, and get them to fight.

6. Reward success and failure, punish inaction.

7. Decide to do something that will probably fail, then convince yourself and

everyone else that success is certain.

8. Think of some ridiculous or impractical things to do, and then plan to do them.

9. Avoid, distract, and bore customers, critics, and anyone who just wants to talk

about money.

10. Don’t try to learn anything from people who seem to have solve the problem you

face.

11. Forget the past, especially your company’s successes.

Ten Myths of Innovation

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/the-book-the-myths-of-innovation/

1. Myth of epiphany.

2. We understand the history of innovation.

3. There is a method for innovation.

4. People love new ideas.

5. The lone inventor.

6. Good ideas are hard to find.

7. Your boss knows more about innovation than you.

8. The best ideas win.

9. Problems and solutions.

10. Innovation is always good.

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTEXT

WHERE ARE WE IN THE PICTURE?

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