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Welcome to the
Big City Brainstorm
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Julius WeinbergActing Vice-Chancellor and President,
City University London
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Prof. Neil MaidenAcademic Lead, Centre for Creativity
City University London
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Creativity and the UK Economy
Cox Review [2005]• Creativity vital to UK’s long-term economic success• UK business not realizing full potential of creativity outside creative industries
DTI highlighted• Competitive tools for firms and formal education• Enhancing supply of … management and business skills
Current economic climate• Smart thinking based on creativity more essential than ever
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Centre for Creativity in Professional PracticeUniversity-funded interdisciplinary centre• 2 years seed funding, creativity across all professional practices
business
engineering
computing
social sciences
community and health sciences
artslaw
learning development
Creativity in Professional
Practice
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Four Centre Activities1. Launch new Masters
• Innovation, Creativity and Leadership• Launch Oct 2009 for Sep 2010
2. Teach creativity to all undergraduates• Cross-school teaching to all 1st years• Core creative problem solving skills
3. Step increase in creativity research• More interdisciplinary research• Institution-level research bids
4. Research network• City as hub of creativity activities
Creativity skills
Innovations
Organizations
Enablers
Leadership
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Roger Neill
Centre Director
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Innovation: The Scale of the Problem
80% consider innovation important
4% rate their organisation superior at it
Synectics survey, USA
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Leadership
The skill most lacking (No 1 at 44% overall)
More so in the public service sector (No 1 at 57%)
Survey by The Director magazine, Institute of Directors, 2008
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Break the Rules
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Value Absurdity
“If at first, the idea is not
absurd, then there is
no hope for it.”
Albert Einstein
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Discovery
“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new
lands but in seeing with new eyes”
Marcel Proust
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Work in Metaphors
“The metaphor is probably the most
fertile power possessed by men”
Ortega y Gasset
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Experimentation
“There is no such thing as a failed
experiment, only experiments with unexpected
outcomes”
Buckminster Fuller
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It's all invented
"What is now proved was once only
imagin’d."
William Blake
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Collaborative Idea Development
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Go Wishing Together
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Creative Process
Select
Task
Brainstorm
Problem-solve
Action planning
Non-sense
Sense
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Groundrules for working together Anything goes
Build, don't judge
Headline first ("How to...", "I wish...")
Share the airtime
Listen in two ways - to others and to yourself
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In/Out Listening
In Out
Lecture notes
What I’m hearing
My ideas
Speculations
What I’m thinking
Ideas of others
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Task Headline
How to rebuild the reputation of the
UK’s financial services sector
and the City of London
as the world’s leading financial centre
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15 September 2009
First anniversary of the fall...
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14 September 2009
2nd anniversary of the Bank of England intervention ...