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
[Gap]
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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