Innovation at Work: 55 Activities to Spark Your Team's Creativity by Richard Brynteson
How-to guide with worksheets, questions, and case studies to inspire discussion as well as assessments for determining managers' openness to innovation. Provides readers with a roadmap for fostering creativity and innovation. This book describes how to apply techniques detailed in other books. 284 pages
OUTLINE
Part 1 - The Practice of Innovation
Forget, Unlearn, Dismantle
What If?
Innovative Connections
Levels of Innovation
Alternative Uses
Jobs that Need to be Done
A New TV Program
Storytelling
Love of Failure
Visioning
Green Innovation
Practical Individual Creative Skills
Part 2 - The Innovative Personality and Skill Sets
Inquisitiveness
Building Networks
The Rebel
Personality Trait—The Next Box #1
Personality Trait—The Next Box #2
Personality Trait—The Next Box #3
Design an Experiment
Building Innovation DNA into Your Life
Creative Problem Solving
Brainwriting
Game / Simulation—Assessment the Problem-Solving Game 1
Game / Simulation—The Problem-Solving Game 2
Game / Simulation—The Problem-Solving Game 3
Instructions for Scoring—The Problem-Solving Game
Analytical Thinking Test
Test of Creativity
Leadership and Team Building
Building a Winning Team
Teams and Traditional Work Units—Some Differences
Part 3 - The Culture of Innovation
Determine Your Current Culture
Open Source Innovation
Killing the Naysayer
Where do Babies (Innovative Ideas) Come From?
Failure Notebook
Faces of Innovation
Event/Pattern/Structure
Trend Spotting
Creative Collaboration
Building an Innovative Culture I
Building an Innovative Culture II
Scaffolding—Toward a Culture of Innovation
Part 4 - The Innovative Process
Open Source Innovation
Deep Inquiry
Creative Collage Making
Disassembling
Question Circle
Deep Empathy
Photo Wall
Can You Hear Me Now?
Redesign Rooms
Two Circle Critique
Force Field Analysis
Litmus Test
Attribute Listing
Blue Ocean Technique
Club Med Exercise
Designing an Innovation Room
Scamper
Posters and Quotes
50 Innovation Techniques—Addendums
Step #1—Probe the Constituency—Questions to Consider
Step #2—Observe the Real Situation—Questions to Consider
Step #3—Develop New Concepts—Questions to Consider
Step #4—Converge and Build Prototypes—Questions to Consider
Step #5—Implementation Process—Questions to Consider
Categories of Innovation
Accident as Innovation
Innovation Cases
Navy Patrol Boats
Air Force—Missing Tools
Infantry—Night Vision Goggles
Infantry—Carrying Too Much Weight
Live Fire Zone
Chinook Helicopters—Hydraulic System
A New Television Program
New Corporate Processes