Strategies for Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

Four Strategies to Develop the Best Ideas

Name and explain four of the five strategies to develop the best ideas:

• Not inviting limitations: Often, absent restraints are placed on ideas. Make sure to challenge assumptions, overcome personal experiences, and maybe get out of respect for the rules.
• Fluency: Fluency in ideas is understood as the capacity to generate a large number of alternative solutions to a given problem in a specific time and space.
• Flexibility: If an idea does not work, it can always be reconsidered from a different standpoint. This flexibility requires being able to see and understand different expectations in different ways.
• Sensitivity to problems: Sensitivity is understood as the ability to assess that the problem exists. To develop creative potential, it is as important to identify a problem as it is to solve it. Do so with sufficient notice so that it does not jeopardize the project.

Characteristics of Creative Individuals

Name and explain three characteristics of a creative person:

• Writers who are responding to problems may be task-oriented and work for longer periods. They see themselves as members of a profession rather than participants in an institution.
• Gifted individuals occupy more time in the initial phases of formulating a problem, while the underfunded dive right into the theme.
• Highly creative individuals are more likely to have the challenge of life, showing a less dogmatic and more relativistic vision, more independence, and less conventional judgment and conformity.

Creative Individuals vs. Creative Institutions

According to Steiner, compare the creative individual and the creative institution, stating three characteristics of each:

Creative Individual

1. Early self-commitment to a trial.
2. Spends more time in exploration.
3. Originality in provisional ideas.

Creative Institution

1. Investment in basic research, flexible long-term planning.
2. Experimenting with new ideas before judging them on a rational basis.
3. Encourages contact with heterogeneous sources and assigns generalist staff to problems.

Project Definition

Project: “Project” comes from the word “projectum.” It refers to an idea to achieve a specific goal. It is a reflective process that a community makes, designed to explain the pedagogical intentionality. It is a coherent set of actions to modify a given initial situation in an object; it is a tool of education.

Educational Innovation

What is educational innovation according to Wesley? Describe and explain three processes:

1. Innovations occur through the accumulation of a variety of changes. When an innovation presents as an accumulation of changes, it is taken as a consequence. Innovation requires each of the changes to introduce new elements and an improvement.
2. Improvements are developed from the base; this is the generation of new ideas by those involved in the educational process. Some of those ideas are prepared for a similar system, processed, and incorporated with consequences for rules and practice.
3. Changes occur through decisions amended by a suitable policy of central government authority (regional or local). It decides to adopt a new idea and dictates the rules and instructions necessary to carry them out. This refers to the multiple changes that never impact the educational system.

Organizational Learning

List and explain three principles of organizational learning, or the eagerness to implement new strategies to affect an organization:

• The process of change must be systematic: Organizations are complex, highly independent open systems.
• The process of change should encourage open discussion: Barriers to effective adaptation are the implementation of a plan and any impediments it faces.
• The process of change must have a collaborative relationship between those involved: There must be an interconnection of roles and responsibilities.