Creativity in Business

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

During this course we will learn how we can manage creativity in organisations, what is the difference between creativity and innovation and how we can fit innovation into the organisational life cycle. We will learn how to use the Big Picture framework to build innovative products or services in the organisation. Together we will try to refine creativity techniques that can help us to prepare better solutions to our problems.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Reading list

Amabile, Teresa. (1988). A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations. Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 10, pp. 123-167). Greenwich

Amabile, Teresa (1998). How to Kill Creativity, Harvard Business Review,  9.

Catmull, Ed & Wallace, Amy (2014). Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. New York.

Chesbrough, Henry William (2003). Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. Harvard Business Press, New York.

Cooper, Robert (1990). Stage-Gate Systems: A New Tool for Managing New Products. Business Horizons, May-June.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2005). Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York.

Isaksen, Scott & Tidd, Joe (2006). Meeting the Innovation Challenge: Leadership for Transformation and Growth. Chichester.

Johnson, Steven (2010). Where good ideas come from. New York.

Kuang, Cliff & Fabricant, Robert (2019). User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, London.

Lercher, Hans (2020). The Big Picture. The Graz Innovation Model, Graz.

Levitt, Theodore (1963/2002). Creativity is Not Enough. Harvard Business Review.

Millar, Carla; Groth, Olaf; Mahon John (2018). Management Innovation in a VUCA World. California Management Review vol. 61(1).

Olsen, Dan (2014). The Lean Product Playbook. How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback. New Jersey.

Orme, Greg (2014). The Spark. How to ignite and lead business creativity. London.

Pluker, Jonathan (ed) (2022). Innovation and Creativity. Theory, Research, and Practice. New York.

Quinn, James Brian (1985). Innovation and Corporate Strategy. Managed Chaos. Technology in Society. vol. 7.

Sutherland, Jeff (2014). Scrum. The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. New York.

Trott, Paul (2017). Innovation Management and New Product Development. Pearson. Harlow