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INNOVATION ON TAP

Situation

You’ll have noticed the demand for being more innovative. But you may be wondering just how you can turn on your creative juices at will. Your experience may even lead you to doubt the value of producing volumes of crazy ideas. In all honesty, don’t you find that brainstorming and other creativity techniques to be unreliable, uncritical and unproductive?

 

Solution 

Visual tools put your hands on the levers and dials of creativity. They help you break down the creative process into step–by–step methods you can follow. By capturing and displaying possibilities visually, you are able to explore and forge innovative permutations. Why? Because you can explore a far greater number of alternative ideas visually than you ever can in your head. It also speeds up the process and helps you and your team to analyse your ideas. Crucially, you can repeat this process however creative you may, or may not, be feeling at the time.

 

Benefits 

By adopting visual tools to guide your creativity, you can expect to see yourself:

  • - Approaching your work from a fresh perspective
  • - Adopting different points of view when problem solving
  • - Adding rigour and critique to your creativity
  • - Persisting through arid phases by following known steps
  • - Saving time by replicating successful processes
  • - Stimulating more creative discussions in your teams
  • - Persuading others by demonstrating the viability of different options
  • - Questioning assumptions and exploring alternatives

 

In Practice 

As In 2007 St Helens authority used Model Learning for insights into creative leadership and strategies for innovation.