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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

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Some people still debate whether creativity is something which only certain people are born with, or whether it can be developed in everyone. Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with).

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Happiness is linked to higher creativity

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Many people have the stereotype of a creative person as someone who is broody, weird and possibly a little depressed. Numerous studies have looked at what sort of mood results in people producing their most creative output. And the results are overwhelmingly clear: Being happy is good for your creativity.

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Creative Analysis – Innovation’s Secret Sauce

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But the secret of innovation is that we can engage our mind on all levels, with creative analysis. There’s a difference between creativity, which generates a new way to tackle an opportunity or challenge, and analysis, which looks at what’s happening and evaluates it. How Creative Analysis Works.

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The creative personality: Which of the Big 5 Personality Traits is associated with creativity?

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Why do creative people often behave so differently than other people? For decades, researchers have been trying to find out what makes up the personality profile of creative, innovative people. However, in order to be able to identify the personality of creative people, researchers needed to agree on a way to study personality at all.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand.

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Why decision makers react to creative ideas like vomit: The Anti-Creativity Bias

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Why is it that while so many companies say they want to encourage creativity, they actually end up rejecting it? This is what researchers Jennier Mueller, Jack Goncalo and Shimul Melwani set out to study, and published their results in The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas.

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Who is more creative: Oldest, middle or youngest siblings?

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Which of you do you think is the most creative? Well, a new meta analysis of divergent thinking research just set out to find out what the science says. The studies aimed to investigate any links between birth order and creative performance. The most creative siblings in general are… … … First Born siblings.

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Never Miss an Opportunity: How ISO 56000 Enables an Innovative Organization

Speaker: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc.

One of the challenges for innovators is how to integrate Innovation with Quality Management (QMS) and balance the culture of creativity with execution. Tools such as SWOT, Opportunity Analysis, Ethnography and Ideation. This webinar will show how to build innovation into a Quality System such as ISO 9001.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.