Be the Innovators

How to Accelerate Team Creativity

Peter Ling

Organisations are growing in a complex technology- driven environment and chief executives have expressed the need for more creative employees to steer innovation. Be the Innovators provides readers with ideas for benchmarking best practices in innovation, empowering creative excellence, leveraging collective growth and connecting a spectrum of individual and team ideas. Based on the belief that innovations change peopleas lives, Peter Ling provides insights into innovative individuals, companies and countries. He illustrates how to empower employees to engage in corporate mission, values and vision.

Be the Innovators

How to Accelerate Team Creativity

Peter Ling

Description

Want to know how creative people innovate? This book gives you models and practices that you can use with your team to help you be the innovators of your organisation.

Organisations are growing in a complex technology- driven environment and chief executives have expressed the need for more creative employees to steer innovation. Be the Innovators provides readers with ideas for benchmarking best practices in innovation, empowering creative excellence, leveraging collective growth and connecting a spectrum of individual and team ideas. Based on the belief that innovations change peopleas lives, Peter Ling provides insights into innovative individuals, companies and countries. He illustrates how to empower employees to engage in corporate mission, values and vision.

This is a practical book for private, public and non-profit organisations to develop and refine leadership skills through innovation. It will trigger new creative connections in readers' minds to help accelerate innovation through team creativity. It will also accelerate your personal, team and group creativity processes to help your corporation innovate in many ways.

Be the Innovators

How to Accelerate Team Creativity

Peter Ling

Chapter 1 - Innovation and Team Creativity Catalysts
Chapter 2 - Mastery Modelling: Benchmarking Innovation
Chapter 3 - Intensive Immersion: Empowered Exploration
Chapter 4 - Group Germination: Collective Growth
Chapter 5 - Mind Netting: Brainstorming
Chapter 6 - Mind Netting: Creative Problem Solving Process
Chapter 7 - Mind Nettings: Synectics Innovation Problem Solving
Chapter 8 - Mind Netting: Lateral and Multidimensional Thinking
Chapter 9 - Mind Netting: TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving
Chapter 10 - Mind Netting: Attribute Listings and Morphological Synthesis
Chapter 11 - Conclusion: Accelerating Team Creativity and Innovation

Be the Innovators

How to Accelerate Team Creativity

Peter Ling

Author Information

Peter Ling

Dr Peter Ling is with the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. He has been Deputy Dean since 2011 responsible for discipline clusters and recently the international portfolio. Before he entered academia with Edith Cowan University, he had worked in team creativity consulting, advertising agency management, marketing communication consultancy, public relations and journalism. He has worked in Singapore, Taipei, Perth and Melbourne, including training attachments with Young & Rubicam Advertising in New York and Lintas Advertising in Sydney. He has written hundreds of industry articles and cases for various publishers and is the lead author of Consumer Behaviour in Action (OUP).

Be the Innovators

How to Accelerate Team Creativity

Peter Ling

Reviews and Awards

"Ling [provides] a clearly sourced, cleanly written compendium of ideation and innovation tools, processes, and resources. This is an extremely useful gazetteer and annotated bibliography on the subject. Those seeking additional information on specific topics can use this text as a springboard for further research and discussion. The practical illustrations and cases spur new 'creative connections.' Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels." --M. M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley