Leadership Skills – Creativity and Innovation in Business
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
brings you techniques and tools that you can use to develop creative and innovative solutions to your business problems. Creativity means having the ability to come up with something truly innovative and original by pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. Business innovation occurs when an organization introduces new processes, services or products to bring about a positive change in its business. Creative innovation is the cornerstone of sustained business growth and prosperity. Part of your job as a manager is to foster new ideas, because an organization cannot expect to maintain a competitive advantage if innovation is not part of the overall business strategy.
Learn creativity tools that will help you develop and express new ideas that may be useful. Learn how to apply your knowledge in new products, processes or services that are original, relevant and appreciated.
Today’s dynamic business world demands that you make decisions that dramatically increase productivity and provide competitive advantage. But how do you know if a decision will benefit the organization? And how do you know that decisions are based on rational and statistical reasoning? Find out how to become a dynamic problem solver with the skills to make accurate decisions.
Part of your job as a manager is to foster new ideas. But how do you build a team with the right mix of skills and perspectives to promote creativity? Creativity is the ability to come up with new and different ideas or fixed revolutionary ways of thinking. Learn how to manage an intellectually diverse workgroup and its environment to produce more and better ideas that encourage innovation during product and work process development.
Management perspectives and procedures have been revolutionized by more and more innovations in recent years. It is no longer possible to follow traditional approaches to developing your organization’s direction, management and effectiveness. Senior managers must be good decision makers. In this section, we introduce the concepts of strategy, strategic planning, strategic leadership, their exact meaning and associated terms, and how to use them.