Creating Change for Tomorrow Today final

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Creating Change for Tomorrow Today When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change. : 

Creating Change for Tomorrow Today When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change. Presentation by: Jean Carroccio MPA, MSW Certified Creative Thinking Consultant

What if… : 

3 What if… You could learn to think creatively? Turn problems into opportunities? Find alternative solutions? Increase your number of new & practical ideas? Spark your creativity on demand?

What is Creative Thinking? : 

What is Creative Thinking? Belief in Alternatives Changing Concepts & Perceptions Breaking Patterns Making Novel Connections

Organizational Context: Applying Creative Thinking & Action : 

5 Organizational Context: Applying Creative Thinking & Action Doing the RIGHT THINGS Focus: Effectiveness Doing THINGS RIGHT Focus: Efficiency Doing THINGS BETTER Focus: Improvement

The Organizational Context Applying Creative Thinking : 

6 The Organizational Context Applying Creative Thinking Doing AWAY WITH THINGS Focus: Cutting Doing Things THAT OTHERS DO Focus: Copying Doing Things NO ONE ELSE IS DOING Focus: Different Doing Things That CAN’T BE DONE Focus: Impossible

CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINKSCAMMPER Method : 

7 CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINKSCAMMPER Method Break habitual ways of thinking to produce: A variety of Fresh Thoughts New Insights Original Ideas Creative Solutions to Problems

SCAMMPER : 

8 Substitute Combine Adapt Modify / Magnify / Minify Put to Other Uses Eliminate Reverse / Re-arranage SCAMMPER

A way of changing this for that and that for this: Substitute things, places, procedures, people, ideas Can I substitute something? Who else? What else? Can the rules be changed? Other Resource? Other Material? Other Power? Other Location? Other Space? Other Place? What else instead? : 

9 A way of changing this for that and that for this: Substitute things, places, procedures, people, ideas Can I substitute something? Who else? What else? Can the rules be changed? Other Resource? Other Material? Other Power? Other Location? Other Space? Other Place? What else instead? SUBSTITUTE

COMBINE : 

10 COMBINE Can I Combine it with something else? Combining previously unrelated ideas or subjects to make something new. Called synthesis and is regarded by many experts as the essence of creativity. What ideas can be combined? Can we combine purposes? How about an assortment? A Blend? An ensemble? Combine units? Combine materials? What could this be merged with?

ADAPT : 

11 ADAPT One of the paradoxes of creativity, in order to think originally, we must first familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others. What ideas outside my field can I incorporate? What else is like this? What other ideas does it suggest? What other process could be adapted? What else could be adapted? What different contexts can I put my concept in?

MAGNIFY : 

12 MAGNIFY An easy way to create a new idea is to take a subject and add something to it (or shrink something): What can be magnified made larger, or extended? What can be exaggerated? Overstated? Understated? What can be added? More time? Stronger? Higher? Longer? How about greater frequency? Extra features? What can be duplicated? What can add extra value? How can I carry it to a dramatic extreme?

MODIFY : 

13 MODIFY Just about any aspect of anything can be modified: How can this be altered for the better? What can be modified? Is there a new twist? Change meaning, color, motion, sound, form, shape? Change name? What changes can be made in the plans? Change processes and/or procedures? What other form could this take? What other package?

PUT TO OTHER USES : 

14 PUT TO OTHER USES A subject takes it’s meaning from its context: Change the context and you change the meaning. What else can this be used for? Are there any new ways to use this as is? Other uses if modified? What else can be made from this? Other extension? Other markets?

ELIMINATE : 

15 ELIMINATE Sometimes removing something from your subject yields new ideas - trimming down ideas, objects, and processes may gradually narrow the subject down to its necessary part or function—or spotlight a part that’s appropriate for some other use. What if this were smaller? Understated? What should I omit? Delete? Subtract? What’s not necessary? Should I divide it? Split it up? Separate it into different parts? Streamline? Make miniature? Condense? Compact? Can the rules be eliminated?

REVERSE : 

16 REVERSE Reversing your perspective opens your thinking. What are the opposites? Can I transpose positive and negative? Should I turn it around? First instead of last? Last instead of first? Consider it backwards? Reverse roles? Do the unexpected?

RE-ARRANGE : 

17 RE-ARRANGE Rearrangement usually offers countless alternatives for ideas, goods, and services. What other arrangement might be better? Interchange components Other pattern? Other layout? Other sequence? Change the order? Transpose cause and effect? Change pace? Change schedule?

Organizational Climate : 

18 Organizational Climate Resources Idea Time Idea Support Challenge and Involvement Personal Motivation Trust and Openness Playfulness and Humor Absence of Interpersonal Conflicts Exploration Risk-taking Debates About the Issues Freedom Creativity: How is Your Climate for Innovation? Charles Prather, Ph.D. 1996

Acknowledgements/Resources : 

19 Acknowledgements/Resources Cracking Creativity: Michael Milchalko 1998 Mavericks at Work: William C. Taylor & Polly La Barre 2006 Igniting Innovation: David Tanner 2008 Five Star Mind: Tom Wujec 1995 Edward de Bono: de Bono Thinking Systems Alex Osborn: Originator of Brainstorming Don Eberle: Originator of SCAMMPER mnemonic

Questions : 

20 Questions …please send input using the chat feature in the lower left corner of your screen. Your input will be given to upcoming presenters and considered for future presentations.

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21 Jean Carroccio Jeanthink@earthlink.net Creativity is the making of the new and the rearranging of the old in a new way To continue this conversation visit: The NCOA/NISC Share Forum at www.ncoa.org/content.cfm?sectionid=320 Join NCOA! Visit www.ncoa.org Contact Information