| Title : | Innovation demystified : tapping into our creative core | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Richard Lawler, Author | | Publisher: | Kilmessan : Varsity Press | | Publication Date: | 2011 | | Pagination: | 146 p. | | Layout: | ill (b & w) | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-908417-16-9 | | Class number: | 650.1 | | Abstract: | Despite the best efforts of an exam-obsessed educational system to snuff out and squash our imagination, every one of us has the creative spark that allows us to be innovative. Richard Lawlor, the founder of StartInnovating, has compiled a tool-kit of simple techniques for tapping into our creative core and harnessing our imagination. Lawlor wants us all to become innovation ambassadors, innovation champions who establish a beachhead for creativity and innovation, whether we operate alone or work in a large company.
The book avoids an academic discussion about the theory of innovation, and focuses squarely on techniques for creating our own personal creativity plan. Lawlor also provides weapons to help us defend ourselves against the naysayers who will try and persuade us that our ideas are no good. | | Contents note: | Foreword; Preface: A Little Boy by Helen Buckley; Introduction: Why another book about innovation?; 1 Defining innovation; 2 Curiosity and other creativity drivers; 3 What's the problem?; 4 Brainstorming and other ways of generating ideas; 5 Idea selection; 6 Fuelling your creative comfort zone; 7 Buy-in, pitchin', presentin'; 8 Execution and AAR (after action review); 9 Tolerance for failure; 10 Pulling it all together; Appendix: Neurobic desk exercises. |
Innovation demystified : tapping into our creative core [printed text] / Richard Lawler, Author . - Kilmessan : Varsity Press, 2011 . - 146 p. : ill (b & w) ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-1-908417-16-9 | Class number: | 650.1 | | Abstract: | Despite the best efforts of an exam-obsessed educational system to snuff out and squash our imagination, every one of us has the creative spark that allows us to be innovative. Richard Lawlor, the founder of StartInnovating, has compiled a tool-kit of simple techniques for tapping into our creative core and harnessing our imagination. Lawlor wants us all to become innovation ambassadors, innovation champions who establish a beachhead for creativity and innovation, whether we operate alone or work in a large company.
The book avoids an academic discussion about the theory of innovation, and focuses squarely on techniques for creating our own personal creativity plan. Lawlor also provides weapons to help us defend ourselves against the naysayers who will try and persuade us that our ideas are no good. | | Contents note: | Foreword; Preface: A Little Boy by Helen Buckley; Introduction: Why another book about innovation?; 1 Defining innovation; 2 Curiosity and other creativity drivers; 3 What's the problem?; 4 Brainstorming and other ways of generating ideas; 5 Idea selection; 6 Fuelling your creative comfort zone; 7 Buy-in, pitchin', presentin'; 8 Execution and AAR (after action review); 9 Tolerance for failure; 10 Pulling it all together; Appendix: Neurobic desk exercises. |
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