Innovation and Creative Thinking

Innovation will be the key differentiator in the new world in front of us, but what really counts is 'Innovation that works for a Change'. Systematic, discontinuous thinking, aligned with imaginative creativity, can create spectacular results:

• It gives fresh perspectives

• It creates opportunities

• It creates elegant simplicity

• It solves intractable problems

• It gives an 'edge'

However, the creative process needs to work in tandem with 'real-world, hard-edged' pragmatism to:

• Focus on real problems

• Align with systems and processes to avoid being simple flights of whimsy

• Generate ROI

• Be understandable

• Generate short term wins as well as long term insights

To generate these results, there exists a potent mix of resources:

• People - with appropriate mindsets

• Creative processes - harnessed for the modern world

• Challenge - to burn through the old and tired approaches

• Bootcamp - concentrated time and effort

• Clinic - the fix the execution

Creative Thinking Workshops

A series of workshops or 'bootcamps' to help people to understand how to: generate ideas; sort ideas; evaluate ideas; choose ideas; model impact; influence the organisation to execute; assess ROI from the ideas - from start to finish.

• To identify personal creative styles and strengths

• To understand creative thinking processes

• To apply creative thinking tools and methods to specific and tangible opportunities or problems

• To become less resistant to new ideas and change

• To understand the neuro-chemistry of thinking

• To challenge preconceptions and assumptions about the ability to learn the skill

• To link creativity with innovation to 'jump start' systems and processes

• To generate agility and simplification

Dr Russell Thackeray has been building resilience in organisations for a number of years and knows that so many more people could benefit from what QED do.  That’s why he decided to collect stories from ‘real’ people about their lives, challenges and learning and turn them into podcasts.

With over 250 episodes, Russell shares thoughts and ideas about resilience with different specialists and provides a bigger picture of how building resilience can make a real difference, to help people who may be facing similar challenges.

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