1. Thank you for inviting me!

2. Tapping the Creative Spirit to Spur Innovation
Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania March 27, 2009
Kathryn Deiss, ACRL Content Strategist

3. Who is creative?
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4. Creative Inventions Lightning Rounds - 60 secs
Create an invention using your card and someone else’s
2. Write it down on back of card
3. Find another person and repeat
4. Find another person and repeat

5. Definitions
 Creativity: …a process of developing and expressing novel ideas that are likely to be useful
 Innovation: …the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services
Source: Leonard, Dorothy and Walter Swap. When Sparks Fly. (1999)

6. Where are you? Creativity Divergent Thinking Convergent Thinking
Problem/ Opportunity
Decision Point

7. The Creative Process
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8. Problem/opportunity identification
Generating ideas *
Analyzing options
Choosing among good ideas
Implementing prototypes *
Getting feedback *
Revising and reintroducing

9. Creative Spaces Tools & Practices Attitudes & Frames of Mind
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10. Tools and Practices
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11. What practices can we put in place to develop the creative habit?
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12. Tools of Creativity Precise observation Penetrating questions
Absence of judgment
Faith in your resources
Goleman, Kaufman & Ray. The Creative Spirit. New York: 1992

13. Stages of Creativity Preparation Time off The spark! Selection
Elaboration
Source: Sawyer, Keith. Group Genius. (2007)

14. Define the problem or opportunity
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15. “The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas
“The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.” Linus Pauling
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16. Brainstorming Rules! (and it has rules!) Rapid idea generation No VOJ
Quantity over quality
The wilder the better
Build on the ideas of others
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17. Other ways of generating ideas
silent brainstorming
visual brainstorming
brainwriting
bodystorming

18. Mindmapping
Courtesy:

19. Metafore!
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20. Think of something in your workplace that you would like to change or understand better
Being in this situation is like…

21. Change your perspective
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22. Alex Osborne’s Creativity Checklist
put to other uses?
adapt?
modify?
rearrange?
substitute?
reverse?
combine?
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23. Effective group creativity also requires diverse points of view
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24. To incubate just apply… TIME!
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25. Effective spaces for creative individuals and groups
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26. "Somehow, accidentally, I realized I'd become a leading authority on what's wrong with cubicles. You don't have to be Thomas Edison to realize there's a product possibility there.”
Scott Adams

27. This?
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28. IDEO.com and Scott Adams
or this?

29. This?

30. or this?
CatalystRanch.com
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31. Zephyr Innovation Incubator
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32. Zephyr Innovation Incubator
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33. Close your eyes! Imagine a place that stimulates you
What are the qualities & characteristics of that place?

34. How can you make small changes in the spaces where you work?
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35. Attitudes and Frames of Mind
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36. Creativity is Messy!

37. Sometimes you have to bust something up to achieve a breakthrough!
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38. Use the unexpected to your advantage
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39. Creativity killers “we can’t” “it won’t work” “we tried that before”
“we don’t have the money”
“they won’t let us”
“what if it is too successful?”

40. “An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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41. Thanks everyone! Let your ideas fly!
And keep in touch!
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