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Creativity - An Essential Skill for Internal Auditors
Auditors? Creativity? In the same sentence? Is that an oxymoron, or is someone just confused? Well, I think creativity is essential to all professions, especially internal auditing. This presentation gives internal auditors practical
and easy-to-use techniques to generate new ideas. Exercises related to business and to internal auditing will help make this session edutainment – that
is, a session that’s both entertaining and educational.
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Objectives, Agenda
• Clear Up Misconceptions about Creativity
• Practice Exercises
• Discuss Tools Auditors Can Use
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Creativity….
• Creativity comes from solving problems, step
by step by step.
• Doesn’t come in a flash of light.
• Isn’t a light bulb.
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The Mozart Myth
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Vasily KandinskyPainting with White Border
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Not about Ideas
Having ideas is not the same thing as being
creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.
Many people have ideas; few take the steps to
make the thing they imagine. One of the best
examples is the airplane. The brothers Orville
and Wilbur Wright were not the first people to
have the idea of building a flying machine, nor
were they the first people to begin building
one, but they were the first people to fly.
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What about brainstorming?
Research into brainstorming has a
clear conclusion. The best way to
create is to work alone and evaluate
solutions as they occur. The worst
way to create is to work in large
groups and defer criticism.
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Stephen King
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The 10,000 Rule
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Four Phases – Roger von Oech
• The Explorer searches for new information
and new ideas
• The Artist combines and refines the new
information and ideas
• The Judge evaluates the results and decides
what is practical to do.
• The Warrior implements the decided course
of action.
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Six Thinking Hats – Edward de Bono
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Some Tools Auditors Can Use
• Reframing Assumptions
– The Earth is Flat
– Silent Movies
• Analogies
– If Business were a football game…
• Stretch Targets
– The One Week Audit
• Mind Mapping
• Teach It
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Stretch Targets
How would you do a typical audit
IN ONLY ONE WEEK?
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What ONE Control to Test?
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Mind Mapping
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Teach It
How do you identify a control? That is, how do
you know a control when you see it?
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Objectives, Agenda
• Clear Up Misconceptions about Creativity
• Practice Exercises
• Discuss Tools Auditors Can Use
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Creativity - An Essential Skill for Internal Auditors
Auditors? Creativity? In the same sentence? Is that an oxymoron, or is someone just confused? Well, I think creativity is essential to all professions, especially internal auditing. This presentation gives internal auditors practical
and easy-to-use techniques to generate new ideas. Exercises related to business and to internal auditing will help make this session edutainment – that
is, a session that’s both entertaining and educational.