creativity + innovation 1.1

Creativity + Innovation 1.1Kevin Popović, B.A., M.S.

© Kevin Popović, SDSU Creativity + Innovation

Session 1.1

• Welcome• Syllabus• SLO’s• Attendance• CourseKey

© Kevin Popović, SDSU

• Blackboard• Review Book• Play A Game• Discussion• Assignments

Creativity + Innovation

The Origins of Creativity + InnovationWhere great ideas are born.


Student Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the influence of problem solving techniques, team processes, and environmental conditions on creativity in organizations.



2. Describe the innovation process, including the innovation value chain, the role of champions, and commercializing an innovation.



3. Explain the process involved in managing creativity or innovation effectively and apply this knowledge to your own creative idea or innovation.



4. Analyze organizational practices that facilitate creativity and innovation.



5. Develop case study analysis skills (specifically, identifying critical issues in case studies and applying course material to case studies).


Learning with CourseKey


Creating Engagement

Check-in on CourseKey


Automatic Attendance

Chat on CourseKey


Social Learning

Blackboard


Online Learning

Kevin Popovic


An Introduction to the Lecturer

Student IntroductionsA Game of Collaboration


Define “Creativity.”What does creativity mean to you?


CreativityThe ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules,

patterns and relationships.© Kevin Popović, SDSU Creativity + Innovation

Genius, imaginativeness, ingenuity, inspiration, inventiveness, originality, resourcefulness, vision.


CreativityWhere does it come from?


Are you creative?

• 98% of 3-5 year-olds score near the top on divergent thinking.

• 2% of adults over the age of 25 have comparable scores.

• People who have lower scores early and remain creative can surpass higher scoring people.


Are you creative?Class Poll: Answer Yes or No


Define “Innovation.”Poll: What does Innovation mean to you?


InnovationThe act or process of introducing new ideas,

devices, or methods.© Kevin Popović, SDSU Creativity + Innovation

Change, alteration, revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis, breakthrough; modernization, novelty, creativity, originality, ingenuity, inspiration, inventiveness.


InnovationWhere ideas come from.


Are you Innovative?Poll: Rate yourself 1-5


The Role of Creativity in Orgs.Reading the Preface, Creativity, Inc.


An Introduction to Creativity, Inc.An Exercise in Collaboration


Question & AnswersReview CourseKey Questions


Creativity, Inc.


Read “Chapter 1”

Harvard Business Review


Read “Design Thinking”

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