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A theory of managing creativity-intensive processes

Seidel, Stefan - 2009

This study reports the results of an exploratory, theory-building study on the impact of creativity on business … business processes that can be described as highly dependent on creativity, interdependent, client-focused, complex, but also … order to manage these processes. The study suggests that creativity-intensive processes are characterized by high levels of …

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Business process documentation in creative work systems

Karow, Milan - 2011

This study investigates the influence of creativity on the modeling and documentation of business processes. Based on a … substantive theory a modeling method is developed that allows for the capturing of creativity-intensive processes. This method …

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Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Potential Partners or Distant Cousins?

Matthews, Judy H. - 2007

Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate … venturing processes, but the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship to a large extent has not explicitly been …

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Efficacy of the Systematic Problem Solving Method 'TRIZ' and it Value for Innovation in Engineering and Implications for Engineering Management

Thomond, Peter N.; Filmore, Paul R. - 2005

by the creativity model of Baille. Results are discussed which show significant innovation development when using TRIZ …

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Disruptive Innovation: Enabling Practitioners to Tackle the "Innovators Dilemma" With Graphical Techniques - A Focus on Resource Allocation

Thomond, Peter N.; Lettice, Fiona; Herzberg, Torsten - 2004

This paper presents the findings of part of a 30 month investigation, conducted to better understand the persistent failure of management practitioners to fund potentially disruptive innovations. A Mode 2 case study strategy was employed. The iterative transfer of knowledge, between four...

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Uncertainty and innovation in fashion design

Finn, Angela L.; Finn, Lee - 2010

(2003) identifies innovation as different from creativity in that innovation aims to transform and implement rather than …

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Proactivity and innovation : promoting a new workforce for the new workplace

Unsworth, Kerrie L.; Parker, Sharon - 2003

Imagine you are running a marathon. You started at a nice, steady pace, but the speed just kept increasing. You must compete with the others in the race but they keep sprinting forward. And more and more people keep joining the race. Not only that, but things are now being thrown at you from all...

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Should We Give Every Cow Its Calf? Monopoly, Competition and Transaction Costs in the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity

Pollock, Rufus - 2008

The work presented here is part of a wider research programme oriented around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents?...

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The Internationalisation Process of the Smaller Firm: an examination of the craft microenterprise

Fillis, Ian Ronald - 2008

This work involves an examination of the internationalisation process of the smaller firm, focusing on the craft enterprise in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Craft sector analysis was carried out in order to determine historical precedents as well as to assist in the...

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A Methodology for Researching International Entrepreneurship in SMEs: a challenge to the status quo

Fillis, Ian Ronald - 2007

which mirrors the creativity of successful entrepreneurial organisations. Design/methodology/approach:The biographical …

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