BPTrends ▪ May 2008 Creativity Management—The New Challenge for BPM Creativity Management – The New Challenge for BPM Stefan Seidel‚ Michael Rosemann Abstract Besides classical criteria such as cost and overall organizational efficiency‚ an organization’s ability to being creative and to innovate is of increasing importance in markets that are overwhelmed with commodity products and services. Business Process Management (BPM) as an approach to model‚ analyze‚ and improve business processes
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Innovation and Creativity Managing creativity and innovation is central to the repositioning of organisations‚ (especially to those the size and magnitude of Google). This concept refers to taking on new techniques and technologies‚ to developments in the provision of new products and services‚ as well as forming and implementing strategies to secure competitive advantages. However‚ success in a business relies on making the right change‚ on choosing the right ideas and implementing innovations
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND Creativity: Creativity (or "creativeness") is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts‚ or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. From a scientific point of view‚ the products of creative thought are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative‚ getting more popular everyday is the conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something
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1. 1. Consider the 4 approaches to creativity. What approaches has Apple relied upon? What alternative have others firms in the industry pursued? What other stoves could Apple implement? Apple is taking the following creativity approaches: imagination and investment. 1) Imagination: Apple is primarily focusing on innovation and flexibility; therefore‚ they are consider to be relying on the "imagination" approach‚ where the key is gear towards the transformation of ideas and experimentation. For
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TANG & SONG 1. How did government affect your dynastic era? Tang Dynasty: The administration was organized into 10 political districts called “Dao” which was then later increased to 15. In each political district there were towns‚ villages‚ and families. The official system of the Tang administration involved the central official system and local official system. The central official system followed the Sui Dynasty’s (581 - 618) three departments and six ministries system. The six major
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Creativity in the Organization Abstract (150 words) The purpose of this article is to discuss why creativity in the organisation is important for the next generation manager and how it could impact on the future of a business. This paper also highlights the challenges‚ importance of creativity‚ how management can address these in the future business environment in the next 5-10 years and to focus on how future managers affect creativity through their efforts to nurture a work climate that
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How can an organization foster creativity and innovation? What strategies and practices can it adopt and how do these connect with the theories about creativity discussed in this module? Answer this question by focusing on the case study of an organization that is well known for its creative culture. Everyday creativity refers to a process‚ which brings together at least one active human mind‚ and the material or digital world‚ in the activity of making something‚ which is novel in that context
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Shanghai Volkswagen is a joint venture between the German Volkswagen AG and a consortium of Chinese partners. The 25-year agreement signed by the partners in the middle of 1980s provided for 50 per cent VW AG equity. By 2001‚ this venture was the most successful automobile venture in China. Other attempts made by the US AMC Jeep Corporation and other carmakers failed. Other companies were attracted by the large population of 1.2 billion people (certainly only a very small percentage would be the
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Judicial creativity Judges are unable to develop the law as it would be considered unfair. If a defendant commits an act which is not considered criminal‚ but the judge then decides that it is‚ therefore changing the law‚ this would be considered unfair for the defendant. This would be seen as the retrospective effect. Parliament makes the law‚ following a lengthy process‚ and then the judges must follow parliament’s decision. They must follow precedent of higher court judges. This is known as
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Introduction of Shanghai Environment & Energy Exchange and Shanghai ETS Pilot Start of SEEE：2008 Reform of SEEE：SEEE has become Co. Ltd. after structural reform . Total capital 250 million RMB. The biggest carbon exchange in China. Structure of Shareholders：Introduced 10 state-owned enterprises and institutions as shareholders. They are also great stakeholders in ETS. Until the end of January 2012: SEEE has listed 465 projects Total amount 33.6 billion RMB Successfully trading
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