This article by Rachel Sharp from HR Magazine explores creativity and innovation and looks at some productive approaches for Human Resources’ involvement. It finishes with Perspectiv’s Andy Wilkins discussing Rachel’s style of creativity measured by VIEW.
Read MoreThe Situational Outlook Questionnaire® (SOQ) is an assessment tool that measures climate, helps make the invisible more visible and points the way to a more productive, more creative and healthier environment.
Read MoreIn management literature ‘culture’ is often muddled with ‘climate’, but the difference can be likened to a tree: climate is the observable parts above ground and culture is the roots hidden below ground.
Read MoreThis article by Paul Stanway in Campaign magazine says that the more we understand about what enables creativity, the better we will be able to produce great work.
Read MoreHigh performance people, teams and organisations are never satisfied with the status quo - instead, they nurture a ‘climate’ for innovation. This post looks at the impact climate has on innovation, and how it can be improved.
Read MoreThis study investigated the effects of group training in problem-solving style (using VIEW) on future problem-solving performance and found that performance can be improved using VIEW, particularly when there is a focus on group dynamics.
Read MoreThis paper was written by Perspectiv’s Andy Wilkins and published by Panasonic Business to help their customers in the rail industry appreciate Panasonic’s systematic and serious approach to innovation.
Read MoreThis report explores the productive potential of using VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style to help deal with the key dynamics of teamwork, particularly teamwork for transformation.
Read MoreThis paper focuses on the systemic nature of creativity and the role of business schools in stimulating and enhancing organisational creativity. The concept of ‘ba’ represents a shared creative environment.
Read MoreThis paper looks at a unique inter-disciplinary master’s in creativity and innovation and explores whether design is a sufficient metaphor for enduring success, using the Roman God Janus to symbolise creative change.
Read MoreWe know that leadership plays an important role in establishing a climate for job satisfaction and that climate also influences organisational innovation, but what leadership behaviours influence the creation of climate - both positively and negatively?
Read MoreThis article looks at a one-day approach jointly developed with Perspectiv client RHM to rapidly increase the quality and speed of New and Old Product and Service Development (NPD) that can be applied to all aspects of business.
Read MoreIf you don’t have a healthy climate, then you will not have the appropriate conditions for effective teams, departments and organisations. Recent research suggest the main role of leadership is to create climate.
Read MoreThis major innovation survey attributed the chasm between the innovative capabilities of the highest and lowest performers to the way in which ideas were fostered and managed at every level of the organisation.
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