Cracking the Incremental Paradigm of Japanese Creativity

This paper points out the differences between incremental and paradigm shift approaches to creativity in management that exists between Japanese and Western schools of thought. A number of examples are used to illustrate how a systematic incremental process that places emphasis on continuous improvement is key to Japanese creativity in management. A framework that captures the cornerstones of Japanese creativity is outlined. The paper concludes by discussing the contribution of this research and outlines a plan for further work.     

创意产业与创意人才培养

消费社会的发展,促使现代产业形态从单一的生产,到设计、生产、营销的换代升级迅速转型。产品与服务更新,不再是现有思路与工艺水平的简单重复,创意成为新一轮产品更新的重要竞争力,艺术设计深入到了文化创意层面,创意产业发展对设计人才培养提出新的要求。加强个性化想象艺术素养与实践能力的培育,构建以创造能量培养为核心的教育理念和教学模式,成为设计教育关注的焦点。     

Creativity Techniques in Germany

The article gives an overview of the development of creativity techniques in Germany starting with the routes in the 1960s. Typical German methods are described; namely: Brainwriting, Visual Confrontation and Morphological Techniques. Also a software-tool supporting the process of creative problem solving in all phases is presented. The last section deals with a survey in German industry showing significantly that companies applying creativity techniques more frequently and more systematically realize higher levels of business success.     

Creative Potential and Practised Creativity: Identifying Untapped Creativity in Organizations

This study examines the construct validity of creative potential and practised creativity, two overlooked aspects of creativity that may be useful for identifying untapped creative resources in organizations. Results of an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) utilizing structural equation modelling techniques provide some initial evidence in support of the construct validity of these concepts. These findings appear to have important managerial implications for increasing creativity and overall organizational effectiveness. The results presented here also suggest some directions for future research aimed at examining the relationships between creative potential, practised creativity and other variables of interest.     

Organizing Creativity: Creativity and Innovation under Constraints

The best way of organizing creativity within organizations remains somewhat enigmatic to scholars, particularly when it comes to the role of constraints. On the one hand, creative organizations are often associated with freedom, autonomy, weak rules and few boundaries. On the other hand, several studies suggest that constraints, particularly design constraints, often stimulate creativity rather than suppress it. All in all, findings are mixed and inconclusive, and further research that explores this area of tension is required. The goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we introduce the topic of constraints and creativity, and raise some of the open questions in this field. By way of illustration, we report on a preliminary study about the role of constraints. Secondly, we set the stage for the contributions in this special issue on creativity and innovation under constraints, by identifying four central themes for further research. We subsequently outline the articles in this issue, and show how each of them contributes to one or more of these themes.     

Creativity and Its Discontents: Professional Ideology and Creativity in Architect Work

Architects are a professional group that is commonly associated with creative and aesthetic work and with strong professional norms, values and identities. While such shared norms and beliefs are positive overall in terms of being constitutive of professional subject‐positions, an overemphasis on specific skills and qualities may also be regarded as a burden on members of the professional community. A study of a major Scandinavian architect office suggests that the perceived lack of creative and innovative thinking and accompanying dialogues and discussions among practising architects tends to produce cynicism and, to some extent, disappointment. As a consequence, professional ideologies may in some cases be out of joint with everyday work realities, and thereby to some extent produce expectations that are complicated to fulfil. Professional ideologies are thus both what integrates and consolidates a profession while at the same time prescribing ideal future scenarios for the professional community.     

广告创意中的文化“干扰”

创意在广告创作中具有重要地位,并且创意的优劣会直接影响到广告最终的传播效果。影响广告创意的因素是多方面的,其中文化对广告创意的影响极其重要,因为它是沟通全球人类面对广告取得认同交流的前提。由于文化认同、文化差异、区域文化的不同存在,影响着广告创意的定位与诉求。     

"软件技术基础"课程教学与创新能力培养

本文强调"软件技术基础"课程教学必须顺应创新能力培养的要求,教学内容要既有利于创新能力培养又能解决实际应用问题.     

创意产业发展下人才创意思维培养研究

创意产业不断发展的今天,创意人才的需求不断地扩大。高校是人才培养的基地,高校应该如何适应创意产业的发展培养合格的人才?人才的关键又是什么?这些都是我们应该面临的问题。本文正是通过对江、浙、沪地区创意产业人才的需求情况,以及该地区高校人才培养的现状进行调查,提出了创意人才培养的关键是创意思维的培养。并针对这一问题展开全面的阐述。     

Creativity and Repetition

In this paper we seek to explore the concept of the ‘new’ through enquiring into the role of the body, thus opening categories that may allow a sensing of the affective ‘new’ in organizing processes. We use various theoretical concepts such as ‘repetition’ and ‘habitual appropriation’ to look at modern dance. We aim to show how the investigation of embodied processes allows us to make links between the old and the new, the creative and the unimaginative, and ultimately may help us to generate an infinite array of creative practices.     

Creativity and simplicity

For many scientists, human intelligence and, in particular, its creative potential seem to consist of processes that cannot be automated by means of a computer. As already shown with fractal geometry, this short note tries to show that the iteration and combination of very elementary operations can give very complex behaviors and shapes. It gives some practical examples to encourage reader involvement and new experiments, particularly in classroom settings.     

Creativity and Stress

Involvement in an organizational change programme presented an opportunity to study relationships between stress and creativity in the organization. Levels of stress were close to population norms, whereas the scores from the Creative Climate Questionnaire indicated a stagnated (as opposed to innovative) organization. Strong negative correlations between stress and creative climate scores were found, especially for stress arising from relationships with others and from organizational structure and climate. In addition, differences in both stress and creativity scores were found between samples from five different levels in the organizations hierarchy. The higher the level, the less the stress and the better the perceived creative climate. It is suggested that this is a function of the type of culture pertaining in the organization. Keywords: Creative climate, occupational stress, organizational hierarchy.     

创造力支持系统

创造力支持系统作为计算机应用一个新的研究方向,最近几年获得不少关注。在计算机强大功能的支持下,创造力支持系统可以协助人类创造性地解决问题,获得创造性的成果。文中在国内外学者研究成果的基础上,对创造力支持系统的概念、理论基础和软件进行了系统的介绍,同时根据已开发出的软件成果总结出创造力支持系统的几大特点,并将其与决策支持系统做了比较。     

Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Creativity is defined as the balanced unfolding and converging of experience and entrepreneurship as the management of radical change. The entrepreneur is seen - in contrast to the view in mainstream economics - as a visionary activist, who is able to constructively handle the often conflicting demands of unplannable emerging situations. Visions, wholistic guiding images of future possibilities, are viewed as the main guiding forces in creativity and entrepreneurship and innovation as the creation of the future. Mainly concerned with the dynamic management of image and innovation, the successful entrepreneur excels in perceiving, opening up and exploiting new technological, marketing and organizational possibilities.     

创造力支持系统

创造力支持系统作为计算机应用一个新的研究方向，最近几年获得不少关注。在计算机强大功能的支持下，创造力支持系统可以协助人类创造性地解决问题，获得创造性的成果。文中在国内外学者研究成果的基础上，对创造力支持系统的概念、理论基础和软件进行了系统的介绍，同时根据已开发出的软件成果总结出创造力支持系统的几大特点，并将其与决策支持系统做了比较。     

Mathematics for/from Society: The Role of the Module in Modernizing Japanese Architectural Production

This paper presents an examination of the process of the development of module in the works and theories of Japanese architect Ikebe Kiyoshi (1920-79). Ikebe based his idea of module on the belief that “Beauty is Mathematics.” He applied his ideas of module in various ways from the 1940s to the 1970s. Analyzing his ideas and works against their historical background, the social and creative meanings of the idea of module and of mathematics in architecture will be re-examined. This allows us to see how Ikebe developed his ideas of module from a characteristic mathematical approach, and how he developed his idea of mathematical logic into his creative theories based on the flexible nature of people’s lifestyles and social conditions. Going beyond the cultural and social differences and the limitations of Le Corbusier’s Modulor, the idea of module as the method for organizing human space in a harmonious manner was reframed in Ikebe’s works, and was developed in a more flexible mathematical way.