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Creative Potential (creative + potential)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

Understanding Young Children's Three-Dimensional Creative Potential in Art Making

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, Issue 2 2009
Victoria Pavlou
This article explores aspects of young children's three-dimensional development in art making. Understanding young children's three-dimensional awareness and development is often a neglected area of early childhood educators' education and practice and often children's creative potential is not fully realised. The present article is based on a small scale qualitative study which focused on understanding 5,6 year-olds' representational intentions in three-dimensional artworks, understanding of visual/design concepts and expressive use of media (scrap paper and mod roc). The findings of the study suggest that young children are able to create satisfying three-dimensional representations giving emphasis on forms, uprightness, balance, movement and modeling of multiple sides. [source]

Harnessing the Creative Potential among Users,

THE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2004
Per Kristensson
User involvement in the development of new products may offer a novel approach to improved methods of meeting customer needs. These users are considered to offer possibilities for generating original, valuable, and realizable ideas leading to successful innovation. However, the merit of users' ideas compared to ideas generated by the company itself has not been investigated empirically. In the present study, advanced users, ordinary users, and professional product developers were given the task of creating ideas for future mobile phone services. The main purpose was to examine the benefit of involving users in suggesting new product ideas in an innovation project. An experimental three-group design was used in order to assess the output in terms of its original, valuable, and realizable merit. The results indicated that ordinary users create significantly more original and valuable ideas than professional developers and advanced users. Professional developers and advanced users created more easily realizable ideas, and ordinary users created the most valuable ideas. The results were discussed from the viewpoint of divergent thinking. It was suggested that divergent thinking was facilitated through the opportunity to combine different information elements that appeared separate at the outset, such as personal needs coupled with the functionality of mobile phone services. [source]

The Creation and Management of Cultural Clusters

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2002
Erik Hitters
This paper analyses two cultural clusters, the Westergasfabriek (WGF) in Amsterdam and the Witte de Withstraat (WdW) in Rotterdam, and evaluates their contrasting creative management strategies. The WGF has to date been fairly successful in creating an attractive mix of different cultural activities, based on the creative potential of the buildings on the site, its image as a cultural centre and the general atmosphere of creativity. The more ,top,down' approach of the Local Authority owned but commercially managed WFG has injected new commercial skills and investment into the cluster, and creates the conditions for innovation through managing the mix of creative functions. The WdW, on the other hand, takes a more ,bottom,up' approach to the problems of cultural management, and so far the participants have resisted the imposition of formal management. This may allow cultural and commercial functions to co,exist more easily, but, thus far, there seems to be less evidence of innovation. [source]

Orality in environmental planning

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND GOVERNANCE, Issue 3 2002
Cees van Woerkum
An often-neglected aspect of interactive policy making is the symbolic interaction between professionals and citizens, specifically the way they speak, the kind of orality that is involved. The orality of officials is text bound and texts on the environmental attain a firm position in the discourse of these officials, quite different from the orality of citizens. The characteristics of orality and literacy, from a communicative viewpoint, vary considerably. In literacy details and figures matter; in orality it is the intention of the speaker and the gist of the story that counts most. By bringing in a large amount of literacy in oral presentations, officials spoil the functions of orality, its effects on learning, its creative potential, the way how, via stories, many people can get involved or how trust is developed. Officials can conquer the orality of the people, they can cope with it in a strategic way or they can deal with it as a valuable asset in policy making. For this officials have to rethink the way they speak. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment [source]

Understanding Young Children's Three-Dimensional Creative Potential in Art Making

Developing a sustainable culture of innovation management: a prescriptive approach

KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 3 2005
Mohamed Zairi
This paper proposes an approach to innovation management, which produces seamlessness, unleashes full creative potential, integrates activities, delivers superior performance, and builds a sustainable culture. At the heart of World Class innovation is the role of senior management. This paper argues that senior managers have to exercise interest and commitment to innovation activity and have to play a more transparent role in nurturing the development of a sustainable innovation culture. Other critical aspects found through comprehensive research to be inherent factors and key triggers of success are also covered in this paper with prescriptive steps that can help in the establishment of sustainable innovation activity. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]