Thinking Styles

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Thinking Styles Perception of Problem

• Dr Kanes Rajah
• Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship
• UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH BUSINESS SCHOOL

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Suspend judgementAvoid premature evaluation
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Management of Innovation

• Facilitating innovations in large organisations
• Creativity novel ideas
• Innovation making money from these ideas
• Innovation Conception Invention Exploitation

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Innovation research has concentrated on

• How ideas reach the marketplace, and
• Framing this research within an assumption that
  ideas are diffused from the top down

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Creative Problem Solving

• What is it?

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The Power ofCreative Problem Solving in
Decision Making

• Single Loop- Double Loop thinking
• (Agyris)
• Learning Styles Inventory
• (Kolb, Honey and Mumford)
• Divergence convergence

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Single Loop- Double Loop thinking

• Single Loop
• Double Loop

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CREATIVE PROCESSES
Learning Styles Inventory
Experience
Reflect
Action
Design
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CREATIVE PROCESSES

• Learning Styles
• Inventory

• Be a Reflective Practitioner
• (Tudor Rickard,

Experience
Action
Reflect
Design
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Learning Styles Inventory

• Define the problem
• STAGE 1

Experience
Reflect
Action (Test)
Design (New Understanding)
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Learning Styles Inventory

• Define the problem
• STAGE 2
• Generate ideas
• STAGE 2

Experience
Reflect
Action (Test)
Design (New Understanding)
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Learning Styles Inventory

• Define the problem
• STAGE 1
• Implement
• Ideas
• STAGE 3
• Generate ideas
• STAGE 2

Experience
Reflect
Action (Test)
Design (New Understanding)
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Creative Problem SolvingThe Buffalo (NY) Method

• STAGE 1

Problem Finding
Mess Finding
Data Finding
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CREATIVE LEARNING PROCESSES
Learning Styles Inventory
Experience

• Divergence
• Suspend Judgement
• Avoid Premature Evaluation

Action
Reflect

• Convergence
• Decision
• Plans
• Implementation

Design
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Creative Problem SolvingThe Buffalo (NY) Method

• STAGE 1 STAGE 2

Problem Finding
Mess Finding
Idea Finding
Solution Finding
Data Finding
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Creative Problem SolvingThe Buffalo (NY) Method

• STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE
  3

Acceptance Finding
Problem Finding
Mess Finding
Idea Finding
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3
1
Solution Finding
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Data Finding
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2
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Then comes style!!!

• Different people solve problems differently.
• Culture and climate of the organisation have an
  effect in the way problems are solved.
• Conditions must also be right to allow creativity
  to be unleashed and flourish.

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• VERTICAL THINKING IS DIGGING A DEEPER HOLE IN THE
  SAME PLACE
• LATERAL THINKING IS DIGGING A HOLE SOMEWHERE ELSE

Lateral Thinking v.s
Vertical Thinking
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TWIN BRAIN METAPHOR
Right Intuitive,
visual, holistic
Left Rational, verbal, sequential
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Thinking Styles Perception of Problem

• THANK YOU!
• Dr Kanes Rajah
• Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship
• UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH BUSINESS SCHOOL