SUNRISE SEMINAR

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SUNRISE SEMINAR

• GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC
• June 25th 2002
• Akindeju Kehinde

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CUSORY POINTER
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WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

• Creativity noun, derived from being creative.
• Creative adj. means having or showing the
  power and imagination to create, I.e cause to
  exist.

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TIPS

• It bestows corporate edge comparative advantage
  for a player over the others in any given
  industry.
• It increases available options for solving
  problems, reducing uncertainty , granting better
  control of the entire process and making it
  easier to achieve pre-set goals.

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MORE TIPS

• Creativity is the product of thoughts and the
  only way to demonstrate mastery in any chosen
  field
• It stems out of a fundamental denominator the
  need to solve attending (or anticipated)
  problems.

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CREATIVITY Problem solving

• What is a problem A problem is a gap between the
  current and the desired state of affairs.
• MacCrimmon Taylor (1976)
• This requires that we are able to see through the
  process and identify the desired state of affairs.

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HYPOTHETICAL QUANTITATIVE VIEW
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Getting round the constraints
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LET US DISCUSS

• FOPS / FTU
• Regulations
• Others

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THE CREATIVITY IN-ROAD

• There is only one way in which a person
  acquires a new idea, it is by the combination of
  two or more ideas he already has into a new
  juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a
  relationship (between) among them of which he was
  not previously aware.
• .Francis A. Carter

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RULES / PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITY

• Learn to understand think through the process
  to determine
• How much expansion the existing process can
  accommodate?
• How much flexibility it can allow?
• How much independence it can tolerate?
• The minimum level of efficiency quality
  required?
• Why how the process meet required regulations?

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RULES / PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITYcont

• 2. Generate new ideas that may fit 1. Above (in
  doing this, separate the generation of ideas from
  evaluating the ideas and think completely outside
  the box)
• 3. Test the new ideas.

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CHALLENGES OF CREATIVITY

• It brings about changing phases in operational
  /tactical strategies of an organisation, which of
  course may be resisted at the on-set.
• It creates a sense of urgency
• It creates aggression and the need to sustain
  cutting edge leadership position in an ever
  increasing competitive environment

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PASSING SHORT

• In all you do, be Sure be Swift. Life does not
  reward in advance. The gains are in the actual
  act.