a basic description of our insight based model for creativity and some of its implications
a clearer concept of teamwork and when it is useful
An Approach to Understanding Complex Topics
Thanks for the great time.
This was my first chance to participate in a BARcamp (and only for short time because of other obligations), but I shared some ideas and resources in a presentation called Creative AND Clueless: What Techies Miss in Innovation.
Here is a handout version of the Power Point slides
The basic idea is that in the same way that clients can be frustratingly clueless about the realities of technology, self-recognized geniuses of technology can miss huge opportunities by not being aware of their own ignorance of large parts of the realities of the situation.
Here are some materials related to the discussion:
| "Thinking More Creatively about Deliberate Innovation", a short article of mine published Spring of 2007 in Current Issues in Technology Management by the Howe School Alliance for Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. |
| "National Culture and the Design of Medical Technology", a chapter in Geisler, E. Et al Technology, Healthcare, and Management in the Hospital of the Future, Quorum Books; ISBN: 1567206239; (March 2003) |
| Unappreciated
AHA: Why No One Listens to your Creative Ideas. a basic description of our insight based model for creativity and some of its implications |
| Teamwork Goes
Both Ways a clearer concept of teamwork and when it is useful |
| Elephants
and Coconuts: An Approach to Understanding Complex Topics |
I look forward to any additional ideas, reactions, and suggestions. They will certainly help me in my work with MBA students in courses on Product Design, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, and Cross-Functional Team Leadership, as well as my consulting with various organizations seeking to extract the most effective innovation from their knowledge and resources.
Maybe I'll see some of you at BARcamp Milwaukee in Oct
Dr. Chris Barlow
barlowc@uic.edu