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BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 1 Assignment

Creativity, Discovery, Innovation

Overview:

In this assignment, you are exploring the potential for the continued success of a personal favorite high performing business organization to share with prospective investors. The elements of Creativity, Discovery, and Innovation, as we have explored them in this unit, are foundational to the success of high performing organizations. This activity will provide an opportunity for you to deepen your understanding of each element and its importance to the continued success of the organization.      You will identify and analyze the evidence of these elements as they serve to support the high performing status of the business organization you have identified.

Instructions:

•             First, research and identify a business organization or company of interest that you believe is currently high performing or has a promising future.

o             What about the organization or company that has captured your attention?

o             From your reading and research, characterize and support your assessment of the status of the organization as highly successful, somewhat successful, or challenged in its pursuit of high success.

•             Describe your company of choice and your assessment of its success.

•             Briefly share your assessment of the place of Creativity, Discovery, and Innovation in the company you have chosen.

o             Provide evidence for your assessment from unit resources.

o             Differentiate how each element is unique and differs from others.

•             Based on your examination of the information shared regarding the status of each concept in the organization or company, address the following.

o             What is the potential for continued and future success of the organization?

o             With respect to your understanding of the elements, what is working, and what is not working?

 

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 2 Assignment

Solving Problems with Design Thinking

Overview:

Design thinking in business and other settings supports the work of organizational managers pursuing creative outcomes to solve problems. In this assignment you will write a paper to explore a design thinking scenario to deepen your understanding of design thinking as a tool supporting the process of resolving challenging organizational issues.

Instructions:

•             Review the following from the unit Readings and Resources:

o             Chapter 1 of the e-book, Dispelling the Moses Myth.

o             The table of contents and Chapter 1 of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works.

•             Select one of the 10 chapters from Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works.

•             Summarize the scenario in the chapter you selected.

•             Address the following:

o             Part 1: What ways did the process described reflect the D4G design thinking approach of four basic questions?

o             Part 2: Address any two (2) of the following:

1.            Evidence of a focus on discovery over solutions.

2.            Evidence of how problem solving and solutions boundaries were expanded.

3.            Evidence of enthusiasm in engaging partners in the work efforts.

4.            Evidence of commitment to real-world experiments rather than conducting analysis and using historical data.

 

 

 

 

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 3 Assignment

Generating Ideas with SCAMPER

You have been exposed to a number of approaches that organizations call upon to advance creative thinking. Among those techniques, one of the better recognized and utilized is SCAMPER, a creativity tool that is a form of brainstorming. In this assignment, you will be asked to analyze and implement SCAMPER using an existing product or service in your organization that needs improvement. Use the attached SCAMPER worksheet to complete this assignment.

Overview:

You have been exposed to a number of approaches that organizations call upon to advance creative thinking. Among those techniques, one of the better recognized and utilized is SCAMPER, a creativity tool that is a form of brainstorming. In this assignment, you will be asked to analyze and implement SCAMPER using an existing product or service in your organization that needs improvement. Use the attached SCAMPER worksheet to complete this assignment.

Instructions:

Complete the SCAMPER Worksheet:

1.            Using the resources in this unit or additional web resources, prepare a brief statement of three sentences maximum describing SCAMPER as a creativity tool.

o             Address at least three of the techniques.

o             Describe their importance in terms of the creative process.

2.            Complete the SCAMPER table:

o             In the third column:

?             Pose questions pertaining to the service or product you identified in each of the SCAMPER areas characterized by the pneumonic.

?             Apply the SCAMPER process to come up with ideas to present to our manager.

3.            Address the following at the bottom of the worksheet:

o             Identify and describe your service or product and provide a rational.

o             Review your ideas and answer the following questions:

1.            Do any idea(s) stand out as viable solutions? Explain.

2.            Could any of the ideas be used to create a new service or product or to redesign an existing one? Explain.

 

 

 

 

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 5 Assignment

Presentation

Overview:

This team assignment will be started in Unit 4 in your group discussion with the final presentation submitted in Unit 5. There are two purposes for this assignment: (1) illustrate the process by which one uses the Subtraction Method to encourage new product innovation; (2) use the management and communications tools you have been learning about to work effectively in a creative virtual team setting.

Instructions:

Read the “Less Is More: How Industry Giants Like Apple and Philips Really Innovate” case study. Working in your group discussion forum, complete the following:

•             Set up your team structure:

o             Decide on a team name.

o             Select a leader who will assume the following responsibilities:

?             Moderate the discussion and monitor team efforts to remain on task.

?             Submit the group’s work for the group assignment.

o             Assign tasks and responsibilities to team members:

?             Recorder – summarize group discussions/exercise in a document shared with the group.

?             Reporter –finalizes the deliverable which may be a PowerPoint with notes, voice over narration and creative elements using creative software such as Prezi, audio, video, or other selected creative presentation functions.

o             Set a schedule/timeline for completion of project work requirements.

•             Analyze the case study by applying the Subtraction Method:

o             Generate a list of the most common laundry detergents.

o             Identify the key component of laundry detergent.

 o            Identify the function of that component.

o             Remove the component.

o             Visualize the resulting form of the product.

o             Consider whether there are needs that a detergent without the removed component might fulfill.

o             Consider whether there are any obstacles to overcome in implementing the new product.

o             Present the ideas and discuss the possible new products that might emerge from this process.

o             Select and describe one real world product not mentioned in the case that grew out of application of the Subtraction Method.

 

•             Develop a creative presentation using a medium of your choice to share your team findings.

Requirements:

•             Include notes or voice over to elaborate major ideas and clarify points presented.

•             Include a References list in APA format.

 

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 6 Assignment

Individual Team Reflection

Overview:

In this assignment, you will reflect on your virtual team project experience.

Instructions:

Examine your Virtual Team experience by addressing the following:

•             Evaluate how well your team performed.

•             Identify the communications methods the team used and assess the effectiveness of these methods.

•             Identify and evaluate the conflicts that occurred and assess the conflict resolution methods utilized by the team.

•             Provide three recommendations for improvement of the team process.

•             Submit individual participation levels for each team member by week.

o             Each team member was expected to participate in the team project a minimum of three times per week.

o             Calculate an individual’s level as a percentage based on overall participation in the project.

o             The levels for the entire team per week should add up to 100%.

Requirements:

•             Subimt an APA formatted Word document.

•             Length of no more than 3 pages excluding the title and reference pages.

•             Include at least two resources.

Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be evaluated before you write and again after you write.

 

 

 

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 8 Assignment

Final Project: Organization Evaluation

For this assignment, you will identify an organization and assess its creativity, discovery, and innovation.  This is an individual assignment structured to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the materials studied in this course by applying what you have learned to a specific company or organization of interest to you.

Overview:

For this assignment, you will identify an organization and assess its creativity, discovery, and innovation. This is an individual assignment structured to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the materials studied in this course by applying what you have learned to a specific company or organization of interest to you.

Instructions:

•             Identify an organization or business that is of interest to you. You should be intimately familiar with the management and operations practices of this organization.

•             You may change the name of the organization to keep your assessment private. but please indicate that you have changed the name in your work.

•             Describe the organization you select as the subject of your project and its defining characteristics. Explain why you chose the organization. If the organization is large you are free to focus on a division, department, practice or product initiative of the organization.

•             Conduct a Critical Analysis of how the organization and its approach to creativity, discovery and innovation. Identify and apply course concepts and principles explored throughout the term and respond to nine Critical Analysis Components of Organizations provided below. Be specific and clear in making linkages.

Paper Organization:

A.            Title Page

B.            Brief Description of the subject organization

C.            Explanation of why the organization was selected including information that offers defining characteristics of the organization and informs the status of the organization’s innovation and creativity.

 D.           Critical Analysis Components of the Organization:

1.            Internal and external drivers of innovation in the organization.

2.            The role design thinking plays in creative problem-solving in the organization.

3.            Evaluation of the role managers and leaders within the organization play as change leaders.

4.            How idea generation is used to solve problems, enhance core competencies, gather consumer insights, etc.

5.            Myths perpetuated by the organization.

6.            Elements of the creative process within the organization.

7.            Barriers to creativity and innovation within the organization. Assess how the barriers occur and are addressed.

8.            Responsible innovation and ethical approaches and issues the organization faces.

9.            The role of leadership in creating, managing, and sustaining innovation in the organization.

10.          Future creativity and innovation within the organization.

E.            Recommendations and Lessons

•             Specific recommendations for improvement must be based upon the lessons learned as a result of your analysis. If there are no clear suggestions for improvement suggest how what this organization does can be transferred to another organization(s), department, or units.

•             Your assessment should provide at least six recommendations for improvement or transferrable lessons based on your analysis

F.            Conclusion

G.           Reference Page including at least six scholarly sources to support your work.

Requirements:

•             This assignment is due Friday 11:59 pm

 •            You may choose the format for your deliverable. Make use of your creativity in determining a format that you believe best permits you to cover and respond to all required elements of this assignment.

•             APA reference format, including an in-text citation for referenced works.

•             At least six (6) resources.

Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be evaluated before you write and again after you write.