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CREATIVITY
COURSE INSTRUCTOR:
PROF. DR. SHAHAB KHUSHNOOD
LECTUTRE # 03
CHAPTER - 04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY TAXILA
COURSE- ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Creativity is the result of intense attention and determination of innovators and researchers which were over looked by ordinary minds.
Creativity
Ability to come up with innovative results from
nature.
Group Brainstorming Technique By Alex Osborn
Group Brainstorming is a technique in which groups of individuals can use to generate novel ideas and enhance their collective creativity.
Examination of Selective Factors in Creativity
1.Education
2.Gender
3.Age
Following factors effecting the differentiation between the creativity technique of different people.
Creative Problem Solving Steps
There are basically six steps associated with the creative problem-solving process.
1)Problem Definition
2)Preparation
3)Idea Production
4)Idea Development
5)Evaluation
6)Adoption
Ways to Develop Creativity
1. Reading
2. Experience
3. Games
4. Writing
5. Fine Arts and Hobbies
6. Finding Solutions to Create Exercises
Characteristics of Creative Engineers and Managers
Characteristics of Highly Creative Engineers:
1- Observation Power
2- Concentration Power
3- Belongs to either upper or lower decile of engineering classes in the universities and other institutions.
4- Faces ambiguous situations more easily.
5- Question problems and new ideas.
6- Has fewer close friends.
Characteristics of Creative Engineers and Managers (cont…)
Characteristics of Highly Creative Engineers:
7- Displays more self-confidence
8- Independence in thoughts.
9- High desire for freedom
10- less anxious
11- independent in action.
12- thinks in more abstract and theoretical terms.
13- More stable.
Characteristics of Creative Engineers and Managers (cont…)Characteristics of Creative Managers:
1- Persistent
2- Creative Memory
3- Self Motivation
4- Analysis and Synthesis Ability
5- Tolerance of Ambiguity
6- Concentration power
7- Ability to toy with ideas
8- Displays originality
9- Self Confidence
10- Sensitive to problems
Characteristics of Creative Engineers and Managers (cont…)Characteristics of Creative Managers:11- Activity Curious
12- Fearless of Failure
13- Basically Optimistic
14- Openness to Feelings
15- Self Competitive
16- Free of Jealousy
17- Fearless of Authority
18- No resentment toward Authority
19- Respects others Rights
20- Open and Direct when dealing with Others
Climate For CreativityFollowing steps presents the ideal environment for creativity.
ЖGive necessary freedom and opportunity to deserving engineers.
ЖProvide necessary facilities to highly creative engineers.
ЖAvoid resisting new ideas.
ЖConduct informal seminars.
ЖAssign to individuals engineers those problems which best suit his or her field of interest.
ЖRecognize that the highly creative engineers have to be financially rewarded.
ЖReward highly creative engineers with status.
ЖRecognize differences in personality.
Attributes Of A Manger Of Creative People
A manager of a group of creative people has to have certain attributes. Some of them are as follows
Possesses knowledge of the creative process Gives credit to others when it is necessary Gives recognition whenever it is deserved Possesses self-confidence Provides inspiration at the movement of need Leads by suggestion Is able to take calculated risks whenever it is necessary Possesses ability to identify the problem Able to handle people with differing personalities Ability to communicate effectively with others Receptive to all ideas Pushes for flexible organization
Barriers To Creative ThinkingFor practical Purposes there are basically for types of such barriers.
Type 1:Enviromental Barriers:
These barriers are associated with an individual’s development.
Examples are Student-teacher, boss-subordinate, etc.
Type 2:cultural Barriers:
These are due to the society in which he or she functions. Therefore the cultural barriers include all those blocks which are imposed on an individual by the society.
Type 3:Perceptual Barriers:
These are due to mind’s tendency to short circuit.
Example: when a person becomes very much acquainted with some item, then he tends to overlook background details of such an item.
Type 4: Emotional Barriers:
These are the most serious of all the blocks so far discussed.
Examples are fear, hate, desire for security, self-satisfaction.
Barriers To Creative Thinking
Generation, Presentation and evaluation of new ideas1.Generation of new ideas:
The methods of ideas generation
is shown in figure:
Generation, Presentation and evaluation of new ideas (Cont.….)2.Presentation Of New Ideas:In the actual presentation of new ideas most of the factors one should take into consideration are as follows
Show muted enthusiasm
Be prepared for objections
Do not follow the argumentative procedure
Stay in good control and calm
Try to be as natural as possible
Add a light touch of showmanship
Avoid claims which are unsubstantiated
Outline the immediate steps appropriate for the new idea implementation
Try to arrange for a break after the presentation
Generation, Presentation and evaluation of new ideas (Cont.….)3.Evaluation of new ideas:
Each new idea has to go through an evaluation before its implementation.
Each new idea can be classified into one of the following three Categories.
Difficult ideas:
These are those ideas which can be accomplished only in twelve months or more time and require a great deal of other efforts.
Moderate ideas:
These ideas can probably be completed in six months with a reasonable sum of investment.
Simple ideas:
These ideas do not require an extensive effort or expense and can be accomplished immediately.
Ways To Kill IdeasSome of the negative ways a manager may act towards his subordinate who comes up with a new idea:
It will be difficult to sell
It is a ridiculous idea
It will be very costly
The top management will reject it
Idea is too radical
It is outside our responsibility
It is too theoretical
We are going quite well without it
We do not have time for such ideas
Nobody else has tried it before
Creativity TechniquesTechnique 1:
This technique is known as Gordon method.
This approach has two characteristics
The term explores the underling concept of the problem.
The term attacks the underlying concepts at length.
The advantages of the this approach are as follows
The radical applications of existing methods are encouraged
The early closure on the problem is prevented
Creativity Techniques (Cont..)Technique 2: This technique is composed of the following steps
Distribute to each member of the team a notebook containing a problem of major scope
Allow each member of the team to record his thoughts on how to solve the problem for a month
Each team member submits his or her notebook to the coordinator at the specified time
The coordinator studies all the notebook and prepares a detailed summary
After the summarization, any member of the team can see all the notebooks
Whenever it is necessary ,a final meeting is held in which all team members participate
Creativity Techniques (Cont..) Technique 3:
This is known as “attribute –listing approach”.
In this approach a person is required to list attributes of an idea or an item
Then the person concentrates on one attribute at a time
Technique 4:
This is known as the “forced relationships” method.
The main objective of this approach is to generate new ideas by creating a forced relationship between two or more usually unrelated ideas or items
That is how the idea-generation process starts
Creativity Techniques (Cont..)Technique 5: This is known as the brainstorming method
However the meanings of the modern term “brainstorming” is using the brain to storm a problem
Following guidelines are to be observed when conducting a brainstorming session
Welcome free-wheeling
Aim for quality
Eliminate idea criticism during the session
Combine and improve ideas
Record ideas
Keep the ranks of participants fairly equal
Choose the time of the session carefully
Creativity Techniques (Cont..)
Technique 6:
This is another brainstorming method and is known as the tear-down approach
The technique can be used by two persons
After picking the subject for brainstorming, person A takes the attitude that the existing way is incorrect
The second person, person B, is not allowed to agree with the idea of person A
Person B has to suggest another way
The cycle continues until a useful idea clicks
Creativity Techniques (Cont..)
Technique 7: This is another brainstorming technique and is known as the and also method
This approach can be used by two persons
The approach is same as Technique 6,but with one exception: that both persons must agree with each other and then make an addition to the other’s idea
Technique 8: This technique can be used by a single person
In this approach the problem is written and distributed to various participants before the meeting
Each participant has to have a certain number of solution ideas
Thus a sound solution to the problem may be found
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