Applying Creativity and Systems Thinking for Business Innovation
(A Two Day Workshop)

Workshop Overview

Tomorrow will no more be the future of yesterday. The prerogative for software and technology intensive companies working on cutting edge is, to not only to find newer businesses, but also newer ways of managing these businesses.
Every one is mandated to think new, be different and yet be effective. Its a fine balance that managers are striving to strike which helps them think like a poet while in a board room or while facing a customer fire! Bottom line is that Thinking is getting to go beyond being just a way of life. It has Strategic Implications in terms of the way we view and manage our businesses.
Infosys is Powered By Intellect. TCS attempts to think and see Beyond The Obvious. HP thinks to Invent. Wipro is committed to Applying Thought.
What about you?

Workshop Motivation

• Would you want to understand your self better by understanding your own mental patterns?
  
• Would you want to get a better grip on work and life situations by viewing them from more than one perspective?
  
• What are the ways to change paradigms and understand complexity better?
  
• So that you learn not just to do Totalitarian Thinking, but also empathize with the people you work and interact with better?

Workshop Objective and Takeaways

• To help participants appreciate and understand a Systems world
  
• To help understand basics of Systems Thinking and Creativity Processes
  
• To enable participants with a mechanism of choice in terms of when to apply, which type of Thinking?
  
• To help apply these concepts to real life situations
  To help managers be sensitised to the opportunity costs they would have incurred if they hadn't practised thinking formally
  

Workshop Contents

Day One:

• Understanding the linkage between Thinking and Business Innovation
  
• Understanding When to Think How to Think?
  
• Understanding Systems thinking
  
• Applying Systems Thinking to solving real life problems
  
• Applying Systems Thinking to building organisation capability

Day Two:

• Understanding Creativity processes
  
• Applying Creativity processes to solving real life problems
  
• Applying Creativity processes to building organization capability
  
• Doing Inverse Thinking! Integrating Creativity and Systems Thinking for Business Innovation
  
• Plotting one's personalized Individual Think Gram
  

Workshop Delivery

Thro a mix of :

• Presentations
  

• Semi structured discussions
  

• Worksheets
  

• Case simulations
  

• Role Plays
  

• Management games
  

• Questionnaire exercises and other OD intervention exercises

Workshop Content

• Understanding the linkage between Thinking and Business Innovation
  
• Understanding When to Think How to Think?
  
• Understanding Systems thinking
  
• Applying Systems Thinking to solving real life problems
  
• Applying Systems Thinking to building organisation capability