Creative Thinking and Innovation

Sydney introduces creativity and innovation as connected but different activities. Understanding each concept leads into examining how creative thinking contributes to a useful change. It suits beginners who want a vocabulary for discussing ideas and a clearer way to connect an imaginative proposal with the problem it should address.

What you will learn

• Distinguish creativity from innovation.
• Explain how creative thinking supports change.
• Connect an idea with a practical opportunity.

Who this suits

Beginners exploring creative thinking and its relationship to innovation.

Before you enroll

Treat a method as a way to explore a problem, then examine whether its ideas address the actual constraints. Generating many suggestions is different from selecting a useful one. Use feedback, small experiments and documented reasoning to improve an idea before investing in its implementation.

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Put it into practice

Describe a fictional problem, propose three different ideas, and explain what would need testing before calling any of them an innovation.

Source and review

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