Strategic Framing • Scouting R&D • Idea Portfolio • High Impact Research • Target Selection • Product Development • Rapid Commercialization • Similarly a firm pursuing radical innovation can shift to / transform to incremental innovation by taking some of following steps: Installing more gatekeepers at various stages Spreading budgetory support over longer period Carrying out rigorous progress reviews Using more controls etc. Q.8 a.) Explain the hat framework” for managing creative thinking. “thinking Ans: Developed by Dr. Edward de Bono, the Thinking Hats” technique is a framework “Six designed to promote holistic and lateral thinking in decision-making and evaluation. Conducted alone or in group meetings, participants project members, key decision-makers and – stakeholders are encouraged to cycle through different modalities of thinking using the – metaphor of wearing different conceptual “hats”. This approach seeks to combine the strengths of a range of different mental which “states” individuals instinctively tend towards from rational and positive perspectives to emotional and – intuitive, or from optimistic to pessimistic - by prompting participants to consider the same problem through a full spectrum of thinking styles in coming to common agreement on a decision or shared purpose. Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint. This is part of the reason that they are successful. Often, though, they may fail to look at a problem from an emotional, intuitive, creative or negative viewpoint. This can mean that they underestimate resistance to plans, fail to make creative leaps and do not make essential contingency plans.
• Strategic Framing • Scouting R&D • Idea Portfolio • High Impact Research • Target Selection • Product Development • Rapid Commercialization Similarly a firm pursuing radical innovation can shift to / transform to incremental innovation by taking some of following steps: Installing more gatekeepers at various stages Spreading budgetory support over longer period Carrying out rigorous progress reviews Using more controls etc. Q.8 a.) Explain the “thinking hat framework” for managing creative thinking. Ans: Developed by Dr. Edward de Bono, the “Six Thinking Hats” technique is a framework designed to promote holistic and lateral thinking in decision-making and evaluation. Conducted alone or in group meetings, participants – project members, key decision-makers and stakeholders – are encouraged to cycle through different modalities of thinking using the metaphor of wearing different conceptual “hats”. This approach seeks to combine the strengths of a range of different mental “states” which individuals instinctively tend towards – from rational and positive perspectives to emotional and intuitive, or from optimistic to pessimistic - by prompting participants to consider the same problem through a full spectrum of thinking styles in coming to common agreement on a decision or shared purpose. Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint. This is part of the reason that they are successful. Often, though, they may fail to look at a problem from an emotional, intuitive, creative or negative viewpoint. This can mean that they underestimate resistance to plans, fail to make creative leaps and do not make essential contingency plans.
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