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Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and innovation course for our
undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions for a curriculum,
syllabus, readings, texts?

Thanks for your assistance.

Bonnie Garson PhD
Associate Professor
McCamish School of Business
Reinhardt College
Waleska, GA 30183

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You should check out the work of Amabile on creativity and
Deci on intrinsic motivation. I am attaching a paper that
looks at R&D policy re: innovative activities in firms.
Best wishes,


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:14:59 -0500
>From: Bonnie Garson <bonniegarson@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>Subject: INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
>To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
>
>Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and
innovation course for our
>undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions
for a curriculum,
>syllabus, readings, texts?
>
>Thanks for your assistance.
>
>Bonnie Garson PhD
>Associate Professor
>McCamish School of Business
>Reinhardt College
>Waleska, GA 30183
Ram Mudambi
Associate Professor and Washburn Research Fellow
Dept of Strategic Management
Fox School of Business & Management
Temple University
Philadelphia PA 19122, USA
Voice: 215-204-2099
FAX: 215-204-8029
Web: Http://sbm.temple.edu/~rmudambi

>Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and innovation
>course for our
>undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions for a curriculum,
>syllabus, readings, texts?
>

Dear Bonny -

I ran such courses in business for a number of years. My suggestion
is to buy a lot of coloured paper, scissors, balloons, pipe-cleaners,
rubber bands, paper clips, tinsel, blutac (TM, all rights recognised,
etc), glue, selotape (see previous parenthetic remark), drinking
straws, wood, coloured pens, markers, plastic offcuts, swatches of
fabric, etc etc., put your students in an empty room with the
materials and leave them to simmer for 8 hours.

Afterwards, ask them what happened. Go on from there.

best regards
hugh

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Bonny,

I can recommend

Henry, J., (ed.) (2001) Creative Management 2nd Edition, London, Sage.

And

Storey, J., (ed.) (2004) The Management of Innovation (2 volumes),
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.


Mark

Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
Director, Programmes and Curriculum
& Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Open University Business School
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
United Kingdom



Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
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Web : oubs.open.ac.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: International Management Division Discussion
[mailto:IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hugh Browton
Sent: 18 January 2006 09:45
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: INNOVATION & CREATIVITY

>Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and innovation course

>for our undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions for
>a curriculum, syllabus, readings, texts?
>

Dear Bonny -

I ran such courses in business for a number of years. My suggestion is
to buy a lot of coloured paper, scissors, balloons, pipe-cleaners,
rubber bands, paper clips, tinsel, blutac (TM, all rights recognised,
etc), glue, selotape (see previous parenthetic remark), drinking straws,
wood, coloured pens, markers, plastic offcuts, swatches of fabric, etc
etc., put your students in an empty room with the materials and leave
them to simmer for 8 hours.

Afterwards, ask them what happened. Go on from there.

best regards
hugh

--
____________________________________________________________________
Hugh Browton ghb@clarity.co.uk ////
CLARITY Consulting Ltd Sun House ALDEBURGH UK IP15 5GY
tel:+44 1728 454484 fax:+44 7970 674322 mobile: +44 7973
560921

Dear Bonny,

I like the recent book by Frans Johansson - "The Medici Effect -
Breakthrough insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts & Cultures"
(Harvard Business School Press, 2004) that looks into the process of
creativity and innovation. One of his teachers at HBS was Teresa Amabile;
and although this book is less academic, I think the case studies in it will
get you some interesting discussions.

Good luck,
Florian

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Doctoral Candidate
School of Economics and Business
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Schumannstrasse 60
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Ph.: +49 69 798 23411 (off.); +49 177 5067561 (mob.)
Fax: +49 69 798 28121
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email: taeube@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
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You can access my research on my SSRN Author page:
http://ssrn.com/author=382666


-----Original Message-----
From: International Management Division Discussion
[mailto:IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of ram.mudambi@TEMPLE.EDU
Sent: Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 10:41
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: INNOVATION & CREATIVITY

You should check out the work of Amabile on creativity and
Deci on intrinsic motivation. I am attaching a paper that
looks at R&D policy re: innovative activities in firms.
Best wishes,


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:14:59 -0500
>From: Bonnie Garson <bonniegarson@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>Subject: INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
>To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
>
>Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and
innovation course for our
>undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions
for a curriculum,
>syllabus, readings, texts?
>
>Thanks for your assistance.
>
>Bonnie Garson PhD
>Associate Professor
>McCamish School of Business
>Reinhardt College
>Waleska, GA 30183
Ram Mudambi
Associate Professor and Washburn Research Fellow
Dept of Strategic Management
Fox School of Business & Management
Temple University
Philadelphia PA 19122, USA
Voice: 215-204-2099
FAX: 215-204-8029
Web: Http://sbm.temple.edu/~rmudambi

Bonnie

When I taught a course on lateral thinking skills in business at Conestoga
College in Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario Canada a number of years ago, I used
Edward de Bono's materials on lateral thinking and the CORT thinking skills
program

Based on the weekly news and business events or key headlines in this
mornings newspaper, I made up my own lateral thinking exercises for students
every week. Ie. explore this idea or what new concepts can you think of that
will address.....?

Walter Derzko
http://smarteconomy.typepad.com


-----Original Message-----
From: International Management Division Discussion
[mailto:IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bonnie Garson
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:15 PM
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: INNOVATION & CREATIVITY

Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and innovation course for
our
undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions for a curriculum,

syllabus, readings, texts?

Thanks for your assistance.

Bonnie Garson PhD
Associate Professor
McCamish School of Business
Reinhardt College
Waleska, GA 30183

Dear Bonnie,

Perhaps you might be interested in the cross-cultural negotiation simulations
from CulturesCrossing. They have been used now by over 100 univesities and
companies all over the world.

<http://www.culturescrossing.com>

All the best,

Maureen Maguire Lewis


Quoting Bonnie Garson <bonniegarson@BELLSOUTH.NET>:

> Greetings Colleagues: I am designing a creativity and innovation
> course for our
> undergraduate business/management program. Any suggestions for a curriculum,
> syllabus, readings, texts?
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> Bonnie Garson PhD
> Associate Professor
> McCamish School of Business
> Reinhardt College
> Waleska, GA 30183
>

There is an article about teaching such a course in the current issue of BizEd titled, "Driving Innovation."


Sincerely,


Eric J. Romero, Ph.D.
Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow
Assistant Professor
Department of Management
College of Business Administration, 124B
University of Texas - Pan American
Edinburg, TX 78541
(956) 381-2579
(956) 381-2970 - FAX
ericromero@utpa.edu
www.coba.panam.edu/faculty/romero/