Enterprises

Out there is an entrepreneur who is forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You have got one options now - to shoot first. You have got to out-innovate the innovators - Gary Hamel. 

He also says, "Most companies are built for continuous improvement, rather than for discontinuous innovation. They know how to get better, but they don’t know how to get different".

Many CEOs, Directors & Senior Managers in business today are focused on improving efficiency, cutting costs & making things better to work. They are all extremely hardworking, committed & are doing a great job. The challenge is - incremental business in existing business is not enough. In addition to incremental business, leaders must spend time on new ways to address customers - to create value for the customer & its ecosystem. The best way to create value is to innovate & continuously innovate...

Innovating continuously could be taken up only by harnessing the creative power of your assets - your people. The question the leadership must ask is for people to be creative best,

• what kind of Creative Energy you run across your enterprise
• how well & often do you Energize Your People to solve problems, find new solutions & let them have the Climate of Creativity of thoughts & idea by way of Creative Thinking
• have you been able to create or turn yourself into a Thinking Enterprises & if you have been able to viral the Creative Energy, how often do you sharpen the saw...!!

So why it is important to be Creative in workplace? Most people often confuse creativity with artistic tasks such as writing great emails, painting / sketching or composing music. Indeed, these areas are of creative pursuits, but the fact is all creative thinkers are not artists.

In the current context, Creative Thinking is manifested through various situations in the world of business, science & technology. It is the associated with the ability to "think differently" or "uniquely", something which is very un-obviously or to say, "out of the box". 

Thinking out of the box generates excitement, passion and creativity. Additionally, teamwork is essential when coming up with outstanding ideas and solutions, as two heads are better that one. Indeed, we perform better when we collaborate and when we look at the number one human need males it happens - our connections.  Looking at it from a decision-making perspective, imagine how many ideas and decisions we can collect from putting together a creative environment where people are encouraged to think consistently.

Fundamentally, Creative professionals & people can devise new & distinct ways to carry out tasks, solve problems, a conflict, a new dimension to data, meet challenges to name a few. They bring a fresh and often an unorthodox perspective to their work.