(1) INTRODUCTION: Creativity in organisations may be defined as the process by which new ideas that make innovation possible are developed. It is the ability to generate novel and useful ideas and solutions to everyday problems and challenges. For many years‚ technology has supplanted people in the performance of many routine jobs and has increasingly assumed prominence in more sophisticated processes. The universal availability of inexpensive technology has created a highly competitive global marketplace
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Creativity and Innovation Everyone has the problem that how they will learn more in the content of a question or/and problem that they are working on. Simple answer for that is by creativity and innovation‚ but then the question is what is creativity and innovation means. In simple words‚ creativity refers to the invention or origination of any new thing that has value. "New" may refer to the individual creator or the society or domain within which novelty occurs. In the same manner‚
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What are the skills necessary to develop creativity Ability to see things in a different way The bringing of new perspectives Creativity‚ innovation‚ entrepreneurship Is the action and result of imagination and ingenuity; the ability to create through the relation of previously unrelated ideas or things; the application of a person’s mental ability and curiousirty to something new Innovation – the introduction of something new; the development of new processes‚ methods devices‚ productsa
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Managing Your Team Summary What is an Effective Team? Managers should apply three interrelated criteria in assessing overall team effectiveness: 1. Does the team’s output (e.g.‚ decisions‚ products‚ services) meet the standards of those who have to use it? It is not enough that the team is pleased with its output or even that the output meets some objective performance measure. If the team’s output is unacceptable to those who have to use it‚ it is hard to argue that the team is effective
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Ives‚ 1994). The virtual team represents an important example of these new organizational forms (Jarvenpaa and Ives‚ 1994). Virtual teams are groups of geographically‚ temporally‚ and/or organizationally dispersed knowledge workers brought together across time and space by way of information and communication technologies (DeSanctis and Poole‚ 1997; Jarvenpaa and Leidner‚ 1999; Lipnack and Stamps‚ 1997; Townsend et al.‚ 1998). We limit our investigation to a class of virtual teams that has recently
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Collaboration in Virtual Teams Did we get the message? Gaby Rasters 2004 Copyright: 2004 by Gaby Rasters Cover design by H.T.L Janssen ISBN: 90-9018652-2 Printing: Print Partners Ipskamp All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted‚ in any form or by any means electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise‚ without the prior permission of the author. Communication and Collaboration in Virtual Teams Did we get
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Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter Case Study 1 By: Alyssa Dimeck MGT 404 10/09/2011 Professor Samuel Palmeri Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter CASE SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Defense is known for their F-35 Lighting II Program; the focal point for defining affordable next generation stealth fighter aircraft. In 2002‚ the Department of Defense announced Lockheed Martin Aeronautic as the designer and builder of the fighter with Northrop Grumman and
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Creativity and innovation management Establishment of an enterprise entails making profit through production of products that satisfy the customer and at the same time maintain the social and environment effects of the production. The growth and development of enterprise will thus have supportive elements that ensure that each period in production brings a difference to the business. The comparison of the first automobile in the world cannot be compared to the current automobiles. There is a difference
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1. As a manager of a virtual team‚ what team characteristics would you be especially concerned about so that the team’s work would be exceptional? As a manager of a virtual team I believe that it is extremely important to understand what key characteristics are needed in order for the team to flourish and excel. The ability to openly communicate‚ Understand cultural differences as well as overall knowledge of technology are some of the fundamentals I would be most concerned about. Communication
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Virtual teams were almost unheard of a decade ago‚ but today they are an integral part of every organization. The recent “offshore outsourcing” trend and the growth of the Internet and similar globally linking technologies are major contributor to the increase in the use of virtual teams. Virtual teams are made up of people working on interdependent tasks and interacting largely via communication technology to achieve a common goal without concerns of time and space. Such teams carry out many critical
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