Includes bibliographical references and index.

Innovation and team creativity catalysts -- Mastery modelling: benchmarking innovation -- Intensive immersion: empowered exploration -- Group germination: collective growth -- Mind netting: brainstorming -- Mind netting: creative problem solving process -- Mind netting: synectics innovative problem solving -- Mind netting: lateral and multidimensional thinking -- Mind netting: TRIZ inventive problem solving -- Mind netting: attribute listing and morphological synthesis -- Conclusion : Accelerating team creativity and innovation -- Appendices : Research on adult team creativity -- Other authors modelling genius -- News media modelling mastery -- Modelling innovative companies -- Modelling innovative countries -- Synectics-based DREAM training.

Want to know how creative people innovate? This book gives you models and practices that you can use with your team to help you be the innovators of your organisation. Be the innovators provides readers with ideas for benchmarking best practices in innovation, empowering creative excellence, leveraging collective growth, and connecting a spectrum of individual and team ideas. Based on the belief that innovations change people's lives, Peter Ling provides insights into innovative individuals, companies, and countries. He illustrates how to empower employees to engage in corporate mission, values, and vision.

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