TY - BOOK AU - Robinson, Alan G. AU - Stern, Sam TI - Corporate creativity: how innovation and improvement actually happen SN - 1576750094 AV - HD 53 .R6 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - San Francisco, California PB - Berrett-Koehler Publisher, Inc. KW - CREATIVE ABILITY IN BUSINESS N1 - Includes index; 1. The true nature of corporate creativity -- 2. How preconceptions limit corporate creativity -- 3. What do we really know about creativity? -- 4. The decline of the simple suggestion system and the rise of a new generation -- 5. How misalignment shuts down creativity -- 6. Alignment : The first essential element -- 7. Self-initiated activity -- 8. Unofficial activity -- 9. Serendipity -- 10. Diverse stimuli -- 11. Within-company communication -- 12. Unleashing corporate creativity : where to start N2 - Corporate Creativity consistently connects creative outcomes to the actions that really made a difference to them. Through detailed real-life examples from organizations around the world - including British Airways, Du Pont, Fujitsu, General Motors, Hallmark, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Japan Railways East, Kodak, Universal Studios, the United States Forest Service, and enterprises in the USSR - the authors show how improvements and breakthroughs actually happen in organizations ER -