{"id":2910,"date":"2023-10-18T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:38:23","slug":"why-creativity-is-essential-for-strategic-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/why-creativity-is-essential-for-strategic-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Why creativity is essential for strategic thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before beginning a strategic thinking or strategy development activity, we often spend excessive time and effort on determining the rigorous analytical, solution-oriented processes and skills needed.<\/p>\r\n<p>These methods are crucial and should not be discarded. They help us understand an existing business strategy, not create and drive a new direction. Game changing strategies need a different spark, ones that help us break away from our existing conventional thinking.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>To create strategies that differentiate us, we must develop thinking tools that are explicitly designed to foster creativity.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>The creative approach of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">de Bono\u2019s Lateral Thinking<\/a>, opens up these new pathways or directions by creating connections and alternatives.<\/p>\r\n<p>The tools and techniques learnt, provide a pathway that ensures we disrupt our current thinking patterns \u2013 making us think in unexpected directions.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">Lateral Thinking<\/a> moves strategic thinking beyond the insights delivered by analytic tools, it helps strategists make the jump beyond what already exists, to invent a genuinely new way of doing business.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Simply waiting for inspiration to strike is not the answer. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">Lateral Thinking<\/a> tools can help build a new breakthrough strategy, it teaches how to use four core toolkits:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Focus tools<\/strong> &#8211; create a purpose to our idea generation or broaden our approach to search for new ideas.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Idea-generation tools<\/strong> &#8211; move us and disrupt our current thinking patterns \u2013 Concept Extraction, Challenge, Random Entry and Provocation and Movement.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Harvest tools<\/strong> &#8211; ensure we increase the yield of our idea generation and create more value from the idea generating output.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Treatment tools<\/strong> &#8211; promote consideration of real-world constraints, stakeholder points of view, resources and support to make the idea reality.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">de Bono&#8217;s Lateral Thinking<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">Workshop outline.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/indigotraining\/docs\/indigo---lateral-thinking\">Download brochure.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/calendar\/9\">Public workshop calendar.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/in-house-training\">Enquire about training for groups and teams.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<hr \/><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":2072,\"align\":\"left\",\"width\":132,\"height\":165} -->\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2160\" src=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Richard-Morris3-22.10.19-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"130\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><strong>More about Richard Morris<\/strong> Richard is an accredited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/think-on-your-feet\">Think on Your Feet\u00ae<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/writing-dynamics\">Writing Dynamics&#x2122;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">Lateral Thinking<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/a> trainer and has delivered these workshops to numerous clients.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>From an organisational development context, he has created and implemented a new leadership behavioural framework and set of associated flagship leadership development programmes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before beginning a strategic thinking or strategy development activity, we often spend excessive time and effort on determining the rigorous analytical, solution-oriented processes and skills needed. 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