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Creativity and Innovation Management Creativity and Innovation Management is an academic journal bridging the gap between the theory and practice of organizing imagination and innovation.

Published by Wiley. Edited By: Petra de Weerd-Nederhof and Klaasjan Visscher. 2012 Impact Factor: 0.855 Creativity and Innovation Management bridges the gap between the theory and practice of organizing imagination and innovation. The journal's central consideration is how to challenge and facilitate creative potential, and how then to imbed this into result oriented innovative business developmen

t. The creativity of individuals, coupled with structured and well-managed innovation projects, create a sound base from which organizations may operate effectively within their inter-organisational and societal environment. Today, successful operations must go hand in hand with the ability to anticipate future opportunities. Therefore, a cultural focus and inspiring leadership are as crucial to an organization's success, as efficient structural arrangements and support facilities. This is reflected in the Journal's contents:

Leadership for creativity and innovation; the behavioural side of innovation management. Organisational structures and processes to support creativity and innovation; interconnecting creative and innovative processes. Creativity, motivation, work environment/creative climate and organizational behaviour, creative and innovative entrepreneurship. Deliberate development of creative and innovative skills including the use of a variety of tools such as TRIZ, CPS etc. Creative professions and personalities; creative products; the relationship between creativity and humor; arts & humanities side of creativity. Articles are welcomed from all parts of the world. If possible, articles should demonstrate contextual differences, while seeking learning lessons for wider audiences. The editors welcome suggestions for special theme issues.

10/08/2017
Innovative work behavior and s*x‐based stereotypes: Examining s*x differences in perceptions and evaluations of innovative work behavior

Adding to the discussion: Article in Journal of Org. Beh. on the phenomenon of “think innovation-think male” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2219/abstract

Building on role congruity theory, we predict that innovative work behaviors are stereotypically ascribed to men more than to women. Because of this bias, women who innovate may not receive better performance...

21/06/2017

Very proud to announce our increased Impact Factor of 1.423. And yes, long way to go but hey, we're still young!

21/06/2017
Unveiling the Potentialities Provided by New Technologies

Great initiative by our authors Tommaso Buganza, Claudio Dell’Era, Elena Pellizzoni, Daniel Trabucchi and Roberto Verganti regarding the paper "Unveiling the Potentialities Provided by New Technologies: A Process to Pursue Technology Epiphanies in the Smartphone App Industry” published in CIM Volume 24 Number 3 in 2015, as part of the IPDMC Special Issue.

https://youtu.be/COZ8VPMaK4I

This is a video abstract of the paper "Unveiling the Potentialities Provided by New Technologies: A Process to Pursue Technology Epiphanies in the Smartphone...

14/02/2017

Special Issue – Call for papers
Paving the way for performance management and management control in innovation networks

11/11/2016

In the new December issue, see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/caim.v25.4/issuetoc we have seven articles that re- flect the main areas of CIM: the first two articles are in the area of individual and group creativity, two more focus on design and design management, and finally, our yearly IPDMC special section edited by Petra de Weerd- Nederhof and Nuran Acur consists of three arti- cles. One from the 2015 Copenhagen conference hosted by John Christiansen, and two from Limerick in 2016, where Ann Ledwith and Regina McNally did the honours.
The first of the IPDMC special section is the report by John Christiansen and Marta Gasparin on their research into managing con- troversies in the fuzzy front end (FFE). Their analysis investigates the micro processes around the controversies that emerge during the fuzzy front end. Five different types of con- troversies are identified: profit, production, de- sign, brand, and customers/market. Each controversy represents a threat, but is also an opportunity to search for new solutions in the unpredictable non-linear processes. The authors use the phrase ‘managing’ the controversies in the FFE in the title, and some might find that somewhat presumptuous, but the analysis shows how the meaning of management – or the skills needed – changes from one contro- versy to another, so managing becomes a call for heterogeneous skills and activities that are needed to deal with the controversies.

Next, the contribution of Maria Annosi et al. concerns an abductive study of the dark side of agile software development focused on social conduct, learning and innovation. Their results indicate that the time pressure induced by the implementation of Agile impedes team engage- ment in learning and innovation activities. Time pressure is affected by a set of different control strategies, more specifically concertive, belief, diagnostic and boundary controls, and these need to be adequately addressed in order to minimize the potential dark side of Agile.

Last but not least, the original study on democratizing journalism by Michael Zeng et al. concludes this special section, subtitled: how user-generated content and user commu-
nities affect publishers’ business models. A worthwhile read not only for those interested in innovation and changing business models, but also for journal publishers and editors!

03/11/2016
Open to a Select Few? Matching Partners and Knowledge Content for Open Innovation Performance - Bengtsson - 2014 - Creativity and Innovation Management - Wiley Online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/caim.12098/full Open access! Read the full article!

Creativity and Innovation Management Explore this journal > Explore this journal > Previous article in issue: A Longitudinal Study of Workspace Design for Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation in the Research and Development Process Previous article in issue: A Longitudinal Study of Workspace Desig...

27/10/2016
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can be nurtured with the right incentives.

21/10/2016
Different Styles for Different Needs – The Effect of Cognitive Styles on Idea Generation - Lomberg - 2016 - Creativity and Innovation Management - Wiley Online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/caim.12188/full Researchers are engaged in finding the precursors for innovation. Drawing on Kirton's Adaption-Innovation (KAI) Inventory, the authors explicitly test Kirton's central premise that cognitive styles differentiate between preferences for producing ideas in a certain way. They argue that the generation of either a magnitude or original ideas is governed by different underlying cognitive styles. In a study with 191 individuals, they find that the cognitive style originality associates with ideational fluency whereas the rule governance style associates with the generation of original ideas. By providing a cognitive explanation for how ideas are generated, the authors deepen the understanding of the idea generation process. This is particularly important for the future use of the KAI and for organizations that strive to be innovative.

Lomberg, C., Kollmann, T., and Stöckmann, C. (2016) Different Styles for Different Needs – The Effect of Cognitive Styles on Idea Generation. Creativity and Innovation Management, doi: 10.1111/caim.12188.

14/10/2016

Susan Moger and Todor Rickards handing over the 2015 CIM Best Paper Award to Ward Ooms and Robert Kok, for their paper "Use of Social Media in Inbound Open Innovation: Building Capabilities for for Absorptive Capacity", written together with John Bell. Congratulations!

14/10/2016

Next up: keynote by Balder Onarheim from the Technical University of Denmark, on "Creativity, Innovation and Neurostimulation"

14/10/2016

... followed by a discussion in three groups on the following questions: "How does the future of publishing look like?", "Where do we want to take CIM to in the next 10 years?" and "What are the hot topics CIM should address?" The result is a great bunch of very interesting views and ideas that definitely will help us to prepare for the future!

14/10/2016

This morning starts with an introduction by Claudia Nicolai on the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam ...

13/10/2016

Sören Salomo started his keynote on Network Configuration and Partnership-related Development Costs –The Case of Clinical Trial Networks

13/10/2016

"The Future of CIM", Jennie Björk and Katharina Hölzle looking back, and ahead.

13/10/2016

“We’ve seen the future and it works – an informal reflection on past, present and future issues from your founding editor” by Tudor Rickards & Susan Moger

13/10/2016

We just started the celebration of our 25th anniversary in Potsdam!

01/10/2016
Studying Organizational Creativity as Process: Fluidity or Duality? - Fortwengel - 2016 - Creativity and Innovation Management - Wiley Online Library

On Early View: Studying Organizational Creativity as Process: Fluidity or Duality? by Johann Fortwengel, Elke Schüßler and Jörg Sydow. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/caim.12187/full

Creativity and Innovation Management Explore this journal > Explore this journal > Early View Previous article in Early View: Design-Driven Innovation in Retailing: An Empirical Examination of New Services in Car Dealership Previous article in Early View: Design-Driven Innovation in Retailing: An Em...

23/09/2016

Call for Papers! Click here for full text: goo.gl/D0gp0I

06/09/2016
Collaborative Organizations for Innovation: A Focus on the Management of Sociotechnical Imaginaries to Stimulate Industrial Ecosystems Hooge 2016 Creativity and Innovation Management Wiley Online Library

Confronted with the need to improve their innovation capabilities in an increasingly holistic context, companies are creating new forms of collaborative organizations to collectively explore potential radical innovation fields. In this paper, we propose a study of the nature of these new collectives for innovation through two managerial patterns: objects of collaboration and organizational mechanisms of co-ordination. This research is based on longitudinal collaborative research with the French carmaker Renault and analyses the Renault Innovation Community, whose members participated in original collaborative initiatives to stimulate the industrial ecosystem of mobility and support the potential emergence of new ecosystems. The main results of the empirical research emphasize that: (1) tasks of collaboration favour a focus on the regeneration and dissemination of sociotechnical imaginaries rather than on societal expectations, and (2) organizational mechanisms of collaboration exceed open innovation logics to focus on the collective creation of favourable conditions for the emergence of new industrial ecosystems.

Creativity and Innovation Management Explore this journal > Explore this journal > Early View Previous article in Early View: External Design for Reputation, Perspective and Exposure Previous article in Early View: External Design for Reputation, Perspective and Exposure Next article in Early View:…

09/08/2016
TRIZ for Reverse Inventing in Market Research: A Case Study from WITTENSTEIN AG, Identifying New Areas of Application of a Core Technology - Glaser - 2009 - Creativity and Innovation Management - Wiley Online Library

TRIZ revisited ... Conventional strategic market research is a very expensive method to gain results which are often marked by a high degree of uncertainty. Markus Glazer and Bert Miecznik, the authors of this freely downloadable article from a CIM 2009 TRIZ special developed and tested a cost-effective TRIZ-based concept called ‘reverse inventing’ for the improvement of this situation (click the picture for full scheme). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8691.2009.00516.x/full The article was part of a TRIZ special, read the editorial here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8691.2009.00521.x/full. Although already a while ago, TRIZ is still alive and kicking as is among others illustrated by the 'Design the Future' summer school, starting next week at the University of Twente: https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/summer-school-curiousu/courses/design-the-future/ which lists TRIZ under Innovative Design!

Glaser, M. and Miecznik, B. (2009), TRIZ for Reverse Inventing in Market Research: A Case Study from WITTENSTEIN AG, Identifying New Areas of Application of a Core Technology. Creativity and Innovation Management, 18: 90–100. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2009.00516.x

30/07/2016
The Challenges of Using Design Thinking in Industry – Experiences from Five Large Firms - Carlgren - 2016 - Creativity and Innovation Management - Wiley Online Library

Sneak preview: just came on line! Design Thinking (DT) is advocated as a user-centred approach to innovation, based on the way designers think and work. Despite being increasingly promoted as an approach to innovation, there is still little evidence of successful impact. Rather, indications suggest that firms find implementation challenging. The purpose of this paper is to analyse challenges of using DT in light of literature on innovation barriers, in order to discuss whether there is something unique about DT as a concept that makes it particularly challenging to use. The paper is based on an interview study of five large firms that all have at least five years of experience of using DT. The analysis shows that several of the perceived challenges can be linked to known barriers to innovation. However, other challenges have not previously been described in the innovation literature, and the paper suggests that there are some unique aspects of DT that makes it particularly challenging for firms to integrate it in innovation work. These are related to its core themes: user focus, problem framing, experimentation, visualization and diversity. Additionally, the paper contributes with an empirically based categorization of challenges that managers will find useful if they want to implement design thinking in their organizations.

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20/07/2016
Simple Ideas to Stimulate Creativity: INFOGRAPHIC

Simple Ideas to Stimulate Creativity: INFOGRAPHIC

Publishing Simple Ideas to Stimulate Creativity: INFOGRAPHIC By Dianna Dilworth on Feb. 20, 2014 - 2:35 PMComment SHOUTmkt has created an infographic called, “Simple Ideas to Stimulate Creativity,” which is full of ideas for exercises that will help you get your brain flowing. Check it out: “Do some...

09/07/2016

Last call for the 6th CIM Community Workshop in Potsdam, October 13-14! Although the official deadline is over, we still have a few spots available for interesting papers on Big data and open innovation, individual and organizational creativity, Design and Design Thinking or Open / New Topics. Please see the CfP attached.

09/07/2016

A great EGOS Conference comes to an end. Sub-theme 42 "Managing Tensions in Innovation: Balancing Feasibility, Viability and Desirability" clearly disrupted the classical conference format and made a first step towards a joint research agenda on the implications of Design Thinking on individuals, teams, and organizations. And how designers, organizational theorists, and management scholars could work together in this field. It was a wonderful experience. Thank you to Jochen Schweitzer, Lars Groeger and all participants! Looking forward to have some submissions from this wonderful stream to CIM!

15/06/2016

Proudly presenting our new -highest ever- Impact Factor! Spread the word and cite also our wonderful 2016 articles!

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