| "Serious Business ... applying creative thinking to solving complex business challenges” a post–Forum offering Wednesday, November 20, 2013 • 9am–Noon (option 1) Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business Serious Business is a learn and apply, hands-on workshop focusing on application of creative thinking to solve specific business problems. Serious Business has participants using creative thinking to invent, improve, develop, and ultimately realize profit. This workshop bridges the wide gap between creativity and innovation. Participants learn, and use, a proven innovation framework (Osborn-Parnes CPS) and several advanced innovation “power tools” while solving business challenges they bring from their organizations. Outcomes: improved challenge selection, more creative problem re-framing, breakthrough ideas using concept blending, rigorous solution development, and more compelling pitches. |  Gregg Fraley | |
| FourSight a post–Forum offering Wednesday, November 20, 2013 • 9am–Noon (option 2) Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business Careful, Your Creative Thinking Preferences are Showing! An introduction to "FourSight: Your Thinking Profile" How do you approach a challenge? Just like people have strong preference for using a left or right hand, people also have strong preferences for the different modes of thinking required by tough problem solving. So what's your preferred approach? Do you prefer to clarify the situation? Generate new ideas? Develop better solutions? Or implement them? We can help you find out. "FourSight: Your Thinking Profile" is a research-based assessment that shows where you gain and lose energy as you work through challenges that require complex and creative thinking. More than 50,000 people from organizations including Google, Nike, Disney, United Way and NASA have leveraged the insights FourSight provides. In this highly experiential workshop, take FourSight and leave with a greater awareness of how you tend to approach problem solving and how greater awareness can help you do it better. |
