Exam 8: Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Idea-Generating

The quality of uniqueness when designing a product is both ______ and ______.

______ can be described as the mindset of being receptive to new ideas and perspectives.

______ is defined as the personal capacities and process of generating a unique product that has value.

Your student government is known for hosting a major event at the start of every new academic year and no one misses it. This has been built over many years and through trial and error. This event is an example of which design principle in practice?

______ ideas challenge the usual perspectives and are frequently met with suspicion, skepticism, and sometimes rejection.

What is creativity?

Effective leaders design their problem-solving with a clear awareness of their tendencies and have a range of ______ to draw upon.

A design approach used in organizational design defines the ideal end state and then addresses the current state as a(n) ______.

What is innovation?

In the 4Ps model of creativity, the ______ should integrate understanding, imagination, implementation, and iteration.

We tend to think that breakthrough ideas are unique to those who generated them, but in fact ______.

In the 4Ps model of creativity, the ______ should be unique and valuable.

When you are able to redefine ______, finding new problems can lead to great success and innovation.

There are not many ______ problems in leadership.

Some who has the natural ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out possesses ______.

If someone asks you to generate as many uses for a pencil as possible, this is likely a measure of what?

The fact that you put your foot in a shoe is its ______.

The total number of ideas generated to a specific problem is called ______.

______ allows complex ideas to be built from simple ones, which can help bring order to complexity.

Research shows that it requires less mental effort to make a decision that favors a sure gain than to make one that involves a risky gain. This is important for leaders to understand, since ______ involves risk yet is often worth the effort.