Spiritually inspired creativity in business

Situated creativity-inspired problem-solving

A Business Process Management Perspective on Creativity: Creativity Intensive Processes

Although creativity is a core competitive factor and an important element of primary activities of modern organizations in many domains, there has not been an in-depth investigation on how creativity influences business processes and business process management. Within interviews with creative workers, managers and teaching professionals from the Screen Business it became evident that the exist...

Individual Creativity in Designing Business Processes

Designing business processes in a creative way is an important requirement for implementing process-aware information systems. In this article we investigate how process modeling competence and individual creativity style and capacity influence creativity in a business process redesign task. We explore these relationships with a laboratory experiment with 48 business students. Our preliminary r...

Managing creativity in business market relationships

a r t i c l e i n f o The guest editors' introduction to the Special Issue on managing creativity in business market relationships positions the topic at the intersection between interorganizational research and creativity research. It introduces three paradoxes that managers of such processes face: a) the tension between the need for structure versus freedom to pursue new ideas, b) the dilemma...

How Does Creativity Impact Business Processes?

Business processes that involve creativity differ from conventional business processes in many respects: they have a low level of repeatability, typically are high value-add processes, are knowledge-intensive, involve creative persons, have a high demand for flexibility and are characterized by particular (creative) risks. Consequently, for the IS discipline there arise a couple of research que...